Drugs aid weight loss among type 2 diabetes patients
... than non-diabetics. Insulin therapy itself might cause weight gain, Norris says. Keeping track of a complex series of treatments for diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure "all complicate behavioral change aimed at weight reduction." Recommendations by the American Diabetes Association in 20...New study tests amitriptyline for painful bladder syndrome
...alleviate bladder pain for which there is no known cause and no effective therapy. Thousands, if not millions, of patients may benefit. The study is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Ten medical centers in the United States and Canada are recruiting adults newly diagnosed with either painf...HIV patients may be at risk of heart problems when taking protease inhibitor drugs
...e HIV-virus infection from progressing to AIDS may cause serious and potentially lethal heart rhythm disturbances in some patients. The finding of a Mayo Clinic-led investigation appears in the current edition of The Lancet ( http://www.thelancet.com/home ). In collaboration with colleagues from the HIV Pr...New European cancer figures for 2004 major efforts needed against the big four killers
...uation among women and especially young women is cause for concern. There is also a great difference between Northern Europe and Central and Eastern Europe. Central and Eastern Europe should be a special target for tobacco control." Mortality trend on the decrease overall "During the Europe Against Can...PENN begins clinical trial of newest technology to treat thoracic aortic aneurysms
... abdominal aortic aneurysms remain the 13th major cause of death in this country, accounting for nearly 15...treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms. The major cause of thoracic aortic aneurysms is a hardening of the arteries, a condition in which fatty deposits adh...Hepatitis B viral load, genotype affect liver cancer risk, study finds
...ronic infection with HBV has been established as a cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a type of liver cancer. More than 350 million people worldwide have a chronic infection with one of the seven known genotypes, or subtypes, of HBV. Although there are some known risk factors for HCC development, it ...Test could improve detection of prion disease in humans
... abnormal and usually infectious, meaning they can cause CJD and other neurodegenerative diseases. CDI detected abnormal prions in all of the sampled brain regions. In contrast, the researchers found that IHC detected abnormal prions in less than 25 percent of the sampled brain regions. The findings, accor...Alcohol's damaging effects on adolescent brain function
...ies in the frontal limbic system, which appears to cause "blunted emotional reactivity." "The 'emotional reactivity' concept is fairly novel in this context," said Monti. "Scientific findings suggest that certain behavioral patterns shown by kids and adolescents with conduct disorder such as persistent, ...Flu vaccination benefits people of any age with high-risk medical conditions
...chives journals. Influenza continues to be a major cause of illness and death, with an annual 140,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths in the United States, according to background information in the article. Many studies have shown that influenza vaccination can reduce acute respiratory disease hospital...Changing trends in herbal supplement use
...tective against macular degeneration (an important cause of blindness in adults), was first added to many popular multivitamins in late 1999 and 2000. Another antioxidant, lycopene, was added to major multivitamins in 2003 as a cancer preventative. "The addition of these supplements to multivitamin product...Flu vaccination impact on elderly deaths may be over-estimated
...onset of the secondary complications that actually cause a person's death, according to the article. Although influenza vaccination of the elderly in the U.S. has increased from 15 to 20 percent before 1980 to 65 percent in 2001, the authors could find no correlation between this increasing vaccination cov...Uric acid may help reduce effects of spinal cord injury, Jefferson researchers find
...ric acid levels in humans similarly to the rise we cause in the mouse should be sufficient to block peroxynitrite," Dr. Hooper says. "Our natural levels of uric acid are not sufficient. Moreover, someone with lower levels who has a spinal cord injury could definitely suffer greater damage."...NHLBI study shows smoking cessation programs improve survival
...ial -- considered the gold standard in determining cause and effect; furthermore, the size and duration of ...al evidence." Smoking is the single most avoidable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control...New highly active agents against sandfly fever
...ribbean, Latin America and tropical Africa. It can cause a specific form of leukaemia and a slowly developing degradation of the nervous system (tropical spastic paraparesia). The activity of these substances is closely linked to their chemical structure, and especially to the length of the substitution gr...Herb used to treat diabetes works like modern-day prescription drugs, study suggests
...ontained no herbal extract. As Salacia oblonga can cause intestinal gas, the researchers had the study participants collect breath hydrogen samples hourly for eight hours after drinking the test beverage. The participants collected their breath in small plastic tubes. The researchers then analyzed these br...Mayo Clinic identifies key cellular process in prostate and other cancers
...Cancer Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer in men (skin cancer is first) and the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, exceeded only by lung cancer. In 2005, the American Cancer Society ...Stem cell therapy for spinal injury
... some 150 Swedes a year to wheelchairs. The damage cause the loss of movement and sensation below the level of injury. A research team at Karolinska Institutet has now shown using rat models that the introduction of stem cells following such injury is effective, although a double-edged sword: while on the ...South Africa in denial over number of deaths from HIV/AIDS
...IDS prevents many from speaking out about the true cause of illness and death among friends and family and leads doctors to record uncontroversial diagnoses on death certificates. The South African Government needs to face the truth about HIV mortality states the editorial. The Lancet comments: "Earlier t...Alcohol drinkers three times as likely to die from injury
... survey year, had a higher risk of dying from each cause of injury when compared to non-drinkers and former drinkers. The greatest increase in risk was for drowning: drinkers were 3.6 times as likely to drown as non-drinkers. The researchers also learned that female drinkers had a greater increase in risk ...High levels of airborne mouse allergen in inner-city homes could trigger asthma attacks
...hird of whom are children. It is the third-ranking cause of hospitalization for children 15 years and younger and is the leading cause of chronic illness among children. Researchers estimate that asthma is twice as common in the inner ...