Brain activity, including memory-processing, changes in Tourette syndrome
...ients, however, the areas that had been abnormally overactive were substantially less active after treatment. "Levodopa seems to normalize the excess activity we had seen in the parietal cortex in the group with tics," Hershey says. "There were changes in activity in the other structures, too, but the changes i...Radically new anti-rejection drug shown to offer safe control of immune system in Stanford study
...g also shows promise as a therapy for quieting the overactive immune system in patients with autoimmune diseases. "We can say that it does as well if not better than the other immunosuppressive drugs we have now," said Dominic Borie, MD, PhD, senior research scientist and director of transplantation immunology ...Astrazeneca receives European approval for Seroquel; in bipolar mania
...aches for the treatment of depression and anxiety, overactive bladder, dementia and stroke, pain control and anaesthesia. For more information, please visit www.astrazenecapressoffice.com...Darifenacin increases 'warning time' for OAB sufferers
...ober 2003 -- Darifenacin, a new oral treatment for overactive bladder (OAB), has the potential to prolong "warni...of the most distressing symptoms for patients with overactive bladder syndrome. It was suggested that, as a result, people who suffer symptoms of an overactive bl......rgeted therapies is the HER2/neu protein. HER2 is overactive in 25 to 50 percent of breast, ovarian, prostate and colorectal cancers. This overexpression is correlated with a poor prognosis in primary breast cancer. The second target, HER3, is overexpressed in 20 percent of breast cancers, 28 to 47 percent of...New treatment strategy for Crohn's disease shows early promise
...ow, the disease has been thought to result from an overactive immune system, and therapies have attempted to suppress, rather than enhance, the immune response. Therapies that suppress immunity improve symptoms in many Crohn's disease patients, but researchers are looking for alternative treatments to help thos...Study results offer new hope for people with manic depression
...aches for the treatment of depression and anxiety, overactive bladder, dementia and stroke....Gene linked to testicular cancer
...lth, shows that 63 percent of men, who inherit the overactive form of the hiwi gene, could develop seminoma, whi...i function in humans. We suspected that abnormally overactive forms of these genes would probably lead to cancer, which is why did this most recent study. We coul...University of Pittsburgh researchers use botox to treat overactive bladder
...ng multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, stroke, overactive bladder, and interstitial cystitis (IC). Each expe...ditions like neurogenic detrusor hyperreflexia and overactive bladder are caused by involuntary contractions of the detrusor muscle, which controls the bladder. T......s or taste shapes risked being dismissed as having overactive imaginations.Last year, however, several scientific studies of this rare condition produced compelling evidence that it is a genuine perceptual phenomenon. Now, a Vanderbilt study of the most common form of synesthesia the perception that numbers, l...Calling all young minds 2002 AstraZeneca CNS awards program launched
...for the treatment of depression/anxiety disorders, overactive bladder disorders, dementia and stroke....Largest ever overactive bladder study published in leading urology journal
...lled study conducted to date (n=1529 patients) for overactive bladder, a medical condition that affects millions... to date in the research of therapeutic agents for overactive bladder. Once-daily tolterodine was shown to provide highly effective relief of overactive bladder ...Elderly patients suffering from overactive bladder can significantly and safely reduce the sy... XL is the first and only once-a-day treatment for overactive bladder approved by the FDA and is marketed by ALZA Corporation and UCB Pharma. For the study, inv...