Research Trial To Test New Drug For Diabetic Neuropathy
... is not treatment for diabetic neuropathy. We can only treat the diabetes which, at best, will stabilize the neuropathy," says Simmons. "Right now we only give patients medication for pain. This drug specifically may work to treat the neuropathy. We have...New Math, High-Tech Imaging Solving Old Riddle: How Does The Brain Operate When We Think?
...ise for studying the brain at work,by measuringnot only how much extra blood gets sent to thinking areas, but also bycalculating how muchoxygen those areas are using. Using a kind of imaging called functional MRI(fMRI), scientistshave long known that the amount of oxygen used by a particular area of the b......son, a matching group of study volunteers who took only an inactiveplacebo pill did not change by these me...study, after one week, and after fourweeks. After only one week, anti-depressant recipients scored lower on measuresof hostility, inversely related to bloo...Added Benefit Found For Aspirin Use In Patients With Vessel Disease
...e diseased blood vessels. In the fivepatients who only had risk factors, but no excessive fatty buildup, theimprovement was not seen. The presence of fatty deposits in the vessels wasassociated with the success of the aspirin treatment. Aspirin blocks the formation of cyclooxygenase-dependentvas...Snipping Inflammation In The Bud; New Agents May Provide Relief
...ith an opposing cell. But synthetic molecules that only inhibit cells from linking up have to competewith the natural cell surface proteins involved in the cell-docking process, andthey don't always win. The process is also reversible. The synthetic molecules,for example, can slip off their cellular targe...Hospitals Discourage Consumer Questioning Of Bills, Study Suggests
... of theFortune index. Hospitals as an industry had only a 67% satisfaction rate, whichwas a 5.6% drop from the previous year. The study, "Averting Expected Challenges Through Anticipatory ImpressionManagement: A Study of Hospital Billing," was written by Dr. Elsbach, Dr. RobertI. Sutton of Stanford Univer...Study Finds Aspirin Does Not Prevent High-Risk Cases Of Preeclampsia
... betreated with blood pressure lowering drugs, the only curative treatment for theoverall condition is immediate delivery. Dr. McNellis added that previous large studies failed to find benefitfor the aspirin therapy and have been criticized as not testing women who wereactually at high risk. He ...X-Rays: How Big A Risk To Kids? UF Researchers Seek Answers
... While the results are useful, they paint only part of the picturebecausethe detectors measure the doses only at specific locations, said Wes Bolch,also a professor in the nuclear and radiological engineering d...Radio Frequencies Used To Kill Inoperable Liver Tumors At Penn's Cancer Center
...region at Penn's Cancer Center... and available at only a few select hospitals across the nation. This technology enhances a surgeon's ability to access and successfully treat liver tumors -- which are commonly deemed "inoperable" due to their anatomical position inside the organ itself. "Many p...Drug Is First In Decade To Show Promise Treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder
...idthe new "XR" extended release formulation, taken only once a day, is both moreconvenient to patients and provides a more sustained level of the drug, becauseit is released into the bloodstream more gradually. Current therapies for GAD fall into two drug groups: sedatives calledbenzodiazepines, ...Is Ritalin As Effective--And As Harmless--As It Could Be?
...ing. "If the beneficial effects ofthe drug reside only in the d-threo form," she said, "then fifty percent of theweight of the administered drug may not contribute to its therapeutic effects." Ding, along with colleagues Joanna S. Fowler and Nora Volkow, studied theindividual effects of d-threo and l-thr....... For threemonths, the patients were treated with only one medication, and then for anadditional three months simultaneously with both medications. During the study,the patients were prescribed a diet designed to maintain their base-line bodyweight. "The future of treatment in our type 2 diabeti......tality ratedue to cisplatin toxicity) in cisplatin only treated subjects to a 63% completeremission rate with no mortality or toxicity in subjects pretreated with BNP7787prior to the same toxic dose of cisplatin. In addition to demonstrating safetyand efficacy in preclinical studies, BioNumerik also conf......rapy withoutthe pump died in the hospital, whereas only 49 percent who were treated with thepump in addition to clot-busting drugs died, Barron found.In contrast, death rates in patients given emergency angioplasties toclear coronary arteries were 44 percent with the pump and 47 percentwithout, not a sign...National Health Study Launched On The Internet
...der National Health Study on the Internetwill cost only pennies per person and will allow two-way interaction. It is astatistical fact that the larger the study, the greater the precision foridentifying links between lifestyles and health. The goal of the study is torecruit 20 million Americans into the f...Anti-Clotting Drug May Cause Potentially Fatal Platelet Disorder
... was almost 50 percentfor those older than 60, but only 16 percent in those younger than 60. Onereason for...onth when TTP developed. He said that the only proven way to lessen the chances of death forpersons with ticlopidine-associated TTP is for patients...Protecting Breast Feeding From Breast Milk Substitutes
...nal activities of the baby milk manufacturers will only be brought into line when they face substantial cl...ismoking campaigns, legislation and monitoring are only part of the broader strategy to protect mothers and that positive public opinion towards breast feed...Procter & Gamble Supports Yale University Collaboration For Public Health Training Throughout China
... and economic changes are presentingChina with not only many health risks associated with developing nations -- suchas infectious and parasitic diseases -- but also rising rates of diseasesassociated with lifestyle changes, including cancer, heart disease, and sexuallytransmitted diseases such as AIDS. I...Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
...ing, some chemotherapies lose their efficacy after only a fewrounds. Many have chalked up these failures t... The implications are that drug makers must not only design agents that getthrough a variety of microscopic doors, they must also think about aiming thei......an half could list at least one stroke symptom and only 68percent could name one stroke risk factor. The ...symptom and 72 percent could name one risk factor, only 47 percent ofthose in the older group could identify one symptom of stroke and only 56percent could ...