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For Old or Young Dialysis Patients, AV Fistulas Remain Pure Gold

Preferred Access at Any Age: Comparison by Interventional Radiologists Shows No Difference in 'Patency' or Openness of Arteriovenous (AV) Fistulas SAN DIEGO, March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study shows that for those individuals with chronic kidney disease, it doesn't matter if you'r...

Octogenarians: Not Too Old for Joint Replacement

New study finds total knee replacement surgery can offer significant benefits to patients in their 80s LAS VEGAS, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Knee replacement ( http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00389 ) surgery can improve the quality of life even for very elderly patients, ...

Seventy Years Old and Going Strong With Down Syndrome and No Dementia: The Case of 'Mr. C' Causes Major Interest in the Scientific Community

Study findings offer hope for increased life expectancy for people with Down syndrome WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the world of Down syndrome, 'Mr. C' is a rarity. A real person whose progress has been tracked for the past 16 years, at seventy, 'Mr. C' has well surpassed...

New Trial Presented at AAAAI Reports that the Growth of Children 2-5 Years Old with Year-Round Allergic Rhinitis Continued According to Normal Age-Adjusted Distribution Over a 6-Month Treatment with Nasacort AQ

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., March 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Data presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) suggests that the continuous use of intranasal corticosteroid Nasacort AQ (triamcinolone acetonide) Nasal Spray had no treatment effect on s...

Radius' Investigational Bone Anabolic Agent, BA058, Increased Bone Mineral Density (BMD) at Key Fracture Sites in Phase 2 Clinical Trial in Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

... in the initial six-month period, and 55 patients continued into a subsequent additional six-month treatment period. Patients were on average 65 years old (54-84) and had an average lumbar spine BMD T-score of -2.93. All patients underwent four weeks of pretreatment with standard regional supplementation...

John Legend and Gap Join (PRODUCT)RED(TM) to Help Eliminate AIDS in Africa with Exclusive (RED)ZONE Seating at Madison Square Garden

...lobal specialty retailer offering clothing, accessories and personal care products for men, women, children and babies under the Gap, Banana Republic, old Navy, Piperlime and Athleta brand names. Fiscal 2008 sales were $14.5 billion. Gap Inc. operates more than 3,100 stores in the United States, the Unit...

British Woman Celebrates a Year of Living Cancer-Free

...nt has renewed her hope for the future. "I think to myself, 'What if I live to my 70s or my 80s?'" she said. "I want to stay healthy and live to be an old person." Researchers at the Royal Free, led by principal investigator Dr. Panos Kottaridis, are currently recruiting patients for the clinical ...

Schering-Plough Announces U.S. Filing of Mometasone Furoate/Formoterol Fumarate Combination for the Maintenance Treatment of Asthma

... The most common side effects with ASMANEX in patients 4-11 years old include fever, allergic rhinitis, abdominal pain, vomiting, urinary tract i...mon side effects with ASMANEX in patients greater than or equal to 12 years old include headache, allergic rhinitis, sore throat, and upper respiratory inf...

ASMANEX(R) (Mometasone Furoate Dry Powder Inhaler) Now Approved in Japan for the Treatment of Bronchial Asthma in Adult Patients

...asthma symptoms do not improve, or get worse, contact your health care provider. The most common side effects with ASMANEX in patients 4-11 years old include fever, allergic rhinitis, abdominal pain, vomiting, urinary tract infection, and bruise. The most common side effects with ASMANEX in pat...

SIMPONI(TM) (golimumab) Receives Positive Opinion From CHMP for Once-Monthly Subcutaneous Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis

...ve disease, over time it can cause permanent joint deformity and severe disability. RA can occur at any age, but is most common in adults 30-50 years old and is two-to-three times more prevalent in women than in men. The cause of RA is unknown, although genetic factors may contribute to the disease. ...

Brain Fitness Makes Boomers Age Younger

...o market" strategies and said that his company was building the new field of brain fitness by establishing a large body of scientific evidence that an old brain can learn new tricks. "In April, researchers at the Mayo Clinic and USC published a breakthrough study of our technology," Zimman said. "...

New Analysis Shows Efficacy of SIMPONI(TM) (golimumab) in Anti-TNF Experienced Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

...ty and severe disability if not diagnosed early or if initial treatment is delayed. RA can occur at any age, but is most common in adults 30-50 years old and is two to three times more prevalent in women than in men. The cause of RA is unknown, although genetic factors may contribute to the disease. ...

PARI Pharma's Nebulized DSCG Shows Results Similar to Inhaled Steroids in Asthma Studies Presented at ATS

...ed how delivery and deposition performance of aerosols can be affected. In-vitro breath simulation tests mimicking breathing patterns of 3 and 10 year old children demonstrated drug delivery performance is nearly unaffected when electronic eFlow Technology nebulizers were used for inhalation. The novel ...

Glycerin Proven to Improve Bruising and Swelling Caused By Trauma to Skin

...r. Holmquist Healthcare, LLC. "We developed the product for the mass market with my stepfather, Dr. Nelson Holmquist, and we are thrilled to share an old family recipe with the world." About Dr. Holmquist Healthcare, LLC Dr. Holmquist Healthcare, LLC is a family- and majority-woman-owned and...

InspireMD Announces the Enrollment of the 1st Patient in the MGuard iMOS Registry, the Registry Will Enroll 1000 Patients

...lected heterogeneous population, will be used to support data from other clinical studies. The first patient in the iMOS registry was a 54 year old male treated for acute myocardial infarction (STEMI) caused by a thrombus occluding the LAD artery. MGuard(TM) was successfully delivered and the pati...

Program Improves Language Skills in Deaf, Hard of Hearing

... CINCINNATI, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Children enrolled before they are six months old in a home-based program that teaches language skills to the deaf or hard of hearing are not only able to achieve appropriate language skills but also ...

Increased Mortality Associated With Nocturia

...ity who suffered from nocturia relative to other residents. Researchers conducted a comprehensive geriatric assessment of 788 residents 70 years old or older to determine incidence of nocturia. Using data from a national health insurance system, researchers assessed differences in survival stratifi...

University of California Los Angeles Selects Velos eResearch

...ity to electronically exchange data with the various TORI network sites. Previously, data was transmitted by email and fax and manually keyed into the old database. With the new system, the TORI sites will enter their own data directly into Velos. "They can go online, view the studies available at t...

Karmanos Cancer Institute Researchers Study New Drug Combinations to Treat Childhood Leukemia

...orked together to dramatically stimulate cell death. "We considered an old drug for a new use," Dr. Ge said. "It looks like the increased drug activit...ffects of VPA and cytarabine to treat newly diagnosed AML patients 21 years old and younger. "This is truly translational research," Dr. Ge said. "We ...

Hospital Care Varies Greatly for Children with Urinary Tract Infections

... Effectiveness at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Drs. Conway and Keren studied 20,892 children between the ages of 1 month and 12 years old hospitalized at one of 25 children's hospitals between 1999 and 2004. They found significant variability among hospitals in terms of length of stay, c...

Worldwide Cost Estimate for Alzheimer's and Dementia Is US$315.4 Billion

... base to guide policy development. The 10/66 Dementia Research Group has completed cross-sectional surveys of 1,500 to 3,000 people over 65 years old in each of nine low and middle income countries (China, India, Nigeria, Cuba, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Mexico, and Peru), with three oth...

Diabetes Patients with High Triglycerides and Low HDL Cholesterol Get the Most Benefit From Fenofibrate Treatment: New Data From the FIELD Study

...0mg/dL in women) and elevated triglyceride (greater than or equal to 1.7 mmol/L-150mg/dL ) are key criteria of the metabolic syndrome according to the old definition of the US National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP ATPIII) guidelines.(4) In the FIELD study over 80% ...

American Academy Of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2009 Annual Meeting 'Highlights and Hot Topics'

...011 ) Rare Long-Term Study Shows No New Knee Disability Even Long After Surgery Patients who were older than 40 and as old as 60 when they underwent ACL surgery reported long-term "excellent function" and "high activity" levels as many as 20 years after the reconstructive ...

IlluminOss Medical Announces First Human Case Utilizing a Unique, New, Minimally Invasive Technology for Fracture Repair is Performed at Medical Hospital del Trabajadar in Santiago, Chile

...IlluminOss Photodynamic Bone Stabilization System for orthopedic surgery. The IlluminOss Photodynamic Bone Stabilization System was used on a 21 year old man with a fracture of the 5th metacarpal. The metacarpals are the bones that extend from the base of the wrist to the base of each finger at the knu...

Mayo Clinic Study Finds Younger Men With Erectile Dysfunction at Double Risk of Heart Disease

...ile dysfunction. The highest risk of new heart disease was seen in the youngest study participants who had erectile dysfunction. In men 40 to 49 years old when the study began, the number of new cases in men with erectile dysfunction was more than 50-fold higher than in men without erectile dysfunction. ...

K-State Researcher Finds Correlation Between Childhood Obesity and Asthma

... had greater amounts of airway narrowing after exercise. "Kids who are overweight and inactive are having -- even at the age of 8 to 10 years old -- a negative response to exercise challenge tests, which might be contributing to the increase that we've been seeing over the past several decades i...

Two New Studies in the New England Journal of Medicine Show Malaria Vaccine Candidate Advancing in Africa

...ia in Children(2) The other trial enrolled 894 children 5-17 months old in both Kenya and Tanzania. It was designed to evaluate the safety and effi... Olotu A, et al. Efficacy of RTS,S/AS01E: clinical malaria in 5 to 17 month old children. N Engl J Med 2008;359: (3) World Health Organization. Wor...

Phase III Trial Results Show Elitek(R) (rasburicase) Significantly Reduced Plasma Uric Acid Levels versus Allopurinol in Adults with Hematologic Cancers at Risk for Tumor Lysis Syndrome

...lasma uric acid control, safety (including immunogenicity) and pharmacokinetics. Patients eligible to enter the study were at least 18 years old with Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance 0-3, a life expectancy of greater than three months and at either high or potential risk fo...

The Government of Canada Procures IMVAMUNE(R) Smallpox Vaccine for the Country's Biological Preparedness

...tion smallpox vaccine, offers a number of unique advantages compared to the old vaccines. The superior safety profile of IMVAMUNE(R) makes it suitable for ...ermore, the vaccine is easier to administer and it protects faster than the old vaccines, which is convenient for use in the general population in the case...

Soft Contact Lenses Do Not Lead to 'Myopic Creep' in Children, Study Shows

...e than other vision correction options. "Children as young as eight years old who require vision correction are capable of contact lens wear and this stu...ach mode of correction over three years. A total of 484 eight- to 11-year old myopic children participated in the randomized, single-masked, trial conduc...

Pivotal Phase III Data Confirm the Efficacy and Safety of Arpida's Intravenous Iclaprim in Treating Patients With Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections

...study data and the pre-specified non-inferiority margin (-12.5 percent) was met in all populations in both trials. A total of 991 patients, 18 years old and over with cSSSIs were enrolled in the trials. Patients were treated for 10 to 14 days with either 0.8 mg/kg iclaprim or 600 mg linezolid, both adm...

Seahorse Bioscience Announces the XF96 Extracellular Flux Analyzer for Cellular Bioenergetics

...f the first XF24 instrument, XF technology has become the new standard for measuring oxygen consumption and glycolysis by cells, replacing the 50 year old Clark Electrode," notes Jay Teich, CEO, Seahorse Bioscience. "And we are confident the XF96 will have a greater impact." The new XF96 measures the t...

Photos: Sentara Joins 4 U.S. Hospitals in International 'TARGIT' Breast Cancer Trial

...ctor of CarePlex Hospital's radiation oncology department. TARGIT is a randomized phase III study, enrolling post-menopausal women at least 45 years old with single-site invasive breast cancer measuring less than 3 centimeters. For a patient to receive the single-dose radiation, they must be a candidat...

DOT Therapy: Newest Breakthrough Technology in Laser Skin Resurfacing

...ace of the skin, resulting in a significant amount of downtime to heal, discomfort for the patient and prolonged redness of the skin. In addition, the old CO2 lasers could not treat non-facial areas like the neck and decolletage easily because skin in these areas did not heal as well as the face. DOT The...

PTC Therapeutics Announces Data Showing Six-Minute Walk Test Consistently Measures Ambulatory Function in Patients With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

... stamina and mental focus to successfully finish the test without injury. This study demonstrated that ambulatory boys with DMD as young as five years old can complete the 6MWT safely and reliably with minimal interruption from falls. The study found that the muscular deficits that are characteristic of ...

Behavioral Modification Programs Help Obese Children Manage Their Weight

...h in Portland that produced the report. In a study of one high-intensity, 12-month program reviewed by the researchers, obese children 8 to 16 years old gained less than 1 pound on average, compared with obese kids the same age who gained nearly 17 pounds during the same time period. AHRQ's report foun...

Quigley Anti-Viral Compound QR448(a) Successfully Prevents Transmission of Infectious Bronchitis in Chickens

...8(a) against IBV in commercial broiler chickens, which indicated that 1 day old commercial broilers, when treated with QR448(a) were protected 50-100% of t... commercial birds." About the Study: -- Two colonies of 120 two week old commercial broiler chickens were housed in 8' X 8' colony houses. Twen...

Survey Shows Parents' Best Intentions Out of Step with Expert Recommendations in Protecting Kids from Flu

...ited States by Harris Interactive on behalf of MedImmune between June 4 and June 19, 2008 among 952 U.S. residents ages 24 and older with an 8-17 year old in the household for whom they are the parent or guardian and among 875 U.S. children and adolescents 8-17 years old. No estimates of theoretical samp...

First FLEXUS(TM) Interspinous Spacer Surgeries for IDE Clinical Trial

...IDE study will seek to prove equivalence with the X-Stop device over the two year study period. The study will involve patients that are over 50 years old who may benefit from the decompression provided by the FLEXUS(TM) device, at up to 20 clinical sites across the United States. About Globus Medical,...

Nonin Medical Inc. Announces Entry Into the Cerebral Oximeter Market

...igns with Nonin Medical's vision for interoperability and facilitating information flow without the need of proprietary interfaces. "We must leave the old business models of protectionism behind," said Tschautscher. "This is one reason why Nonin Medical is actively supporting and driving open communicati...