Filatov Eye Institute contests validity of recent study
...tive of the results patients can expect today with newer technology. Last month, the American Academy of Ophthalmology issued its own assessment based on peer-reviewed scientific literature for the years 1968 through June of 2001. Findings suggest that while serious, adverse complications resulting in perm...Antidepressant provides a cool choice for hot flashes
...men are often denied estrogen for hot flashes. The newer antidepressants, of which venlafaxine is one, offe...e for nonhormonal management of hot flashes. These newer antidepressants work to control various neurotransmitters in the brain. Some of those neurotransmitt...Light-weight heparin has heavy-weight results in heart attack treatment
...ical events showed a significant advantage for the newer blood thinner, as 4.4 percent of enoxaparin-TNK patients had died or experienced a recurrent heart attack, compared to 15.9 percent of patients who received UFH-TNK. The rates were 6.5 percent with UFH-abciximab-TNK and 5.5 percent with enoxaparin-a...Prozac is effective for depression...and hot flashes too
...ndings provide proof of principle that some of the newer antidepressants can relieve hot flashes," says Cha...linic research found that Effexor, also one of the newer antidepressants, alleviated hot flashes. "The encouraging news for women, particularly those who hav...Modest survival benefit from chemotherapy for patients with glioma brain tumours
...ond to chemotherapy and that further research into newer chemotherapies and methods of delivery is justified. The size of the benefit and remaining uncertainty about quality of life mean that some health professionals would consider radiotherapy alone to be a justified standard therapy, whereas others migh...Jefferson trial looks to improve diagnosis of prostate cancer
...ist with conventional Doppler imaging as well as a newer harmonic gray scale inversiontechnique. "The phase inversion technique provides better spatial and temporal resolution," he notes. He adds that these techniques may enable them to identify slight irregularities in the normal prostate blood flow patte...Calcification of breast blood vessels may predict stroke risk
...essure, smoking status, physical activity, diet or newer blood markers, such as homocysteine levels or C-reactive protein, he says. However, mammograms might someday be used in addition to standard screening tools to better determine a womans risk, he added. Homocysteine is an amino acid in the blood asso...Hope for kidney transplant patients of improved graft survival
...se kidney failure and transplant loss. CellCept, a newer immunosuppressant drug, is non-kidney toxic and the study set out to discover whether the use of CellCept could effectively replace cyclosporine and result in an improved function of the damaged kidney. Kidney function can be assessed by the rate a...Researchers seek new hope in old asthma treatment
...s and drug interactions and fell out of favor when newer treatment options became available. Recent studies in such scientific journals as The Lancet and the American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine suggest that theophylline may have the capacity to reduce airway inflammation and clear away m...UNC researchers show passengers boost risk of young driver accidents
.... In view of recent research findings, many of the newer GDL systems either prohibit or limit passengers, but North Carolinas does not. The UNC Highway Safety Research Center released the new analyses today (May 16) to coincide with kickoff of the statewide Click It or Ticket Campaign in Hickorys Winkler ...New drugs could markedly alter Alzheimer's, but disease will not go away
...nstrated in studies of patients taking some of the newer medications (cholinesterase inhibitors) that can delay disease progression by six to nine months. Dr. Sheryl Zimmerman, associate professor of social work and public health and co-director of the Program on Aging, Disability and Long-Term Care of the...First quarter 2002 prescription drug spending: Higher again, but rate of increase drops
...es of utilization patterns for COX-2 inhibitors, a newer and widely used class of agents used to treat arthritis, acute pain and other disorders. While equal in efficacy to traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), like naproxen and ibuprofen, COX-2 drugs Celebrex, Vioxx, and Bextra c...Choose your painkillers with care
...'s team at the University of New Jersey gave these newer painkillers to rats their broken bones didn't fully heal. Both drugs, rofecoxib (sold as Vioxx) and celecoxib (Celebrex), are often used to ease the pain of broken bones. Merck, the maker of rofecoxib, rejects the claim that healing could be impaire...New pathway for treating hypertension-related kidney failure studied
...stem within the kidneys that is a target for still newer drugs that could work with these other therapies particularly those that impact angiotensin 2 and reduce damage to kidneys and possibly other major organs such as the heart and brain. He's looking at arachidonic acid and its metabolites, particular...Newer lung cancer treatments extend survival longer than traditional regimens
...r advanced non-small cell lung cancer. With these newer regimens, two-year survival is similar to what we ... information on long-term survival with any of the newer regimens for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Most studies examining these regime...Bladder-sparing procedure found effective for treating invasive bladder cancer
... Genitourinary Cancer Program. "We are identifying newer and better drugs that are both more effective and less toxic to the patient" Shipley adds that the new treatment strategy is gaining acceptance "As an alternative to radical surgery, it's now being offered to more patients, although it's not yet as c...Drug combo curbs artery re-closing after some heart attacks
... the United States, our study indicates that maybe newer and more easily applicable oral anticoagulants should also be tested," Verheugt says. "This is the largest randomized study to date with both clinical and angiographic follow-up addressing the efficacy of a continuous, combined antithrombotic regimen...This old house may put its occupants on path to good health
...before 1974 are much more likely than residents of newer homes to walk a mile or more at least 20 times each month, according to new research. "Neighborhoods containing older homes in urban areas are more likely to have sidewalks, have denser interconnected networks of streets and often display a mix of bu...Treatment for behavioral disorders in children with autism
One of a newer class of anti-psychotic medications was successful and well tolerated for the treatment of serious behavioral disturbance associated with autistic disorder in children ages 5 to 17. The findings of the large, multi-site, eight-week, placebo-controll...An SSRI antidepressant is safe and effective for depressed, hospitalized heart patients
...patients and, until now, no studies using SSRIs, a newer class of antidepressants, had been performed in a population of patients who recently experienced a heart attack. Studies with SSRIs in depressed patients a year after hospitalization for a heart attack showed SSRIs were safe, but the heart is unstab...