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The first multi-center study of bone marrow transplantation in children with sickle cell disease has demonstrated that this procedure can provide a cure for young sickle cell patients who have a matched sibling, researchers supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health reported today.
The risk that a patient will be given blood that is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is less than 2 cases per million units transfused, according to researchers participating in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's (NHLBI) Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study (REDS).
The May 22, 1996, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association spotlights the problem of high blood pressure management, as well as new clues into its development and related conditions. Many of these studies were supported by the NHLBI.
A trial involving nearly 100 elementary schools in four states has proved that young children can be taught behaviors that could help protect them against heart disease later in life.
Scientists supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) have been able to grow new tissue in the lungs of laboratory animals for the first time.
Patients on drug treatment for diabetes who had blockages in two or more coronary arteries and were treated with coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) had at 5 years a markedly lower death rate than similar patients treated with angioplasty, announced the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health as it released findings from a major clinical trial and issued an alert to U.S. physicians.
Short-acting nifedipine, a type of calcium channel blocker prescribed for hypertension and certain heart disorders, should be used with "great caution (if at all)," especially at higher doses, concludes the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in a statement for health professionals.
