pilot study

(The Medicines Company) Clinical researchers here reported the first results of a pilot study with the anticoagulant Angiomax ® (bivalirudin) as an adjunct to catheter-based procedures in patients with severely defective aortic heart valves in whom surgery was not possible.

(MedPage Today) -- A special curriculum that promotes healthy lifestyle choices for children in middle school had long-term sustaining cardiovascular benefits, according to a four-year pilot study of students in Michigan schools.

LONDON (AP) -- An experimental treatment improved symptoms of Parkinson's disease in a mid-stage test, echoing results of an earlier pilot study....

(Florida State University) No matter how you slice it, watermelon has a lot going for it -- sweet, low calorie, high fiber, nutrient rich -- and now, there's more.

Evidence from a pilot study led by food scientists at The Florida State University suggests that watermelon can be an effective natural weapon against prehypertension, a precursor to cardiovascular disease.

VIENNA (MedPage Today) -- Once-daily dosing of maraviroc (Selzentry), a cell entry inhibitor, with the boosted protease inhibitor atazanavir (Reyataz) may be sufficient to suppress human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among treatment naive patients, according to results from a pilot study.

(Ohio State University) Researchers have designed a urine test that can simultaneously measure the extent of a potential carcinogenic process and a marker of garlic consumption in humans.

In a small pilot study, the test suggested that the more garlic people consumed, the lower the levels of the potential carcinogenic process were.

I occasionally elevate comments and replies to the level of full posts if I feel they better illustrate and clarify significant points I raise.

In my Jan. 9, 2010 post "Does the CEO of Google Use Google?

- And: Platform, Platform, Who's Got The Platform?" I lamented the intrusion of ill-informed, reductionistic, "database platform"-centric views of non-clinical IT personnel into healthcare.

I received the following feedback from an anonymous commenter:

For Tara Campbell, the onset of her fibromyalgia began slowly with repeated sore throats, fevers and fatigue.

By the time she was diagnosed, a year later, she had become so debilitated by flulike symptoms and exhaustion that she often couldn't get off the couch all day.

"Fall, a year ago, I hit my very, very worst," said Campbell, 39, of Walnut Creek, Calif. "I felt overall pain to the point that even when my children or husband just touched me it hurt.

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- A ventilator strategy using esophageal pressures to estimate transpulmonary pressure significantly improved oxygenation and respiratory-system compliance among critically ill patients, a pilot study found.

NEW YORK (MedPage Today) -- Patients undergoing robotic radical prostatectomy had virtually none of the pain associated with a conventional urethral catheter when surgeons used an investigational bladder drain, a small pilot study showed.