Viagra used in stroke recovery study
...st couple of months; most of the recovery has come after the sixth month period. This is very uncommon for individuals after stroke who typically see a deceleration in recovery. Individuals with locked in syndrome rarely wal...Medication helps alcoholics control drinking
... evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. Dr. Joseph Volpicelli, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has been conducting research on naltrexone use for alcohol dependence since the early 1980s. ...Drugs aid weight loss among type 2 diabetes patients
...verage of 11 pounds (5.1 kilograms) 24 to 26 weeks after starting the therapy. Patients taking orlistat had... evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. Although a variety o...Mayo Clinic study finds obese kidney donors face few increased risks
... than 500 patients, at an average of eleven months after kidney donation, Mayo doctors found obese donors did not experience more problems than non-obese donors. However, prior to donation, obese patients were at greater risk for cardiovascular disease based on blood pressure and cholesterol levels, compar...International gathering of experts to share retinoblastoma breakthroughs
...lastoma is the third most common cancer in infants after leukemia and neuroblastoma (nerve cancer). Retinoblastoma that has spread outside the eye is among the deadliest childhood cancers, with an average survival rate of less than 10 percent. Successful treatment of this disease often includes removal of ...Study finds no reason for expectant mothers to shy away from early epidurals
...hine-like drug) and didn't get the epidural until after four centimeters dilation," says lead author Cynthia Wong, MD, section chief for Obstetric Anesthesiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and associate professor of Anesthesiology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. "In addit...No increase in C-sections when epidural analgesia given early in labor
...self-reported pain scores were significantly lower after spinal-epidural analgesia. The lack of association between early labor neuraxial analgesia and an increased cesarean delivery rate suggests that request for analgesia, or greater analgesia use, may be markers for other risk factors for cesarean sect...Young blood revives aging muscles, Stanford researchers find
...aintained the same pre-injury levels of Delta even after muscle damage. However, in the current study he fo...ners ramped up Delta production to youthful levels after an injury. The group confirmed their results by putting satellite cells from old and young mice in a...Hormone therapy controversy raises drug safety issues
...nducted clinical trial, found otherwise." Yet even after the WHI research, which the authors say the Food &... can expect to live a third or more of their lives after menopause, the stakes are a higher quality of life through their later years. In spite of evidence t...Florida Tech scientist wins patent for device to deliver X-ray irradiation
...gy can prevent the frequent re-formation of plaque after angioplasty and stent implantation. Dr. Mitra began development of his process in a Food and Drug Administration laboratory in Rockville, Md. in 2002. He became associated during the development with Dr. Charles R. Lambert, former directo...Changing chemistry helps explain estrogen threat to the heart
...tric oxide. "What surprised the heck out of me was after we blocked nitric oxide production and added estrogen, we got a contraction," says Dr. White. "Estrogen now had turned into a constrictor agent, an agent that would increase blood pressure." They looked further and found that normal aging decreases l...Most episodes of HIV 'blips' not clinically significant in patients receiving HAART
...ew resistance mutations before, during, or shortly after blips in the study patients....New test improves detection of bladder cancer
...edicted to be diagnosed this year will be detected after they have become invasive or metastatic, which lowers 5-year survival to approximately 48 percent and 10 percent, respectively. As a result, 13,000 Americans will die of bladder cancer this year. A combination of methods is used for diagnosis of blad...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...nd Stephen W. N. Thompson Regeneration in the CNS after spinal cord injury is limited because of obstacles...e JAK2STAT3 pathway appears to be growth-promoting after a peripheral nerve injury....Researchers confirm Vioxx nearly doubled cardiovascular risks in cancer prevention study
...ar problems such as heart attacks or strokes until after 18 months of treatment. "In the first 18 months, the risks for the two treatments were similar," Bresalier says. Other cardiac problems, such as hypertension-related events, pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure-related events were much more p...Small increases or 'blips' in HIV levels do not signal mutations leading to drug-resistant HIV
...ic tests on the samples before, during and shortly after the blip, to uncover any mutations in the virus. Measures of viral load were confirmed by using two independent laboratories to test each sample. No new mutations were found in an analysis of nearly 1,000 viral clones for mutations in HIV's two key ...Study examines effect of managed care on quality of care for cancer patients
...nty, including receipt of surveillance mammography after cancer diagnosis, receipt of radiation after breast-conserving surgery, receipt of adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colorectal cancer, or surv...Older doctors less likely to follow current standards of care
...ans who received initial Board certification in or after 1990 to appear for periodic recertification exams. "We need to start thinking about more effective ways to help doctors keep up to date," says Choudhry, also an internist at Brigham and Women's Hospital. "For example, 'academic detailing,' in which ...Flu vaccination impact on elderly deaths may be over-estimated
...ation between this increasing vaccination coverage after 1980 and declining deaths rates in any age group. Observational studies may introduce a systematic bias that leads to a substantial over-estimate of the impact of influenza vaccination on mortality, the authors suggest. Lone Simonsen, Ph.D., of the N...Uric acid may help reduce effects of spinal cord injury, Jefferson researchers find
...mice that received uric acid just before and right after an experimental spinal cord injury recovered motor...led destructive cascade begins within a few hours after the initial injury. "The effect is driven by nonspecific cells such as neutrophils," he explains, a ...