Stronger back muscles reduce spine fractures in postmenopausal women
...e treatment for those patients who are not able to tolerate hormone replacement or drug therapies and as a supplement to those therapies."...Experts recommend increased funding, focus on resuscitation science
...ion physiology. For instance, hibernating animals tolerate ischemia (loss of blood flow) and reperfusion (restoration of blood flow) without injury and therefore represent a potentially valuable model for studying ways to improve outcomes from ischemic injury, researchers say. Based on experience in animal...Stem cell transplants may be effective for MS patients
...ecause they had no improvement or were not able to tolerate the side effects. Fifteen of the patients had tried multiple treatments with no success.After the stem cell transplant, 20 patients were stable, with no change in their amount of disability. Six patients showed some degree of mild improvement in som...ARICEPT significantly improves cognition, daily living over Reminyl in Alzheimers patients
...dy findings include: More patients were able to tolerate and remain on the maximum daily dose of ARICEPT (1...that more than 92 percent of patients were able to tolerate and remain on the maximum effective dose of ARICEPT treatment until their final visit," said David G...Science backs Cod Liver Oil as cure for arthritis
...of non-drug therapies as many people are unable to tolerate the side effects of drug treatment. We are delighted that something as simple and widely available as Cod Liver Oil has the potential to bring relief and restore quality of life to so many....Dog tired? It could be your pooch
...me people are very attached to their pets and will tolerate poorer sleep in order to be near them at night."...Novel colorectal cancer trial seeking patient volunteers at leading U.S. cancer centers
...ents are assigned and how well individual patients tolerate the chemotherapy regimen. Standard, first-line therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer involves combination chemotherapy with three agents: Camptosar (irinotecan or CPT-11), 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin. Patients will be evaluated routinely for l...Elderly lung cancer patients tolerate aggressive chemotherapy as well as younger patients
...se Cancer Center, fit elderly patients are able to tolerate aggressive chemotherapy regimens as well as younge...hin the medical field that elderly patients cannot tolerate combined or aggressive chemotherapy regimens and therefore are often prescribed single agent or best...Magnetic stimulation may be as effective as electroconvulsive therapy in treating severe depression
...rely depressed patients who do not benefit from or tolerate current established treatments," said Janicak. According to Janicak, how rTMS works is still not clear. One theory suggests that the magnetic stimulation increases blood flow and chemical activity in the affected area of the brain. Depression is co...Torture, ill-treatment, and sexual identity
...alth of this group. As the AI report notes, "If we tolerate the denial of rights to any group, we undermine the whole protective framework of human rights by taking away its central plank-the equal rights and dignity of all human beings."...Beta-blocker shown to be ineffective in patients with advanced heart failure
...ng or adjusting for that withdrawal, so they don't tolerate the medicine as well," she said. Levels of the hormone dropped nearly twice as much in black patients as nonblacks, which may account for the high incidence of mortality in these patients, Eichhorn said. Bucindolol did, however, significantly reduce ...Common heart failure drugs can be safely used at higher, more effective doses, study says
...vast majority of heart failure patients can safely tolerate higher doses, which have been proven to reduce dea..., more than 95 percent of patients can continue to tolerate their assigned dose of the drug," Massie said. The "high" dose of 35 mg used in this study is high...North Carolina researcher receives award for new ant-HIV drug that simplifies treatment regime
... It is particularly useful for patients who cannot tolerate so-called protease inhibitors - another class of highly effective anti-HIV drugs - because they experience side effects. Ziagen in combination with AZT and 3TC provides a safe, effective alternative. Moreover, the three drugs can be combined in a si...ARICEPT better tolerated than Exelon in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimers disease
...e daily), if tolerated. Patients who could not tolerate higher doses were allowed to continue in the study...next lower tolerated dose. Patients who could not tolerate at least 5 mg daily of ARICEPT (donepezil hydrochloride) or 6 mg daily (3 mg twice daily) of Exelon ...Non-pathogenic bacteria block inflammatory response pathway in intestinal tract
... that the epithelium (lining of the intestine) can tolerate the presence of this density of bacteria while also being quite permeable to nutrients and fluids," says Dr. Neish. "Almost all other tissue types in the body are exquisitely sensitive to bacteria and their products. Now we have found a mechanism b...UI-led study shows experimental anti-cancer drug also has anti-HIV properties
...ithflavopiridol suggest that humans may be able to tolerate the drug, the maximal tolerated dose in cancer patients causes diarrhea and pro-inflammatory syndrome. The concentrations of flavopiridol required to achieve the anti-HIV effect seen in this study are much lower than those being used in the anti-canc...New drug works well as sole epilepsy therapy for difficult-to-treat patients
... with these medications simply because they cannot tolerate them at higher doses. The great majority of patients in this trial reached the highest recommended dose of Trileptal, which may partly explain the efficacy results and seizure-free rates observed during the trial." Six of the 41 patients in the 2,400......er 18 months of therapy. The patients continue to tolerate treatment with Aptosyn™ well. "Over 50% of my patients who participated in the original Phase II trial of Aptosyn™ have continued to take the drug for up to 57 months, and they no longer form clinically significant colon polyps," Dr. Burke co......tion of oxybutynin, they also can do so safely and tolerate the drug very well. This is good news for this patient population, which frequently must deal with taking multiple medications and experiencing worrisome side effects," said Rodney Appell, M.D., study author and head, Section of Voiding Dysfunction ...Penn researchers announce results of Phase I trial using combretastatin drug
...ts with solid cancerous tumors were able to safely tolerate a new drug, originally derived from a South African willow bush, that interacts with the tumor's blood supply. James P. Stevenson, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Penn and lead author of the study, will present these findings at the 91st Ame...