Strategy effective against drug resistant tuberculosis
...pidly reduce the transmission and incidence of the drug resistant form of the disease, concludes a study p...st control and prevent tuberculosis in areas where drug resistance is prevalent. Ma de Lourdes Garcia Garcia (Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Mexico) a...Chronic pain treatments more effective when taken together, new study shows
...rt better pain relief at lower doses of a combined drug treatment than from either drug administered individually, a new Queen's study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research ...New study in 'Nature' demonstrates protection against cell death during heart attack
...lin D. The most well known one is cyclosporine, a drug used to prevent rejection in organ transplantation. Cyclosporin has a downside, however. In addition to blocking cyclophilin D, it also blocks calcineurin, an agent that protects the immune system. Fortunately, there are so-called analogs of cyclo...International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
... with an alternative option to tamoxifen, the only drug FDA approved for prevention of breast cancer. "...erious side effects than tamoxifen, the only other drug available to women for primary breast cancer prevention. "While tamoxifen has already been shown...U of M researcher says Viagra may cause permanent vision loss in some men
...oup of men who have taken the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra. The condition, nonarteritic ischemic opti...nts supports an association between the use of the drug and NAION. Based on the fact that 14 cases of NAION have now been reported soon after the use of Vi...HIV testing should be routine part of primary health care for sexually active
...risky behavior, such as unprotected sex, injection drug use, or intercourse with a partner of the same sex. Tests also are offered to patients when clinical findings indicate the possibility of HIV infection or to patients who request testing. "For anybody who is sexually active, this should be a routine...Geodon effective in psychiatric emergencies; Sharply reduces time in restraints
...g the severe agitation associated with alcohol and drug use as it was in treating non-substance or alcohol abusing patients. This observational study tracked the clinical outcome of 110 severely agitated patients who received Geodon IM (intramuscular formulation). Initial agitation levels were high, ran...Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
HOUSTON - A new use of the drug Herceptin appears to offer a much more powerful tr...ed before surgery in early stage breast cancer the drug proved so beneficial - eliminating 42 percent more tumors than chemotherapy alone - that the clinica...Mouse model reveals potential way to reduce cardiac deaths in kidney patients
...n University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "The drug we used in the mice and other similar agents can treat both the phosphorous levels and skeletal weakening, and those drugs are just entering initial clinical trials." The study will appear in the April issue of the Journal of the American Society of...OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
...l absorption, which also enhances their appeal as drug candidates. In this research, the scientists gave both normal mice and mice with a cachexia-like syndrome Neurocrine's orally-administered medication that blocks the MC4 receptor in the brain. In both cases, the animals' appetites increased and their...Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...f negative attitudes toward HIV-infected injection drug users affected the patient's exposure to highly ac...hysicians with negative attitudes toward injection drug users. Injection drug users who were cared for by physicians with negative attitudes had a significa......levels of statins. Patients with decreased hepatic drug metabolizing activity due to cirrhosis or other liver ailments may have a higher risk of muscle disease from statins, although the association has not been studied. Further studies should examine the long-term effect of statins on the liver in patie...US attempting to flout ethical practice for patient trials abroad
...ions require studies submitted in support of a new drug application to have been done in a manner consiste...ed under an application for an investigational new drug need no longer comply with the Declaration and need comply only with a document describing good clin...First mouse model for multiple system atrophy points to new treatment targets for brain diseases
...in people over 50. Currently there is no specific drug to treat the myelin and nerve damage caused by the...erapies for Multiple System Atrophy as part of our drug discovery program for Parkinson's disease, MSA, and related disorders," says Lee....Stanford patient is first to test new treatment for peripheral arterial disease
...l artery in Erickson's thigh. Researchers hope the drug coating will make it more likely to prevent the bl...or the heart. In addition, the total dosage of the drug coating must be higher on the long leg stent than in a small stent in the heart." The stent used in ...Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
...s of needle-exchange programs argue that supplying drug users with clean needles sends the wrong message. ... these opponents are really conveying to injecting drug users (IDUs): "We know a way to dramatically cut your chances of contracting a deadly disease, then ...Depression linked to insomnia in HIV patients
...havioral treatments, he adds, "are as effective as drug treatments in persistent primary insomnia, but the... living conditions, along with his or her alcohol, drug and caffeine use, could affect insomnia risks....UW research shows risk factors for relapse among health care professionals who abuse drugs
..., 2001. Domino became interested in the problem of drug use among health care professionals after surveyin... potent pain-killers, were more likely to die from drug use, compared to internal medicine physicians. "State physician health programs may want to conside...New studies show mixed results on epilepsy drugs and birth defects
... in women without epilepsy. But long-time epilepsy drug valproic acid, or sodium valproate, does increase ...irst trimester to lamotrigine as the only epilepsy drug used, there were 12 cases of major birth defects. That translates to a 2.9 percent risk of having a ......ot have these same receptors. Debinski developed a drug that combines a form of Il 13 with a toxin that ki.... By targeting the therapy to these receptors, the drug finds and kills the cancer cells. While the first generation of the drug is being tested in patients...