Scientists believe the results suggest that montelukast could be an effective option to current asthma therapies in 6- to 14-year-old patients.
The hope is to flag borderline cases or high-risk patients not spotted by existing tests--like a lean, 40-year-old nonsmoker with an innate vulnerability to heart attack--and target these patients for drugs or lifestyle changes.
For all patients, old-fashioned diuretics, or water pills, are the preferred first treatment.
In the autumn of 1954, not long after Pamela Schmidt's surgery, he lost six out of seven cross-circulation patients, including a 7-month-old baby.
At the multi-million pound Peterborough City Hospital, the duke and duchess met patients including seven-year-old Emma Henson, who suffers from a rare disorder meaning her arteries and veins are entangled.
Koch, a 55-year-old oncology nurse, had been telling patients that her son had called to say he was coming home soon.
Koop, worried that medicine had lost old-fashioned caring and personal relationships between doctors and patients, opened an institute at Dartmouth to teach medical students basic values and ethics.
The patients, a 31-year-old man and 21-year-old woman died in mid-February in the southwestern area of the country.
The patients - a 25-year-old woman, a 36-year-old man and a 39-year-old man - were given MRI scans at the Vera Cruz hospital on Monday.
Devi Shetty is India's most celebrated heart surgeon, having performed the country's first neonatal heart surgery on a nine-day-old baby, and numbered Mother Teresa among his patients.
One of my patients, a beautiful 25-year-old woman, was left with shark bite-sized divots all over her thighs and stomach after undergoing laser liposuction by a family medicine doctor.
That leaves patients seeking a heart-health booster beyond statins with old-fashioned lifestyle methods such as diet and exercise.
The first three patients to be identified are an 87-year-old man and a 27-year-old man from Shanghai, and a 35-year-old housewife from Anhui.
It has worked well for AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ), which has switched patients from its old ulcer drug, Prilosec, to a new one, Nexium.
The country's excellent doctors are said to have an old-fashioned regard for their own authority, which can interfere with giving patients the sort of information they need to participate in trials.
New data indicates the old vaccine did clear plaque--although whether the medicine actually stopped the deterioration of patients' minds is an open question.
When he isn't seeing patients, Deisseroth, a mild-mannered 38-year-old with a mop of brown hair, spends his days in a bustling basement lab beneath Stanford's James H.
Brooke Jaffe, a 21-year-old English major at Barnard College in New York, and Justin Lambert, a 20-year-old nursing major at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, are two cancer patients in remission who helped with the project.
One of the first patients to undergo the procedure using the robot was 70-year-old arthritis sufferer May Walker, who had the same operation on her other leg 11 years ago.
Some patients in Wales have already benefited from the new service including 26-year-old Swansea student Gillian Jackson.
Suppose a manufacturer has a high-priced, branded drug for asthma, used mostly by younger patients, and a high-priced drug for arthritis, used mostly by the old.
It also contains Topol's response, in which he publishes a new analysis of four-year-old data that he says shows a "significant" increase in heart attack and stroke in patients taking Vioxx after as little as six weeks.
Electroshock therapy, the decades-old treatment of last resort for depression, indiscriminately blasts the entire head to induce seizures and jar patients out of their blues.
Ms Nickless, whose 15-month old daughter has G551D cystic fibrosis, said she wanted the drug to be made available to patients of all ages, despite the European Medicines Agency advising it only be given to people over six years old.
"We will do a better job of explaining to ourselves and to patients how, for example, schizophrenia emerges in a 19 or 20-year-old for the first time, how we can relate that a little bit more directly to changes in brain development that may have been going subtly wrong for many years previously, " he said.
BBC: Brain scan study to understand workings of teenage mind
In 2009, he and Dr. Ron Levine, of Greenwich, along with end-of-life advocates, sued to seek a clarification of the state's decades-old ban on assisted suicide, citing concerns about Connecticut doctors being prosecuted for giving medications to their dying patients.
Smallpox can be prevented with decades-old vaccines like those donated by Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), but many patients are likely to experience dangerous side effects.
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