"It's still an increase in risk, " says Christie Ballantyne of the Baylor College of Medicine.
Experiments by other researchers at Baylor College of Medicine also predicted the skin cancer effect.
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Baruch Brody, a bioethicist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, is among them.
In general, mosquitoes find the poor inviting hosts, explains Peter Hotez of the Baylor College of Medicine.
Clyde Yancy, a cardiologist at the Baylor College of Medicine, says the subgroups themselves are a difficult call.
Hospitals include Baylor College of Medicine, the Mayo Clinic, and New York Presbyterian.
"It's close to bulletproof, " says Clifford Dacso, vice chair of the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
"It's still not compelling enough for everybody, " says Christie Ballantyne , a cardiologist at the Baylor College of Medicine.
"I've been very impressed, scientifically, with what's gone on at Merck, " says Christie Ballantyne, a cardiologist at the Baylor College of Medicine.
Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine, both in Houston, Texas.
Christie Ballantyne, a cardiologist at the Baylor College of Medicine, led a clinical trial that indicated Vytorin may have a potent anti-inflammatory effect.
Significantly more patients saw their condition improve on the device, according to Douglas Mann of the Baylor College of Medicine, who led the clinical trial.
Also writing in The Lancet, Dr Merrill Wise, of Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, said the findings, if replicated in larger studies, could be significant.
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The researchers, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and Stanford University, published their results in the journal Nature Genetics.
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"I think this is reassuring, " says Christie Ballantyne , a cardiologist at the Baylor College of Medicine who is heading up a Crestor clinical trial for AstraZeneca.
Christie Ballantyne, a cardiologist at the Baylor College of Medicine, notes that other studies trying to compare two statins involve following about 10, 000 patients or more for years.
"It hasn't been proven to be better than older drugs, " says Rachelle Doody of Baylor College of Medicine, who led the trial for Medivation (she is a Medivation consultant).
Christie Ballantyne, a cardiologist at the Baylor College of Medicine, also sees risks that torcetrapib might not prove an effective way to raise HDL. And he sees another challenge.
Malcolm Brenner, a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine and the current head of the American Society of Gene Therapy, says that such gene therapy is already being done.
With this in mind, Jeffrey Rosen and his colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, compared samples from breast-cancer patients taken before and after 12 weeks of chemotherapy.
Clyde Yancy, medical director of the heart and vascular institute at the Baylor College of Medicine, and another FDA panelist, notes that with drugs, so-called off-label use is often a scandal.
Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine decided to look at how people in an economic relationship--like an investor and his stockbroker or two executives negotiating a deal--decided to trust each other.
Enbrel's potential in this realm might never have come to light but for the dogged efforts of a few university researchers, including Douglas Mann, who heads heart-failure research at the Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Virginia A. Moyer, chair of the task force and professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, said the recommendation was based on a recognized modest benefit shown by studies in human subjects.
Christie Ballantyne of Houston's Baylor College of Medicine says he thinks using resin drugs like Questran or WelChol before Zetia doesn't make much sense, because those medicines are so inconvenient that patients won't stay on them.
"This gives us a reference set of genes and microbes from healthy individuals, " said James Versalovic, director of the Texas Children's Microbiome Center at Baylor College of Medicine and one of the researchers on the project.
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, the only private medical school in the U.S. Greater Southwest, is recognized as a premier academic health science center and is known for excellence in education, research, and patient care.
Other trial sites along with the University of Maryland Medical Center are Baylor College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Emory University, Saint Louis University, Seattle Group Health Cooperative, the University of Iowa, and Vanderbilt University.
DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas and assistant professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine who has wrote several studies on diagnostic error, says that while the Hopkins study confirms previous research, malpractice data provide a limited picture.
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