Opioid medications a good bet for shingles-related pain
...cations would be taken. Patients started with one pill a day at bedtime and gradually increased until they experienced maximum pain relief or ill side effects. Researchers then followed up with each patient twice a week through telephone surveys. Forty-four of the 76 patients completed all three p...When Media, Science and Public Policy Collide: The Case of Food and Biotechnology
...hey'd been grown in Pandora's Box? Take a broccoli pill to prevent breast cancer? Or do you go along with recent reports that the menus at fast-food restaurants are changing for the better? Nowhere is this more evident than in the ongoing debate over biotechnology and, to be more specific, genetically en...Beyond patches and pills: the remarkable future of drug delivery
... area of research could someday produce an insulin pill for diabetics, an under-skin pharmacy on a microch...and then expand to their proper shape. An insulin pill -- "We can take a pill to treat headaches; why can't we take a pill to treat diabetes?" asks Nichol...New research tools are opening the 'black box' of coastal ecosystems
...like knowing that someone is sick and a particular pill helps, but not understanding why or how. We need to know the underlying mechanisms crucial for sustaining coastal ecosystems." A key question, Warner noted, is where various coastal marine species travel as they grow and disperse. "These underwater e...Studies of rare blood syndrome yield novel route to cancer
...'s stunning to see such a recovery due to a simple pill that has minimal side effects compared to conventional chemotherapy." According to Gilliland, the initial group of patients is still responding to the drug, as have additional patients recruited after submission of the New England Journal of Medici...Estrogen patch compared to pill minimizes cardiovascular risk factor in postmenopausal women
...replacement therapy via a skin patch rather than a pill minimizes a cardiovascular risk factor in postmeno...d an oral placebo; 0.625 milligrams of an estrogen pill along with a placebo patch; and placebo patch and pills. The researchers also reported a decrease in...Diabetes therapies and liquid memory may develop from micro fluid research, Science researchers say
...ation of fluid contraptions. "Imagine an implanted pill with an inflatable chamber to hold a drug. If you connect this reservoir to the drug's drop-off spot in the body with a microfluidic channel, you can achieve relatively constant flow of medicine despite decreases in pressure," said Groisman. This con...Tiny protein prevents disease-related cell death
... could be used to pattern chemicals developed into pill form, for more convenient administration protecting against pathological cell death....Braunschweig Prize 2003 for Molecular Cancer Therapy
...egarded as the pathfinder of the first tailor-made pill for the treatment of cancer. Ten years ago, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company No-vartis, he identified the compound Imatinib, which in the meantime has become commercially available as Glivec. In contrast to chemotherapy that attacks b...Common treatment for depression is safe and effective for Alzheimer's patients
...rdized depression scale and given a single placebo pill daily for one week in order to identify those with transient or temporary depression. Those patients with a drop of 30 percent or more in their depression scores were excluded from the study. The remaining 44 patients were assigned randomly to rece...Purdue Research Park company makes melt-in-your-mouth meds
...ill make it easier for people to take medicines in pill form. Researchers at Akina Inc. are developing Purdue University-licensed technologies that improve the ways in which prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines and even vitamins are administered orally. The venture's latest technology, called Fr...Drug developed for rare disease may help millions more as treatment for cancer, autoimmune diseases
...er TM can do the job even easier. "We have an oral pill that's shown to inhibit TNF-alpha in mice. The concept is that for whatever diseases these antibodies therapeutically benefit, TM should be tried," Brewer says. Studies are either beginning or in the planning stages for several autoimmune diseases. O...Sex selection for social reasons unlikely to skew gender balance in Germany and UK
...ypothetical situation where they could take a blue pill for a boy and a pink pill for a girl 9 out of 10 said they would still not be interested. In the UK (excluding the small perce...Three molecular-targeted compounds show promise against cancers
...orating PET imaging: Abstract 663 An experimental pill aimed at several important signaling molecules inv...rable reductions in their disease when offered the pill form of an experimental compound that alters certain genetic patterns of cells. Researchers at Memor...Study finds huge variability in vitamin E absorption
...e results of four different types of breakfasts: a pill of 400 I.U. of vitamin E with skim milk; a serving... E; and a serving of wheat breakfast cereal with a pill of 400 I.U. vitamin E taken separately. The pill of 400 I.U. vitamin E taken with just a glass of...Newer drugs more effective at curing strep throat than penicillin
...inir are oral medications that come in liquid and pill forms, and are safe for infants, children, and teens. The new study presents findings from a meta-analysis, a review of previous studies done about the efficacy of cephalosporin drugs and penicillin. "We carefully examined 35 studies done since 196...Data show investigational antibiotic safe, effective in preventing travelers diarrhea
...verse events comparable to placebo (inactive sugar pill used to blind the drug). For a copy of the DDW abstract or for more information during the conference, please contact Dr. DuPont through his pager: 877-326-1401. After the conference, his office number in Houston is 832-355-4122. The study was supp...Endometriosis: Could angiostatic therapy be the new treatment of the future?
...s hormones, either by giving an oral contraceptive pill or gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues. These patients definitely will not be able to conceive under that medication. With endostatin, however, it would be possible to become pregnant. "Results from this study show, that as endometrios...Gene therapy alternative to calcium channel blockers
...ile avoiding the negative side effects of existing pill therapies, especially on other organs of the body. Our initial results with gene therapy are very promising." The researchers were drawn to investigating the role of Gem because of its key role in an enzyme pathway it is a GTP-binding protein of th...Clemson University spin-off uses corn to make plastics, provide cleaner air
... a byproduct of corn. It currently is used in some pill coatings and sutures because it easily dissolves -- a property not desirable in drink containers, boat coatings and packaging. Clemson University professor Dennis Smith and his research group have found a new way to replace up to 50 percent of the c...