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Study Finds Lymphoma Drug Effective Over Long Term

...eliver. But Bexxar is given as a single treatment, completed within one week, which makes it an extremely convenient regimen for patients," Kaminski says. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the nation's sixth leading cause of cancer death, is a cancer of the lymph system, which is part of the immune system. Follicular ...

Pramlintide-A Boon to Restrain Fast Food Consumption

...g a hand-held electronic device. Participants also completed a 16-item questionnaire on days 1 and 42 that was designed to measure binge eating tendencies. The researchers looked at weight, portion size, 24-hour caloric intake and consumption at a fast food challenge. Weight: Participants who received pramli...

OrthoGlide(TM) Medial Knee Implant Reports Over 200 Implants

... announced today that over 200 implants have been completed in the United States using the OrthoGlide Medial Knee implant. The OrthoGlide is a minimally invasive implant designed to relieve chronic, disabling pain, due to moderate osteoarthritis of the medial compartment of the knee. "There has been a signi...

FPG Receives $8 Million for Autism Research

... identification and diagnosis. This work will be completed through a partnership between FPG and other UNC partners (Division TEACCH, the Clinical Center for the Study and Development of Learning and the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center), the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

Inadequate Sleep may Affect a Persons Diet.

... nine females and 12 males, all undergraduates who completed a "sleep and eating habits" questionnaire. For seven days, the participants completed diaries, with each entry detailing how much sleep they got the night before and what they ate the fo...

Children from Low-income Families may Face Sleep Problems

...d and didn't have chronic health problems. Parents completed a 35-item survey about their children's sleep patterns. Survey topics included the child's bedtime resistance, delays in falling asleep, waking up during the night, breathing problems during sleep and daytime sleepiness, reported online edition of ...

Students With Sleep Disorder Symptoms Score Badly in Maths

...n the parents of 218 second and third graders, who completed Sleep Disorders Inventory for Students - Child Form, a brief screening tool validated for use in the schools. The results showed that students with reported symptoms of sleep disorders received significantly worse grades, specifically in maths, rea...

Researchers Cracking the Human Genome Function

... other members of an international consortium have completed the understanding of how the human genome functions . While previous studies of the human genome have focused mainly on genes, this study provides insight into the non-gene sequences making up the vast majority of the genome. Buried in non-gene se...

Canadians Urged to Renovate Houses to Check Radon Gas Radiation

...vailable on the Internet for less than $50 and are completed over three to six months during winter, when doors and windows are closed and radon levels are highest. Remediation options, costing from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, include sealing cracks in concrete floor slabs, fitting airtight cove...

Obesity, High Blood Pressure on the Rise Among College Students

...rolled in a general-education nutrition course who completed questionnaires on their lifestyle behaviours and d...l, and high-density cholesterol. The students also completed a three-day food diary and analysed their calories, carbohydrates, and nutrient intakes with nutriti...

Post Menopausal Women are Prone to Gum Disease

...lth Initiative (WHI). Participants in this study completed questionnaires, had physical measurements taken, had bone-density testing and an oral health examination. The oral health examination had several components, including microbiological sampling of subgingival plaque and oral X-rays. Investigators us...

Drug Surveillance System Needs to Be Fixed

...IV) trials after approval, but these are often not completed in a timely manner, he says. This results in a fractured regulatory process, where postmarketing surveillance falls short of the standards the agencies set for themselves. This is exemplified by the case of rosiglitazone, which comes from a famil...

Suit Filed Against Horrors of Psychiatric Ward in New York Hospital

...to build a larger state-of-the-art facility, to be completed in fall 2008. GPL/...

Migraines may Be a Symptom of Other Problems for Iraq Soldiers

.... A total of 2,167 of the soldiers, or 60 percent, completed the questionnaire. Of those, 19 percent screened positive for migraine headaches, 32 percent screened positive for depression, 22 percent screened positive for post-traumatic stress disorder, and 13 percent screened positive for anxiety. The resea...

Swami Ramdev to Hold Yoga Camps in U.S.

...coming up near the pilgrim town of Haridwar. To be completed in three years, it will include a yoga university, a hall for 5,000 people to practise yoga and a naturopathy (nature cure) facility. The Swami came out unscathed from a controversy in early 2006 when communist leader Brinda Karat claimed that Div...

Satraplatin Benefits Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer Patients

...e available later this year. GPC Biotech recently completed the New Drug Application (NDA) submission for Satraplatin to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Pharmion expects to complete the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for Europe in the second quarter of 2007. Daniel Petrylak, M.D., A...

Lead Removing Drug Improves Muscle Function in Lead-Exposed Children

...rformed only after each child—then 5 years old—had completed the succimer or placebo therapy. Tests were designed to eliminate or challenge factors that help maintain postural balance, such as eyesight and visual context. “Our statistical analysis revealed that subjects who received succimer therapy showed...

FDA Licenses First US Vaccine Against Avian Flu

...y adults 18 through 64 years. The study, which was completed in 2005, showed that the vaccine elicited an immune response against the H5N1 virus and was associated with mild side effects. As the world leader in research, development and manufacturing of influenza vaccines, sanofi pasteur is actively involv...

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Disability in Older Adults

...rom Sept. 1998 through March 2000. Participants completed a short physical performance test of their walking speed, ability to stand from a chair and ability to maintain their balance in progressively more challenging positions. In addition, handgrip strength, a predictor of future disability, was measured ...

Alcohol Abuse During College Days Leads to Heart Disease in Later Life

...novan said. Twenty-five college-age individuals completed surveys that assessed factors that can affect CRP levels such as alcohol consumption patterns, medication use, smoking habits and recent weight loss. Researchers assigned the students to one of three groups: 1. non-drinkers, meaning they consumed ...

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