Largest ever overactive bladder study published in leading urology journal
...tablets), reported a 71% reduction in incontinence episodes per week compared to 60% in patients treated with ...daily formulation experienced a 23% improvement in episodes of dry mouth compared to patients in the twice-daily group. Overall, more patients on placebo withd......cross England and Wales between 1995 and 1998. The episodes were broken down into age groups, gender and time. Over 121,000 assaults were recorded. Almost three quarters were sustained by men, with almost half of these among men aged 18 to 30. Men over 50 were at lowest risk. The numbers of women sustaining ...Mayo Clinic discovers cause of a frequently fatal myasthenic syndrome affecting children
...patients, most often young children, to experience episodes in which they have a sudden loss of ability to bre...y or during the night. As children grow older, the episodes become less frequent and milder, and are rarely fatal after age 15. The condition is hereditary and ...Beer, in moderation, cuts risk of cataracts and heart disease
...e don't get diagnosed until they've had one or two episodes of really high blood glucose for a period of time, like a day or two," Trevithick said. "That may be enough to damage the lens." "Antioxidants protect the mitochondria against this damage," according to Trevithick. "We think that may be one...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet, December 5, 2000
...dition with long-term drug therapy or treating the episodes as they occur. * * * Alternative Cancer Therapy Apparently Caused Death of One Patient A cancer patient who refused traditional treatment and took hydrazine sulfate, a chemical compound he obtained through the Internet, died from liver...'Stomach pacemaker' in use at Temple
... the pacemaker experienced a reduction of vomiting episodes greater than 50 percent at 12 months," says Dr. Henry Parkman, director of Temples GI Motility Laboratory. "Patients also experienced improvements in other upper gastrointestinal symptoms, solid food intake, as well as significant improvements in he...Sexual abuse may affect health for a lifetime
...f arthritis and breast cancer, with multiple abuse episodes increasing disease risk by two- to three-fold compared with a single episode. In men, early sexual assault appeared to increase the risk of thyroid disease. Although this study resembles others that found adverse health effects of sexual abuse, Stein...Study published in JAMA supports an alternative treatment approach in Parkinson's disease
...ts were well controlled and had significantly less episodes of wearing off and dyskinesia - complications which typically accompany the progression of Parkinson's disease and the long-term use of levodopa," said Karl Kieburtz, MD, of the Parkinson Study Group (PSG) and Department of Neurology at the Universit...Gender differences in private substance abuse treatment retention
... of substance abuse treatment. Multiple treatment episodes may be needed for the recovery of some individuals. Second, it indicates that the likelihood of remaining in treatment varies for different individuals (for example, those with less severe versus more severe drug problems). In short, everyone does ......hat discovered children and adolescents with acute episodes of major depression secrete less growth hormone during their illness. In the study, the researchers administered GHRH to 119 children between the ages of 8 and 16. Of the 119, 64 were at high risk for developing depression due to family history of m...Smokers more likely to be disabled in later life
... but also because they recovered more quickly from episodes of disability. At the age of 30, non-smoking men could expect reductions of 11 months and women 13 months in the amount of time spent with a disability. Men who gave up smoking could expect to live 2.5 years, and women just under two years longer,......age reduction in the weekly number of incontinence episodes for the elderly patients in the study was 82 perce...icantly reducing or eliminating their incontinence episodes when taking the extended-release formulation of oxybutynin, they also can do so safely and tolerate ...Rush conducts nationwide study to find genetic markers for depression
...ive crying. Those with the illness may experience episodes consisting of three or four of the above symptoms nearly every day for two weeks or more. Rush is seeking individuals and siblings with symptoms of major depression for this research study. The depression must be recurrent and one sibling must hav...Common pathway found in early stages of addiction to alcohol and many drugs
...k of developing Parkinson's disease or bringing on episodes of schizophrenia increases. "The kind of basic research that Camarini and her colleagues have done should help us develop drugs to modulate the sensitization process without side effects or addiction," Hodge hopes. Camarini is intrigued by the ...El Nino increases diarrheal disease incidence by 200%
...c health concern since diarrhea causes one billion episodes and three million deaths annually in children under five worldwide. The researchers estimate that diarrheal disease admissions increased by more than 8% with every 1 degree C. rise in temperature -- results which will potentially increase diarrheal...Stress blocks effects of medications in heart disease
...daily stress showed less than average reduction in episodes of ischemia and severe heart pains (angina), and s...ts overall showed an average of 5.5 fewer ischemic episodes after treatment, the more highly stressed persons averaged an improvement of only 4.4 fewer episodes...Racial disparity in lung cancer treatment must be overcome, UCSF specialists assert
...protocols due to the aftermath of several shameful episodes in U.S.history, such as the Tuskegee study of untreated syphilis in a group of blackmen in rural Alabama from 1932-72. Thus, physicians making recommendations topatients about research trials should be sensitive to these issues. Inaddition, they ...Decreased pain perception may help to identify hypertension risk
...n,possibly because chest pain is suppressed during episodes of myocardialischemia, insufficient blood supply to the heart muscle. "A growing body of evidence suggests that decreased perception of pain, orhypoalgesia, is not a consequence of high blood pressure, as some scientistshave believed," said France. ......ing was eliminated and that the disruptedbreathing episodes declined from an average of 26 to 7 with treatment. They alsofound that 43 percent of the spouses' arousals during sleep were related topatient snores and that arousals decreased by 39 percent after the snoringstopped. "If people tell you that you ha......t hypoglycemia can damage neurons. Andhypoglycemic episodes selectively, although not exclusively, impair neur...s might relate to thenumber of severe hypoglycemic episodes a child has. That study will take anotherfew years to complete....