UNC-CH nutrition expert says nation should regulate some diet supplements
...genistein purified from soybeansand delivered in a pill in doses greater than could be consumed in soy." Nonfood matrixes include powders, capsules, softgels and gelcaps. Zeisel's proposals for regulation and testing would benefitmanufacturers in the long run as well as the public, he said...Cautious evidence of third generation pill link to increase in thromboembolism
...s, although greatest in women starting to take the pill [overall estimates from the Medicines Commission a...15 per 100,000 women per year in second generation pill users and 25 per 100,000 women on third generation pills, which is smaller than that associated with...UNC studying new drug against ovarian and endometrial cancers
... blood clots in veins. "But otherwise it's an oral pill with hardlyany side effects." The UNC gynecologic oncologist explains that in endometrial and ovariancancers the drug specifically targets estrogen cell receptor sites in uterineand ovarian tissue. In doing so, this "designer estrogen" would ...Time-released capsule delivers 'growth factor' to improve coronary bypass surgery
...th factor, and eight received a placebo or "dummy" pill containing nogrowth factor. To determine the success of the growth factor therapy, researchers assessed thepatient's level of chest pain (angina). Chest pain following bypass surgery isoften an indication that blood flow to the heart has not been fu...Bristol-Meyers Squibb submits NDA for new formulation of once daily videx(R)(didanosine)
.... If approved, VIDEX capsules will further reduce pill burden from two tablets to a single capsule dosed once a day. "Guided by our mission to extend and enhance human life, Bristol-Myers Squibb has been a leader in the search to find effective therapies for HIV/AIDS for more than a decade," said Rick W...Computerized analysis of heart arteries shows no benefits of hormone therapy
...mbined with a progestin (Prempro®), or a dummy pill (placebo). Sophisticated computer techniques were used to measure subtle changes in their arteries over the study period (an average of three years.) "Overall, there were no differences between the groups in how quickly the disease progressed, " ...New evidence suggests reconsidering causes and treatments for schizophrenia
...vided into two groups. Each group received a sugar pill for four days. One group then was given biperiden for four days, followed by glycopyrrolate for four days, while the other group first received glycopyrrolate and then biperiden. They found that biperiden significantly increased the positive sympt...... Also, we have found that having to take only one pill a day greatly improves patients' compliance to therapy, which further improves their condition," says Appell. Ditropan XL was introduced by ALZA in February 1999. The efficacy and safety of the product was demonstrated in 429 adult overactive bla...... to four years. Those women who stopped taking the pill 30 years ago were protected to the same degree as ...gs, researchers compared women who began using the pill before 1972, when high-dose pills dominated the market; between 1972 and 1980, when the transition w...Analysis of study looks at why quitters return to smoking
...ellcome, the maker of Zyban, the only non-nicotine pill approved by the FDA as an aid to smoking cessation treatment. On average, smokers attempt to quit five times before succeeding.1* In acknowledgement of that fact, the US Public Health Service recently issued a definitive guideline advising medical ......manufacturer to manufacturer, bottle to bottle and pill to pill. Thus Sirvent and Gibson are trying to determine how much of a role pre-harvest factors play in chemical differences. They are examining factors such as light, moisture, altitude and latitude; the plant parts; the plant's development stage;...Beer found to contain potent antioxidant
...t likely outcome for the research, therefore, is a pill that captures their enhanced antioxidant activity,... not regulate them. Flavonoids are widely sold in pill form in health food stores and supermarkets, where they are presented as nutritional supplements. "A...New Jersey researchers receive national award
...l, later marketed by the pharmaceutical company in pill form as Capoten. Over the next few years Ondetti and Cushman identified and tested venom components that thwarted a key orchestrator of the system: angiotensin converting enzyme, or ACE. But all of them broke down in the digestive tract. In 1974...Hormone therapy doesn't slow heart disease, despite improvements in cholesterol
...mbined with a progestin (Prempro®), or a dummy pill (placebo). Sophisticated computer techniques were used to measure subtle changes in their arteries over the 3.2-year study period. "Overall, there were no differences between the groups in how quickly the disease progressed," said Herrington, assoc...More protests against abortion pill
... a pyrrhic victory, because production of a second pill that has to be taken with RU486 is now under threa...tention has turned to misoprostol, a prostaglandin pill originally developed to treat gastric ulcers. Supporters of RU486 told New Scientist that they...North Carolina researcher receives award for new ant-HIV drug that simplifies treatment regime
...eover, the three drugs can be combined in a single pill (Trizivir) that is taken twice daily instead of as 10 to 20 separate pills. "Ziagen is the first carbocyclic nucleoside to be approved as a drug," says Daluge, noting that many other compounds in the same class have been studied for more than 30 year......strapped across the chest or wrist or swallowed in pill form. The telecommunications system was usually a radio-frequency transmission system repackaged into a miniaturized wearable configuration. "This is the first time that there has actually been documentation of long distance monitoring of vital sign...Penn researchers identify new cost-effective antibiotic treatment which shortens patient stays
...s of linezolid allow doctors to move patients to a pill at the earliest appropriate point, making it possible for some patients to be discharged from the hospital sooner and cutting costs in the process." Approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration on April 18, 2000, linezolid is the only antibiotic ...Stony Brook chemist wins national award for drug discoveries
...earch, the first orally active taxoid - that is, a pill or drink instead of an hours-long infusion - is now in Phase I clinical trials. Structural changes Ojima's team made allowed absorption by the intestines as well as more potency in killing resistant tumors. The synthetic organic chemist has also te...Research project to help pharmaceutical industry examine molecular structure of pills
... spectroscopy would enable us to look at the whole pill and find out if it has the amount of right- and left-handed moleculesthat we think it has," Freedman says. "It would also enable us to detect the interactions between the active ingredient, the stabilizers and thefillers that make up the whole pill."...