Patients with social phobia benefit from long-term treatment with sertraline HCl
...tates, after depression and alcohol dependence and affects one out of every eight Americans. The disorder is slightly more common in women than in men and may be hereditary, according to the American Psychiatric Association. Social phobia is characterized by the fear of scrutiny by other people or by a pers......ive bladder is a common and chronic condition that affects an estimated 17 million Americans. The condition is characterized by urge urinary incontinence (sudden and involuntary loss of bladder control resulting in wetting accidents), urgency (the urgent need to empty the bladder) and frequency (frequent ur...Bexxar highly effective as first-line treatment for patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...t. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is a form of cancer that affects the blood and lymphatic tissues. The sixth leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., NHL also has the second fastest-growing incidence rate of all cancers. According to the National Cancer Institute, nearly 300,000 Americans have NHL, among them 140...Treatment helps dyslexics significantly improve reading, shows brain changes as children learn
... disorder and the most common learning disability, affects an estimated 5 percent to 15 percent of children. ...ch that will explore the degree to which the brain affects ease of learning and, in turn, is affected by specific educational interventions. They expect this k...Experimental drug reverses effects of Fabry disease in mice
...le disorder called Fabry (Fah-BRAY) disease, which affects between 6,000 and 10,000 men in the United States. Results of the study were published in the June 2000 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation in an article by James Shayman, M.D., U-M professor of pharmacology and of internal medicine, and c......lingering pain and how inflammation from an injury affects nerves and nerve axons, the thin fibers that conduct impulses toward and away from nerve cells. "If a nerve is compressed, one gets numbness," Dr. Bove says. "If an inflamed nerve is compressed, one often feels pain." According to Dr. Bove, 40 perc...CAN hosts national conference on arthritis research
...anadian Institutes for Health Research. Arthritis affects more than four million Canadians, a number that is growing rapidly as our population ages. Everyone either knows or is related to someone who has arthritis, and the public needs to understand more about the symptoms, treatment and latest research int...25-minute test distinguishes between different types of schizophrenia
...n the treatment of schizophrenia, a condition that affects 1 in 100 people in the UK. Schizophrenia usually develops in late adolescence (over the age of 19) but people with a family history tend to develop the condition at an earlier age. It is not known why or whether this illness is biologically differen...Scientists meet in Connecticut to discuss research findings
...ne addiction: Cocaine is a powerful stimulant that affects brain chemistry and produces increased heart rate and hypertension. Local researchers will present data on the development of medication to combat the negative effects of cocaine. M. Kamal, University of Connecticut, Monday, June 19, poster session,...Using PET scan technology to study alcohol's effects on the brain
...ting gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) activity, also affects other neurotransmitter systems in the brain. It is likewise clear that alcohol, which has both sedative-like and stimulant-like effects, has addictive qualities. Benzodiazepines (used as sleeping pills) -- which primarily facilitate GABAergic activ......mentation of a three-tier prescription co-pay plan affects pharmaceutical and medical utilization and expenditures, continuation with chronic medications and the percent of enrollees affected. She told conference participants that the relatively new co-pay structure can significantly lower payers' tren......xide. They can cause an inflammatory reaction that affects the entire body and can aggravate illnesses. The Cohn Cardiac Stabilizer is marketed by Genzyme Surgical Products as part of Genzyme-OPCAB Elite Stabilization System. "Dr. Cohn is being recognized as one of America's most creative inventors," said He...... high prevalence of schizophrenia worldwide, which affects people from all countries, socio-economic groups and cultures2. Savings of $7.5 US billion in Europe (population 729m3 X 1/100 patients with schizophrenia X $1,022 per patient per year saving), $3.1 billion US in Northern America (population 307m3)......terized by degeneration of the brain. It primarily affects children of Eastern European or Ashkenazi Jewish b...of the CNS Gene Therapy Center. Though the disease affects the children from birth, diagnosis takes some time. The children in the study received the gene tran...Swiss research team receives American award
...ington, D.C. High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects up to 20 percent of adults worldwide, said Buehlmayer, a research chemist with Novartis Pharma AG. People with hypertension often sense no symptoms, but the excess pressure can damage the heart, kidneys, brain and eyes. Various classes of drugs can ...Government asks UNC to develop school program about alcohol and birth defects
... can observe how incubating shrimp eggs in alcohol affects their development. We also plan to make the curriculum Web-based to allow students and teachers to access it off the Internet." The Carolina team will develop the curriculum over the next year with the help of local science teachers from Orange, Dur...... be avoided prior to diving because of its adverse affects on mental agility," says David McD Taylor, M.D., principal investigator of the study, who is now at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia. "Hopefully the results of these studies will make divers more knowledgeable, allowing them to dive ...Fine-tuning naltrexone treatment for alcoholics
...study as well as other studies showing how alcohol affects the brain are very important," said Volpicelli. "They provide more evidence that alcohol addiction is a medical disease, and medicines like naltrexone can be helpful in helping people recover."...NIH awards grant to MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals to study novel pain treatments
...hese areas." Pain is a growing health problem that affects a third of all Americans. Approximately 10 percent of the American population have pain that does not respond well to current therapies. These patients include those with acute, inflammatory and especially neuropathic pain which is generated by cau...NIH funds unique diabetes program that combines research with technology development
...determine whether lipotoxicity is a mechanism that affects the function of cells other than islet b-cells, using the heart as a new model system. He will also determine whether his observations can be extrapolated to include an alternative animal model of obesity and diabetes (the diet-induced obesity rat) t...