Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
...mbers one patient saying, "I felt like I was going down the drain with drug use, that I was going to die soon. This [intervention] got me connected, got me involved in groups and back into things. Now I'm clean and sober." "We did have some opposition at first from the staff, people who come from differen...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (first issue)
...in mice showed that as bacterial metabolism slowed down from the action of other drugs, pyrazinamide worked with more bactericidal effect. Out of the multiplicity of random clinical trials that were carried out over the years, two drug regimens emerged as treatments of choice. The first was a 6-month re...ACP guidelines to treat obesity cover diet, exercise, drugs and surgery
...ions from surgery as well as complications further down the road, such as gall bladder disease and sometimes re-operation," said Snow. ACP based its guidelines on an evidence report and background papers funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The guidelines were developed by ACP's Clin...Maternal iron deficiency disrupts mother/child interaction
...at women with moderate iron deficiency have a slow down in thinking and memory. Our new results suggest that the effects of mild iron deficiency -- which are easily correctable with supplements -- can disrupt the solid foundation that is established by healthy mother/infant interactions." The study, whi...US service academies to collaborate with UNC, Andrews Air Force Base, Duke in knee injury study
...ous physical activity. The study participant jumps down from the elevated take-off box and lands on a force plate. He or she then immediately jumps vertically as high as possible. The force plate and a transmitter, in combination with sensors worn by the participant, will provide data on kinematics (body...Insomnia, falls in elderly linked
...lumsiness, as well as cognitive deficits. It slows down a person's reaction time, which could reduce the likelihood of quick corrective maneuvers that might prevent a fall from happening....Dr. Gutin selected as Fulbright Senior Specialist
...hildhood in the Bronx, his brother had to hunt him down to get him to stop playing long enough to come inside and eat a home-cooked meal. He's excited about helping another country learn from the mistakes and experience of his own and keep it from following in the tracks toward obesity and inactivity. Dr....Competition in health care may not result in better quality
... Also, competition may be focused more on driving down the plans' premiums, resulting in less attention to quality." Scanlon; Shailender Swaminathan, University of Alabama at Brimingham; Michael Chernew, University of Michigan; James Bost, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; and John Shevock, Pe...OHSU scientist helping explain basis of psychotic behavior
...t. It also could help scientists find ways to turn down the activity of the dopamine D2 receptor in individuals for whom dopamine sensitivity can be dangerous, such as prolonged drug abusers. "It does appear that wherever you see supersensitivity, you see high-affinity dopamine D2 receptors as the predomi...Fifteen-year hunt uncovers gene behind 'pseudothalidomide' syndrome
...he University of Bogot. Fairly quickly, he tracked down seven families with Roberts syndrome in two villages outside Bogot. Four of the families share an 18th-century ancestor, he and Miriam Gordillo, then an undergraduate, discovered. "The families have really collaborated with us, they've worked with us...Grandmothers' smoking linked to grandchildren's asthma decades later
...bacco's harmful effects on the lungs can be passed down through generations, from grandmother to grandchil...her susceptibility to asthma, which is then passed down to her children." Researchers suggest that when a pregnant woman smokes, chemicals from the tobacco...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
... kind of drug release desired as a basis to narrow down the range of affinities they want to identify from the library. Between the modeling and future experimental studies, they hope to refine their drug delivery design to get the optimal rate of drug release. "We started with a model I'd previ...Being too clean could be hazardous to your health and the environment
...ntain triclosan eventually end up being discharged down residential drains. It has previously been shown by researchers from the University of Minnesota that the photochemical reactions of triclosan could be producing dioxins in the presence of sunlight. Dioxins do not degrade over time and they can accum...Jefferson researchers find timing of post-epilepsy surgery seizures predicts outcome
...ultimately stopped having seizures. They broke down patients into five groups: those who had seizures ...hey plan to further analyze the results, and break down the various types of seizures they found grand mal or general tonic-clonic and partial tonic seizur...Execution by lethal injection is not humane or painless suggests study
...ails to even meet veterinary standards for putting down animals. Dr Koniaris states: "Our data suggest that anaesthesia methods in lethal injection in the US are flawed. Failures in protocol design, implementation, monitoring and review might have led to unnecessary suffering of at least some of those exe...New treatment 'roadmap' improves odds for unusual brain aneurysm
...rysm occlusion, the surgical team completely shuts down the affected artery, but in order to do that safely, blood flow is first rerouted around the aneurysm with a bypass. In a bypass procedure, a blood vessel is taken from another part of the body, usually the leg, and is grafted to a brain artery downs...Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...er varied from 86% of the claim on the label right down to just a fifth. European Pharmacopaeia demands activity of 90111%. There were also differences in composition and purity. Said Dr Hermentin: "The dose of fibrinolytic agents such as streptokinase must be carefully controlled to maximise therapeutic...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...hen held upright over a person's shoulder. If laid down babies and young children seem to try to turn themselves over and lie on their fronts. Looking at the data from 21 studies, Cochrane Review Authors found evidence that positioning infants on their fronts (prone) increased oxygenation. As most of the ...Hospitalized babies with severe breathing problems may benefit from lying on their stomachs
...hs who were in respiratory distress "would not lie down to sleep, but would fall asleep when upright over someone's shoulder," Wells says. If they did manage to lie down, the babies would roll onto their stomachs and flex their hips and knees up like a frog, she adds. The babies' behavior led the nurses ...Increasing benefit seen in novel drug that treats Gleevec resistance
...ll. Gleevec binds to this Bcr-Abl enzyme, shutting down its activity, which often leads to death of the leukemia cell. AMN107 is estimated to be up to 30 to 100 times more potent than Gleevec because it was designed to more efficiently bind to Bcr-Abl, including to mutated forms of the enzyme that can pro...