Measurements fail to identify TB patients who could benefit from shorter treatment course
Tuberculosis (TB) is a difficult infection to treat and requires six months of multiple antibiotics to cure it. To combat the TB pandemic, a shorter and simpler drug treatment would be a huge advance since most TB occurs in resource-limited settings with poor public health infrastructures. T...Mock CPR drills in kids show many residents fail in key skills, Hopkins study reveals
Research from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center exposes alarming gaps in training hospital residents in "first response" emergency treatment of staged cardiorespiratory arrests in children, while at the same time offering a potent recipe for fixing the problem. The research was conducted just...Leapfrog Group Hospital Survey Finds Majority of Hospitals Fail to Meet Important Quality Standards
Few Hospitals Meet Standards for First National Measures of Hospital Efficiency for Heart Attack Care, Bypass Surgery, Heart Angioplasty, and Pneumonia Detailed Hospital by Hospital Results Available at www.leapfroggroup.org/cp WASHINGTON, April 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Though it ...Divided We Fail Launches Next Phase of National Campaign to Fix America's Health and Economic Crises
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today leaders of the country's top consumer, business and labor groups launched the next phase of Divided We Fail, a national movement to bring health and financial security to every American. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070209...Why prostate cancer patients fail hormone deprivation therapy
The hormone deprivation therapy that prostate cancer patients often take gives them only a temporary fix, with tumors usually regaining their hold within a couple of years. Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered critical differences in the hormone receptors on prostate cancer cells in p...Dramatic JUPITER Findings Fail to Sway Prescribing Behavior, Poll Shows
Results reveal most respondents against expanding statin use broadly in wake of AHA-presented data LITTLE FALLS, N.J., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- JUPITER, a clinical trial suggesting rosuvastatin may lower the cardiovascular risk of healthy patients with elevated CRP, should not prompt univ...Clinical Studies of OvaRex in Advanced Ovarian Cancer Fail to Meet Primary Endpoint
Preliminary Analysis Demonstrates Studies Failed to Reach Statistical Significance SILVER SPRING, Md. and WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire- FirstCall/ -- United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR ) and its wholly- owned subsidiary, Unither Pharmaceu...Relievant Medsystems Announces Completion of $20 Million Financing
...ion in our health care system. Every year, 12 million new patients seek treatment for back pain. Unfortunately, nearly two million of these patients fail to respond to conservative treatment. These patients have few choices - escalating use of pain medications, continued suffering or invasive surgery. ...Mayo Clinic Proceedings Reviews Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Psychiatric Diseases
...rsons. Medications and psychiatric therapy can effectively treat many patients with major depression; however, up to 20 percent of these patients fail to respond to these non-surgical therapeutic interventions. "DBS is not a miracle cure and should not be used to treat all depression," says Dr....Spherix Announces Positive Phase 2 Study Results
... from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, risks that product candidates may fail in the clinic or may not be successfully marketed or manufactured, we may lack financial resources to complete development of Naturlose, the FDA may i...Neurocrine Biosciences Presents Elagolix Data
...mpany faces with respect to the Company's GnRH program include, but are not limited to, risk that the Company's elagolix Phase II clinical trials will fail to demonstrate that elagolix is safe and effective; risk that elagolix will not proceed to later stage clinical trials; risk associated with the Compa...Cryptosporidium Control Slides
Description:... Cryptosporidium sps. is now recognized as an important intestinal pathogen in patients with HIV infection. Routine parasitological techniques fail to demonstrate this protozoa. Modified Acid Fast staining techniques prove effective in staining this organism. Cryptosporidium Control Slides have ma...1000-90 Mid Range Power Supplies - Designed for Maximum Versatility
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Features:...tes to output voltage, current and elapsed time. For added convenience, the power supplies remembers its last settings and comes equipped with a power fail memory. Automatic Crossover Protects Your System : The automatic crossover function allows the power supply to switch over from one mode of operatio...Vitamins C and E and beta carotene again fail to reduce cancer risk in randomized controlled trial
Women who took beta carotene or vitamin C or E or a combination of the supplements had a similar risk of cancer as women who did not take the supplements, according to data from a randomized controlled trial in the December 30 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Epid...Farmers can spot lame sheep, but fail to prevent footrot spread
Sheep farmers are highly able to spot even mildly lame sheep, but many do not take steps to prevent the spread of lameness in their flocks by catching and treating these animals. A study in the open access journal BMC Veterinary Research is the first to provide evidence for the accuracy of farme...Exhausted B cells fail to fight HIV
Antibodies stick to HIV particles, preventing them from infecting other cells and triggering their destruction by immune cells. This antibody response starts out strong in HIV-infected individuals but eventually peters out. To find out why, scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Inf...Why conservation efforts often fail
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Modern conservation techniques have brought us the resurgence of American bald eagles, sustainable forest harvests and the rescue of prized lobster fisheries. So how can modern conservation strategies also have wrought such failures, from the catastrophic loss of Guatemalan fo...When smell cells fail they call in stem cell reserves
Hopkins researchers have identified a backup supply of stem cells that can repair the most severe damage to the nerves responsible for our sense of smell. These reservists normally lie around and do nothing, but when neighboring cells die, the scientists say, the stem cells jump into action. A repo...PNAS study reveals why organs fail following massive trauma
Massive trauma, say from a sabertooth tiger attack, meant immediate death for the primitive human. Modern man is more likely to survive severe injury caused by a car crash, gunshot or fall thanks to high-tech emergency medicine. Unfortunately, the body does not know what to do when it survives an ...Patients Fail to Take Fake Medicines Risk Seriously
DUBLIN, October 26 /PRNewswire/ -- - International Call for Patient Group Task Force to Fight Growing Fake Medicines Trade Major international research, including the views of bodies that represent more than 121,000 patients across Europe, was unveiled today in Dublin, Ireland - one of the w...How name-dropping can make interviews fail
No matter that Chicago is continually duking it out with Los Angeles for second place in the roster of largest U.S. cities. As a practical matter, Chicago's business community is finite. In Milwaukee and throughout the Midwest, the small-world phenomenon holds even more true. It therefore foll...ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals Announces Financing
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