UF study shows pumping iron improves strength, independence in frail elderly
...ing weight resistance exercises for as little as a month or two, the weakest study participants, most of whom were in wheelchairs, significantly boosted their strength, enabling them to perform independently more of the simple activities of daily life. The findings show promise for reversing muscle weakne......ed, placebo-controlled Phase III trial and its six month open-label extension, sponsored by Cell Pathways, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLPA), demonstrate that Aptosyn™ induces a clinically significant reduction in the formation of precancerous colon polyps in patients with FAP after as little as six months of thera...New drug works well as sole epilepsy therapy for difficult-to-treat patients
...ting in this study were averaging eight seizures a month despite treatment with other antiepileptic drugs," says Ahmad Beydoun, M.D., associate professor of neurology and director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at the U-M Health System. "The results are particularly encouraging as this difficult-to-t...First pivotal studies for new alzheimer's treatment published in Neurology
...s that galantamine offers potential benefits." 12 month study The first study showed that patients with mi...day) and 3.8 points (32.mg/day) on the ADAS-Cog at month six (p<0.001). Both doses produced a better outcome on CIBIC-Plus** than placebo (p<0.05). ...US AIDS cases, deaths, and HIV infections appear stable
...d deaths diagnosed in the U.S. each quarter (three month period) has remained roughly stable. Dr. Gayle presented data for the first two quarters of 1999, which demonstrate a continued stabilization, with roughly 4,000 AIDS deaths and 10,000 AIDS cases diagnosed each quarter. Prior to 1998, deaths and cas...New Alzheimer's treatment Reminyl™(galantamine) completes EU mutual recognition procedure
...line. *1,2,3 Two phase III studies published this month in Neurology showed that treatment with Reminyl™ (galantamine) significantly improves cognition, global function and behavioural symptoms of Alzheimer's disease over a period of 1 year *4,5. Reminyl™ (galantamine) is being developed by Jansse...Award-winning book looks at responsibility for sick babies in hospitals
... an unmarried mother to visit her baby only once a month is unacceptable," said Heimer. "If a middle-class married mother did that the staff would be horrified." Inequalities between rich and poor, male and female, white and black, old and young, employed and unemployed, married and unmarried and the bette...NIDA clinical toolbox provides the latest information about drug treatment strategies
...ge "TX" on the front, will be available later this month from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). <P"One of NIDA's mandates is to disseminate state-of-the-art research information about drug addiction and its treatment," explained Dr. Alan I. Leshner, NIDA Director. "Our understanding of dru...ARICEPT better tolerated than Exelon in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimers disease
... presented at a scientific conference earlier this month in Munich, Germany. "Despite the often devastating nature of the disease, tolerability is still very important to patients with Alzheimer's disease," said David Wilkinson, MD, director of the Memory Assessment and Research Centre, Moorgreen Hospit......r to receive the GMK vaccine (given weekly for one month and then at three-month intervals for two years). Interferon alfa 2b is a recombinant version of naturally occurring leukocyte (white cell) alfa interferon, which has been shown to exert both antiviral and immunomodulatory effects. Schering-Plough ...Study published in JAMA supports an alternative treatment approach in Parkinson's disease
...ose of MIRAPEX or levodopa. From weeks 11 through month 23.5, the MIRAPEX dose remained fixed, however investigators could add open label levodopa to either group as needed to treat emerging or continuing symptoms. The primary endpoint was the time to the first occurrence of any of the three dopaminergic...... less use of cancer-directed treatment in the last month of life, and [five times] higher likelihood that both physician and parent identified the primary goal of cancer-directed therapy to be to lessen suffering. We found that high quality palliative care is more likely when both physicians and parents r...Welfare to work does not improve mental health
...re to low-wage work. The study, published this month in the Western Journal of Nursing Research, shows no differences on several mental health indicators between women who remained on cash assistance compared with those who had left the rolls. "Current government policy assumes that women achieving...Stress levels can affect success of pneumonia vaccinations
... 75. The study, reported this month in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, is the latest in a long line of investigations into the effect stress has on the human immune system. It is also the first time scientists have been ab......of a children's hospital in Scotland during a five month audit in 1998. Eighty five of the children had sustained an injury after falling out of a bunk or cot. Over three quarters of them were less than 6 years old. In one in two the injury was classified as "significant." Most of the children had fallen o...Other highlights in the October 15 issue of JNCI
...rth decades of life; and use one or more times per month of artificial tanning lights. The authors also note that the strongest effects of UV exposure on melanoma risk appear to be during adolescence and early adulthood. Low White Cell Counts May Affect Breast Cancer Outcomes Among African American Women...New technique uses imaging technology to speed drug discovery
...nal techniques could be completed in less than one month for a large group of compounds, and less than three months for a small group, he says. The technique, detailed in the Dec. 15 issue of the German scientific journal Angewandte Chemie, draws upon an area of research called combinatorial chemistry. Com...Pharmacologist tip sheet: Migraine patches, nicotine therapies, allergy medication interference...
...isease and prolong life must look beyond the first month of therapy to determine if their patients are going to have adherence problems. Robert Gross, M.D. M.S.C.E. and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania find that virtually all patients are adhering to their regimens for the first month--what...Most children with acute sinusitis recover without antibiotics
.... Other patients symptoms reappeared in the second month after treatment began. However there were no differences among the three groups. "In a sense, we have met the enemy, and we are it," says Elliot Gellman, M.D., clinical professor of pediatrics. "Many people who come into the office say they are the...Highest known catalytic rate for superoxide dismutation achieved
...te as the pH decreases. In a study published this month by the journal Inorganic Chemistry, the researchers also reported that the improved SOD enzyme mimetic, consistent with its enhanced catalytic rate, exhibited protective effects in animal models of reperfusion injury and septic shock at dosage levels...