UF researchers show magnetic stimulation may be a safe alternative to shock therapy
... the alternative medicine market as atreatment for multiple ailments -- from arthritis to back pain. Now a pre...ed for patients who are suicidal or whohave failed multiple medication treatments, so they may go through years offailed treatment before receiving shock therap...MRI breakthroughs could lead to new tests for heart disease
...he body, the test could beuseful for patients with multiple symptoms. A patient could be tested for bloodvessel disease in the coronary arteries and in the legs at one time, forexample. In June, the MRI researchers reported another breakthrough in MRIimaging. They were first in the world to report the...UNC-CH wins $42.1 million federal contract to study drugs for schizophrenia and Alzheimer's
...romother anti-psychotic agents in that they act on multiple cell receptor sites inthe brain, including receptors for dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine,instead of just dopamine. However, the new drugs cost more than 10 times that of the old medications andquestions remain about their effectiveness in the...Duke team seeks novel vaccine strategy for HIV
...erman Staats, Ph.D. "Over time, it seems, despite multiple exposures to thevirus, these women don't become infected. "With HIV, traditional injected vaccines haven't worked well," Staatssaid. "A vaccine targeted to mucosal linings, however, may be able to stimulatean immune response that protects pe...Researchers uncover gene related to acute leukemia
...then rather simple:translocation products turn off multiple tumor suppressors, and from there itonly takes one or two more mutations to make a cancerous cell," Hiebert said. Hiebert's colleagues Bart Lutterbach, Ph.D., a Fellow of the Leukemia Society ofAmerica, research assistant Yue Hou, and graduate studen...Home exercise equipment increased weight-loss success in study
... Also, women with treadmills doing shorter, multiple sessions ofdaily exercise lost more weight by the end of the study than women doing the longer single dailysessions: 16.3 pounds compared to 12.8 pounds. "The treadmills helped participants accumulate the short se...UF study shows contemporary method accurately predicts cancer risk
... will pave the way for an expanded study involving multiple academic medical centers. Ultimately, her goal is to save lives. Detecting cancer at an earlier stage is associated with an improved prognosis, she said. "Like increased public awareness and screening mammography -- a very fantastic advance -- our ef...Recipients of well-matched kidneys received locally require less long-term care
...nt's other organs. Previous studies suggested that multiple differences in the surface tissues, called HLA markers, had little effect on rejection of transplanted kidneys. In contrast, a new study of 27,050 kidney transplants demonstrated a significant increase in the need for care within three years of trans...UK College of Medicine researchers develop novel technologies to study neural genes
...erate the mapping process by detecting products of multiple genes at the same time. Department of Pharmacology One of the UK College of Medicine research teams is led by Philip Landfield, Ph.D., professor and chair, and includes Kuey-Chu Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor, Olivier Thibault, Ph.D., assistant...Impotence may be early warning of heart disease
...on, drug dependency, degenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and even fatigue and stress. Erectile dysfunction can also be the result of psychological factors, he says. "The experience to date with Viagra has shown it to be safe for patients with most forms of cardiovascular disease when the pati......cess to a well-stocked "medicine chest" containing multiple versions of genetically tweaked human factor VIII, each designed to evade the immune response while still allowing the protein to do its clotting job. "Now that we have the structure, we can identify every amino acid on the surface of the protein tha...Trauma patients need monitoring for infection risk
...these patients including longer hospital stays and multiple blood transfusions and surgeries. Invasive procedures such as intubation, ventilation or catheterization also increased trauma patients' susceptibility to infection by creating sites of entry for bacteria. "We've seen a lot of progress in recent y...Growing blood vessels around clots in leg arteries may treat painful walking
...e lots of branches in a leg artery, which can have multiple blockages. The trial is designed to help a group of patients who cannot readily be treated in other ways." The drug being tested is a recombinant protein made in bacteria that is nearly identical to one produced naturally in humans. While inves...Copper-lowering drug stabilizes advanced cancer in anti-angiogenesis trial
...rst evidence in humans that physicians might fight multiple types of cancer by targeting copper as a 'common d...or breast, prostate and kidney cancer, sarcoma and multiple myeloma is being planned for this year. A full-scale toxicity test of TM will also begin shortly, ......s of relapsing-remitting and secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS). This recommendation was made today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Panel. NOVANTRONE is marketed by Immunex Corporation (NASDAQ:IMNX). Clinical results presented tod...The silent time bomb: divorce, health care and the baby boom generation
...n divorced parents. Parents who have experienced multiple marriages make significantly smaller financial contributions to their children and are less likely to receive informal care back. They also hire more help. Unmarried biological children give more time and money to parents than married biological ch...MCG researchers find clues in process that enables working memory
... memory. Brain cells are constantly bombarded by multiple neurotransmitters, such as glutamate and serotonin...ad a less interactive view of how cells respond to multiple stimuli," Dr. Bergson said. "Now we have learned something very specific about how dopamine D1 recep...Expert calls for common sense, science in national response to medicinal herbs
...r said. "Because they often owed their activity to multiple ingredients, many of which remained unidentified, they were difficult to standardize. Uniformity of action was practically unattainable." Digitalis, valued as a remedy for congestive heart failure but impossible to standardize, typified the problem,...Nobel Laureate creates potent anticancer weapons
... in studies using it to treat Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis and polycystic kidney disease, among others.) Ecteinascidin and a simpler, easier to make form called phthalascidin (pronounced THAL-aside-in), act differently than Taxol® and every other cancer cell treatment. They have a unique mol...... in Roninson's laboratory analyzed the activity of multiple other genes in response to p21's stimulation. The researchers found that p21 selectively inhibited more than 40 genes known to be involved in DNA replication and cell division, thus immediately arresting cell growth. At the same time...