New study underscores effectiveness of methadone maintenance as treatment for heroin addiction
...on group received methadone only for the first 180 days of their treatment. During their first 6 months o...s, but no additional methadone after the first 180 days of their treatment. Study results showed that more patients in the MMT group remained in treatment ...Common pathway found in early stages of addiction to alcohol and many drugs
...sponded to injections of ethanol alone and also 21 days of injections of ethanol along with a substance called MK-801. This substance, a "receptor antagonist," blocks access to receptors located on brain neurons which normally receive signals involved in learning. The so-called NMDA (for N-methyl-D-aspart...Hospital stays of three days for uncomplicated heart attack
...attacks within three days, but most keep them five days or more, Duke University researchers report in the...ilure, stroke, shock or die within the first three days following their heart attack. Because economic pressures, such as managed care, are pushing hosp...Most acquisition of meningitis bacteria among students occurs in first week of university term
...gitis strains had quadrupled within the first four days of the autumn term. Students living in catered halls were at greatest risk, with over a third of them carrying the bacteria by December, but students living in all female halls were at significantly lower risk of acquiring the bacteria during the fir...Penn researchers announce results of Phase I trial using combretastatin drug
...venous dose of combretastatin for five consecutive days every three weeks. All of the patients were given CT scans before and at the end of the treatment cycle to determine changes in tumor blood supply. Nine patients who were given the highest dose of combretastatin were monitored via MRI. Dr. Stevenson......activity of leuprolide acetate over a period of 90 days in the treatment of prostate cancer. The Stabilization and Release of Hirudin from Liposomes or Lipid-Assemblies Coated with Hydrophobically Modified Dextran By Russell J. Mumper and Allan S. Hoffman Hirudin is a peptide used to prevent deep-v...Researchers identify pathway that may slow the progression of Lou Gehrig's disease
...ricles of the brain. They received the pumps at 60 days old, when the symptoms of the disease had not yet ...d for an average of 153 days, as compared with 126 days for their untreated littermates, and were symptom-free for 20 days longer, on average. The research...UF study shows pumping iron improves strength, independence in frail elderly
...erage length of hospitalization was shorter -- two days vs. more than seven days -- among those in the exercising group compared with the control group. The study was not able to tr......ay in hospital among Risperdal patients (mean 43.6 days versus 47.4 days) rather than olanzapine patients. "These results are good news because better treatment for schizophrenia should reduce the burden of illness for patients and their families, as well as the costs to healthcare budgets and society at...Patients with social phobia benefit from long-term treatment with sertraline HCl
... Sertraline is contraindicated until at least 14 days have passed since discontinuing a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) medicine. MAOI medicines are used to treat depression and other conditions. A patient should never take sertraline at the same time as a MAOI. A patient must wait at least two we...New 'combination therapy' improves survival for malignant melanoma patients
...ide plus IL-2 resulted in a median survival of 283 days compared to 154 days for control patients treated with IL-2 alone (p=0.004 under the Log-Rank test). Survival Benefit, Al..."Radical" Discovery Advances Medicine and Plastics
...e he had no formal training in trigonometry. Three days later, Gomberg tried again. When the department again rejected him for the same reason, he insisted he knew the subject. The department head quizzed him, and was stunned to find that what Gomberg claimed was true. Gomberg completed his studies, recei...Study: crime, lack of PE, recreation programs lead U.S. adolescents to couch-potato lifestyles
...of adolescents studied participated in one or more days of physical education in school per week. physical activity levels were chiefly affected by environmental factors such as neighborhood crime, school physical education, and recreation center use, while inactivity levels were most closely associat...ORNL project seeks to pinpoint time since death
...ecomes more complicated if a body is found several days later. And in warm climates or during the summer, a body can be reduced to bones in just 30 days, Vass said. To develop one of their models, Vass is focusing on tissue analysis and hoping to determine which organ provides the best indication of how l......nderaged students reported drinking in the past 30 days compared with 74 percent of the of-age students. However, underage students drink more per occasion than older students: 42 percent had five-or-more drinks compared with 27 percent of the older students, the researchers found. Underaged students wer...Study finds marijuana ingredient promotes tumor growth, impairs anti-tumor defenses
...ek with either THC or a saline solution. Fourteen days after the injections were started, murine Lewis lung cancer and line 1 alveolar cell cancer cells were implanted in the mice. The mice continued to receive THC or saline injections after the tumor cells were implanted, and tumor growth was assessed ...Recommendations for the establishment of primary stroke centers
... teams should be available around-the-clock, seven days a week in order to evaluate within 15 minutes any ...rvices should be available around-the-clock, seven days per week at a Primary Stroke Center. Standard laboratory services include rapidly performing and re...First protein 'biochips' may deliver improved detection, diagnosis
...m," he says. "It can take as much as five to seven days to grow, test and confirm the presence of a specific pathogen." The biochip could speed this process dramatically. It would contain antibodies to Listeria monocytogenes obtained from rabbits or mice. Antibodies are natural defense proteins that organ...