First head-to-head study to compare lidoderm patch and Celebrex in treating pain
... of side effects or drug-to-drug interaction. Our hope is to see similar results in further Lidoderm osteoarthritis knee pain studies." About the Study The randomized, open-label, active-control, parallel-group study, which was intended to enroll 200 patients, contained data for 143 patients experien...Study shows soy is well accepted in school lunches
...s. Working together on this and other projects, we hope to become part of the solution for overcoming this increasingly important health issue."...The trust game: Measuring social interaction
... Montague, a professor of neuroscience at BCM. "We hope it can be used to better understand conditions such as schizophrenia and autism." Eventually, the technique might give insights into all kinds of negotiations, from the economic to the social to the political even go across geographical boundaries....International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
...vailable within four years and study investigators hope to see as much as a two-thirds reduction in the incidence of breast cancer among women in the treatment group. Aromatase inhibitors are currently being used to treat breast cancer in women around the world and results from a study published in a...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
... effective and potent" and ushered in a new era of hope that polio could be conquered. A community celebration on April 10 will recognize Pittsburgh's own and the nation's first "Polio Pioneers" the polio victims, who, in 1953, were the first to receive the vaccine; the 15,000, mostly school children, ...OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
...h and accumulation of muscle mass. Researchers now hope to conduct clinical trials where both healthy huma...ping medications related to weight regulation. "We hope to advance an optimized molecule into the first stages of human clinical testing later this year." ...Advertising by academic medical centers may risk eroding public trust, says study
... by which their advertisements are developed. "We hope that academic medical centers will view our findings as an opportunity for improvement and a stimulus for developing guidelines for their advertising procedures," said Larson "If they are going to advertise, we would like to see them promote evidenc...Acupuncture found to lower elevations in blood pressure
...ear scientific basis for using acupuncture, and we hope that this research ultimately will lead to the integration of ancient healing practices into modern medical treatment." The study appears in the March issue of the Journal of Applied Physiology. Acupuncture is a 3,000-year-old form of Chinese medicin...Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
...atient's lifetime. "While there is still reason to hope that early detection of lung cancer with CT may save lives, our results lead us to be very cautious, because there's a chance that we may be doing more harm than good," Dr. Swensen said. No professional health organizations currently recommend CT scr...Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage
...y no cure for liver cirrhosis and a patient's only hope of survival is to receive a liver transplant. The Edinburgh scientists from the University's Centre for Inflammation Research, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Southampton and Cincinnati, Ohio have, for the first time, identifi...Stanford patient is first to test new treatment for peripheral arterial disease
...al femoral artery in Erickson's thigh. Researchers hope the drug coating will make it more likely to preve... rate to drop to zero, but realistically we simply hope to see a significant improvement for patients." The success in using drug-eluting stents for coronar...Chronic fatigue patients show lower response to placebos
...nage your symptoms, I will advocate for you,' that hope and feeling of control over their disease could be considered placebo effect, but it's an important part of delivering medical care."...Success of liver transplantation may be most influenced by three risk factors
...ival," the authors conclude. "In future studies we hope to confirm our model in the UNOS database and formulate a clinically relevant pretransplant model by using easily accessible variables that will accurately predict postransplant and patient survival. Such a model could be used to make recipient-speci...Scientist works on innovative treatments for brain tumors
...rug therapy will improve results. Researchers also hope to learn how to not only deliver the drugs to cancer cells, but also to direct the movement of the drug within these cells. Collaborators from the departments of neurosurgery, radiation oncology, cancer biology and pathology will participate in thes...Mountaineering doctors hike medicine to new heights with Xtreme Everest
...th anaesthesia, intensive care or remote medicine, hope to draw parallels between the human body pushed to its limits during critical illness and changes that occur in extreme environments. Low levels of oxygen in the blood of high altitude climbers is similar to levels in critically ill patients on breat...'Chemistry and Flavor of Hispanic Foods' one-day symposium, March 15
...simple flavor belies its chemical complexity. They hope to use this study to improve the taste of margaritas and produce new food products based on its flavor. ( AGFD 115 , Tuesday, March 15, 4:15 p.m.) The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization, chartered by the U.S. Congress, with a multi...New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
...ily identified. But in the future, the researchers hope to integrate other spectroscopic methods besides M...ving more complete forensic information. They also hope that their work will lead to a smaller, portable MXRF device that can be easily carried by forensic ...Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
...By understanding the basic mechanisms of aging, we hope to altogether avoid or mitigate the onset of age r... Laboratories at Harvard Medical School, it is the hope of Mr. Glenn, the Glenn Foundation and HMS that this initiative will serve as a catalyst for attract...Houston meeting kicks off collaboration to advance cancer research
...king together, Imperial College and M. D. Anderson hope to maximize their strengths in basic science research and clinical programs, accelerating the speed of scientific discoveries. Specifically, M. D. Anderson will look for additional opportunities to identify promising new anticancer agents for clinic...Breakthrough in medical research: New chemotherapy gives hope to brain tumour patients
...iplinary success would never have been possible. I hope this example will stimulate a closer collaboration between basic and clinical research in the future", remarks Monika Hegi, PhD signing author for the translation research work and leader of the laboratory of Tumor Biology and Genetics of the Univers...