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Experts predict Tamiflu could halve the pandemic influenza death toll versus no intervention

Treatment with the oral antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and prophylaxis for people exposed to infected patients could be one of the most cost-effective strategies for reducing illness and death during an influenza pandemic. According to modelling research presented by Beate Sander, University of Toronto, Canada, a stockpile of Tamiflu sufficient to cover 65% of a country’s population could cut...
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Simple versus simple-minded

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Quantity versus Quality: Effective E-Marketing Relationships

Subscribing to an electronic newsletter is like giving out your phone number on a blind date. Its a gamble. Sometimes you get what you want. Sometimes you never hear from them again. And, sometimes they never stop bothering you. They are the blind date from hell. You are deluged by a rapid array of one-sided email or telephone sales pitches highlighting how wonderful, fast, reliable, an...
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Protective regimen for acute Graft-versus-host disease

Allogeneic hematopoietic-cell transplantation with the use of conditioning regimens of non-myeloablative radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or both to decrease early toxic effects extends the possibility of hematopoietic-cell// transplantation to patients older than 50 years and those with coexisting conditions. However, acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) remains a major problem after non-...

Rituximad Can Treat Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease: Study

Researchers of Dana-Faber Cancer Institute has come out with a new therapy for treating chronic graft-versus-host disease// (GVHD), a potentially life-threatening complication of donor bone marrow and stem cell transplants. The use of the therapy, a drug known as rituximab, grew out of recent discoveries about the human immune system and the interactions between transplanted cells and...

Graft-versus-Host Diseases can Be Predicted

Human-to-human organ transplantation saves and enhances the lives of a number of patients suffering from many forms of end-stage organ failure//. Today, transplantation is the leading form of treatment for several debilitating diseases. Graft-versus-host disease occurs when white blood cells from the donor attack tissues of the recipient. It is a very serious complication after stem...

IMRT Versus 3D CRT For Prostate Cancer, New Long-Term Data Assesses Side Effects

New research findings show men have fewer long-term gastrointestinal side effects with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) than with three-dimensional// conformal radiation therapy (3D CRT) for prostate cancer treatment, despite the higher doses of radiation used in the IMRT group. These and other data, including long-term genitourinary side effects, were presented today at the 4...

Quality Versus Quantity: Transforming Kidney Transplant Policy

A new article published in American Journal of Transplantation examines the dilemmas faced in trying to change kidney transplant policy; addressing the need to balance the benefits of immediate transplants with those to be had from waiting for a more suitable match. The article highlights some of the important points to be considered in any new policy-making, and suggests a new met...
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New Long-Term Data Analyses for Bifeprunox Show Favorable Effects Versus Placebo in Stabilized Patients with Schizophrenia

Six-Month Data Show Bifeprunox Maintained StabilitySignificantly Longer than Placebo and had a Favorable Weight andLipid Profile Comparable with Placebo MARIETTA, Ga. and COLLEGEVILLE, Pa., May 22, 2007 - SolvayPharmaceuticals, Inc., Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth(NYSE:WYE), and Lundbeck A/S presented clinical study results onbifeprunox, an investigational treatment for...

New Data from the US and Japan Support: No Established Causal Link Between Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Treatment with Tamiflu US Databases Indicate Psychiatric Symptoms Lower in Influenza Patients Taking Tamiflu Versus Those Not Taking Tamiflu

BASEL, Switzerland, March 20, 2007 -- Clinical studies haveshown (1) similar rates of neurologic and psychiatric events inpediatric influenza patients being treated with Tamiflu compared tothose receiving no treatment for their influenza. Furthermore,recent data derived from US health insurance records (2) between1999-2006 of over 101,000 influenza patients treated with Tamifluand over 2...
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