Drug Prevents Hearing Loss Caused By Brain Tumor Therapy
...aintissue.However, it also prevents large-molecule drugs such as carboplatin fromreaching a tumor inside th... and his colleagues literally "opened thegate" for drugs such as carboplatin to enter the brain. They subsequently found that carboplatin was one of ...The benefits of antidepressant drugs could be almost entirely due to thepsychological b...ggests that antidepressants offer no advantageover drugs such as anxiolytics and tranquillisers, which adds fuel to thesuspicion that the newer antidepressan...Adverse Drug Reactions Are Under Reported
...rug reactions to newly marketed ("black triangle") drugs in general practice: observational study) In thi...suspected adverse drug reactions to newly marketed drugs to the Committee on Safety of Medicines. Severe and previously unknown adverse drug reactions to ne......ved surgical interventions whenrequested, when the drugs failed to terminate the pregnancy completely, whenwomen did not want to wait for the medical abortion to occur, or whenintervention appeared medically needed. What Women Liked and Disliked about the Method At enrollment, the most frequently cited r..."Green Chemistry" Cleans Up Environment And Renders Synthetic Drugs
... waste product itself." Gonzalez said some drugs extracted from plants can only be obtained insmall...thods allow pharmaceutical companies toprepare the drugs in a laboratory as well as preserve the environment, hesaid. In most cases, synthetic drugs are pref...Anti-Depressants: Miracle Drugs Or Placebos With A Buzz?
...lessthan life-savers. But is the effectiveness of drugs used to treat depression aproduct of their chemist...ent to which the beneficial effects of the various drugs couldbeattributed to the drugs themselves and the degree of positive effects that couldbe attributed...Epilepsy Drugs Useful To Treat Alzheimer's, Studies Find
...ays. Doctors haveused sedatives and anti-psychotic drugs like haloperidol andthioridazine in the past, with...Alzheimer's disease. Now, we have two FDA-approved drugs and as many as a dozen more coming out within fiveyears. We're even talking about prevention strateg...Novel Therapy To Treat Lung Cancer Patients Enrolling Patients At UCSF Cancer Center
...to VEGF, called rhuMAb VEGF, belongs to a class of drugs known asanti-angiogenesis therapies that are intended to block the growth of bloodvessels in and around tumor cells, thereby starving the tumor by cutting off itssupply of nutrients and oxygen. Many cells produce VEGF to help stimulate the growth an......alfunction occurs in thosewith ADHD. For example, drugs that enhance dopamine function appear to quellthe disorder's symptoms. "Our finding, however, is the first direct evidence ofa targeted dopamine deficit in adults with ADHD," says the study's lead author,Monique Ernst, MD, PhD, Senior Staff Fellow a...Epilepsy Drug Found To Stop Cocaine's Effects In Animals
... "The Clinton Administration?s war against drugs is being fought on allfronts -- not just in the st...mans," said Dewey. "In fact, the limitednumber of drugs currently being investigated in human addicts may prove to beaddictive in themselves, or create tole...Lack Of Data For New Heart Drugs Is Causing Concern
...entssuffering from serious burns or shock says new drugs for high blood pressureface unanswered questions r...ttingham University, says dataon the safety of six drugs to treat high blood pressure, which have or are aboutto get licences in Britain, are inadequate. Li ...Controlling Collagen Levels May Be Key To Fighting Organ Failure Caused By High Blood Pressure
...cess is reversed by treatment with ACE-inhibitors, drugs thatare known to interfere with the body's product... "The ability of some high blood pressure drugs (like ACE-inhibitors) toprotect individuals from organ damage might be partially due to the drug'sca...Drug Reduces Heart Attack, Death Rates In Patients With Unstable Angina
...inor heparin, with similar side effects. All three drugs increase the risk ofbleeding because they lower the platelet count, with Eptifibatide having anadditional 1 percent risk of bleeding compared to the other two drugs. Butresearchers pointed out that more than 80 percent of the bleeding was associatedw...International Study Finds Statins Raise Good Cholesterol, Wake Forest Physician Reports
...n 19 countries andcompared two doses of two statin drugs -- simvastatin and atorvastatin. Bothdrugs raised ... TheHDL-raising effects of the lower doses of both drugs were in between. In patients whose HDL cholesterol was above 35, the increases were lessdram......nosed illness and the available medical knowledge, drugs and technology.They now must consider who is going to pay for whatever treatment is prescribedand make decisions in consultation with HMO personnel. "One good is that cost containment has been achieved," Dirsmith toldattendees today (Aug. 24)...Tiny Pellets Could Deliver Alzheimer's Drugs
...in. The pellet releases programmed amounts of the drugs to a tightly confined area where the tumor has bee... delivery system, he says, could in theory deliver drugs directly to the areas of the brain implicated in a number of degenerative diseases, including Parkin......of glutamate receptors, we avoided thedrawbacks of drugs that appear to produce undesirable side effects by...n's patients. Furthermore, current anti-psychotic drugs offerlittle relief from other schizophrenia symptoms, such as poor attention spans,jumbled thoughts ......as"fen-phen" was potentially toxic because the two drugs taken together destroythe body's ability to contro...nd Drug Administration approval. The two drugs should never have been prescribed together, sayresearchers Timothy J. Maher, Sawyer Professor of Pha...Schizophrenia-Like Behavior In Rats Blocked Via Glutamate
...n of brain dopamine systems. Currentantipsychotic drugs act by reducing dopamine activity. When Dr. Bita Moghaddam and Barbara Adams of Yale University injected rats withPCP, they expected to see glutamate activity plummet as levels of dopaminesoared. Instead, they found that doses of PCP that produced...Guidelines Not Necessarily Guiding Physician Behavior, Study Says
...o decide whether to prescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs topatients. Frolkis says that those measurements alone are not enough and thatNCEP guidelines rely on risk factor status as well in order to decide how totreat people. "These levels are not valid markers for NCEP-guided criteria for suchdecisions," ...