First medication to target PCP addiction is reported by Arkansas researchers
...he way PCP addictsare treated, enabling doctors to offer addicts an effective anti-addictionmedication that works immediately. By contrast, antibody-based approaches tocreating vaccines entail weeks of waiting before benefits appear, Owens said. PCP triggers hallucinations, psychotic behavior, violence, a...Cedars-Sinai is first site in California offering LDL apheresis to treat severehypercholesterolemia
...s-Sinai has become the first site in California to offer LDL apheresis, asystem approved for treatment by the Food and Drug Administration earlier thisyear. "Its indications are limited to patients with severe hypercholesterolemia whohave not responded to standard therapy, says Timothy A. Denton, M.D., a......hose techniques that will expandthe donor pool and offer more options for recipient candidates so they can betransplanted in a timely fashion." Dr. Shackleton said Cedars-Sinai is pursuing the development of another newprocedure-- called laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy-- that is likely toincrease the...Antidepressant drug alleviates hot flashes in men undergoing prostate cancer treatment
...y suggests that antidepressants such asvenlafaxine offer the first effective non-hormonal treatment for hot flashes inmen. Ongoing work is looking at various doses of venlafaxine and similarantidepressants to better determine the efficiency and toxicity of thisapproach....9th European Congress on Lung Disease
...the patientsnose and mouth. This method is said to offer many clinical advantages, to savemany lives and to work out considerably cheaper. One of the most popular topics of the meeting, sleep apnoea, will have two majorsymposia entirely devoted to it for an opportunity to discuss all relatedissues. For ins...Turning off cancer shield may allow safer cancer therapy
...one of the body's keycancer-protection shields may offer a surprisingly simple way for doctors tolessen the debilitating and life-threatening side effects of chemotherapy orradiation. In the Sept. 10 issue of the journal Science, a research team from theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, working with Quar......sease and provides us with a unique opportunity to offer cutting-edgetreatment to Maryland citizens with serious mental illness." In addition to the Novartis agreement, the University of Maryland School ofMedicine has $138 million in research agreements and contracts. It ranks 13thamong public medical sch......ople identify barriers toprotecting themselves and offer resources to overcome those barriers." The PEP project, jointly run by the UC San Francisco AIDS Research Instituteand the San Francisco Department of Public Health, offers comprehensivetreatment to high-risk sexually active people and injection drug...Study finds problems with buying drugs on the Internet
...umers not to buydrugs from Internet sites that: offer to prescribe a drug for the first time based solely on a questionnaire. sell prescription drugs without a prescription. sell drugs not approved by the FDA. require a link to another Web site to purchase the drug. lack a mechanism to ask a registe...Gene responsible for cerebral venous abnormalities found
...ectable even with theuse of MRI. DNA testing will offer an accurate and less expensive method ofdetection, researchers said. According to Dr. Trilochan Sahoo, a Duke researcher, "Many patients withCCM are completely treatable. Eighty percent of CCM lesions are usually locatedin an operable area o...UNC studying new drug against ovarian and endometrial cancers
...eir growth. At the same time, the drug may offer additional benefits.Anti-estrogenic effects in the...966-5996. "I'm very hopeful that this will offer a different approach to thesecancers," she says....Normal cellular enzyme becomes marker for Alzheimer's disease
...n thehorizon suggest that such biomarkers may soon offer promise in diagnosingearly-stage AD in living brains--while the opportunity for therapeuticintervention still exists....New 'real time' MRI stress test pictures heart in motion
...LAS, Oct. 12 -- A new type of stress test may soon offer doctors a safer andeasier way to diagnose heart disease, researchers report today in Circulation:Journal of the American Heart Association. The new stress test, called fast cine magnetic resonance imaging or MRI, offersphysicians an alternative for d...UI-led study indicates surgery is the best treatment for severe Bell's palsy paralysis
...ndividual decision, and a physician should atleast offer that option to patients if they are potentially going to have a pooroutcome," Gantz said. "I would hope that neurologists and family medicinephysicians, who are the ones that see most of the facial paralysis, wouldrecognize that there are some test s......own that two innovativetreatments, taken together, offer nearly a three-fold improvement in thedisease-free survival of children with high-risk neuroblastoma, the third mostcommon - and one of the most deadly -- of childhood cancers. The National Cancer Institute-sponsored study showed that these children ...Changing approaches to treating gum disease
...s providing advanced treatment enablethe School to offer dental services and programs to patients throughoutsoutheast Michigan and the state. Classroom and clinic instruction trainsfuture dentists, dental specialists, and dental hygienists for practice inprivate offices, hospitals, academia, and public ag...Vegans likely short on calcium, experts say
...dy found that four-and-a-half servings of broccoli offer the same amountof calcium as one cup of milk. A person forsaking dairy products would need toeat as many as 20 servings of broccoli each day to get enough of the nutrient. "Another good example is kale. Kale is readily absorbed. But are people really...Cedars-Sinai Medical tip sheet for Oct. 14
...d was the first medical center in the Southwest to offer the technique. PATIENTS SOUGHT FOR NEUROLOGICAL AIDS STUDY Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, along with researchers at theUniversity of California, San Diego and University of Southern California, areseeking persons in advanced stages of ...New therapy raises good cholesterol results in regression of heart disease in mice
...o lower levels of bad LDL cholesterol, which could offer patients an evengreater benefit in preventing future heart attacks and strokes," says Rader. In an accompanying editorial, Hayes M. Dansky, M.D., and Edward A. Fisher, M.D.,Ph.D., praise the research stating it is remarkable that significant "lesion"...