Kadian alleviated chronic pain in patients unsuccessfully treated with well-known therapies
...ved of their pain and they have a better chance to gain control of their lives." About Chronic Pain It is estimated that 10-20 percent of the adult population suffers daily from non-malignant pain , and almost half of all Americans will seek medical care for persistent pain at some point in their liv...Louisiana enacts prescription privileges law for psychologists
...ouisiana became the second state in the country to gain a law authorizing properly trained psychologists to prescribe certain medications for the treatment of mental health disorders. New Mexico was the first state to enact such a law in 2002. Originally introduced by Speaker of the House Joe R. Salter (D...Cord blood stem cells save children with Hurler's syndrome
...ter transplant to such a degree that they actually gain mental skills faster than age-matched control children and cross over into the normal range at three to four years post transplant." Such cognitive gains might be related, in part, to transplanting the children at a slightly younger age, before their...Electromagnetic breast imaging tested as alternative to mammography
...he first stepping stone in our ongoing research to gain a better understanding of the electromagnetic properties of breast tissue," said Steven Poplack, M.D., professor of radiology at Dartmouth Medical School and co-director of breast imaging and mammography at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. "Once w...Winning the battle of the bulge: We're a scrimmage closer to victory
...tarving so the animal keeps eating, which makes it gain more weight. "We figured out why the troops aren't getting to the front. There is all of this leptin in the blood but it isn't getting to the brain because triglyerides are impairing the transportation system. "We feel that we now understand what p...Migraine with aura, cholesterol increase risk of stroke in women
...ct of headache and migraine on risk for stroke. To gain further insight into this question, Dr. Kurth and colleagues performed a prospective analysis of almost 40,000 women enrolled in the Women's Health Study, an ongoing trial examining the effects of aspirin and vitamin E on cardiovascular disease and c...Estrogenlike drugs may eventually help postmenopausal women with weight gain
...ington, DC -- Scientists may debate whether weight gain is a side effect of menopause, but the numbers are clear: On avEαge, women may experience a gain of approximately 10-15 pounds in the years surrounding menopause. The Debate Over the Cause of Wei...Successful therapy for head and neck cancer may lead to long-term circulatory problems
...I of the Valsalva maneuver. Baroreflex-cardiovagal gain therefore was zero. Values for baroreflex-cardiovagal were confirmed by both the phenylephrine and nitroglycerine injection techniques which also were virtually zero. All three patients had labile blood pressure, quantified by high standard deviat...Low-dose transdermal estrogen viable short-term treatment for menopausal women
... increase in urinary problems, memory loss, weight gain and dry eyes and mouth. Also, the menopausal decline in hormone levels can have potential long-term consequences not immediately apparent, such as increased risk for osteoporosis and coronary heart disease....Aha! Cognitive neuroscientists reveal creative brain processes
... allow initially weak solution-related activity to gain strength, then burst into consciousness as an insight. "This is like closing your eyes so you can concentrate when you are trying to solve a difficult problem," said Kounios, professor of psychology at Drexel. "But in this case, your brain is blocki...Hopkins' young researchers honored for their contributions
... can't bind to cyclin E, but these cell lines also gain and lose chromosomes much faster than cells with normal hCDC4," says Rajagopalan, a Stanford graduate who expects to finish his program next year. Daniel R. Southworth received a Paul Ehrlich Research Award for his project "Identification of Ribosom...MIT reports new insights in visual recognition
...ok at how individuals who are born blind but later gain some vision perceive objects and faces. (See MIT Tech Talk, Aug. 25, 2003.) Potential applications Computer recognition systems work reasonably well when images are clear, but they break down catastrophically when images are degraded. "A human's ab...Deleting neural STAT3 protein in mice
...my of Sciences. Mice with disrupted STAT3 begin to gain weight at six to eight weeks old and weigh twice as much as normal mice by adulthood. The excess body mass was almost exclusively fat. Livers of the mice also were severely enlarged with fat deposits. The senior author, Xin-Yuan Fu, of the Departmen...NIAID vaccine protects against SARS virus infection in mice
... the SARS virus. This protein helps the SARS virus gain access to living cells, where it can cause infection. Because the DNA in the vaccine codes only for the protein, by itself it is unable to cause infection. NIAID scientists also modified the DNA so that it does not match the virus' genetic sequence t...Thyroid cancer study simplifies follow-up exams for patients
... are taken off thyroid medication, they get tired, gain weight and just generally don't feel very good," says lead investigator Perry W. Grigsby, M.D., professor of radiology and of radiation oncology. "We don't want patients to feel bad, so we want them to be off medication for as short a time as possibl...First global approval for FOSRENOL (lanthanum carbonate)
...rope. A submission has also been made by Shire to gain marketing approval for FOSRENOL in the United States. FOSRENOL is a treatment for high phosphate levels in the blood (hyperphosphataemia), which occurs in patients with end stage renal failure. Even with a low phosphate diet as many as 80% of dialy...Rochester, BCM test bird-flu vaccine in humans
...h some minor genetic modifications, bird flu could gain the potential to be transmitted from person to person. While vaccines to protect against normal flu are widely used every year, there is currently no vaccine approved to protect against any of the more than a dozen forms of bird flu. The vaccine tha...UK industry is the loser from parallel trade in pharmaceuticals
...s. Based on these figures, researchers calculate a gain of up to 480million for the UK economy from parallel trade, assuming all parallel trade profits remain in the UK, against a 770 million loss to UK manufacturers. The net loss is estimated at 290 million. "Admittedly, this estimate ignores a number of...New Canadian study demonstrates clear survival benefit of treatment in trials and at large centres
...om participating in clinical trials and that their gain in survival is at least as great as compliance with current standards of care. It is also clear that the better outcome for patients treated in larger centres is partly explained by these centres' participation in research. Treatment centres should b......e encoding and detection phases of NMR/MRI, we can gain data about physical, chemical, and biological properties of samples that we simply could not have gotten previously." The conceptual foundation and feasibility of remote detection were earlier established in Pines's laboratory by Adam Moul, Megan Sp...