Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
... counseling or pharmacotherapy, but something that adds to the therapy. Documentation for the study included not only collected data, but also letters from patients and videotaped interviews with staff and patients. Kellogg remembers one patient saying, "I felt like I was going down the drain with drug us...Injectable drug, combined with counseling, shows promise in treating alcohol dependence
...atients and give hope to them and their families," adds Dr. Pettinati. A total of 627 alcohol-dependent patients were randomly assigned to receive either an injection of long-acting naltrexone or a placebo injection; 624 ultimately received at least one injection. In addition to an injection, all particip...Insomnia, falls in elderly linked
...them in older patients that we currently have." He adds that the study did not look at patients who were prescribed powerful sedatives to help them sleep, such as morphine, nor did it include patients taking anxiety drugs that also aid sleeping ability. Sleep-aiding medications, Chervin and Avidan note, a...ISHLT updates guidelines for heart and lung transplants
...agement of heart and lung failure in patients, but adds that none are comprehensive. "Our Society is in the ideal position to advocate comprehensive guidelines for our constituents," Mehra says. ISHLT has created several task forces, comprised of a diverse group of its members, all of whom are active in ...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...om exercise, in people at risk for heart disease," adds Stewart. "Further examination of the role of decreasing abdominal fat, which dropped nearly 20 percent in this study, and its link to lowering blood pressure, could also explain why exercise helps to improve overall heart health. We are also interes...Bugs in the gut could help doctors develop individualised healthcare
...cannot be predicted from the patients genome alone adds an extra layer of complexity to the way in which we carry out drug discovery. At the moment, when developing a new drug we take very little account of factors such as the microflora and this may need to change."...Researchers find that chocolate compound stops cancer cell cycle in lab experiments
... mutated, which often happens in cancer cells." He adds that the researchers don't know why pentamer deactivates these proteins simultaneously, stopping the cell cycle. "We don't know at a fundamental level whether a master switch that triggers cell growth is turned off, or whether the chocolate compound...Measuring enzymes at end of cancer pathway predicts outcome of Tarceva, Taxol
... human tissue within several hours," Ueno says. He adds that a clinical trial is currently under way that tests CDK activity both before and after patients with breast cancer are treated with Taxol....Obesity hits below the belt: Overweight Americans suffer higher rate of knee cartilage tears
...clude. At an average of $3,000 per operation, that adds a whopper of a bill to the nation's medical costs, according to Kurt T. Hegmann, M.D., M.P.H., research associate professor of family and preventive medicine, who led the study. "There's a potential savings of $1.3 billion in the costs associated wi...Used in a new way, RNA interference permanently silences key breast cancer gene
...nto the role of STAT3 and its downstream targets," adds Arlinghaus, who also will discuss the work in a mini symposium at the AACR meeting. RNAi has been employed as a laboratory tool to knock down expression of genes in a variety of cells and organisms. It works by introducing a small double-stranded RNA...Breakthrough for kids with epilepsy
... function 2-3 years after a successful operation," adds Tuxhorn. "The question [now] is to provide data to determine ideal timing of surgical treatment." About the Authors Ingrid Tuxhorn, MD and co-authorHedwig Freitag, MD are editors of a book on Pediatric Epilepsy Syndromes and their Surgical Treatment ...54 per cent of air passengers experience significant reduction in oxygen levels
...fects of flying on passengers currently available" adds Dr Rachel Deyermond, Consultant Anaesthetist. "This is the first study to quantify the reduction of percentage oxygen saturation at high altitude during commercial air travel. It demonstrates that there is a significant fall in levels in all age grou...Data suggest bypass surgery free of long-term brain effects
...e risk of late cognitive decline," said Selnes. He adds that their review emphasizes the need to have an appropriate control group when looking at cognitive outcomes after a surgical procedure....Large-scale study identifies key stress factors facing new mums
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...countries, and we believe that this vaccine, which adds a pertussis component to the routine tetanus/diphtheria booster currently recommended for adolescents, will be an important tool in preventing pertussis among teens a population in which there is a significant disease burden." Boostrix [Tetanus T...Obese workers' pay lower due to health costs, Stanford study finds
...esearch from Stanford University health economists adds another wrinkle to understanding these pay differentials: obese workers are paid less only when they have employer-sponsored health insurance. These findings, just published in a working paper on the Web site of the National Bureau of Economic Resear......not be made on faith in promised outcomes. Morgan adds that with more patients taking more drugs over longer periods, it is vital to the safety of Canadians and the sustainability of our health care system to disseminate unbiased information, monitor the use of prescription drugs and detect both expected...Green laser pointer can cause eye damage
...e," he says. "They're not strictly regulated." He adds that Class 3A green laser pointers are increasingly being used by amateur astronomers to pinpoint objects in the night sky and by the construction industry and architecture educators to point out details of structures in daylight Dr. Robertson condu...Saving virtual lives with nanobots goal of UH-led project
... system. For each round of competition, Microsoft adds another challenge, such as a virus that attacks the nanobots. "The visual gaming challenge is actually a logistics problem that you are solving, and path planning is a big part of it," Dowdall said. "The strategy involves a collaborative multi-ag......y provides strong evidence against this theory and adds to the evidence that MMR vaccine is no less safe in this respect than the single measles vaccine. Valerie Seagroatt, a statistician at Oxford University, analysed national data on hospital admissions for Crohn's disease in children and adolescents ov...