Genetic variations may predispose some men to suicidal thoughts during treatment for depression
...ions may help explain why some men with depression develop suicidal thoughts and behaviors after they begin taking antidepressant medications, while most do not, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Although most patients with depress...Hot flashes may be welcome sign in women with breast cancer, study says
...ho reported having hot flashes were less likely to develop recurrent breast cancer than those who did not report hot flashes, according to a study from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Moreover, hot flashes were a stronger predictor of outcome than age, hormone re...Female teen steroid use not limited to athletes
...ersonally, destructive. Further study is needed to develop effective interventions for these young women....Revlimid data presented at ASCO stands to change the way physicians treat multiple myeloma
...er Center & Research Institute, met to discuss and develop plans for further medical studies. At the meeting, which was organized by the International Myeloma Foundation, the researchers approved plans to study novel therapeutic options for newly diagnosed myeloma patients, without first offering bone mar...New drug development facility helps move medicines to market
... for biotechnology companies not to go offshore to develop new drugs," Ms Pennisi said....Aussie research goes global through new grants
...ive new researchers in this area an opportunity to develop their careers, he said. The successful applicant... United Kingdom, Canada and the United States will develop the research further; Gawaine Powell Davies, University of New South Wales: Will travel to The Ne...Herceptin does not increase heart failure in patients long term
... factors for breast cancer patients more likely to develop congestive heart failure from adding Herceptin to combination chemotherapy. They developed a prediction model based on these factors, including hypertension, age and baseline cardiac function. It is our hope that this model will help to individual...Nonhormonal drug reduces hot flashes in men treated for prostate cancer
...m may explore that idea in the future. Women can develop hot flashes during menopause because of the sudden... the precursors to estrogen.) In general, men dont develop hot flashes because their production of steroid hormones gradually tapers off as they age, Dr. Lopri...Tumor cell activity may provide clues for treating breast cancer in young women
DURHAM, N.C. -- When women under 50 develop breast cancer the disease tends to be more aggressive and less responsive to treatment than when it occurs in older women. Researchers at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy and the Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center may have dis...Protein may be linked to melanoma recurrence
...sing factors that may make patients more likely to develop autoimmunity and to further examine the role of S-100 as a potential biomarker for melanoma. ...Mouse model points to possible new strategy for treating rare muscle disease, kidney disorders
... slowly progressive muscle weakness. Most patients develop symptoms while in their early 20s and become wheel...ho received ManNAc supplementation have gone on to develop muscle weakness, but the mutant mice remain smaller than their unaffected siblings. Studies are curr...Treatment outcomes of patients with HIV and tuberculosis
...nfected patients were significantly more likely to develop drug resistance (4.2 percent in HIV-infected versus 0.5 percent in HIV-uninfected) to rifampin , and to experience adverse reactions to TB regimens. The investigators noted that there is a need for large randomized clinical trials to establish th...TB test offers patients quicker and easier diagnosis
... people - are infected. Nine million people a year develop the active disease worldwide, which kills two million each year. ...Brain inflammation may be friend, not foe, for Alzheimer's patients
... disease. The findings could also renew efforts to develop a vaccine or other strategies against Alzheimers b...plied the technology in mice specially designed to develop Alzheimers disease. The mice developed normally for six months. Then Shaftel raised the level of I...TV ads may spur more stroke victims to get help sooner
...ness. It has profound implications for the way we develop and implement stroke awareness initiatives....Exercise test may help predict mortality risk in heart failure patients
...reatments for diastolic heart failure, but to also develop the best method to assess the severity of their condition ," said Brian Moore, M.S., lead author of the study. For the study, researchers measured pulmonary efficiency by analyzing oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide expiration during an exercise...Scripps Research awarded $17 million for adult stem cell use to treat eye diseases
...pps Clinic. "Our goal in the next five years is to develop this new approach to treating retinal diseases to ...cade, the Friedlander lab has used mouse models to develop this new approach to treating neovascular eye diseases. This approach uses adult stem cells-pluripot...JRRD releases single-topic issue on pain and pain management
...th treatment providers should routinely assess and develop management strategies for these two disorders in psychiatric outpatients. Pain and combat injuries in soldiers returning from Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom: Implications for research and practice, pg. 179 Operations Enduring Fre...AIUM hosts Third Annual Ultrasound Practice Forum
... forum participants established a working group to develop ways of assessing minimum training requirements in varied settings. Working group chair Thomas Shipp, MD (American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography), highlighted the need for basic ultrasound information no matter what the specialty. Discus...Doctors, engineers develop new wireless system to detect esophageal reflux
...FID system is the next step in a growing effort to develop less invasive wireless technologies for gastrointe...of electrical engineering at UTA, for two years to develop the wireless system. Engineers had to develop the specialized radio frequency implant, which detects...