Hydrocortisone supplementation improves ventilator weaning
...e adrenal insufficiency and treating them with the hormone hydrocortisone (cortisol). These study results app...dy. Cortisol (hydrocortisone) is an adrenal-cortex hormone used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory conditions. According to the ...Obesity may be factor in accelerated type I diabetes in some patients
...ts from the body's failure to produce insulin, the hormone that "unlocks" the cells of the body, allowing glucose to enter and fuel them. Type 2 diabetes results from insulin resistance (a condition in which the body fails to properly use insulin), combined with relative insulin deficiency....Diabetic hearts make unhealthy switch to high-fat diet
...or fat for energy, depending on blood composition, hormone levels or how hard the heart is working. "The diabetic heart's overdependence on fat could partly explain why diabetic patients suffer more pronounced manifestations of coronary artery disease," says senior author Robert J. Gropler, M.D., professor ...Low-fat diet's benefits for women less than expected, Stanford researcher says
...ng older women. Previous WHI studies have involved hormone therapy, heart disease and osteoporosis. The low-f...ials that are part of the WHI. A previous trial on hormone therapy showed that estrogen and a combination of estrogen and progestin increased risks in such dis...National study finds no effect from reducing total dietary fat
...ne of three WHI trials. The other trials evaluated hormone therapy and the effects of calcium and vitamin D on prevention of osteoporosis-related bone fractures and colon cancer. Nationally, the WHI enrolled 157,000 women between 50 and 79 years old at 40 clinical centers, making it the largest clinical tria...Persistent fatigue may be the best way to predict onset of postpartum depression
... researchers used to measure levels of cortisol, a hormone related to stress. Each woman was asked to call one of the researchers as soon as possible after giving birth. At that point, the researcher arranged to visit the woman about seven days after she delivered. The researcher also visited that same woman...No evidence that melatonin is effective in treating jet lag
...ry and alternative therapies, such as melatonin (a hormone that is thought to play a part in controlling daily body rhythms) have been used increasingly to manage sleep disorders. Researchers at the University of Alberta, Canada analysed trials of the effects of melatonin on people with secondary sleep disor...Macrophage signaling may affect hormone resistance in prostate tumors
... eventually progress to an antagonist-resistant or hormone independent form of cancer, according to David W. ...n the prostate tumor microenvironment might affect hormone resistance.Using cell biology methods, they discovered a mechanistic explanation for at least one fo...Hormone linked to good hearing as we age
Researchers have linked a hormone known to adjust levels of key brain chemicals to t... quality of our hearing as we age. The more of the hormone that older people have in their bloodstream, the better their hearing is, and the less of the hormon...Team discovers possible 'universal strategy' to combat addiction
...that VTA brain cells are sensitive to serotonin, a hormone associated with learning, sleep and mood. The team discovered that PTEN acts on these serotonin receptors, increasing brain cell activity. This is the same "reward" process sparked by drugs of abuse. Armed with this knowledge, the team designed a mol...Estrogen therapy does not appear to protect postmenopausal women from heart disease
...d two large clinical trials that evaluated whether hormone therapy with estrogen reduces the risk of coronary...ped in March 2004 after only 6.8 years because the hormone treatment appeared to increase the risk of stroke. Judith Hsia, M.D., of George Washington Universit...Stanford researcher says new data confirms they help women avoid hip fractures
...ng older women. Previous WHI studies have involved hormone therapy, low-fat diets and heart disease. The calc...inical trials to be published. A previous trial on hormone therapy showed that estrogen increased risks in such diseases as stroke and blood clots, and when co...Calcium plus vitamin-D supplementation does an older body good
...icipants were already using supplements or were on hormone therapy. The supplements had no significant effect on spine or total fractures. In patients with osteoporosis, the natural cycle of losing and adding minerals in healthy bone falls out of balance and the loss outpaces the gain, leading to low bone ...Estrogen-progestin menopausal hormone therapy and risk of lobular and tubular breast cancer
Estrogen-progestin menopausal hormone therapy is associated with a more than two-fold hi...dical history, health status and use of menopausal hormone therapy. Rosenberg et al.'s results show that women who used medium potency estrogen-progestin combi...Stressed-out women more likely to miscarry early
... to 34, with elevated levels of the stress-induced hormone miscarried during the first three weeks of pregnan...were associated with lower progesterone levels---a hormone that prepares the uterus for the implantation of the fertilized ovum. "The two pieces of research ar...Statins, beta-blockers lessen heart attack risk, says Stanford-Kaiser study
...iotensin II receptor blockers and, among women, of hormone therapy. None of these treatments showed a similar correlation with a lower risk of heart attack. "The results were really quite striking," said Hlatky. "These drugs were quite effective in reducing risks of having a heart attack as the first symptom...Learning and memory stimulated by gut hormone
...Yale School of Medicine have found evidence that a hormone produced in the stomach directly stimulates the hi...le and other institutes, the study showed that the hormone ghrelin, produced in the stomach and previously associated with growth hormone release and appetite,...Androgen deprivation therapy does not keep localized prostate cancer from spreading, new study says
...it." Androgen deprivation therapy, also known as hormone therapy, is the gold standard of care for men whos...HSU Cancer Institute study of the effectiveness of hormone deprivation as a primary therapy for localized prostate cancer, researchers found that younger men a...Drug reverses bone loss in men with prostate cancer during the first year of treatment
... prostate cancer patients during the first year of hormone therapy, according to a new Oregon Health & Scienc... Loss of bone density is a serious side effect of hormone therapy for advanced prostate cancer, a finding that has come to light in recent years. Very low bon...Common osteoporosis treatment may help men with prostate cancer suffering from bone loss
...by depriving the body of testosterone, an androgen hormone that increases the growth of prostate tumors. However, testosterone also is essential to maintaining bone mass in men. While doctors have been using this type of therapy for more than a decade to treat men with late-stage metastatic prostate cancer, ...