Female teen steroid use not limited to athletes
...d about sports participation, anabolic steroid and drug use, and other illegal or unhealthy behaviors. Approximately 5 percent of participants reported prior or ongoing anabolic steroid use. In addition to greater substance use, young female steroid users were more likely to have had sexual intercourse...AMPAKINE compounds a new potential treatment for respiratory depression
...sician. Although only 0.5%-1.2% of total adverse drug events caused by prescription medications are resp...sic to continue working as it was intended. The drug tested in this study belongs to a novel class of molecules known as AMPAKINE compounds being devel...New drug development facility helps move medicines to market
... core disciplines that are required in preclinical drug development," Ms Pennisi said. The growth of Te...rs in Australia to contribute to the growth of the drug development industry on-shore. "TetraQ now provides its services internationally and the global m...Drug shows activity against brain metastases
CHICAGO--The drug lapatinib shrank tumors and slowed progression of ...ncluded 241 patients who had been treated with the drug Herceptin for stage IV HER2-positive breast cancer, and had developed metastases to the brain. About...Chemotherapy may enhance the effectiveness of brain tumor vaccines
...e aimed at tumor cells along with the chemotherapy drug temozolomide. "Conventional wisdom has been that chemotherapy, by suppressing the immune system, would prevent the vaccine from working," said Amy Heimberger, M.D., an oncologist at M.D. Anderson and senior investigator on the study. "However, when...Brain-boosting pill alleviates post-chemotherapy fogginess
A drug described by some people as a genius pill for enha...ffects of modafinil (Provigil). All women took the drug for the first four weeks. During the next month half of the women continued to receive the drug whil...Vorinostat shows anti-cancer activity in recurrent gliomas
...ter, Minn., report that a novel application of the drug vorinostat shows activity in patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme. These findings were presented today at the American Society of Clinical Oncology ( http://www.asco.org/portal/site/ASCO ) Annual Meeting by Eva Galanis, M.D. ( http://mayor...Nonhormonal drug reduces hot flashes in men treated for prostate cancer
...hester, Minn., have discovered that low doses of a drug used to prevent epileptic seizures and to treat ne.../ASCO ), Mayo Clinic investigators report that the drug gabapentin reduced the frequency and the intensity of hot flashes by up to 46 percent in men receivi...Phase II study shows combination improves survival of metastatic melanoma patients
...taxel (Taxol) and carboplatin with bevacizumab, a drug that prevents the formation of new blood vessels a...ms. Thus, it was thought that blocking VEGF with a drug like bevacizumab could facilitate the antitumor effects of chemotherapy in patients with metastatic ...Gene variations point to why lung cancer drugs work better in Japanese vs. US patients
...ence of pharmacogenomics, which promises to tailor drug regimens to a patients genetic profile. Nobody else in the world has ever done this, with a common arm looking at genetic differences among ethnic groups, Gandara says. Researchers looked at DNA from 156 patients who received the chemotherapy drugs...Dasatinib shows high early response rate as first treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
CHICAGO - An established second-line drug for chronic myelogenous leukemia has high response...roduced by Novartis Pharmaceuticals, was the first drug to target the fusion protein BCR-ABL that causes the disease. Before Gleevec, the median five-year s...Adding medication improves recovery for elderly with depression, says Pitt School of Medicine study
...reatment. The study found that adding a second drug to the treatment of depressed participants over the age of 70 who either did not respond to initial treatment with the antidepressant paroxetine and interpersonal psychotherapy, or to those who responded to the initial treatment but quickly relapsed,...Mouse model points to possible new strategy for treating rare muscle disease, kidney disorders
...greatly in assessing the appropriate dosage of the drug to test in HIBM patients. To date, none of the offspring born to transgenic mice who received ManNAc supplementation have gone on to develop muscle weakness, but the mutant mice remain smaller than their unaffected siblings. Studies are currently o......rch is needed before any possible human anti-aging drug could emerge, Miller says. Even if this agent turns out to be good for mice, it wont be possible to tell without careful studies of humans whether NDGA is beneficial, useless, or harmful to people. Occasionally, something that is harmless in mice...World first medical treatment announced by researchers
...e began the patient on a course of the antioxidant drug N-acetyl cysteine. Five months into antioxidant therapy, the patient remains clinically well, and on a reduced dose of corticosteroids. ...Treatment outcomes of patients with HIV and tuberculosis
...patients were significantly more likely to develop drug resistance (4.2 percent in HIV-infected versus 0.5...d broaden their focus to include rates of acquired drug resistance. The editorial cites a report published in the Lancet of an extensively drug resistant TB...When HIV and liver disease co-exist
...ught together laboratory and clinical researchers, drug developers and government representatives to discu...tion therapy is routine, though viral mutation and drug resistance remain troubling issues. A key topic of conversation was the development of new agents fo...FDA approves ZYFLO CR extended-release tablets for chronic treatment of asthma
...s SkyePharma PLCs (LSE: SKP) proprietary Geomatrix drug delivery technology, which controls the amount and rate of drug released into the body. We applaud our marketing partners success in securing FDA approval of the ...Transformation for people with AIDS on the horizon
...d multidrug resistant HIV that does not respond to drug combination therapy could benefit the most. Thi...ents have been developed for the management of the drug resistant virus, they say. Hence for patients in deep salvage, 2007 may be comparable to the landm...Study: Directly observed HIV therapy for children is promising
...h care workers to either watch patients take every drug dose or deliver those doses themselves. This metho...keep patients healthy and reduce the likelihood of drug resistance. Researchers evaluated HIV-infected children living in orphanages or with extended fami...