Alzheimers Disease Could Soon Be Treated With Nose Drops
...age holds greatpromise as a conduit for delivering drugs into the brain, as the olfactorysystem provides a ...n the brain and the outside world. Getting drugs into the brain is one of neuroscience's challenges. Themolecules of many drugs are too large to cros...UCSF AIDS Research Center Receives Major New Grant From NIH
...g virus replication,and the use of anti-retroviral drugs as probes to understand the dynamics of HIVreplication. The overall mission of the CFAR program is to support AIDS research byfacilitating interdisciplinary and international interactions, technologytransfer through academic-industry collaborations...... world. As the most effective and newly-developed drugs are expensive, many people turn to less expensive ...ptions. This overuse of unregulated antimicrobial drugs greatly contributes to the increase in antibiotic-resistant bacterial diseases. In this week's BMJ, ...Understanding Why Antibiotics May Be Over-prescribed For Patients With Sore Throats
...s in spite of growing clinical evidence that these drugs alleviate symptoms only slightly, if at all. The choice of treatment is affected by both the patient's expectations and what the doctor perceives the patient expects. Over-prescription of antibiotics is a major concern as it has been correlated wit...Study Shows Potential For Quelling AIDS Nerve Pain
... has been limited to treating the pain bycombining drugs such as tricyclic antidepressants, anti convulsants and/orpainkillers, and using common-sense approaches like avoiding tight shoes. Co-researchers on the study were Constantin Yiannoutsos of HarvardUniversity, David Clifford of Washington U...Jefferson Physician Warns Further Study Of DHEA's Safety Needed
...mplating to actually taking such over-the-counter drugs in the unproved belief that it will enhance their strength. DHEA can produce unpleasant side-effects in women as well. A 1994 study showed that blood testosterone measurements rose in most females given DHEA, and in some cases, doubled their mal...... group of women." Raloxifene belongs to a class of drugs called selective estrogen receptormodulators (SERMS), which block the actions of estrogen in some tissues, such asthe breasts, and mimic estrogen in other tissues, such as the bones.Raloxifene is similar to other SERMS, such as tamoxifen, because it ......who used aspirin ornon-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), medicines often associated withupper GI disease. "The findings are significant because they reveal that, even in women athigh risk for upper GI problems, treatment with alendronate did not increase therisk of developing GI side eff...Patients are sought for a clinical study to determine
...ine if estrogen also improves the effectiveness of drugs used to treatParkinson's patients. Currently the most common treatment for Parkinson's patients is a daily regimenof the drug Levodopa. While many patients benefit from consistent use ofLevodopa, the effects of the drug wear off after two or three h...Better Survival For Women With Breast Cancer -New Evidence On Chemotherapy
... show thattreating breast cancer with cell-killing drugs ("chemotherapy") improveslong-term survival even if the cancer has not already spread to the local lymphglands. These benefits of chemotherapy are substantial for women aged under 50at diagnosis, but survival is also improved for women in their 50s ...Drug Treatments For Asthma May Cause Erosive Tooth Damage
...rs give "early warning" that children using asthma drugs in a powdered (rather than aerosol) form may be pr... their mouths with water directly after taking the drugs as well as encouraging them to clean their teeth thoroughly twice a day with fluoride toothpaste. T...UCSF AIDS Expert Warns Against Early Treatment For HIV Infection
Treatment with antiviral drugs for HIV infection that begins too early can workag... In his view, he writes, "treatment with antiviral drugs starts the clock tickingtoo soon, limiting future options and making therapy a necessity for thelife...UCSF Study In Rats Suggests Synthetic Drug Mimicking Marijuana Might Be Used To Treat Pain
... Nature, raises thepossibility that marijuana-like drugs could be used to treat pain, said the leadauthor o...However, they werealso able to show that these two drugs act on the RVM in different ways. A drugthat blocks the effect of morphine was unable to prevent th...... options than adults." At present, 12 drugs are approved for treating HIV disease in adults, compared to seven, including efavirenz, approved for children. Efavirenz is the second drug in the NNRTI class of antivirals to be approved f...Prescription Counseling Necessary For Hospital Patients
... hospital with three or more newly prescribed drugs havea tougher time recalling the basics of their newmedication regimen. Providing a few minutes of counseling might be allthat's necessary to inform patients...The European Medicines Evaluation Agency: Open To Criticism
...pense of public confidence. In the European Union, drugs may be licensed in three ways. The centralised pr...applications to be made direct to the EMEA so that drugs can be made available throughout the European Union. Alternatively companies can apply to national ...Treatment For Cancer May No Longer Be As Grim As The Disease
...apy can be used to kill the tumour cells. Butthese drugs kill healthy cells, too, and can make the patient feel very ill. So radiologist John McGahan and oncologist Philip Schneider of the University ofCalifornia at Davis are developing another alternative treatment, which is knownas radio-frequency ablati...University Of Florida Researchers Hope To Ease Asthma Pains And Provide A Sigh Of Relief
...arch may provide insight into how to refine asthma drugs soasthmasufferers do not have to use an inhaler as... under Harrison's guidance to betterunderstand how drugs stick to this receptor. "With a clearer picture of that process, researchers can design bette......ssociated with the administration of platinum type drugs can beexplained by a common chemical mechanism. ...ing chemical groups that can interact withplatinum drugs in the blood plasma and can cause toxicity. BioNumerik haspursued the discovery and development of ......t which chemical structures will, forexample, help drugs in transdermal systems penetrate the skin, scienti...torial chemistry," Sharpless adds. "We want tomake drugs and other useful materials from much simpler building blocks [thanare currently used]." Nature, he ...