Alzheimer's disease center seeks patients for new drug studies
...fficulty recruiting for other drug studies because everyone wanted to be on that drug," she said. "We're now starting to get more interest in these new studies as people realize that one drug doesn't work for everybody." The cause of Alzheimer's is still a mystery although researchers have made progress in u...Substance from Grapefruit Juice May Make Medications Safer
...t juice, CYP3A4 levels were virtually the same for everyone in the study. This is important because, normally, there are large differences in CYP3A4 levels between individuals, which, in turn, affect their metabolism of drugs. Thus, a dose of a drug that may be effective for one individual can be toxic to a...Psychiatric Symptoms May Signal Brain Damage From Diet Pills
...brain damage "would be expected to occur in almost everyone taking a dose sufficient to achieve weight loss." "I think there is cause for concern that people who take fenfluramines are at risk for a host of problems," said McCann, chief of anxiety disorders research in the NIMH Biological Psychiatry Branch, ...National Health Study Launched On The Internet
...lliams says the study is based on the premise that everyone is engaged in apersonal experiment in which their choice of foods, vitamins, medical treatment,and lifestyle affects their health. The accumulation of all these individualexperiments into one nationwide study could lead to improved guidelines andreco......th ways we formulate ourdefinitions to ensure that everyone is following the same guidelines. We're nowlooking at changes that can be applied worldwide in the trials we're nowdesigning." While the outcomes of these trials are important to the companies whosedrugs are being tested, they have no influe...UF Psychiatrists Use Antidepressants To Treat Smoking Addiction
...ts are not as quickly apparent, so it's easier for everyone involved to be in denial about the seriousness of the problem." Just ask Eaton: He smoked a pack a day for 20 years and tried dozens of time to quit. When the FDA approved the drug, he decided to make another go at it. He has not smok...New Survey Finds Physicians Seek More Clarity In MS Diagnosis And Management
...ng the community-based neurologists to ensure that everyone treating MSis up-to-date withthe current science," said Kenneth P. Johnson, MD, professor and chairman ofNeurology, at the University of Maryland Medical Center, and director, MarylandCenter for Multiple Sclerosis. "Neurologists need to better und...Sunlight Poses Universal Cataract Risk
...from an accumulated dose over theyears. That's why everyone needs to get into the habit of protecting theireyes." Even inexpensive, plastic sunglasses are good absorbers of UV-B,according to West, and how dark the glasses are isn't an issue, since anyplastic eyewear will absorb the invisible UV-B ligh...Steroids May Reverse Loss Of Substance Tied To Nervous-System Diseases
...response tobacteria and viruses. While MS affects everyone differently, demyelinationis a focal point of research around the world. "Steroids seem to be very important in regulating the initiationand synthesis," said Michael Glaser, professor of biochemistry andlead investigator of the project. "They had b...Famous Faces Activate More Parts Of The Brain
...y Reagan wereamong the faces that were familiar to everyone in the group. Kelley and Petersen then obtained fMRI images while nine othervolunteers tried to memorize both the famous and unfamiliar faces for asubsequent test. The images showed that part of the right frontal lobe becameactive when the su...Insurance Restrictions On Acne Drug Are Outmoded And Costly
... "The insurance companies were very worried that everyone in the countrywith wrinkles would start using Retin-A, so they decided that it needed priorauthorization," he said. However, a form of tretinoin sold under the brand nameRenova has been show to be better at fighting wrinkles, leaving Retin-A as adrug...NHLBI Urges Americans To Take Control Of Their Hypertension
...ontrolhigh blood pressure also may prevent it. So everyone in the family can takeaction together."...Semiconductor Plants May Be A Danger To The Health Of Employees
...h of the work takes place in "clean rooms"in which everyone has to wear head-to-toe bunny suits. Unfortunately, thisenvironment is designed to protect sensitive chips, not the health of employees.The air in such rooms is usually recirculated through filters to remove dust,but not replenished with clean air fr...... - as wives and mothers, they tend to take care of everyone elsebefore themselves." "I'm very much into preventive medicine, which is the way we should all look atour health and the responsibility we have in maintaining it," she stated. "InLatino countries, if people feel okay, they tend not to go to a doctor...Study suggests a drug treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms
..."If that proves to be the case,I would like to see everyone over 65 get an abdominal ultrasound so that thosewith abdominal aortic aneurysms can receive drug therapy instead of needingsurgery or dying unexpectedly from a ruptured aneurysm."......armacy benefitmanager, Express Scripts, Inc. Not everyone was hit by the full cost increase. "Plan sponsors thatsuccessfully navigated the challenging pharmacy landscape were able to cut thecost increase in half by actively managing their pharmacy benefit to encouragethe use of lower cost but equally effec...Walking cuts risk of heart attack in elderly men
...ful at reducing ourneed to move, opportunities for everyone to become more physically active shouldbe given a high priority." Researchers ranked distance walked by the men in the study into three ranges: less than one-quarter mile a day; one-quarter to 1.5 miles a day; and more than 1.5 milesa day. The risk...University of Iowa reading test effective at identifying reading problems due to brain injury
...ad so much time to finish the exercise that almost everyone passed.In contrast, patients must complete the Iowa-Chapman test in two and a halfminutes. "It's pretty hard to do it in two and a half minutes," Tranel said. "You reallyhave to hustle." The Iowa-Chapman test consists of 25 one- to two-sentence para......ommunication and interaction will bestreamlined as everyone has immediate access to combined medical charts andrecords. "The endocrinologist doesn't have to call the surgeon's office to getthe results of an MRI, and the surgeon doesn't have to call the endocrinologistto get the most recent hormonal profile. I......Developmentat Human Genome Sciences, said, "By now everyone should be aware of theexcitement surrounding the possible use of novel anti-angiogenic proteins asdrugs to treat cancer. Endostatin and other inhibitors of blood vessel growthhave been shown to inhibit the growth of tumors in animals and are current...