Injectable drug, combined with counseling, shows promise in treating alcohol dependence
...ther sites nationwide, have found that long-acting injections of the drug naltrexone, when added to counseling, significantly reduced heavy drinking in patients being treated for alcohol dependence. Study results show that the median number of heavy-drinking days was reduced from 19 days in the month prior to ...Vaccine against cervical cancer and genital warts shows promise
...75 to a placebo. They received given intramuscular injections on day 1, month 2 and month 6. Participants were followed up for 36 months and underwent regular gynaecological examinations, sampling for HPV DNA and cervical smears. The incidence of persistent infection or disease with HPV 6, 11, 16, or 18 fell by...Once-a-month naltrexone successfully used to treat alcohol dependence
New Haven, Conn.-Long-acting injections of the drug naltrexone, combined with psychotherapy, significantly reduced heavy drinking in patients being treated for alcohol dependence, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a Yale School of Medicine researche...Combination vaccine produces lower immune response than vaccines administered separately
...he United States receive up to 20 separate vaccine injections over 5 immunization encounters at ages 2, 4, 6, 12... the potential to spare U.S. infants up to 4 extra injections by age 18 months and to decrease parental and clinician concerns about the number of vaccinations in...NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine
...s between the ages of 18 and 50 will receive three injections of the DNA vaccine into the upper arm: one at the start of the trial, a second approximately four weeks later, and a third approximately four weeks after that. To help force the DNA plasmid into muscle cells, the vaccine will be administered by a nee...Milk thistle does not reduce deaths from liver diseases, best studies find
...he current gold standard treatment, which combines injections of interferon and ribavirin, has serious side effects and is hard for patients to tolerate. With lack of effective treatment for liver disease, researchers have been looking for alternative therapies that curb symptoms with minimum adverse effects o...Recombinant DNA technology may enable oral, rather than injectable, delivery of protein drugs
...eliver protein-based drugs-such as via needle-free injections or through inhalation. But, these delivery methods pose their own significant challenges. Ultimately, Shen and colleagues began to reconsider the possibilities of oral drug administration. Their first breakthrough came when they began to recognize th...Liverpool placenta study could save lives
... (oxytocin) or a placebo (sterile water). Both the injections look identical and neither the patient nor doctor will know which has been injected until after the study has ended. It is a very simple technique as the baby has already been delivered and the umbilical cord cut, it will have no effect on the baby....Novel stem cell trial in heart failure patients to begin
... the injection sites, they also will give patients injections containing only plasma to a different area of the heart. That way, once the native heart is removed, pathologists will be able to compare the differences between tissue samples from both areas, as well as make comparisons to tissue samples removed du...Surgery to treat vocal-cord spasms shows high success rate
...nown. In 1989, the FDA approved the use of Botox injections into the vocal cords. Required every few months, these treatments temporarily relieve the symptoms, but not the disorder. At up to $2,000 a pop, the shots are pricey as well as uncomfortable and time-consuming. Some patients also can develop Botox...Dermatologists use immunotherapy to treat warts
...he 201 patients enrolled in the study, 95 received injections of antigen and 106 received injections of either saline or interferon alfa-2b alone. "Fifty-seven subjects injected with antigen were judge...Botox stops severe drooling in children with neurologic conditions
Ultrasound-guided Botox injections into the salivary glands decrease drooling in chil...oblems for the child." The researchers gave the injections to seven children multiple times at different dosage levels. Using questionnaires filled out by the ...Researchers find way to streamline new non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment
... ASCO presentation. He noted that patients receive injections on an outpatient basis and have an overall high le... another radioisotope called yttrium 90. After the injections of ibritumomab tiuxetan with indium 111, physicians today perform an imaging scan within 24 hours of...Narcotic drugs effective for severe, chronic pain in older patients
...nths, six months and a year were given twice-daily injections of morphine proportional to their weight, and pain-relief was assessed in a standard procedure of applying heat to the rat's tail and measuring how quickly the animal flicked its tail away from the heat source. The researchers found that the youngest...Enhancing innate immunity improves Crohn's disease symptoms
...isease. In the study, 81 participants got daily injections of GM-CSF, which stimulates the activity of certain cells in the immune system. Another 43 received an inactive placebo. The investigators wanted to see whether patients on the drug would experience a decrease in the Crohn's Disease Activity Index (C...Immune factor GM-CSF significantly improves Crohn's disease symptoms
...eted the 56-day treatment cycle, 57 received daily injections of GM-CSF, while 37 received placebo injections. Participants were evaluated every two weeks during the study period and 30 days after treatment concluded. Based on a standard index of Crohn's disease symptoms, significantly more participants recei...Tercica presents two pharmacokinetic studies in an oral session at Endocrine Society Meeting
...h moderate IGFD who received multiple subcutaneous injections ofrhIGF-1, with once- or twice-daily dosing, for three weeks. After chronic dosing, although basal IGFBP-3 levels, as expected, fell,there was still a prompt increase in serum IGFBP-3 levels after each IGF-1injection. The 63 patients -- ranging ...New eye treatment technology wins Kaye Award for Hebrew University researcher
...ver medications to this portion of the eye without injections could provide a significant breakthrough for Novagali....Johns Hopkins team finds 'ancestral' hepatitis-C virus at the root of evolution in infections
... Current treatments for hepatitis C involve weekly injections of pegylated interferon for one year, plus twice daily doses of oral ribavirin. While some patients recover on their own, with their immune system attacking the virus and clearing it from the body, most do not. Scientists have not yet determined wh...Mayo collaboration: Discovery blocks breast cancer growth, stimulates immunity
... fact, it boosted it. Mice that received the toxic injections that killed the immune system blockages had tumors that were one-tenth the size of mice that did not receive the injections. Breast cancer researchers have known for years that the body's immune system is naturally poised to reject breast cance...