Depression costs UK economy 2 billion a year, conference will be told
...enign neglect by most people in mostcountries. It affects many more people than cancer and yet attracts a smallfraction of the healthcare funding of that calamitous disease. Moreover, thevast percentage of depressed individuals, most of whom are in the developingworld, suffer one of the most costly disease...Mayo Clinic investigates new device to regulate beating of the heart and improve pump function
... modifications and heart transplant. Heart failure affects about five million people in the United States. This debilitating disease is the most frequent cause of hospitalization for people age 65 and older, and often leads to premature death. Healthcare costs associated with caring for those with heart fa...Cranfield technology noses ahead
...ving recurrent episodes. The most common complaint affects the bladder cystitis, more serious complaints can go on to affect the kidney. Fast, efficient diagnosis and treatment not only eases the pain and discomfort experienced by patients but can free up many medical resources. Current tests take between 24...UI study shows classification system for evaluating childhood hip disease may be unreliable
...nto question." Perthes disease is a condition that affects young children, most commonly between the ages of 4 and 10. It involves the loss of blood supply to the upper end of the femur, which eventually leads to deformation of the femoral head. If untreated, the disease may lead to degenerative arthritis. T...Studies of growth hormone result in new class of drugs
...nt for the treatment of acromegaly, a disease that affects about 40,000 people worldwide. Sensus Drug Development Corp., the company that developed pegvisomant, plans to file for Federal Drug Administration approval for the drug's use in acromegaly early next year. "Not many university professors are able t...Study casts doubt that melatonin goes down as age goes up: Older buyers take note
...t because of their age per se." "To say that aging affects the regulation of melatonin secretion is not borne out by the scientific literature, especially this newest study, the most comprehensive and carefully designed to date," says Andrew A. Monjan, Ph.D., M.P.H., Chief of the Neurobiology of Aging Branch...Researchers discover alcohol-sensitive membrane channel
...imately will increase our knowledge of how alcohol affects the brain and, thereby, the way aperson functions," said Enoch Gordis, M.D., Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), a component of the National Institutesof Health. Joanne M. Lewohl, Ph.D., and her associates identifie......at cause this devastating bleeding disorder, which affects about one in 10,000 American males. This discovery also provides a key to the development of new drugs - better clotting agents for hemophiliacs and improved anticoagulants for those at risk of stroke and heart attack. The discovery, a collaborative...Brains of those in certain professions shown to have more synapses
...changes that may be related toschizophrenia, which affects synapses in the prefrontal cortex. While schizophrenia can greatlyinterfere with a person's quality of life, Black said, new medications offer a good possibility ofrecovery. The research team includes Dr. Natalya Uranova and colleagues in Moscow, an...Drug blocks opioid side effects: Could improve palliative care
...2 suffered from opioid-induced constipation, which affects about 60 percent of long-term methadone users. The volunteers averaged 1.5 bowel movements a week. Eleven of the 22 subjects received low doses of intravenous methylnaltrexone and 11 received a placebo. Ten of the 11 who received the drug had an imme...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
... of Genomics). Autism is a complex disease that affects 2-10 per 10,000 people, making it the third most common developmental disability -- almost as common as Down's syndrome. But because of the broad differences in severity of the disease, doctors have difficulty diagnosing it with certainty. Some child...ARLINGTON, VA -- Whiplash affects more than 3 million people each year, yet research into this condition is severely under-funded and little is done to prevent it, according to the February 2000 issue of the Journal of the American Chiropractic Association (JACA). Although the United...NHLBI funds asthma coalitions to improve care among high risk populations
...s a chronic lung condition that disproportionately affects children, minorities, and low-income individuals. Minority populations, particularly African Americans and Hispanics, account for a disproportionate share of asthma deaths, as well as emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Asthma also co...MCG researchers find clues in process that enables working memory
...ays to block the newfound protein and see how that affects cells. "We are developing viruses that we hope can get into the cells and knock out the interaction; we also are trying to do experiments in mice where we knock out the gene for calcyon in cells that make dopamine D1 receptors and see how that chang...UI study: first-generation antihistamine has more impact than alcohol on driving performance
...stamines to treat the condition. Allergic rhinitis affects more than 39 million people in the United States. "It is not commonly recognized that more than half of the states have laws prohibiting driving under the influence of sedating medications," Weiler said. The researchers tested the participants' a...Behavioral sensitization: A new perspective on alcoholism
...ecific one we studied is called MK-801." Alcohol affects virtually every organ system in the body and alters the activity of most major neurochemicals. Alcohol's effects on the glutamate system are of particular interest to researchers. Glutamate acts as one of the brain's endogenous (made within the bod...Health risks from impaired drug metabolism
...ding problems due to a genetic characteristic that affects how they metabolize the anticoagulant drug warfarin. The same genetic variation affects metabolism of tolbutamide, taken by diabetics to lower blood sugar, and of phenytoin, an anti-seizur...FDA approval means Americans with osteoarthritis have a new option
...pain relief from osteoarthritis -- which currently affects 80 percent of Americans over age 65 -- is expected to increase. Millions of people are still searching for an effective treatment they can tolerate. For these patients, today's clearance of MOBIC tablets for marketing in the U.S. provides an impor...Study shows obsessive-compulsive disorder runs in families
...ying the actual gene(s)involved, says Nestadt. OCD affects as high as 3 percent of the world's population. Although ittouches all ages, the period of greatest risk is from childhood to middleage. Twin studies have shown identical twins have a higher incidence of OCD-- almost 90 percent -- than fraternal twin...UF study shows pumping iron improves strength, independence in frail elderly
.... However, little research has been done on how it affects people as debilitated as the UF study participants, who were living in nursing homes or the VA hospital's geriatric ward. For the latest study, published in the March issue of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, researchers tracked...