First head-to-head study to compare lidoderm patch and Celebrex in treating pain
...oderm (lidocaine patch 5%) is FDA-approved for the relief of pain associated with post herpetic neuralgia (P... by the FDA for any indications other than for the relief of pain associated with PHN, and its safety and efficacy in other indications have not been establis...Study shows patch therapy may be as effective as oral medications
...y suggest that patch therapy provides similar pain relief as oral medications for patients with osteoarthritis (OA) knee pain. The exploratory study involved a head to head comparison of applying the lidocaine patch 5% (Lidoderm) or taking celecoxib (Celebrex) 200 mg per day. In this study, results showed ...Chronic pain treatments more effective when taken together, new study shows
...used by nerve damage or disease report better pain relief at lower doses of a combined drug treatment than from either drug administered individually, a new Queen's study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) shows. When given a combination of the anti-seizure drug gabapentin and the o...Acupuncture found to lower elevations in blood pressure
...t electroacupuncture treatments provided temporary relief from the conditions that raise blood pressure during hypertensive states. Such treatments, they believe, potentially can become part of a therapeutic regimen for long-term care of hypertension and other cardiovascular ailments in people. "This study...NIH state-of-the-science panel calls for 'demedicalization' of menopause
...ious burden on daily life, the benefits of symptom relief may outweigh the risks. In addition to learning more about safe use of hormones, the panel urged further research into nonhormonal treatment approaches. "One of the challenges in this area of research is teasing out which symptoms are associated wit...Cardiac deaths peak in sleep hours for patients with sleep apnea
... studies have proven CPAP effective in OSA symptom relief and in raising nighttime oxygen levels in the blood, however. "At the very least, the study may help us better understand why people should die in their sleep at all. We now know that persons with sleep apnea have a peak in sudden cardiac death ris...Sudan surveys show high rates of death and malnutrition among displaced population
...ns to assess health and nutritional status for the relief efforts in those area. At each site, general household status, number of deaths among adults and children, and nutritional and vaccination status of children aged 6 months to almost 5 years were assessed. A questionnaire detailing access to food ...New thrust needed to tackle health inequalities globally says UCL scientist
...complementary to development of health systems and relief of poverty: to take action on the social determinants of health. Such action will include relief of poverty but it will have thebroader aim of improving the circumstances in which people live and w...HIV and ID doctors oppose ideologically driven STI prevention policies
...aw requires the $15 billion program providing AIDS relief to developing countries to allocate one-third of its prevention funds to abstinence-only education. However, there is very little credible, peer-reviewed, published scientific evidence that abstinence-only sexual health education programs can preven...'Speaker's cramp', a new type of involuntary mouth-, lip-muscle movement
...tment, patients reported marked improvement in and relief from the grimacing and speech difficulty associated with Speaker's Cramp. The level of digastric muscle activity was important and reflected the severity of the condition....Cryoablation is effective in treating cancer patients' pain
...The one-time cryoablation treatment gave them pain relief up until the time of their death, he said. This was a pilot study to determine how well this new technology can provide pain relief, said Dr. Dupuy. "We are beginning another study that will look at how well cryoablation can locally control large me...Cartilage repair techniques shown to restore patient mobility and reduce pain
...e accurately predict outcomes for patients seeking relief from cartilage pain. Dr. Williams presented the research at American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeon's (AAOS) annual meeting, February 23-26, 2005 in Washington, DC. The results of "The Microfracture Technique for Treatment of Articular Cartilage Lesio...Hormone therapy increases risk of urinary incontinence
...nefits well beyond the indications for symptomatic relief of hot flashes, night sweats, and vaginal dryness, according to background information in the article. One of the purported benefits of MHT was to improve the symptoms of urinary incontinence (UI), and it has often been prescribed to treat UI. Susan...Diagnosis of prions in patients should utilize novel strategy, team says
...l Academy of Sciences . The study brings into high relief the different detection strategies of immunohistochemistry and the CDI, both of which involve revealing the presence of prions, known as PrPsc, by applying antibodies to brain tissue. Standard immunohistochemistry, developed in the DeArmond lab 20 ye...Study finds no reason for expectant mothers to shy away from early epidurals
...ral group (women who received spinal-epidural pain relief at the first request for pain relief); and the pos...ntimeters dilation or greater or at the third pain relief request). "Women often feel guilty or weak when they request an epidural early in labor. I hope thi...No increase in C-sections when epidural analgesia given early in labor
...e cesarean delivery rates and provides better pain relief and a shorter duration of labor than systemic opioid analgesia, according to an article by Northwestern University researchers published in the Feb. 17 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Epidural injections are administered into the space...Hormone therapy controversy raises drug safety issues
...ans have learned that hormone therapy does provide relief to their patients," the authors write. "How can a drug that does such immediate good, and that appeared to do such long-term good, be so wrong?" For hormone manufacturers, the stakes are millions of dollars in revenue. HT revenues were reported to be...Small increases or 'blips' in HIV levels do not signal mutations leading to drug-resistant HIV
...rength in numbers. "These results should provide relief to hundreds of thousands of HIV-positive patients in the United States currently taking drug therapy, called highly active anti-retroviral therapy, or HAART, and reassure them that their medications have not failed," says senior study author and infe...Promising treatments for Huntington's disease identified in UCI study
...tion, combinations of drugs that each provide some relief from symptoms might be expected to provide even greater relief when in combination. Combinatorial drug therapies are currently being used in treatments for certain...Northwestern Memorial Hospital receives $10 million commitment to support preeminent heart program
...st hospitals in the country to implement the "pain relief pump." All cardiac surgery patients at Northwestern Memorial now benefit from this innovative pump dispense system used to treat pain specifically after heart surgery by delivering non-narcotic numbing medication directly to the surgical incisio...