Patients with low back pain are frequently encountered in primary care. Although a specific diagnosis cannot be made for most patients, it is likely that sub-groups exist within the larger entity of nonspecific low back pain. One sub-group that has been identified is patients who respond rapidly to spinal manipulation....
This paper studies a variant of idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome associated with tissue fibrosis, poor prognosis, and imatinib responsiveness. Since serum tryptase levels are elevated in some patients with myeloproliferative disorders, this paper examined their utility in identifying a subset of patients with hypereosinophilic syndrome HES and an underlying myeloproliferative disorder....
DENVER, Colo., Sept. 16 / MediaNet International-AsiaNet/ - The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow ECOT, an Internet-only school, is keeping 5,000 public school children online with PROGNOSIS systems management software from Integrated Research IR DENVER, Colo., Sept. 16 / MediaNet International-AsiaNet/ - The Electronic Classroom of...
A crash on a rain-slicked Richmond road will cost the community a dedicated police officer and his children a devoted father, department officials said Saturday. Only life support kept Brad Moody, 29, a seven-year Richmond police veteran, from expiring late Saturday after a morning crash into a...
Cynthia Nixon never thought of herself as lucky to have a mom who'd had breast cancer, but it just may have saved her life. "My mother survived two bouts of it, so I started getting mammograms early, at age 35," says the 42-year-old actress and star of Sex and the...
MPI Will Develop and Commercialize Microarray-Based Drug Sensitivity Prediction and Prognostic Products for Patients With Cancer SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Affymetrix Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) and Medical Prognosis Institute A/S MPI, a leading cancer diagnostic development company based in Denmark, today announced that they have signed a Powered by Affymetrix[TM]...
Shares of Sovereign Bancorp Inc. plummeted 72.16 percent yesterday, a staggering drop that analysts blamed mostly on a spillover from the sell-off of financial stocks on Wall Street. The decline brought the Philadelphia banking company's stock to its lowest price in more than 20 years. It was by far the...
COSTA MESA, Calif., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Humanitarian efforts by several Mexican organizations and the world's largest tissue bank resulted in a potentially life-saving procedure for a severely burned man from Juarez last month. Edgar Ivan Cardenas Ordaz, 21, suffered second and third degree burns over 80%...
MANCHESTER UNITED 3 MIDDLESBROUGH 1 IT was the kind of challenge which makes the outcome of a Carling Cup third round tie even more of an irrelevance to Old Trafford. Emanuel Pogatetz's high 65th minute challenge on Manchester United's young Brazilian debutant Rodrigo Possebon, which saw...
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VION PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (BULLETIN BOARD: VION) announced today that it had entered into an agreement with the Institut Paoli-Calmettes in Marseille, France to conduct a multi-center Phase I/II clinical trial of laromustine (Cloretazine (VNP40101M)) with remission-induction therapy in patients aged...
Remember Norman Cousins? The writer and editor was one of the first Americans to write about the connection between "mind and body." In a 1976 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Cousins described how he cured himself of a life-threatening condition by ignoring doctors'...
The prognosis for Jason Smith: A postsurgery night in the hospital, then who knows how many nights before he resumes playing for the 76ers. Smith, the second-year big man, had successful reconstructive surgery on his left knee yesterday. The procedure was performed by Dr. David Altcheck at the Hospital For...
It isn't always easy to talk about pain. Some people think that complaining about pain is a sign of weakness. Studies on gender differences show that women are more likely to complain of pain and seek treatment for it than men. Often, you can successfully treat your pain...
MONTREAL -- Regression of a thin melanoma should not be the sole criterion to justify a sentinel lymph node biopsy, according to a retrospective study. Regression alone is insufficient in the absence of other recognized high-risk predictors of sentinel lymph node SLN involvement, Dr. Pierre-Luc Dion said. More...
MAIMONIDES, Moses. Medical Aphorisms: Treatises 6-9. Edited and translated by Gerrit Bos. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. 250 pp. Cloth, $39.95--Three names have long dominated the history of Western medicine--Hippocrates, Galen, and Maimonides. Each was revered for his clinical acumen as practitioner and teacher. Each authored seminal works...
In mid-July, a potential investor with $5 million in cash spoke to Edward Wedbush, president and founder of Wedbush Morgan, on how to play the financial sector given all the recent turmoil. The prognosis was not good. The upheaval in the industry could go on for another two years, Wedbush...
Ever the bellwether of economic health, newspaper publishers across the globe are facing a grim combination of internal and external pressures as the squeeze on advertising spending exacerbates the upheavals caused by the internet. Yesterday's financial results from Johnston Press and Independent News and Media, which owns...
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