News tagged with treatment regimens
New treatment option for latent tuberculosis
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Patients who are infected with the latent form of tuberculosis (TB) show no symptoms and are not contagious, yet they pose the biggest challenge when it comes to controlling the disease. The latest study by Dr. Dick Menzies ...
Strategies to control TB outdated, inadequate
Aug 01, 2008 |
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The standard regimens to treat tuberculosis (TB) are inadequate in countries with high rates of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB. In countries with high rates of MDR-TB, patients are nearly twice as likely to fail their initial ...
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Nonhormonal treatment regimens improve survival in patients with metastatic breast cancer
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Nonhormonal treatment regimens, including anthracycline-based regimens and taxanes, have improved overall survival in women with advanced (metastatic or recurrent inoperable) breast cancer over the last 35 years, according ...
New treatment approach promising for lymphoma patients in the developing world
Jul 06, 2008 |
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Preliminary results suggest that patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the developing world might benefit from a modified chemotherapy regimen, researchers say.
Analysis of TB treatment studies identifies gaps in guidelines
Sep 15, 2009 |
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International guidelines for treating tuberculosis are due for specific improvements, according to two research papers published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine.
Standard chemo works better against metastatic BRCA1/2 breast cancer than against sporadic tumors
Apr 17, 2008 |
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The first study to investigate the effects of chemotherapy on metastatic breast cancer in women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation has shown that standard chemotherapy works better in these patients than in women without ...
Measurements fail to identify TB patients who could benefit from shorter treatment course
Jun 30, 2009 |
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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 ...
Physician Communication Skills Essential for Patient Adherence
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at UC Riverside and Texas State University find that patients are more likely to follow treatment regimens when doctors are better communicators.
Hepatitis C: No overall difference in sustained viral response in most widely used treatments
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Findings from the largest study to date comparing the efficacy of competing treatments for chronic hepatitis C infection (HCV) show that the regimens are similar when it comes to safety and their ability to provoke long-term ...
Animal TB 'tracker' to speed drug and vaccine studies
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a novel way to monitor in real time the behavior of the TB bacterium in mouse lungs noninvasively pinpointing the exact location of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The ...
Kidney transplant patients may benefit from going off of certain immunosuppressive drugs
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 18, 2008 |
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[B]Withdrawal of calcineurin inhibitors provides long-term health benefits and saves money[/B] Withdrawing certain immunosuppressive drugs following kidney transplantation prolongs survival and saves money compared with kee ...
Prolonged nevirapine in breast-fed babies prevents HIV infection but leads to drug-resistant HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding are at high risk for developing drug-resistant HIV if they get infected ...
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