Study shows patch therapy may be as effective as oral medications
...ion safety being on the minds of many people, it's promising for patients and their physicians that there are non-systemic therapies being studied for OA pain which may provide future options." OA affects more than 20 million Americans annually and generates more than seven million physician visits per year....UCSF study offers insight into human circadian rhythms
...e causes FASPS. It also offers a model for testing promising compounds directed at the enzyme to treat a variety of sleep disorders, whether resulting from biological or environmental factors. While FASPS is caused by an individual gene, other forms of sleep-pattern disturbances, such as the tendency for some ...Novel therapy tested in mice could chase away cat allergies
...e now. In the future, the investigators say, these promising results could lead to a new therapy not only for human cat allergies, but also possibly for severe food allergies such as those to peanuts. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, ...Chemical decoy shows promise for slowing Alzheimer's by acting as decoy
...ely to cause side effects, which have plagued many promising Alzheimer's drug candidates, Good says. She notes, for instance, that experimental vaccines targeting beta amyloid proteins have been tried in animals, but these have triggered severe immune responses that have prevented their use. "We are currently ...Mayo Clinic discovers 'new pathway' against pancreatic cancer
...ent options are available, researchers welcome any promising leads for improving diagnosis and therapy....New ways to design safer & more effective topical (transdermal) drug delivery announced in the PNAS
...sing computer technology and then testing the most promising ones in the laboratory environment. The molecules ...ules, allowing researchers to then submit the most promising candidates to further in-vivo laboratory analysis....New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
...entific society. The technique could be especially promising for tracking down missing or lost children, according to the researchers. Childrens fingerprints are often more difficult to detect than adults. The new method could detect prints based on chemical markers left behind in the childs fingerprints due t...Houston meeting kicks off collaboration to advance cancer research
...will look for additional opportunities to identify promising new anticancer agents for clinical development and to investigate new methods for diagnosing and treating cancer. Imperial hopes to expand its range of research programs and further contribute to the improvement of healthcare globally. According to J...Serum sodium level is a major predictor of a poor prognosis for heart failure patients
... of 2004 found that the medication tolvaptan was a promising addition to standard therapy for patients hospitalized with heart failure. In addition to reducing fluid buildup and decreasing body weight, tolvaptan improved serum sodium levels in patients with hyponatremia. "This is important because previously...When the brain, not the ears, goes hard of hearing
...g loss in humans. The latest studies offer several promising leads in genes that affect the functioning of brain chemicals like glutamate and GABA, important neurotransmitters that allow nerve cells in the ear and brain to talk to each other. The difficulties can isolate people from friends and family, beginn...Physical activity linked to protection from Parkinson's disease
... of Public Health, said: "These are intriguing and promising findings that suggest that physical activity may contribute to the prevention of Parkinson's. A protective effect of physical activity has been recently found in an animal model of Parkinson's disease -- this convergence of epidemiological and exper...New study tests amitriptyline for painful bladder syndrome
...ot yet received treatment. Following up on earlier promising research supported by NIDDK, participants' urine will be checked for substances that may, ultimately, lead to a definitive test for diagnosing IC and for measuring the effectiveness of potential treatments....'EuroVacc 02' HIV vaccine trial begins in February 2005
...for the clinical studies, "if this study generates promising results, EuroVacc intends to further evaluate the vaccines in larger clinical trials." Development background The vaccine candidates for the trial - DNA-HIV-C and NYVAC-HIV-C - were developed within the network European Vaccine Effort against HIV/A...Promising treatments for Huntington's disease identified in UCI study
... -- UC Irvine researchers have identified several promising drug compounds that when combined show the potential to treat Huntington's disease. In tests on fruit flies, Larry Marsh and Leslie Thompson found that combinatorial drug therapies developed from these compounds halted the brain-cell damage caused by...Mayo Clinic identifies key cellular process in prostate and other cancers
...." The Mayo Clinic researchers' findings suggest a promising new treatment target at which drug designers can aim new therapies for prostate cancer, as well as a number of other human cancers in which elevated levels of Skp2 have already been documented. These include cancers of the breast, lymphatic leukemia,...Substance protects resilient staph bacteria
Researchers have identified a promising new target in their fight against a dangerous bact...hony S. Fauci, M.D. "This research has initiated a promising new approach that could result in the development of better ways to prevent the spread of many diffe...New treatment rivals chemotherapy for lymphoma, U-M study finds
...sea is rare. Results from this study are even more promising than results using Bexxar after other therapies have failed. In those studies, 70 percent of patients responded to Bexxar and 20 percent to 30 percent saw a complete remission. Bexxar is marketed in the United States by GlaxoSmithKline. "Given how mu...Inflammatory cells highly promising target in NF 1
...and Feng-Chun Yang, M.D., Ph.D., have identified a promising target to treat the symptoms of neurofibromatosis. They hope to begin preliminary testing in humans by the end of this year, and are experimenting with potential drug compounds now. Dr. Clapp, professor of pediatrics and of microbiology and immunolog...Other highlights in the February 2 JNCI
...ctors, such as blood volume and blood flow, may be promising biomarkers that herald a positive clinical response to therapy. In a review article, Janet C. Miller, D.Phil., of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues examine the validity and reproducibility of different imaging methods, includi...Progesterone therapy could prevent thousands of preterm births
...rent preterm birth were based on criteria from the promising findings of the clinical trial reported by Paul J. Meis, M.D., et al. for the NICHD Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 12, 2003. These study results led to the 2003 Committee Opinion issued ...