Viagra used in stroke recovery study
...ls on your house, what you want most is to fix the damage to restore your daily quality of life. Remodeling the brain, like remodeling a house, may require new plumbing, such as new blood vessels; new electrical connections or new synapses; and new rooms or new brain cells in order to regain function." Cer...Young blood revives aging muscles, Stanford researchers find
... to share a blood supply. They then induced muscle damage only in the older mice. Bathed in the presence of younger blood, the old muscles healed normally. In contrast, when old mice were connected to other old mice they healed slowly. In similar work, the group examined the livers of older mice connected t...Florida Tech scientist wins patent for device to deliver X-ray irradiation
...rgy can be precisely delivered, reducing potential damage to nearby normal tissue during exposure. Moreover, x-rays have higher penetrating power than optical waves, as in laser therapy. Similarly, Mitra's methodology can deliver precise radiation as a medical therapy to shrink tumors. Part ...Alcohol's damaging effects on adolescent brain function
...learly implicates alcohol use as a source of brain damage during these critical formative years. Proceeding...exposed to binge drinking appear to have permanent damage in their adult brains. Research has identified subtle but important brain changes occurring among...Uric acid may help reduce effects of spinal cord injury, Jefferson researchers find
...f the potentially devastating "secondary" cellular damage that occurs following a spinal cord injury, say re...ment could actually prevent some of this secondary damage following such an injury in mice. Uric acid was known to reduce inflammation damage related to a com...COX-2 product offers good and bad news in 'test tube' strokes
...f the enzymes COX-1 and COX-2 can both protect and damage the brain. The findings, published in the February...sease, in which excessive glutamate is believed to damage neurons, and will begin work to see if the beneficial side of PGD2 activity can outweigh its toxic a...Promising treatments for Huntington's disease identified in UCI study
...veloped from these compounds halted the brain-cell damage caused by the fatal, progressive neurodegenerative...r cancer chemotherapy, were able to prevent neuron damage in fruit flies carrying mutated Htt proteins. Marsh is professor of developmental and cell biology i...Striking a chord with concertgoers to reduce hearing loss
... concert goers perceive there is a risk of hearing damage from the loud music at concerts and whether they u...y likely that noise levels at music concerts could damage their hearing, 80 per cent said they never wore hearing protection at such events. "Over 40 percent...Stem cell therapy for spinal injury
...onfines 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 o...Trial reveals safer and simpler approach to treating children with cystic fibrosis
...oglycosides three times daily. The drugs can cause damage to kidney function and hearing loss. Alan Smyth (University of Nottingham, UK) and colleagues recruited 219 cystic fibrosis patients (125 children and 94 adults) between 1999 and 2003 in the UK. The patients were randomly assigned to receive an amin...'Broken heart' syndrome: Real, potentially deadly but recovery quick
... weeks or months and, frequently, the heart muscle damage is permanent. The researchers collected detailed histories and conducted several tests, including blood work, echocardiograms, electrocardiograms, coronary angiograms, MRI scans and heart biopsies, on a total of 19 patients who came to Hopkins bet...PCBs, fungicide open brain cells to Parkinson's assault
...nants might make dopamine cells more vulnerable to damage from normal aging, infection, or subsequent exposu...generation. Normally, antioxidants can balance the damage done by OS. But toxic pesticide exposure, combined with the normal aging process, shifts the equilib...Early HIV screening prolongs life and is affordable, Stanford study shows
...t's treatment can lead to irreversible immunologic damage and complications, as well as transmission of HIV through risky behavior. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that up to 20,000 new infections annually can be attributed to people who are unaware of their HIV-positive status. A 2...Study shows protective equipment not very effective for rugby players
... and padded headgear appeared to lower the risk of damage to the scalp and to ears by about 40 percent," he said. "Support sleeves cut the risk of sprains and strains about close to 40 percent as well." He and colleagues found no evidence that shinguards and application of tape or grease protected players. ...Simpler blood thinning medication effective for preventing blood clots and stroke
...n the blood used as an indicator of possible liver damage or disease) increase to greater than 3 times the upper limit of normal, vs. 2.0 percent in the enoxaparin/warfarin group. Analysis of locally reported adverse events showed a higher rate of serious coronary events with ximelagatran (10/1,240 patients...New stroke-prevention drug unlikely to be cost-effective except in patients at high risk of bleeding
...cy noted that Exanta carried a small risk of liver damage and cited insufficient evidence that it was as effective as warfarin for preventing strokes. "Warfarin is extremely effective," says lead author Brian F. Gage, M.D., associate professor of medicine. "It lowers the risk of stroke by 65 percent. Unfor...Milk, fruits and vegetables may help reduce disability risk
...egetables may reduce the accumulation of oxidative damage in tissues, which could slow disability associated with aging and decrease the risk of chronic diseases that can lead to disability. Houston's co-researchers were June Stevens, Ph.D., Jianwen Cai, Ph.D., and Pamela Haines, Ph.D., all with the Univers...Aetiology of congenital heart disease explained
...bodies in the mother correlates with the degree of damage to the heart. The results have been further confirmed in studies on rats and in cell cultures. Cultivated heart cells, cardiomyocytes, were seriously affected in their calcium balance when exposed to specific p200 antibodies. The cells were rendered ...US FDA grants full approval to DOXIL(R) following submission of phase III data
...ed after platinum-based chemotherapy. Myocardial damage may lead to congestive heart failure and may be encountered as the total cumulative dose of doxorubicin HCl approaches 550 mg/m2. The use of DOXIL may lead to cardiotoxicity. DOXIL should be administered to patients with a history of cardiovascular...Rheumatoid arthritis linked to excess risk of congestive heart failure
...rthritis (RA) is characterized by inflammation and damage of the joint, major organ involvement and increased mortality. Among patients, about one in three deaths results from cardiovascular disease (conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels). Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a major contributor to ...