Data shows new drug, rimonabant, helps smokers quit while limiting post cessation weight gain
...lli. "Since these two studies show that rimonabant treats obesity and related metabolic disorders in overweight/obese patients, and also helps people to quit smoking without significant post-cessation weight gain, we may have a very promising new approach for managing two major and preventable risk factors ...New technology facilitates adherence for patients
... administer a drug to the bloodstream quickly that treats disease elsewhere in the body. "The solution," Dr. Langer said, "is delivering very fine particles [liquid or powder] that can reach deep into the lungs. This is achieved by preventing the aerosol particles from sticking together, which allows for ...Blood-diverting catheter holds promise for stroke treatment
...9th International Stroke Conference. "The device treats stroke by a unique approach that increases blood flow to the brain," said lead author Morgan S. Campbell III, M.D., director of interventional neurology at the Alabama Neurological Institute, in Birmingham. "Ten of the 15 patients who were conscious...Cancer markers news backgrounder: Future of cancer diagnosis, treatment lies in tumor 'barcode'
..., called gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Herceptin treats metastatic breast cancer that is driven by a gene known as HER2 that produces too much of a protein that tells cells to divide. Proteins found to be markers of these cancers also proved to be the switch that could turn the disease off. So now resear...Outstanding UCLA undergraduates present research
...n my research. Dr. Taylor is always available, and treats everyone in her lab like equals." A junior, Lerner plans to earn her Ph.D. in microbiology, and to conduct applied research on infectious diseases. She is a scholar in the UC Leadership Excellence Through Advanced Degrees program, and is also a memb...Experimental drugs reduce neuron death in rats following insulin shock
..., this won't be easy. Each hospital in the country treats only a few insulin shock patients each year, so a prospective clinical study would likely require participation by dozens of sites. "I'm very enthusiastic about the clinical potential of this approach and have begun discussions with the Juvenile Dia...Procedure cures atrial fibrillation
...treating patients with paroxysmal AF, the U-M team treats patients with the much more debilitating and harder-to-treat form of the disorder called persistent AF. At AHA, the U-M team will report the results of their efforts based on data gathered from more than 100 persistent AF patients. They treated 24 w...Growth factor grows stem cells that help heal hearts
...ug, granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), treats some forms of cancer. It stimulates bone marrow to produce the different types of blood cells, including white blood cells that can become depleted after disease or chemotherapy. G-CSF might help repopulate the heart's muscle cells, which in turn...Canadian discovery promises treatment for HIV dementia
...oxic protein that allowed Power, a neurologist who treats people with HIV dementia, to test MMP2 on HIV-infected cells. "The team and I are revved up about the new avenues of potential treatment for people with HIV and perhaps for other types of dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease," says Power, physician-...New CDC-funded HIV program at UNC integrates treatment with prevention
...Infectious Diseases Outpatient Clinic. The clinic treats about 1,500 HIV-infected North Carolinians annually. If successful, the project may help shape the approach to HIV outpatient therapy nationally, researchers said. "Over the last decade or so, and despite extensive preventive efforts targeted...Summa Health System improves stroke care using ace model of care
... stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA). Summa treats more patients for stroke than any other Northeast Ohio hospital....Vision-producing cells fail 'taste-test,' treat key light-detecting molecules identically
...s discovered for the first time that rod machinery treats both pigments the same. The findings prove that functional differences between rods and cones stem in part from the cellular environments they offer, rather than inherent differences in their pigments, says Yau, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical In...Repeated alcohol detoxifications can impair cognitive function
...thdrawals from alcohol, but also the clinician who treats them. "These individuals might be more difficult to treat," she said. "When they are being helped to detoxify from alcohol, they may need extra support to prevent them from relapsing. It might even be sensible to wait a while before starting detox...Epilepsy drug can stop cocaine use in addicts
...mal studies drew the interest of Dr. Figueroa, who treats addicts at the Clinica Integral de Tratamiento Contra Las Adicciones in Mexicali. She first contacted Dr. Dewey and then Dr. Brodie last year and told them that she wanted to test the treatment in cocaine addicts. Her pleas were persuasive. "She was ...Organ transplant recipients face serious kidney-failure risk, study finds
... end-stage failure were interesting, says Ojo, who treats many kidney transplant candidates and recipients. "For years, we had been finding that non-kidney transplant patients had been coming back to clinic in need of dialysis or a kidney transplant," he notes. "These data show that each year, one percent ...Elementary schools need a lesson in bathroom breaks
...eir bladders and do damage," he added. Cooper, who treats many children with urinary incontinence and some with problems defecating, became interested in the issue of elementary schools and urination problems after hearing many parents complain that their children were not being given the opportunity to fre...Study: Transferred patients hurt big hospitals' rankings
...icine for the U-M Department of Anesthesiology and treats patients in the U-M's Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit. He credits co-author Charles Watts, M.D., former UMHS chief of clinical affairs and now associate dean for academic affairs at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, with cham...Doctors focus on pupil size for safety of laser vision correction
...pil size gets larger. He reports that if a surgeon treats a large enough swath of the eye for such patients, those imperfections are minimized. His study shows that its essential that doctors treating patients with large pupils consider creating an especially large treatment zone. He found that doctors ...This is your heart on drugs: Study improves ER treatment for cocaine's heart effects
... for the large number of drug-related illnesses it treats each year -- a proportion similar to other hospitals in economically depressed urban areas. Weber and his colleagues also hope their work will raise awareness among doctors and drug users of just how harmful cocaine can be to the heart, even in othe......ined that a new drug called Rasagiline effectively treats early-stage Parkinson's disease. The study was reported in the December Archives of Neurology. "These findings are especially important since hopes for treating Parkinson's with fetal cells were recently dashed," said Technion-Israel Institute of T...