Study finds Herceptin may have role in bladder cancer treatment
...mon problems were low blood counts. Bladder cancer affects more than 63,000 people each year and causes about 13,000 deaths per year. It strikes men three times as often as women. In addition to Hussain, U-M study authors were research associate Rodney Dunn and David C. Smith, M.D., associate professor of in...An alternative to prevent UC-associated colon cancer
CHICAGO Ulcerative colitis affects about one out of every 2,000 Americans, and after living with the disease for 30 years, nearly 22 percent of those people will develop colon cancer. For those patients, the current standard of care in colon cancer prevention is frequent colonoscopic ...UCLA researchers find common gastrointestinal condition keeps patients up at night
...at approximately half have trouble sleeping, which affects their work productivity and leisure activities. The results were presented today by UCLA researchers at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) in Chicago, IL. 1 The survey of GERD sufferers in Europe and the U.S. showed GERD reduced work productivity by 15 ...Study finds ADHD improves with sensory intervention
...tor of OT4Kids, believes that sensory intervention affects the plasticity, or adaptability, of the brain to sensory stimulation. In this study, changes were seen within six months. Parents can learn how to continue the techniques at home. Koenig also observed that through this study, parents learned to vie...Researchers prevent post-traumatic brain damage
...human traumatic brain injury, a condition they say affects almost half a million Americans a year and which is currently untreatable. "Our study suggests that it might be possible to effectively prevent much of the injury-induced brain damage," said the study's principal investigator, Alan Faden, MD, Profes...Biologic therapies for bowel disease show promise in clinical trials
...oscopy and gastrointestinal surgery. IBD currently affects more than a million Americans and leads to many millions of dollars in lost productivity and missed days of work every year. IBD is an umbrella term referring to several chronic diseases that cause inflammation of the intestines, including ulcerativ......" Lupien and her research team also looked at the affects of stress on youngadults and children between the ages of six and fourteen. In young adults,they showed that even an acute increase in cortisol can lead to reversiblememory impairments. In young children, they compared the cortisol levels ofchildre...Small, open-label study shows potential use of novel antibiotic rifaximin for Crohn's disease
...he lining) of the small and large intestines. IBD affects approximately 500,000 to 2 million people in the United States. Men and women are equally affected. Common symptoms of Crohn's Disease include abdominal pain, diarrhea, and weight loss. Less common symptoms include poor appetite, fever, night swea...Umbilical cord-blood transplants save lives of babies with rare genetic disorder
...s disease, an inherited degenerative disorder that affects the nervous system, said Kurtzberg. Most infants with the disease die before reaching age 2.In addition, Kurtzberg added, the study adds to a growing body of evidence that cord blood can save children with other "lysosomal storage diseases." These in...'Virtual' asthma clinic helps patients manage disease online
...study that will look at whether the online program affects asthma attack frequency and utilization of healthcare....Depression common in people with chronic cough
...blic, go to church or to a restaurant. Their cough affects their relationship and their jobs," he said. "Since cough doesn't kill people it doesn't get the attention that other conditions get, but it is a tremendous quality of life issue." Chronic cough has three main causes, either alone or in combination, ...Common incontinence drug could have an additional topical effect on the bladder itself
...overactive bladder, a condition that significantly affects the patient's quality of life. An estimated 80 percent of these patients do not seek help or treatment for this condition. Overactive bladder is characterized by the following conditions: frequency urinating more than eight times in a 24 hour period...Men with spouses, partners, fare better after prostate cancer treatment
...ted by urinary function or dysfunction and adverse affects caused by their treatment. The partnered men were ...spects of partnership and overcome the detrimental affects of being single," the study concludes. A special advantage of the UCLA study is the population asses...Combating fatigue associated with liver disease
Fatigue affects up to 85 percent of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), interfering with their quality of life and limiting their activities. Although several drugs have previously been studied, none have proven effective and there is currently no known t...New Seroquel data support benefits in bipolar disorder
... Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness that affects approximately 3-4% of the adult population and is the sixth leading cause of disability in the world. , , , More than half of those with bipolar disorder stop taking their medication at some point during their illness, subjecting themselves to a hi...The bladder does not shrink as you get older
...overactive bladder, a condition that significantly affects the patient's quality of life. An estimated 80 percent of these patients do not seek help or treatment for this condition. Overactive bladder is characterized by the following conditions: frequency urinating more than eight times in a 24 hour period...Northwestern Memorial participates in trial to test effectiveness of drug to treat endometriosis
...ion due to endometriosis, a chronic condition that affects more than 5.5 million American women. Endometriosis is caused when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows elsewhere in the body, causing chronic pelvic pain, painful menstruation and painful intercourse, and often limits a woman's ability ...A 'mind-reading' mum - rich or poor - is key to baby's progress
...sored by the ESRC. An infant's family background affects its progress in predictable ways, but it is not the best means of anticipating later language and play skills, says a study of more than 200 mothers and their babies, led by Dr Elizabeth Meins, of the University of Durham. Half the women involved had...Enhancing innate immunity improves Crohn's disease symptoms
...rug helps with underlying inflammation." Crohn's affects about half a million people in the United States. A typical Crohn's disease patient deals with diarrhea, abdominal pain and intra-abdominal infections. Frequently, scar tissue closes off sections of the intestine, and patients need surgery to elimina...Immune factor GM-CSF significantly improves Crohn's disease symptoms
...hronic inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's usually affects the small intestine, causing abdominal pain and chronic diarrhea. Serious symptoms can include ulceration, bleeding, the development of fistulas openings from affected areas into other organs or intestinal blockage. About half a million people in ...