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Drug Used to Prevent HIV Transmission from Mother to Child Damages DNA

...-RET) in the women and infants whose prenatal drug regimen included AZT. No increases were detected in the women and infants who did not receive prenatal AZT. The frequency of MN-RET in the AZT-exposed newborns decreased over the first 6 months of life to levels seen in nonexposed infants. These findings imp...

Clinical Trials for a Low-dose Steroid Therapy for Bone Marrow Cancer Prove Positive

...ignificance of the results lies in that a low dose regimen has been found to be more effective than the stand...at patients in the study who received a lower dose regimen had a one-year survival of 96 percent compared to 86 per cent for patients treated in the case of th...

Is There Any Clinical Benefit to Staying on a Failing Regimen?

...hat on average, patients who remained on a failing regimen lost 1.25 active drugs from the choice still avail...e patients who had been on a virologically failing regimen for at least six months, and thereafter, had two resistance tests during the period when viral load ...

Study Finds No Survival Benefit for Gastric Cancer Patients

A more intensive postoperative chemotherapy regimen for high-risk gastric cancer patients did not impr... in survival between the two groups. The five-drug regimen did not reduce the risk of death or relapse. Both groups had about a 50 percent five-year survival r...

Norwegian Glacier Shrinks and Marine Life Poisoned as the Globe Warms

...we're able to flush out the toxin with a treatment regimen ... This year they're just coming in dead." Humans can't be harmed by swimming in algae blooms but consuming fish and shellfish tainted with the acid can cause nausea, seizures and even death. The state Department of Health Services issued a warn...

Mayo Clinic Study Finds Heart Transplant Patients Benefit from New Approach to Immunosuppression

A new immunosuppression regimen for heart transplant patients can improve kidney function and prevent transplant coronary artery disease//, according to two new Mayo Clinic studies. Mayo researchers will report their findings on April 26 at The International Society for Heart & Lun...

Pramlintide-A Boon to Restrain Fast Food Consumption

...t, lunch and dinner. They continued their assigned regimen during a 5-week outpatient period (days 5-41) but reported for brief visits to the research unit on days 17 and 31. They returned for a final three days as inpatients, ending the experiment at day 44. Participants maintained their typical exercise ...

Study Finds No Correlation Between Number of Pills and Adherence to It

...of factors. The study specifically examined dosing regimen to see if there was a relationship between that factor and adherence in patients with a co-payment of at least $20. Poor adherence to medication is a recognized medical problem in the U.S., costing an estimated $100 billion a year.(I) Previous studi...

Study Finds Lymphoma Drug Effective Over Long Term

...n 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 lymphoma is the second most common type of non-Hodgkin's lymphom...

Lymphoma Patients Maybe Helped by Adding Radioimmunotherapy to Chemo

...an (IT) was added to CHOP-R, a standard multi-drug regimen for follicular lymphoma that consists of cyclophosphamibe, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone and rituximab. Investigators reported on 50 patients treated with CHOP-R, examined their responses and then treated them with IT. Sixty-eight percent of t...

Treatment Outcomes of Patients With HIV and Tuberculosis

... According to the authors, the current preferred regimen for treating drug-susceptible TB in HIV-uninfected patients is a 6-month, rifamycine-based regimen that includes pyrazinamide during the first two months. Current guidelines for the treatment of TB d...

Red Cross Promotes Prevention, Control of TB Along U.S. - Mexican Border

...r of patients who complete the six-month treatment regimen from 78 percent to 86 percent, a treatment rate higher than the United Nations World Health Organization target. The Red Cross utilizes health care systems that are flexible in meeting the needs of each community. Although the two-year pilot projec...

NGOs New Book Provides Emotional Support for Cancer Patients

... practical needs to prepare readers for a wellness regimen that can be incorporated into daily life. It also helps people with cancer and their loved ones stay focused on healing through strength and empowerment. "We hope that those affected by cancer -- from caregivers to those newly diagnosed or facing e...

Investigational Drug Being Pursued for the Treatment of Ischaemic Stroke

...aws positive conclusions that support a new dosing regimen for ancrod and revised inclusion/exclusion criteria for the current clinical trials," said David Sherman, MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA. "The reanalysis enables us to see that ancrod may be safe and effective whe...

New TB Vaccines in Could Protect Against All Drug Resistant Strains

... is working to develop at least one new TB vaccine regimen for infants and one for adolescents within seven to nine years and to ensure they are available worldwide to all who need them. Aeras and its partners have the largest TB vaccine pipeline in the world with six vaccine candidates in or expected to b...

Cancer Children in US Get Wrong Dosage of Chemotherapy New Study

...em that would keep track of a child's chemotherapy regimen and warn of potential overdoses. Short of that, it would help if drugmakers, hospitals and doctors could come up with universal dosing standards that would simplify the task for health workers, who increasingly must combine several drugs given over...

FDA Approves Wyeth's Oral Contraceptive Lybrel

...n 365 days a year with no placebo pills. The usual regimen for oral contraceptives is 21 active pills taken consecutively, followed by seven placebo pills. According to Wyeth, 59% of women taking Lybrel stopped bleeding after six months, but 18% of women participating in a clinical trial dropped out becaus...

FDA Approves Birth Control Pill for Continuous Use

... control pills have a 21-days on, and a 7-days off regimen that are placebos or pill-free. Women who use Lybrel would not have a menstrual period, but will most likely have unscheduled bleeding or spotting, according to the FDA. Two year long clinical studies involving more than 2,400 women, aged 18 to 4...

Effectiveness of Hormone Therapy During Menopause

...on the lining of the uterus, which hormone therapy regimen best mimics the menstrual cycle, and the relationship, if any, between estrogen-induced changes in markers of atherosclerosis, heart disease, inflammation, and blood hypercoagulability....

Vegetarian Diet Could Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer

...st that daily life factors like choosing your diet regimen or ordering an appetizer for dinner may help in managing a healthy lifestyle. Researchers from Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) in Mumbai, India, set out to find out whether a vegetarian diet is associated with reduced risk of CRC if started very early...

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