Exercise, talk therapy may help relieve some symptoms of Gulf War veterans' illnesses
...d the higher the number of tender points, the more responsive to treatment they were. But other measures of pain did not respond to treatment. Veterans with disabilities, mood disorders and personality disorders did not improve as well as others. While Gulf War veterans illnesses are not well-defined, or even ...New centers to research, reduce asthma disparities
...ing more adept in applying resources to culturally responsive research and the minority-serving institutions gaining organizational infrastructure and experience for future research." Career development and mentorship opportunities for minority clinical researchers are related components of the initiative. NHLB...Why are people who recover from major depression never really out of the woods?
...scribed in severely depressed patients who are not responsive to medication. This discovery, says Drs. Mayberg and Liotti, is helping to zero in on the subtleties of depression recovery and the brain regions that remain vulnerable to acute environmental stressors, despite highly effective anti-depressant treatm...Has drug regulation abandoned its public health mission?
...ry, J D Kleinke argues that making drug regulation responsive to commercial interests has not put patients and the public health at risk. In the final commentary, Emma Bennion, who has Parkinson's Disease, describes how the drug she needs has suffered at the hands of the regulators....Patients and doctors must change attitudes for public to have real role in decision-making
...patients, not doctors, and would therefore be more responsive to the priorities and needs of the sick. Patients spoke of 'a doctor who listened' or 'getting an appointment' as key features in judging quality. They were generally very positive about the quality of care they received, though there were stories o...Early use of universal forms boosts informed consent among ICU patients
...ticipation," said Hall. "It enabled us to be more responsive to family wishes and also allowed patients themselves to make more decisions." Before the universal consent form was introduced, patients made their own decisions in only 28.4 percent of cases. Proxies made the rest. Using the comprehensive form a...Government regulations contribute to medical debt of uninsured and underinsured
...e Medicare regulations permit hospitals to be more responsive to the needs of uninsured patients, they have never been interpreted or administered to encourage hospitals to behave more responsibly," said Bruce Vladeck, professor of health policy and geriatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and former head o...Penn study: Herb product used to lower cholesterol works no better than placebo
...nd inflammation, both of which appeared to be more responsive than cholesterol to the effects of the herb in the clinical study. Guggulipid, a substance derived from one of the fabled myrrh plants of the Middle East, has a 2,600-year tradition in traditional medicine. Indian practitioners of ayuvedic medicine...Diuretic may help increase brain blood flow in cocaine addicts
...cognitive impairments and make these patients more responsive to our behavioral treatments which require learning of new skills to refuse drugs. These improvements in cognition can also enable these patients to return to productive employment and be active members of society. To gauge the effects of the diuret...Isolated patients get lower quality of care, say researchers
...ion to relieve boredom; clinicians need to be more responsive about who goes into isolation and for how long; and hospitals with large volumes of isolated patients should have a nurse dedicated to proactively check on their needs....Alcohol use increases the risk of hormonally sensitive breast cancers in postmenopausal women
... tend to be ER+ and PR+, which means they are more responsive to hormonal therapies such as tamoxifen that block...hat alcohol is strongly associated with hormonally responsive types of breast cancer, they need to be confirmed by other researchers," said Li, also a research as...Gender differences in brain response to pain
...t reaction. The female limbic regions may be more responsive under threat because of their importance in triggering a nurturing and protecting response for the young, leading to a more emotion-based response in facing pain and stress. Naliboff noted that both responses have advantages and neither is better. ...PRAECIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC receives FDA approval for Plenaxis
...arket Plenaxis TM for the treatment of hormonally responsive prostate cancer patients. The Company is in discu...e for Plenaxis TM for the treatment of hormonally responsive prostate cancer, and the Company's clinical trials for Apan and PPI-2458. These statements are base...UCLA studies experimental cancer drug
...iscovered that tumors missing PTEN seem to be very responsive to CCI779, and it's very clear at a molecular biology level why," Sawyers said. "When you've lost PTEN, mTOR activity gets turned up and tumors become dependent on it for their growth. So a drug that inhibits mTOR should impact the tumor cells but ha...Protein that predicts tamoxifen resistance is identified
...ly change their cellular characteristics to become responsive to other types of drugs. Blackwell says that elevated levels of MTA-1 represent one of these cellular changes in tumors that stop responding to tamoxifen. "MTA-1 is just one of the proteins that plays a role in tamoxifen resistance, but it is one imp...Some breast cancer patients may benefit from endocrine therapy alone
...ast cancers are differentiated and tend to be less responsive to chemotherapy. "These results support what has been suspected. Breast cancer patients with estrogen receptor-positive disease may have better likelihood of response to endocrine therapies but the role of chemotherapy in this set of patients needs t...Study finds fewer than half of early stage breast cancer patients get full chemotherapy doses
...ng full chemotherapy dose-intensity, especially in responsive and potentially curable malignancies like early stage breast cancer. Specific treatment regimen and schedule, age and obesity were also associated with an increased risk of treatment delays and dose reductions. Elderly Patients at Greatest Risk...Lucky number? Seven factors may increase clot buster use for stroke
...uding written procedures for treating stroke and a responsive emergency room staff may increase the odds that ischemic stroke patients will receive clot-busting drugs, researchers reported today at the American Stroke Association's 29th International Stroke Conference. The preliminary information was gathered...New data suggests Seroquel improves quality of life in first episode schizophrenia
... is a critical period where patients can be highly responsive to therapy, but may also have greater sensitivity to treatment side effects, particularly extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS). Treatments need to manage the symptoms effectively, and not cause the debilitating side effects that can be associated with some ...