Promising Bone Cancer Therapy Advances To Next Level
... than 75 percent of patients. Conventional treatments include strong sedatives, which decrease qualityof life, hormonal treatments, and radiation therapy that treats only singlelesions and requires repeated doses. Several radio-pharmaceuticals, or short-lived radioactive drugs, havealso been app...Women Who Have Invasive Cervical Cancer Benefit From Addition Of Chemotherapy To Radiation Treatment
...rvical cancer tends tospread. They underwent daily treatments with an external beam of radiation andseveral days of exposure to rod-shaped applicators containing radioactivepellets, which were placed within the vagina and uterus. Half of the women inthe study also received the drugs cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil......uctionof hospitalists and other changes in medical treatments and the organization ofcare. Co-authors are Patricia Katz, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of medicine andhealth policy, UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies, department of medicineand Ellen Weber, MD, FACEP, UCSF associate clinical professor of me...Neutron Research To Help In Treatment Of Cancer Patients
...experimental therapy that could replacetraditional treatments for cancer, such as chemotherapy, gamma radiation ...s: surgery, chemotherapy or radiation. But not all treatments arefeasible in every situation, Grimes says. Chemotherapy usually causes side effects, surge...Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors May Be Another Piece In Alzheimer's Jigsaw
...ed by Alzheimer's disease, are the most successful treatments to date. In this week's BMJ Professor Michael Rsler from Psychiatrische Universittsklinik, Germany and colleagues report the finding of the first large trial of another acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used by patients suffering from Alzheimer's, in a...NIA Launches National Study To Treat Mild Cognitive Impairment
...ted by MCI," said Dr. Thal. "Prior to today, most treatments tested forslowing memory decline have been evaluated in patients with well-defined AD. What we hope to accomplish in this trial is to test agents that delay or stopfurther memory deterioration or the onset of AD in persons with MCI. In orderto do th......imate hope is that these discoveries leadto better treatments for sleep disorders." The OHSU research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and bythe "Research for the Future" program of the Japan Society for the Promotion ofScience....Possible Mechanism For Estrogen Memory Enhancement Found
...long-termpotentiation could lead to highly refined treatments for Alzheimer's disease.Researchers are studying compounds that are similar or related to estrogen inthe hope of finding a drug precisely targeted for the treatment of disease whileavoiding unwanted side-effects. USC neurogerontologist Victor W. Hend...Higher Doses Of Methadone May Do The Trick, New Study Says
Methadone, the granddaddy of replacement treatments for addiction to heroinand otheropioid drugs, has been available for 30 years. Surprisingly, studies that showclearly which dosesare best at keeping patients from using illegal opioids are rare. Research byJohns Hopkins scientistsreported in this w...Standardization Of Revolutionary Cancer Treatment Offers Hope To Patients Nationwide
...iversity Baptist Medical Centerprovides the latest treatments to patients and leads the way in researching thenew and promising therapies of tomorrow. WFUSM is ranked in the top third of thenation's medical schools in research funding from the National Institutes ofHealth.......ient's quality of lifeimproves dramatically." IVIG treatments cost several thousand dollars each month for people withsevere asthma, but many health insurance companies cover the cost because, asthis study shows, IVIG lowers emergency room and hospital use by patients withsevere asthma. Glucocorticoids reduce i...New Chemicals Could Lead To First Bone Growth Pill
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...ith thrombolytic drugs." Just a few years ago, few treatments for stroke existed, but now clot-busters --or thrombolytics -- can dissolve the clots that cause most strokes and thusprevent brain damage, says Rosamond, assistant professor of epidemiology at theUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The resear...Researchers Uncover Clues About Gateway To The Brain
... primarily tested drugs that block Pgp function as treatments forcancers in the brain and elsewhere. "We don't know what might happen if youinhibit both of these," Piwnica-Worms says. The transporters' roles at the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier haveyet to be characterized. Piwnica-Worms suggests tha...Hardening Of The Aorta Increases The Risk Of Stroke
...ifiedpatients at risk the next step is to identify treatments that can lower therisk." Davila-Roman and colleagues studied 1,957 patients undergoing cardiacsurgery. During the surgery, the researchers made images of the ascending aortausing a technique called epiaortic ultrasound. After evaluating those...New Research Identifies Outcomes And Future Trends Based On Past Behaviors, Experience
At the frontier of better diagnosis and newer treatments for mental illnesses,psychiatric researchers are successfully using knowledge from the past todetermine patient outcomes and future trends. Four studies* in the April issueof the American Journal of Psychiatry, show how new uses of long-term research......h malignant brain tumors." Among the potential new treatments for children's brain tumors are drugstargeted at s... theycan safely be done, Smith said. He said that treatments that appear effective in initial studies can then moveon to larger, definitive trials such as those ...Inhibiting Growth Of New Blood Vessels Reduces Heart Disease Plaque In Mice
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