Rush conducts nationwide study to find genetic markers for depression
...ility for prevention of the disease. Studies have proven that the parents, siblings and children of a person with major depression, which began before age 30, are more likely to have it themselves. Researchers at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, the only participating center in Chicago, are cur...Drug that curbs nicotine craving may do same for cocaine
...nificant benefit." Already, mecamylamine has proven to be of significant benefit in helping people quit smoking. In earlier Duke studies, Rose demonstrated that using a patch with nicotine and mecamylamine together helped 40 percent of smokers quit for at least one year, while only 15 percent of smok...New evidence suggests reconsidering causes and treatments for schizophrenia
...d to treat symptoms of Parkinson's Disease and has proven anti-muscarinic properties. They also chose to compare biperiden to an active placebo, in this case glycopyrrolate, a drug typically used to dry up secretions, but one that does not cross the blood-brain barrier. Study patients were divided into t......luding the new atypical antipsychotics, which have proven benefits in terms of cost and outcomes" said Gary Hogman of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship, UK. Janssen Pharmaceutica is headquartered in Beerse, Belgium. Risperdal is marketed globally by Janssen-Cilag, and in partnership with NV Organon in ...First large-scale clinical study establishes the efficacy of the new oral anticoagulant H 376/95
... low molecular weight heparin. In addition to its proven efficacy, H 376/95 has a number of practical advantages, especially oral administration offering patients the possibility of taking tablets instead of having injections. The drug is well absorbed and has no known interactions with other drugs or foo...Drug-psychotherapy combo found highly effective in depression study
...his is the first time that combination therapy has proven to be so much more effective than either medication or psychotherapy alone," said lead investigator Martin B. Keller, M.D. "For some of the study's patients, who underwent the combination therapy, it was the first time in more...New 'combination therapy' improves survival for malignant melanoma patients
...ent, there is no effective treatment that has been proven to increase survival for advanced stage-IV melanoma. "Treatment of stage-IV melanoma with chemotherapy, immunotherapy and combination biochemotherapy has provided varying tumor response rates without proof to date that any of these treatments prolong...AAPS PharmSci article says data mining via internet key to identifying human genes
...nternet. The authors explain that antibiotics have proven highly effective in treating infectious diseases. Whereas some antibiotics need to be injected, many can be taken orally. To be absorbed into the body, the main oral antibiotics with peptide-like structure need to be absorbed from the intestines thro...The bone marrow is the source of mature liver cells
... that this process occurs in humans. "We have proven that in humans there are stem cells for the liver in the bone marrow," says Neil Theise, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology at New York University School of Medicine, the lead author of the new study. "These cells potentially could be used as a ...Workers' comp: perfect fit for chiropractic
...espite the fact that chiropractic adjustments have proven effective in reducing pain and returning employees to work sooner, according to the article. "There's a lot of confusion out there especially with the medium-sized employers where the human resource manager also wears the hat of safety manager and ...Government needs to support 'e-medicine' to improve medical care
... the use of high-tech delivery. Telemedicine has proven especially effective in Norway where even the installation of costly equipment has proven cheaper than flying doctors into remote regions....Irvine researcher receives national award
...containing a building block called tryptophan have proven interesting in an unexpected way, Van Vranken said. As one of the most reactive of the 20 protein building blocks, or amino acids, tryptophan will crosslink with itself within a peptide. It will also react with sugar molecules. Van Vranken realized t...Vitamin D shows promise as cancer prevention drug
... and production of any drug that is scientifically proven to prevent cancer in humans would be a historical milestone, says Posner....Major new study finds long-acting calcium channel blockers inferior to other antihypertensive drugs
... that the longer-acting CCBs are inferior to other proven and less expensive drugs in preventing the cardiov...herapy," said Psaty. "If patients are not taking a proven therapy such as low-dose diuretics, it is reasonable for them to ask their physicians, 'Why not?'"...Fine-tuning naltrexone treatment for alcoholics
...xone for the treatment of alcoholism. It has since proven to be highly effective for many in recovery, but it does not work for everyone. A recent study has found that individual metabolism may be a factor in naltrexone's effectiveness. Its effectiveness can, in turn, be partially determined by measuring bl...Chemical found in computer can cause allergy, sickness
...ed our interest on this compound since it has been proven to be a contact allergen to man and due to the fact that a number of workers in Sweden have acquired health problems related to computer work," Ostman said. The researchers measured the level of the compound in the "breathing zone," located approxima......ering from severe obesity and only surgery has any proven long-term benefit, a minimally invasive approach to gastric bypass offers many patients, who would otherwise shun surgery, a chance to reconsider surgery as a permanent solution to this devastating disease of obesity, Dr. Schauer said.......ny other treatment for Parkinson's disease, giving proven symptom and fluctuation control over 24 hours.2......nth of 1 percent of a sponge's weight. It has also proven very difficult to make in the lab. "The molecule is a most challenging one in its structural complexity," says Arun Ghosh, professor of chemistry at UIC. He and graduate student Yong Wang were racing as many as 10 top teams worldwide to synthesize t...