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Adding Radiation Therapy To Chemotherapy Improves Survival In Patients With High-risk Breast Cancer

For patients with high-risk breast cancer treated with radical mastectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy, the addition of radiation therapy leads to better survival outcomes with few long-term toxic effects, according to a 20-year follow-up of a randomized trial, which appears in the January 19 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The British Columbia randomized radiation the...

HIV Patients May Be at Risk of Heart Problems When Taking Protease Inhibitor Drugs

A widely-used class of drugs that keep the HIV-virus infection from progressing to AIDS may cause serious and potentially lethal heart rhythm disturbances in some patients. The finding of a Mayo Clinic-led investigation appears in the current edition of The Lancet. In collaboration with colleagues from the HIV Program of Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis; the University of Minn...

Emory Eye Center Implants Its First Retinal Chips In Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa

An expanded clinical trial conducted by Optobionics Corporation involving the implantation of a retina mircrochip has allowed Emory Eye Center and the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research & Development Center to implant the device in several patients. The patients all have retinitis pigmentosa with moderate-to-severe vision loss. Three centers in the United States have been chosen...

Study identifies predictors of HIV drug resistance in patients beginning triple therapy

A scientist at the Marine BiologicalLaboratory (MBL) has published the results of an EPA-funded clam embryostudy that supports her hypothesis that, when combined, the pollutantsbromoform, chloroform, and tetrachloroethylene--a chemical cocktailknown as BCE--can act synergistically to alter a key regulator in nervecell development. While scientists have previously studied the effectsof these...

Potential Cure for Lymphoma in HIV patients

Stem cell transplants have become thestandard of care for patients with relapsed lymphoma, but not forpatients who suffer from both this disease and HIV. A new study showingthat this treatment is a viable option for select patients withHIV-associated lymphoma will be published in the January 15, 2005,issue of Blood, the official journal of the American Society ofHematology.Because of the i...

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CPM Helps Physicians Group Retain Patients with New Kind of House Call

Middleton, WI Combining database and personalized print technology, a physicians group in the Midwest is making a new kind of house call to retain patients. Instead of waiting for patients to come to their offices for treatment, these physicians are sending personalized messages by mail with reminders for important check-ups and screenings -- and seeing response rates of 10 to 21 percent. <b...

Sensitive detection of tumor cells in peripheral blood of carcinoma patients by a reverse transcription PCR method

Occurrence of tumor cells in theperipheral blood of individuals sufferingfrom cancer may serve as anearly indication that the primarytumor has dispersed from its tissueof origin. Despite defence mechanismsof the organism, individualcancer cells may attach in di...

Quantitation of GAD67 Gene Expression in Prefrontal Cortex of Schizophrenia Patients Using the iCycler iQ Detection System and Molecular Beacons, Rev A

130 West Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, NY 10468 USA Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that afflicts about 1% of the population (Strange 1992). Patients experience a variety of symptoms that have been divided into subgroups...

Milwaukee takes another step in electronic patient data exchange

Metropolitan Milwaukee healthcare providers took an initial step toward providing emergency room physicians with specific patient information with the formal establishment...

What patients want: A story of choice, clinical trials & evidence-based medicine

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One in Three Heart Attack Patients Have No Chest Pains

Death Rates Higher for Those Without This Symptom. As many as one-third of patients never have chest pains prior to or during a heart attack, a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association suggests. And for women, diabetics and others who belong to groups likely to have atypical heart attack symptoms, more than half may never have such pains. The report examined sympto...

Amphetamines Help Recovery of Stroke Patients

A new study from Doctors at UT Southwestern in Dallas soon report that amphetamines may speed up the recovery of speech in stroke patients who have lost the function. This study was done on patients who had suffered from ischemic stroke, or a stroke due to loss of blood and oxygen to the brain. Amphetamines were given to 30 stroke patients who lost their ability to spea...

Painkillers Do Not Shorten Dying Patients' Lives

According to some British researhers increasing doses of painkillers to ease the agony of terminally ill patients does not shorten their lives.Some health professionals have criticized the practice, comparing it to euthanasia, but doctors at St Christopher's Hospice in London claim patients receiving higher doses of drugs such as morphine live just as long as those who do not. In re...

Patients With Filariasis More Prone To HIV Infection

According to a report published in the December issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, HIV infection is significantly enhanced in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from individuals with untreated filarial infection compared to PBMCs from infected patients treated with antifilarial agents. According to Dr. Ramya Gopinath and her team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infecti...

Glivec - New Hope For CMC Patients

For those unlucky to be afflicted by the deadly chronic myeloid leukemia (CMC) and their near and dear ones, there's some good news. One of the deadliest forms of leukemia - commonly called 'blood cancer' - kills thousands across the globe. Chronic myeloid leukemia was one of the deadliest killers around and still continues to be one. But there's good news. Multinational pharmaceutical gia...

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Reliance 6200 Patient Chair

Description:Large hinged footstep can support patient's full weight. Footstep tilts out of the way when not required. Hydraulic base. Patients may be raised and lowered by either a finger switch on both sides of chair back or optional corded foot switch. Dual rotation locks on both sides of the chair enable you to swivel the chair 330 without changing position. A patented recline handle which is easily activ...
Company:Clement Clarke International

Reliance 6200LFC Patient Chair

Description:Large hinged footstep can support patient's full weight. Footstep tilts out of the way when not required. Hydraulic base. Patients may be raised and lowered by either a finger switch on both sides of chair back or optional corded foot switch. Dual rotation locks on both sides of the chair enable you to swivel the chair 330 without changing position. A patented recline handle which is easily activ...
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Luneau Patient Chair

Description:Complete with headrest, armrests, footrest and foot switch....
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MAC-150E Patient Chair

Description:A practical, comfortable chair for examination of the patient. The seat height is adjustable from 540 mm to 740 mm by use of an independent foot switch. The chair is rotatable through 360 and incorporates a multi-adjustable headrest, lift up armrests and lift up footrest....
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SDS Patient Recall

Description:The SDS Recall marketing software enables the efficient capture of lifestyle, demographics and clinical information. The module also has many built-in time saving and error checking devices such as: auto capitalization of name fields and numerous user definable pop up tables ensuring consistent and accurate data input. The pre-defined options in the pop up tables means that the user simply has to...
Company:Special Data Solutions

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Monitoring Patient Glucose Levels: New Advances in software make it easier

Monitoring patient glucose levels and determining the response to intervention is critical when working with diabetic clients. The benefit of doing so in improved outcomes for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes has been clearly established by clinical trials conducted in both the U.S. and the UK1. Self- monitoring by patients of glucose levels, and the data provided is especially important for p...

Managing Preanalytical Processes for Patient Safety

Contributing Editor Positive patient identification (ID) is a major put by healthcare accrediting bodies for the past few years. Until recently, the costs associated with hardware and software were beyond the reach of the average hospital or laboratory. Today there are multiple vendors with devices that can be integra...

Hematology Analyzers Simple, Sophisticated Technology Serving All Patients

Some form of electronic hematology analyzer is found at the center of most clinical laboratories. A blood cell count is usually the first screening test used to assess general health, rule out anemia or infection, and monitor cancer patients during the course of chemotherapy. It is difficult to imagine medical...

Near-Patient Testing: The Advantages of C-Reactive Protein in Hematological Testing

C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute-phase protein that has long been recognized as a marker of systemic inflammation. CRP measurement can complement a range of diagnostic markers to monitor infection and direct treatment. However, as economic rationalization...

Actemra (tocilizumab) Third Phase III Study Results Show Significant Improvement in Symptoms of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

- Multinational Phase III Study Meets Primary Endpoint inRheumatoid Arthritis Patients Who Failed to Respond to Anti-tumorNecrosis Factor Treatments - NUTLEY, N.J., July 10, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche todayannounced that results from the Actemra Radiate (RheumAtoiDArthritIs Study in Anti-TNF FailurEs) trial successfully met itsprimary endpoint in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoi...

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