Energy supplement under study for Parkinson's disease
...avior disorders. Todays therapies including the gold standard, a synthetic dopamine called levodopa and MAO-B inhibitors that forestall breakdown of dopamine are geared toward treating symptoms. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter critical to movement, is depleted in Parkinsons. Researchers hope newer therap...Contrast agent puts new light on diagnosing breast cancer
...raphy alone. Mammography is still considered the gold standard for early detection of breast cancer, but the method often gives false positives, requiring additional screenings and painful biopsies for patients. In addition, studies show that traditional mammograms may miss 10 percent to 20 percent of b...Standard long-acting insulin as good as newer medications
...sider the older medication, NPH, to be the current gold standard for basal insulin. Newer drugs, insulin analogues such as insulin glargine (trade name Lantus) and insulin detemir (Levemir), have been marketed as an improvement over NPH. However, the reviewers found that Lantus and Levemir were almost i...Liver stiffness indicates portal hypertension
... in the U.S. population. To date HVPG still is the gold standard.. for predicting clinical decompensation and the response of portal pressure to pharmacological therapy....Can an omega-3 fatty acid slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease?
...Health, will evaluate one in a clinical trial, the gold standard for medical research. The study will be conducted nationwide by the Alzheimers Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS), a consortium of leading researchers supported by NIA and coordinated by the University of California, San Diego. The trial wi...Experts debate role of stenting, bypass surgery in left main coronary artery disease
...ding to Dr. Mack, bypass surgery has long been the gold standard for the treatment of patients with diseas...domized, controlled trial before changing from the gold standard," Dr. Mack said. Drs. Mack and Mehran will face off to debate the treatment of left main ...Fingerprint instead of blood sample
...rs wet the fingerprints with a solution containing gold nanoparticles to which cotinine-specific antibodies were attached. These bind to the cotinine. Subsequently, a second antibody, which was tagged with a fluorescent dye and binds specifically to cotinine antibodies, was applied to the fingerprint. Be...Asthma study shows patients have more options to control disease
...nce a day. "Patients who are doing well with the gold standard which is twice a day inhaled corticosteroid, but want to try other options, should talk to their doctors," Peters said. He said it should be noted that a limitation of the study is that it was conducted for only 16 weeks and that flutcaso...UCLA imaging study reveals how pure oxygen harms the brain
...community has championed 100 percent oxygen as the gold standard for resuscitation. But no one has reported what happens inside our brains when we inhale pure oxygen," explained Ronald Harper, distinguished professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "What we discovered add...Advances in screening and markers improve early detection of colorectal cancer
...Our study reaffirms the role of colonoscopy as the gold standard method to screen for colorectal cancer." Dr. Soetikno will present this study on Wednesday, May 23, at 8:35 a.m. in Ball Room AB. The Association of Elevated C-Reactive Protein Levels with Synchronous and Advanced Colorectal Adenoma (Ab...What exactly is repetitive strain injury?
...ften a difficult proposition. The authors say: "No gold standard tests for repetitive strain injury exist. In most cases, diagnosis is made on the basis of history and physical examination, including assessment of range of motion of joints, hypermobility, muscle tenderness, pain, strength, and imbalance ...Exploring better ways to determine when to change the course of treatment
...was even seen in those patients whose CT scan the gold standard for tumor evaluation- indicated no disease progression," Meropol explained. The median overall survival of patients with a favorable CTC before treatment was almost double that of those with an unfavorable CTC (18.5 months vs. 9.4 months......he number of patients receiving a colonoscopy the gold standard of colon cancer screening, said HHC Presi...he number of patients receiving a colonoscopy the gold standard of colon cancer screening, said HHC President Alan D. Aviles. As a result, we are removing ...Brightening prospects of using fluorescent nanotubes in medical applications
...nning. Jansen has been pursuing research that uses gold nanoclusters to burn away cancer cells. He has developed a selective method for attaching the gold clusters to the surface of tumors and then exposing them to wavelengths of light that cause them to ...Weill Cornell Medical College announces gifts totaling $400M
...tive efforts, Sandy and Joan Weill are setting the gold standard for all our efforts to secure the future of our great institution; in so doing, he and Joan are also making a qualitative difference in the lives of countless human beings across the globe." "These gifts to our campaign represent the best ...New nutritional research: College students face obesity, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome
...of UNH undergraduates take the course) gave them a gold mine of health information on a group about which little is known. This is a very understudied population. Theyre very hard to reach, says Reilly, noting that large phone surveys of this age group, such as one conducted by the Centers for Disease C......patible. The researchers start out by synthesizing gold nanoparticles within amine-terminated dendrimers. ...opy experiments. The high contrast provided by the gold nanoparticles allows the determination of the specific sites in the cell machinery where the nanopar...... which has significant side effects. The current gold standard for acne treatment, Roaccutane can cause a wide range of side effects, including teratogenicity which leads to abonormalities in the unborn foetus of pregnant women, and has also recently been linked to depression and (inconclusively) to te...