Researchers join with treatment providers to improve drug abuse treatment
...use treatment. Those proposals will bereviewed and approved by a national steering committee made up of researchers,treatment providers and NIDA representatives. Oregon treatment programs participating in this project include ChangePoint,CODA, Oregon Treatment Network, Kaiser Permanente Recovery Resources and...New nasal obstruction procedure offers cheaper, pain-free alternative to surgery
... clinical duties. "The technology was first approved for treating snoring, which istreatment of the palate," he said. "It's exciting that now another innovativeuse of the technology has been approved." Somnoplasty delivers radio frequency energy through a needle, which, inthe treatment for snor...New tests for blood clots, lung cancer use NIDCR patented technology
A new generation of diagnostic tests, recently approved by the FDA, were createdwith the help of a technol...thetic peptides linked toradioisotopes. One of the approved tests recognizes life-threatening blood clotsand the other detects the presence of malignancy in lun......and W. But currently there is no effective vaccine approved in the United States for serotype B, which causes about one-third of the cases," Dr. Arditi says. Tell-tale symptoms of meningitis include high fever and severe, sudden headache. These often are accompanied by such complaints as stiff neck, nausea, v...ENBREL (etanercept) long-term clinical trial data
...ican College of Rheumatology (ACR) today. The FDA approved ENBREL on November 2, 1998 to treat moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis in patients who have an inadequate response to one or more disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs). The FDA included children and teen-agers (age 4-17 yea......erapy of acute nonlymphocytic leukemia. It is not approved for use in MS patients. Full prescribing information for NOVANTRONE can be obtained by calling 1-800-IMMUNEX or visiting www.immunex.com. Immunex Corporation is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing immune system science to protect hu...Bristol-Meyers Squibb submits NDA for new formulation of once daily videx(R)(didanosine)
...ntries around the world. In October 1999, the FDA approved VIDEX tablets for once-a-day dosing; concurrently, BMS launched a 200 mg tablet which simplifies dosing to two tablets once a day. Patients must take at least two of the appropriate strength tablets to provide adequate buffer to prevent gastric acid...Cranfield pushes for greater child flight safety
...rage restraint manufacturers to have their devices approved for both car and aircraft use, was also suggested....New quit strategy offers smokers more pleasure, less risk
... The prescription drug Zyban is an anti-depressant approved for use as a stop-smoking aid. In a study with 11 ...s cautions, however, that methoxsalen has not been approved for use in smoking cessation. More safety testing is needed, but the concept is very promising. "I...Wake Forest study shows women suffer from 'gender gap' in treatment of severe psoriasis
...mbalance. In 1998 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of a new drug using cyclosporin A, sold under the trade name Neoral, for treating severe psoriasis. Cyclosporin A does not carry the risk of birth defects or premature delivery, Fleischer said, which makes it more suitable for treating wom...Drug that curbs nicotine craving may do same for cocaine
.... The researchers expect mecamylamine to be approved for smoking cessation sometime this year. Co-authors of the Duke study include Rose, Tonya Mead, Amir Rezvani, Camille Gallivan and Rita Gross....FDA approval means Americans with osteoarthritis have a new option
...2000) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved MOBIC (meloxicam) tablets for marketing as a treatment for osteoarthritis. This decision gives patients in the United States an alternative that has been used in millions of patients worldwide for relieving the pain and stiffness associated with the...Ritalin and Prozac: Study finds more kids using both drug types together
...le concurrent psychiatric disorders. SSRIs are not approved for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The study also reveals demographic trends among those who are being given the medications. Prescription rates for the two different drugs in the studied population differed widely: 1....Patients with social phobia benefit from long-term treatment with sertraline HCl
...erious adverse events were reported. Sertraline is approved in Canada, the United States and other countries f...in adults and OCD in children. Sertraline is also approved for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the United States. Sertraline is cont......d only once-a-day treatment for overactive bladder approved by the FDA and is marketed by ALZA Corporation and UCB Pharma. For the study, investigators analyzed three clinical trials comparing different doses of extended-release and immediate-release oxybutynin in 159 patients older than 65 and in 261 patie...Experimental drug reverses effects of Fabry disease in mice
...liosidosis. "Currently only Gaucher disease has an approved therapy, which involves regular intravenous infusions of a genetically engineered form of the missing enzyme called recombinant beta-glucosidase," Shayman says. "It costs more than $200,000 for one year's treatment and currently is the most expensiv...New drug works well as sole epilepsy therapy for difficult-to-treat patients
...ich makes oxcarbazepine as Trileptal. The drug was approved in January by the Food and Drug Administration, partly on the basis of the findings of this trial. More than 2.3 million American children and adults have some form of epilepsy, and approximately 181,000 new cases of the neurological disorder are di...First pivotal studies for new alzheimer's treatment published in Neurology
...atory authorities worldwide. Reminyl was recently approved for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease in Sweden and Switzerland. "There are at least two victims in this illness: the patient and the caregiver," says lead author Pierre Tariot, MD, professor of psychiatry, medicine and neurology ...Analysis of study looks at why quitters return to smoking
...me, the maker of Zyban, the only non-nicotine pill approved by the FDA as an aid to smoking cessation treatment. On average, smokers attempt to quit five times before succeeding.1* In acknowledgement of that fact, the US Public Health Service recently issued a definitive guideline advising medical professio......e industry." The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved captopril for use against hypertension in 1981, and to combat heart failure and the effects of heart attack a few years later....