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Epidemiology of TB: Updates from CDC studies to be presented at ATS 2007
05-20-2007 · EurekAlert!The latest research from two Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies looking at the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) in the United States will be presented at the American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference on Sunday, May 20, in San Francisco. The studies focus on two groups with higher-than-average rates of TB: foreign-born persons and African-Americans living in the southeastern United States.
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03-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
Three studies being presented today at the American College of Cardiology’s Innovation in Intervention: i2 Summit 2007 highlight the breadth of research propelling advances in clinical cardiology. One study explores the best medical and interventional treatment for patients with acute coronary syndromes, the second demonstrates the long-lasting promise of non-surgical approaches to the repair of heart valves, and the third highlights a new drug-exercise combination that improves image quality and reduces side effects.
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- IAVI, CDC and USMHRP release new data redefining laboratory reference ranges in Africa
08-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
Leading researchers from IAVI, CDC and the USMHRP presented final results today from a collection of independent studies re-examining the medical criteria for including African volunteers in AIDS vaccine trials. The findings, presented at the AIDS Vaccine 2007 Conference in Seattle, suggest that many healthy southern and east Africans have, in the past, been excluded from participating in trials based on laboratory reference ranges that were developed for Western populations, and may not be appropriate locally.
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- News from American Psychiatric Association 2007 Annual Meeting
05-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new study presented today showed that ramelteon did not impair middle-of-the-night balance, mobility or memory performance in older adults with insomnia, relative to placebo. This study also demonstrated, as in previous studies, that patients treated with zolpidem did have impaired performances on these measures, as compared to placebo. The results of this double-blind, placebo-controlled trial were presented in a poster at the American Psychiatric Association 2007 Annual Meeting.
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- Breast cancer returns more often in black women
10-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
Contrary to previous studies, African-American women with early-stage breast cancer who have surgery to remove the cancer followed by radiation therapy have a higher chance of their cancer coming back in the breast and lymph nodes 10 years after diagnosis, compared to their Caucasian counterparts, according to the largest study of its kind, presented at a scientific session Oct. 29, 2007, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 49th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.
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- Drug industry increasingly influences breast cancer research
02-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
Breast cancer treatment trials supported by the pharmaceutical industry are more likely to report positive results than non-sponsored studies, according to a study to be published in the April 1, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
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- Sleep apnea increases risk of heart attack or death by 30 percent
05-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
The nighttime breathing disorder known as obstructive sleep apnea increases a person's risk of having a heart attack or dying by 30 percent over a period of four to five years, according to a study presented at the American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference, on Monday, May 21.
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- Mapping rheumatoid arthritis -- first multinational review of RA shows
06-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
In the first international "map of rheumatoid arthritis," spanning Europe and beyond, significant national differences in RA severity can be directly traced to national economics, most notably health expenditure, as exposed today by data from the QUEST-RA Study presented at EULAR 2007, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Can cholesterol-lowering medicine make radiation more effective at curing prostate cancer?
10-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
Patients with prostate cancer who receive high-dose radiation treatment and also take statin drugs commonly used to lower cholesterol have a 10 percent higher chance of being cured of their cancer at 10 years after diagnosis (76 percent), compared to those who don't take these medications (66 percent), according to a study presented at a scientific session Oct. 31, 2007, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 49th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.
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05-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
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