Marijuana use rises and falls with price and perceived harm, study shows
... and 1992, when price more than tripled. The trend reversed itself after 1992, when price fell by 16 percent. The study shows that perceived risk of harm from marijuana use had a substantial impact on the reduction in marijuana use between 1981 and 1992 (as perceived risk rose) and in the subsequent increa......ime that muscular dystrophy could be prevented and reversed by replacing the defective gene. He is currently working on developing vectors that might deliver the missing genetic information into cells that are unable to produce dystrophin. His work holds hope that gene therapy strategies can lead to a treatme......etiology is not apparent, or when symptoms are not reversed in a reasonable amount of time. Providing families and physicians with the means to better manage those with this disease would seem to be a more cost-effective approach to care; we believe this approach should include access to and reimbursement for...Document destruction practices obliterate tobacco company defenses in critical Australian decision
... was awarded about $500,000 (USD). That award was reversed on appeal because Seita was owned by the French government at one time. COMMENTARY Richard Daynard, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and Chair of the Tobacco Products Liability Project noted that, "BAT may be, for all practical pu...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April (second issue)
...of newborns, the vasodilator sildenafil completely reversed vascular resistance in six affected piglets within...resistanceof 70 percent, had that level completely reversed within one hour of the start of sildenafil infusion. This result was in contrast to those of the co...New hope for treating or avoiding heart failure after cancer drugs
...ing the observation period. Function could only be reversed by ACE inhibition for several months. We have now successfully treated more than 60 patients with severe congestive heart failure and achieved a remarkably long-lasting recovery."...Does your brain shutdown with Alzheimer's?
...0 known drugs. The dye showed that 10 of the drugs reversed the depolarisation, restoring cells to normal. Some of these drugs are known to block channels that allow chloride ions to leave the cell, so an outward flow of chloride ions must be helping to depolarise the cell. Others blocked protein kinase C, an...Few women regret sterilization procedures
...lity of the woman requesting that the vasectomy be reversed was low-2.0 percent-and statistically indistinguishable from the corresponding figure (2.2 percent) for women requesting reversal of tubal sterilization. Women who experienced substantial conflict with their husbands before the husbands' vasectomy w...U.S. cancer mortality rates reflect changing socioeconomic patterns
...economic differences in male lung cancer mortality reversed between 1950 and 1998, in favor of high area socio... lowest socioeconomic group. However, the pattern reversed in the 1970s, and by 1998, lung cancer mortality for men ages 25 to 64 was 56% greater in the lowest...Reproductive tourism: Italy faces 'womb drain' as ART becomes better in other European countries
... regulations for IVF techniques, but this could be reversed if the Italian senate ratifies proposals that would encourage multiple pregnancies, according to Dr Karl Nygren, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sofiahemmet Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. On Wednesday 3 July he will tell the annu...Antioxidant-rich diets improve age-related declines in mental function of rats, USF/VA studies find
...a marker for oxidative damage. In fact, spirulina reversed the impairment in adrenergic neural function normally associated with aging. There was no improvement in rats fed a diet supplemented with cucumber. "Not all foods are created equal," Dr. Bickford said. "Cucumbers taste good and have lots of fiber. B...Drug targets brain circuits that drive appetite and body weight
...les the firing rate in the POMC neurons, an effect reversed by drug washout. Morover, POMC neurons depolarized in response to receiving d-FEN, serotonin, or two serotonin receptor agonists. The results support the notion that serotonin systems directly activate POMC neurons, causing them to increase their f...Data shows life of kidney transplant lengthened by CellCept
...(mycophenolate mofetil, MMF), kidney deterioration reversed and significantly improved, thus halting the progression towards kidney loss, and improving patients outcomes. Kidneys are the most commonly transplanted organ with 30,000 transplanted world-wide each year, but the number of patients waiting for a ki...Drug shows promise in treating severe, often-lethal complication of stem cell transplants
...ell transplants. The experimental drug defibrotide reversed severe veno-occlusive disease (VOD) of the liver i...evere VOD and multi-system organ failure. The drug reversed VOD completely in 32 patients (36 percent), and 31 patients (35 percent) survived at least 100 days ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for September (second issue)
...ly high dust exposure. The fire-fighter's doctors reversed the course of this rare disease, which is characterized by noninfectiousrespiratory failure, through the use of oxygen and corticosteroid drugs. His computed tomography scan showed that he suffered from patchy ground glass density, thickened bronchi...Drs. Gerald DiBona and John Hall receive American Heart Association/Novartis award
...s in the kidney. "Our work was challenging and it reversed many years of prevailing opinion. Rather than a blast of light or a big bang, it was more a slow accumulation of evidence that nerve activity was significant in kidney function." says DiBona, who is also foreign adjunct professor at the Karolinska I...Strong statin therapy reverses plaque build-up in arteries
...Reducing bad cholesterol to below "optimal" levels reversed the accumulation of artery-clogging plaque, according to a study in today's rapid access issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. When atherosclerotic plaque builds up in the arteries it can cause a heart attack or stroke. ...Tiny nerves from the ribs may restore leg movement in spinal cord injury
...aralysis from spinal cord injury was significantly reversed by adding tiny nerves from the rib cage and mixing them with a powerful growth inducer found in most nerve cells, a UC Irvine and Long Beach Veterans Administration Medical Center study has found. The study, conducted in rats, suggests that nerve ce...New hope for vaccine to fight rheumatoid arthritis, other autoimmune diseases
...hnion-Israel Institute of Technology. The vaccine reversed an arthritic-like disease in rats by mobilizing part of the immune system to protect joints under attack by other immune cells. The work was reported in two related papers in the September Journal of Immunology . Autoimmune diseases, in which the imm...Cholesterol drug could lead to new therapy for multiple sclerosis
...tor) significantly improved, prevented relapses or reversed paralysis in mice with an experimental disease tha...ptoms of a first relapse (second attack), the drug reversed the emerging paralysis. "The findings are provocative," said the senior author of the study, Scott S...