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...hysicians and pharmacists may have positiveeffects even in high-risk minorities in whom control of hyperte...egular medical care group. Interestingly, even patients who had no change or decrease in theirblood pressure medication appeared to benefit from th...Medication Offers Hope For Relief From Burning Mouth Pain
...e spontaneously sending pain messages to the brain even though there is no stimulus for thepain. When the BMS patient eats, this stimulates the taste nerve to send taste messages to the brainand stops the spontaneous firing of the pain nerve. Even though eating offers relief from the pain of BMS, Grushka ...Researchers Splice Severed Spinal Cords
...hrough the repaired nerve fibers. "If you have even 5 percent of the nerve fibers carrying nerve impulses,you'll get significantly more than 5 percent back in terms of restoredbehavior," says Richard B. Borgens, professor of developmental anatomy atPurdue. He and his colleague, assistant professor Dr.......actile qualities of these raw materials. Aged or even subfossil mammoth tusks were used despite the availability offresh tusks. This can be explained by the fact that fresh mammoth-ivory isdifficult to work with stone tools. In contrast, ivory is superbly suited forvolumetric sculpting once it dries ou...First Drug Shown Effective For Treating Chronic Forms Of Major Depression
... Zoloft, can safely stop depression from recurring even in the mostchronic sufferers. The findings are the first to suggest an effective drug treatment forpatients with the severest and most disabling forms of chronic depression. For these individuals, the study reports that sertr...Physicians Study Whether "Super-Aspirin" Prevents Alzheimer's
...at risk," adds Tariot. "It's remarkable thatwe can even consider the possibility of prevention; just 10 yearsago that thought was preposterous."...Differences In Brain Function Found For Attention Deficit Disorder
...es betweenthe boys with ADD and those without were even more dramatic when the subjectswere asked to perform the same task after taking the drug Ritalin. Ritalin is astimulant medication used to temporarily relieve symptoms of ADD, such asinattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity. "Both the normal kids a...Now Is Time To Design Brain-Saving Drugs Specifically For Children, UCSF Neurologist Says
...re ineffective, some have unexpected results, some even cause theopposite effect that they have in adults. But Ferriero says the most compellingreason for child-specific treatment is the growing body of evidence that a youngchild's nervous system is not a miniature version of an adult's. From beforebirt......y any current system, and may allow the viewing of even the tiniestblood vessels in the circulation system, Stephen Rudin, Ph.D., UB professor ofradiology and physics, reported here today (Dec. 2, 1998). The prototype andits image-enhancing capabilities were introduced by him at the annual meeting ofthe ...Promising New Drug Uses Antibody Targeted Chemotherapy To Fight Leukemia
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...ese findings, we may be able to make this gooddrug even better," says Dr. Ross. Mitoxantrone-resistant cell lines from breast, stomach and colon cancersas well as multiple myeloma all were found to have increased levels of the newcancer resistance protein. The researchers are working on ways to o...Views Of Tamoxifen And Synthetic Estrogen In Action Provide Clues For Designing Better Drugs
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