FDA approves Enablex for treatment of overactive bladder
...d efficacy with a low incidence of central nervous system and cardiovascular side effects, Enablex will be especially useful as a new treatment option for overactive bladder." The FDA approval of Enablex was based on efficacy data from four pivotal studies and safety data from studies in which more than 7,...Decreased sensitivity in the brain to estrogen may help explain menopausal changes
...ammals that have described similar central nervous system insensitivity to estrogen with aging. A better understanding of the role of changing responses to reproductive hormones including estrogen in causing menopause-related symptoms is needed to develop new approaches for managing symptoms occurring at t...Country's first 'simplified maze' using new ultrasound technology is done at Northwestern Memorial
...ac procedure, the 'simplified Maze' using the HIFU system adds less than five minutes to the overall procedure time. "I anticipate that soon I'll begin doing the 'simplified Maze' procedure with the HIFU technology minimally invasively with only about an 8 cm incision and sending patients home after a day o...Discovery of key protein's shape could lead to improved bacterial pneumonia vaccine
... these pieces of carbohydrate stimulate the immune system to make antibodies against the real carbohydrate targets on the bacteria. The problem with such vaccines is that the immune systems of very young children (younger than two years) do not naturally respond to carbohydrates. Pneumococcus vaccines for c...Tracing the life cycle of a manmade disease
...f polyethylene broke off over time. As the immune system reacted against these foreign particles, eventually it would attack and destroy the bone tissue, loosening the implant to the point of failure. It turned out that this complication was an entirely new manmade disease called periprosthetic osteolysis...Animal studies show stem cells might make biological pacemaker
...the researchers don't know why the animal's immune system didn't attack and kill the human cellular "invader...idn't connect enough with the animal's circulatory system to trigger an immune response, but more experiments will be necessary to see whether that's the case...Medicare HMOs fail to control costs of colon surgery in elderly patients
...tention of Medicare HMOs is to reduce waste in the system by trying to eliminate unnecessary and inappropriate care, while giving providers incentives to use cost-efficient care. The elderly who opt to enroll in a Medicare HMO, a managed care model that emphasizes preventive care and offers beneficiaries le...Moving admitted ER patients into inpatient beds faster could significantly increase hospital revenue
...h outcome, total hospital length of stay or health system cost or revenues, these standard accounting measures miss half the problem in that they ignore the missed opportunity for emergency medical staff to treat another patient, according to the study's authors. To calculate potential lost revenue, researc...Researchers report early success using saliva to detect oral cancer
...sible diagnostic fluid for other human cancers and system diseases, and we should have our preliminary data in the Spring." Wong said he and his colleagues never intended to study mRNA patterns in saliva. They had been searching exclusively in the mouth's soft tissues, or mucosa, for proteins that might be ...Novartis announces collaboration with Bayer for EMSELEX
...bility and with a well established central nervous system and cardiovascular safety profile."Under the terms of the collaboration, Novartis remains the owner of the marketing authorization for darifenacin, while Bayer Vital gains exclusive commercialization rights for EMSELEX in Germany. About EMSELEX EMS...Youki spray curbs spread of superbug MRSA
...t accelerates the healing process. A new treatment system is effective in stopping the drug-resistant superbug that spreads by skin contact. The wound care system developed to avoid the need to cover up open injuries with bandages is proving successful in prevent...NIH halts use of COX-2 inhibitor in large cancer prevention trial
... class of drug." "The rigor of our clinical trials system has allowed us to find this problem," said NCI Dir...r Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D. "We have a strong system that provides us with the opportunity to both find ways to effectively treat and prevent disease and...Infants, children prefer sounds over pictures and only slowly become visually oriented, studies find
...the children are, the more dominant their auditory system seems to be." Earlier work by Sloutsky and his colleagues also showed this preference for sounds over visuals among children. But this new research offers a clearer picture of the nature of this auditory preference and how it changes over time. For i...Drinking without food may set you up for high blood pressure
...d may counteract any benefit to the cardiovascular system associated with moderate alcohol consumption." Those drinking mostly outside of mealtimes reported a significant increase in risk of hypertension compared with either lifetime abstainers or those drinking mostly with food. Not surpri...Scientists discover enzyme crucial to the transportation of proteins within cells
...mportant for the normal functioning of the nervous system where proteins are transported rapidly within nerve cells known as neurons. Until now, scientists did not know how mammalian proteins become palmitoylated. During their study of Huntington Disease, Dr. Michael Hayden's team at the Centre for Molecul...Researchers develop MRI technique to study brain anatomy in invertebrates
...aging to reveal anatomical features of the nervous system in a live crayfish, a crustacean whose brain measures only 3 millimeters wide. The technique, which is reported and highlighted in an accompanying commentary in the Dec. 15 issue of The Journal of Experimental Biology, provides a powerful new tool...Some herbal medicine products contain potentially toxic amounts of heavy metals
...'s one billion population uses Ayurveda, a medical system that originated in India more than 2000 years ago and greatly relies on herbal medicine products (HMPs). Ayurveda's popularity in Western countries has increased. Because Ayurvedic HMPs are marketed as dietary supplements, they are regulated under th...New study shows how mad cow prions hitch a ride into intestine
...ch become infectious and accumulate in the nervous system causing fatal neurodegenerative disease. Variant CJD results from eating contaminated beef products from cattle infected with mad cow disease. To date, 155 cases of confirmed and probable vCJD in the world have been reported, and it is unclear how ma...To help your mind, take steps to help your heart, study says
...ther words, processes that hurt the cardiovascular system also hurt the brain, and inflict a further toll on...her, the analysis suggests that the cardiovascular system may have a lot more to do with mental function than many people realize. Paying attention to cardiov......the presence of a newly identified central-nervous system autoantibody. All antibodies are circulating proteins produced by the immune system. Unlike antibodies of healthy persons which attack invading disease organisms, an autoantibody attacks normal body constituents by a poorly understood error in immune...