NYU researchers uncover the neurobiology of decision-making
...mals were free to look at either light, but oneach trial the experimenters indicated to the animals that if they looked at oneof the lights they would receive a fruit juice reward and if they looked at theother light they would receive nothing. Over groups of these tests, Platt andGlimcher varied the amoun......ical trial. The mostcommon events reported in this trial in patients receiving ENBREL were mild tomoderate injection site reactions (34 percent) that did not complicatetreatment. A complete analysis will be presented at an upcoming major medical meeting. Theresults described herein are based on invest...Cholesterol lowering margarine may not benefit those already eating a healthy diet
...er 10 years, says the author. However, a separate trial has shown that people with a low intake of fat and cholesterol may not benefit from eating Benecol, he concludes, as it did not lower cholesterol concentrations significantly....Heart failure deaths reduced by 30 percent
...Randomized Aldactone Evaluation Study (RALES), the trial defiescurrent thinking that spironolactone and oth...es atSearle, which sponsored the study. "The RALES trial helps to define theimportant role of aldosterone in heart failure and opens the door to theresearch ...Workplace environment can improve eating habits
...ng WellTrial, the largest workplace cancer control trial in the United States, showedsignificant improvemen...rincipal investigator of the trial. "But here is a trial thatimpacts on the work-site itself, to bring about individual changes in healthbehavior." "The expe...Jefferson scientist begins clinical trial to study promising Parkinson's disease drug
...ity in Philadelphia, will leada five-year clinical trial involving 150 patients. The study will compare the...y is a randomized, double-blind placebo controlled trial inwhich neither the researchers nor the patients know who receives the drug. Theparticipants, patien...Obesity drugs not a quick fix for achieving weight loss
...c condition that requires long-term therapy, and a trial that demonstratesefficacy for a year or two doesn't prove the drug will still be effective five,10 or even 20 years later," he says. Just as patients with hypertension, diabetes or other chronic illnesses canrequire therapy for a lifetime, Klein beli...ReQuip cuts risk of dyskinesias by 15-fold in early Parkinson's disease
...dopa(incidence 20%). In patients who completed the trial on ReQuip® alone, thebenefit was found to be even greater, with the relative probability ofdyskinesias 15.2 times higher in the L-dopa group (incidence 36%) than theReQuip® group (incidence 5%). Over the 5-year study period, both groups of p...University of Chicago study finds therapy to prevent miscarriage is not helpful
...ults ofthe study. The multicenter clinical trial was funded by a $2.2 million grant fromthe National Institutes of Health. Investigators include C. Ober, Ph.D., T.Karrison, Ph.D., R.B. Barnes, M.D., B. Baron, M.D., and M.A. Walker, M.S.N.,from the University of Chicago; R.R. Odem, M.D., J.R. Schr...Exercise and encouraging a return to normal activities can help low back pain sufferers
(Randomised controlled trial of exercise for low back pain: clinical outcomes, costs and preferences) A short programme of eight exercise classes led by a physiotherapist has been shown to help patients to cope with low back pain, suggests a study published in this week's BMJ....Chill out: it does the heart good
...am is already enrolling patients in a new clinical trial teachingbehavioral modification techniques to their heart patients....Conscientious heart patients less likely to die
...ents taking part in a randomizedplacebo-controlled trial of the anti-arrhythmia drug amiodarone to preventsudden cardiac death. The investigators found that sudden cardiac death was significantly more commonafter twelve months among poorly adherent patients -- people who took less thantwo-thirds of the med...First NIH clinical trial for interstitial cystitis begins
... Doctors have opened enrollment for a clinical trial of oral drugs forinterstitial cystitis (IC), a per...fection, IC may elude diagnosis foryears. Clinical trial participants will be divided into four groups to receive either (1) a placebo, (2) ElmironR, (3) A...Study to test whether antibiotics can reduce heart disease risk
... with an antibiotic. The national clinical trial was the outgrowth of those pilot studies. Inthe tr...idea as it once was," said Grayston."This clinical trial should help prove whether the Chlamydia pneumoniae bacteriaplays a direct role in the development or......r hasjust started enrolling patients in a clinical trial to see if the drugs will bean effective treatment for ulcerative colitis. They are using a new generationTZD drug called rosiglitazone (Avandia), which was released several weeks agofor the treatment of diabetes. These studies were funded in part......their ailing hearts repaired,in the first clinical trial of a promising surgical procedure developed at the...our results to date, but only a randomizedclinical trial will show how well our approach does relative to medication, andwhether it stops these patients' dow...Very low energy diets together with nicotine gum boosts smoking cessation rates
(Open randomised trial of intermittent very low energy diet together with nicotine gum for stopping smoking in women who gained weight in previous attempts to quit) (Commentary: results are unlikely to be as good in routine practice) Combining smoking cessation pro......e use of aggressive therapy in these patients.This trial will be published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Aug. 26.) Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for women should not be initiatedafter a heart attack, but it may be continued in women who were already on HRTbefore their heart attack. The ...Emergency angioplasty or bypass surgery saves lives of heart attack patients with cardiogenic shock
...cularize OccludedCoronaries for Cardiogenic Shock) trial are published in the August 26 issue ofThe New Eng...The SHOCK study is the largest randomized clinical trial of emergencyrevascularization for shock complicating heart attack conducted to date. Nearly1,500 he...