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New Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment

...ACR 50, and 70 percent is ACR 70. Researchers also looked at the patients’ quality of life. Researchers report the patients treated with the higher dose of CTLA4Ig were more likely to have an ACR 20 than patients who received placebo. Higher rates of ACR 50 and ACR 70 were seen in both groups on the drug c...

New Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment

...ACR 50, and 70 percent is ACR 70. Researchers also looked at the patients’ quality of life. Researchers report the patients treated with the higher dose of CTLA4Ig were more likely to have an ACR 20 than patients who received placebo. Higher rates of ACR 50 and ACR 70 were seen in both groups on the drug c...

Changing Partners may put Expectant Mothers at Risk

...baby with a low birth weight. Researchers also looked specifically at a woman’s level of education. They found that, for second births, the more education a mother has, the less likely she is to lose her baby during its first of life -- even if a woman changed partners. Pre-term birth and low birth weig...

HIV Treatment Said to Increase Heart Attack Risk

...eatment increases the risk of a heart attack. They looked at information on more than 23,000 patients from 11 previous studies. They collected follow-up information on the patients about their HIV and if they had suffered a heart attack. Researchers collected data over a period of 36,199 person-years. The...

Importance of An Active Lifestyle

...women were assessed from 1985 to 1999. Researchers looked at the physical activity level of each woman in 1985, 1995 and 1999. Not only were women asked about their physical activity, but they also wore a pedometer and activity monitor. In 1999, the women also answered questions about activities of daily li...

Importance of An Active Lifestyle

...women were assessed from 1985 to 1999. Researchers looked at the physical activity level of each woman in 1985, 1995 and 1999. Not only were women asked about their physical activity, but they also wore a pedometer and activity monitor. In 1999, the women also answered questions about activities of daily li...

Drug to Lower Cholesterol Underused

...ctor. Researchers from Cleveland Clinic Foundation looked at the relationship between when lipid-lowering th...e discharged without the therapy. Researchers then looked at who was put on the therapy and how long they adhered to the drug regimen. After six months, 77 p...

Life after Bypass not so Promising for Women.

... In this study, investigators from Duke University looked at 96 women and 184 men who underwent the operation, assessing them for medical and quality of life factors before their surgeries. They were then followed for one year. Overall, quality of life improved for the entire group after surgery. After ad...

Easier Methods Required to Screen Insulin Resistance

... are likely to be insulin resistant. Researchers looked at three simple tests to see if they could help identify people who were insulin resistant. The study involved about 250 overweight volunteers who had normal blood pressures and were not diabetic. Results showed tests measuring triglyceride levels, t...

Easier Methods Required to Screen Insulin Resistance

...o are likely to be insulin resistant. Researchers looked at three simple tests to see if they could help identify people who were insulin resistant. The study involved about 250 overweight volunteers who had normal blood pressures and were not diabetic. Results showed tests measuring triglyceride levels, t...

Disease Management Programs – Effective for Heart Patient

...rescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs. Researchers looked at a program in which patients received their medications from their physicians and were only “coached” by nurses and dieticians on factors aimed at improving their cardiovascular health. The research involved nearly 800 heart disease patients at six...

“ Economy Class Syndrome

... it easier for blood clots to develop. This study looked at 878 air travelers who completed at least 10 hours of air travel over six weeks. All took flights lasting at least four hours. The mean total duration of air travel during the study was 39 hours. Participants underwent blood tests before and after...

Understanding The Predictors Of Prostate Cancer

... and were treated with radical prostatectomy. They looked at the patient outcomes based on their Gleason pattern (GP). Different Gleason patterns of the tumor also help determine the Gleason score. In the study group, researchers say 307 patients had primary GP three tumors, 105 patients had primary GP fo...

Does Success in School Differ From the Real World Success ?

... performance criteria. Researchers say when they looked at academic and job place performance, Both situations involve learning and contain complex or practical tasks, and performance in both situations is partially determined by previously acquired levels of knowledge and skill. ...

Low-Fat, High-Carb Diet Equally Effective In Weight Loss

... diet alone and in combination with exercise. They looked at body weight and composition in 34 participants ages 55 to 80 with impaired glucose tolerance. The individuals were randomly assigned to a low fat, high-carb diet with exercise, the same diet without exercise or a control diet. The control diet con...

Persistent Childhood Wheeze Probably Inherited

...ren born on the Isle of Wight in 1989. Researchers looked at when the wheezers in the group began wheezing, family history, including history of allergy and asthma, and socioeconomic factors such as parental smoking and low social class. Results suggest inheritance is the prime cause of persistent childho...

Cholesterol-lowering drug Found To greatly Reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack

... medical records of 551 heart-failure patients and looked to see what medications each one was given. They then looked at mortality records.They found an overall 55 percent reduction in mortality rate for heart failure ...

Fertility After Testicular Cancer Questioned

...lts suggested the need for more study. Researchers looked at fertility rates among about 450 French men who were treated for testicular cancer between 1979 and 1999. Prior to their diagnosis, about 91 percent of the men had been able to successfully get their partners pregnant. After treatment, that number ...

Eating Fiber Reduces The Risk Of Heart Disease

... heart disease. However, few studies have actually looked at the dietary fiber from different sources and the relationship to heart disease. In a recent study researchers analyzed several studies to determine whether the source of dietary fiber had any effect on the reduction in heart disease risk. The re...

Does Your Prescription Have An Inappropriate Medicine?

...from national health // care surveys, researchers, looked at prescribing patterns in physicians’ offices and outpatient clinics in 1995 and 2000. The results showed nearly 8 percent of all the visits involved prescribing at least one drug on the “inappropriate” list. Nearly 4 percent of the visits involved ...

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