Non-drug techniques help reduce symptoms of fibromyalgia
...from the disparate studies and compare the overall effectiveness of drugand non-drug treatments for FMS. They report their findings in the currentissue of Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Overall, both drug and non-drug treatments produce significant improvements inFMS patients' physical condition, their report of ...Statement from Dr. Claude Lenfant, director, NHLBI and Dr. Phillip Gorden, director, NIDDK
... they will provide important information about the effectiveness ofseveral new medications and treatment regimens to reduce the complications ofdiabetes. Until ways to prevent or cure diabetes are found, such trials offerthe best opportunity to reduce the burden of diabetes. Surveys show that physicians often ar...New HIV drug intervention cheap and effective
...tion, breastfeeding habits, life expectancies, and effectiveness of the treatment. All of these variables were derived from current literature, said Marseille. The nevirapine programs produced the most health benefit for the dollar by a wide margin, said Marseille. The universal nevirapine program cost approxima...New test can better uncover hidden breast cancer
...e detected through this newtechnique. To study the effectiveness of the new procedure, scientists examined lymph nodetissue from 738 breast cancer patients. These patients were considered to haveno evidence of metastases in their lymph nodes by conventional analysis. Thelymph nodes were then tested with the antibo...Drug offers new hope for victims of cardiac arrest
...nical trial is the first of its kind tocompare the effectiveness of an anti-arrhythmia medication with all standardtreatments in victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The drug was administered to 504 people in Seattle and surrounding KingCounty, Wash., who suffered cardiac arrest due to a dangerous he...Early discharge appears safe for Medicaid newborns
...tagal, M.D., director of health policy andclinical effectiveness at Cincinnati Children's and the study's main author. "In fact, rehospitalizations for Medicaid newborns decreased 23 percent duringthis period, perhaps because of better post-discharge coordination of care." The study involved more than 102,000 he...Jefferson scientist sees drug profiles and tailor-made therapies as ways to beat HIV resistance
...rease in viral resistance means something aboutthe effectiveness of one drug compared to what it means for another," he says. In the JAMA editorial, he recommends medical officials be more alert tomultidrug resistance. "If you give a patient a cocktail of drugs the first timeand they don't respond, and yo...UCSF finding could lead to a new class of painkillers
...k only a small percentage of these messages, their effectiveness is limited. The significance of the UCSF finding is that the researchers have identified a protein enzyme inside pain-sensing neurons through which they believe many of these inflammatory mediators - including those targeted by NSAIDS - act, suggesti...Even in an era of HAART Drugs, HIV patients are vulnerable to opportunistic infections
SAN FRANCISCO -- Despite the effectiveness of antiretroviral drugs, HIVpatients are still ver...n addition, data showed a relationship between the effectiveness of anti-CMVtherapy and HAART. The eye disease healed and did not reactivate in patientswho underwen...UK College of Medicine researchers study technologies to deliver drugs to the brain
... Parkinson's disease, thetreatment gradually loses effectiveness as the disease progresses. "We expect clinical treatments based on the targeted delivery of drugsto specific sites in the brain to becoming increasingly commonplace over thenext decade," Gerhardt said. "Our research team at the UK College of......San Francisco, USA, provide furtherevidence of the effectiveness of Relenza, and its highly targeted mode ofadministration, against both A & B strains of influenza. Results from a laboratory study, presented at ICAAC1, showed that the inhalationof Relenza resulted in a high concentration of the drug in the lung...Review identifies factors leading to better outcome for some metastatic breast cancer patients
.... The clinical trialpresented at ASCO compared the effectiveness of high dose therapy with a morestandard approach; patients who responded to induction were randomized toreceive either conventional or high dose therapy. "Our current analysis is a baby step forward for the use of aggressive therapyin metastatic b...Keep taking the medicine, diabetes research warns
... for new anti-diabetes drugs, which maintain their effectiveness long-term and are well tolerated. "It appears that many people with type 2 diabetes do not realise the dangers associated with discontinuing their medication," concluded Tim Howard. "New agents and strategies that encourage patients to continue with ...New alternative medicine center opens at OHSU
...the center. The firstwill attempt to determine the effectiveness of ginkgo biloba, fatty acids andvitamin E in the ...eparate study,ginkgo biloba will be tested for its effectiveness in preventing or delaying theimpacts of Alzheimer's disease. A third project will center on yoga and...UNC studying new drug against ovarian and endometrial cancers
...ity of North Carolina atChapel Hill is testing the effectiveness of a new drug for treating cancers ofthe ovaries and endometrium, the lining of the uterus. The study, sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company of Indianapolis, is theonly one in North Carolina to test this latest selective estrogen receptormodulator (S...Treatments reduce strep-triggered symptoms of OCD and tics in some children
...en as active treatments becauseof their safety and effectiveness in a variety of childhood and adultimmune-related diseases. Researchers rated symptom severity at baseline and atone month and twelve months after treatment, using standardized assessments forOCD, tics, anxiety, depression, and normal behavior. Of th...Tamoxifen found to increase risk of endometrial cancer
...proven benefits in breast cancer treatment and its effectiveness inreducing the incidence of breast cancer among women at high risk for thatcancer. The researchers conducted the study with 324 patients with endometrial cancerwho had previously been treated for breast cancer and 671 similar patients withbreast canc...Researchers advocate improved breast cancer screening techniques
...110 articlesbetween the years 1966 and 1997 on the effectiveness and test characteristics ofthe CBE. They pooled data from several studies to demonstrate that fivevariables are important in properly palpating the breast. The variables are: 1)patient position, 2) breast boundaries, 3) examination search patterns, 4......oad-spectrum, multi-subtypeinterferon to boost the effectiveness of this anti-viral drug. The combinationdrug potentially would be both effective and capable of avoiding the emergenceof anti-drug resistance. Lau's and Yeung's co-authors on the article in the Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences are Dan...Wake Forest to coordinate huge national study to prevent cardiovascular disease in diabetes
...of the country. The study will compare the effectiveness of several drug strategies tocontrol blood sugar. In a randomized clinical trial, two different intensivestrategies, using different drugs, will be compared with conventional control ofblood sugar. The two intensive drug regimens also will be compar...