New treatment boosts muscle function in myasthenia gravis
... The drug, oral EN101antisense, inhibits the production of acetylcholine esterase, which is an important enzyme in the function of the neuromuscular junction, where nerves connect with muscles. Antisense is a synthetic, short segment of DNA that locks onto a...Miniature implanted devices could treat epilepsy, glaucoma
... ... One research project focuses on a tiny transmitter three times the width of a human hair to be implanted below the scalp to detect the s...USC law professor battles schizophrenia
... ... Up until now, only Saks closest friends knew of her condition which s...New survey uncovers how insomnia affects job performance and safety
Minneapolis, MN -- June 15, 2007 -- Alertness Solutions presented results of a new survey this week at the annual SLEEP meeting showing the significant impact our 24/7 culture is having on healthcare professionals job performance and patient safety. The survey of 2,082 nurses found that more than one quarter of nurses (27.23%) suffered from insomnia; 32.10% had difficulty staying asleep, 12.52%...NIAID releases MDR/XDR Tuberculosis research agenda
... Diagnosin...Abilify sNDA for pediatric patients with schizophrenia accepted for priority FDA review
(TOKYO, JAPAN and PRINCETON, NJ, JUNE 5, 2007) Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd., and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for priority (six month review target) review the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) of the atypical antipsychotic ABILIFY (aripiprazole) for the treatment of pediatric patients (13-17 year...Texas aging meeting to feature NIA Interventions Testing Program 1st report
... ... ... Hi...Study evaluates the effectiveness of Aripiprazole in adolescents with schizophrenia
... "Data on the management of schi...Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia
... ... "Doctors draw blood every day to lo...Nancy Brinker and Lance Armstrong honored with Centennial Medals at the AACR 2007 Annual Meeting
... Nancy Brinker, is the founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, formerly the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. She is being recognized for her significant and sustained effort in the fight against breast cancer. Now celebrating the organization's 25th year, Ambassado...Childhood immunization against pneumonia cuts hospital admissions by almost 40 percent
... ... <...Report reveals human face of Pennsylvania's Medicaid program
PITTSBURGH, March 14 The non-partisan Pennsylvania Medicaid Policy Center (PMPC) released its Faces of the Pennsylvania Medicaid Program report today. The report is an easy-to-understand and comprehensive look at the structure and reach of the Medicaid program in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. With rising health care costs increasing Medicaids role in Pennsylvanias health care landscape, thi...Landmark schizophrenia treatment study reveals that medication alone is not always effective
Researchers on March 1 released results from the CATIE (Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness) study, touted as the largest and most informative study ever conducted on currently available antipsychotic drugs for the treatment of schizophrenia. One of two CATIE studies examined the effectiveness of different medications and found that treatment needs to be targeted and ind...National addiction treatment leaders to meet at first NIATx Summit
... Established in 2003, NIATx is a partnership among the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Paths to Recovery program, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's Strengthening Treatment Acc...New details in schizophrenia treatment trial emerge
... ....Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting
... Some of the topics that might interes...BC physicists transmit visible light through miniature cable
... The discovery, details of which appear in the Jan. 8 issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters, defies a key principle that holds that light cannot pass through a hole much smaller than its wavelength. In fact, the BC team forced visible light, which has a wavelength of between 380-750 nanometers, to travel down a cable whose diameter is smaller...NIAID DNA vaccine for H5N1 avian influenza enters human trial
... Unlike conventional flu vaccines, which are developed by growing the influenza virus i...Doctors neglect insomnia in older patients
... That's the finding of new research from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. When patients 60 years and older visited their primary care doctors, physicians did not note sleep problems in the patients' charts. This was significant because independent social workers, who interviewed those same patients after their doctors' visits...Journal Sleep: Link between insomnia and hypersomnia, depression in children
... The study, authored by Xianchen Liu, MD, PhD, and colleagues of the University of Pittsburgh, was cond...High risk of chronic health conditions plagues those with schizophrenia
... "This work is yet another piece in the larger puzzle of understanding the relationships between mental and physical health," said Caroline Carney Doebbeling, M.D., M.Sc., associate professor of psychiatry and medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and a research scientist at the Re...NIAID media availability: Examining genetic variability of malaria parasite offers insight
WHAT: Back-to-back papers published online this week in Nature Genetics reveal important new details about the genetic variability of the malaria parasite and provide new clues for how it causes disease. One paper, funded in part by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), reports the results of a massive effort to...AASM position statement: Treating insomnia with over-the-counter sleep aids, herbal supplements
... ... ....Changes in brain density can help predict schizophrenia
... Dominic Job and colleagues from the University of Edinburgh in the UK analysed the brain scans of 65 individuals known to be at risk for schizophrenia b...Increasing numbers of California teens abuse over-the-counter cold medicine
... "Dextromethorphan has been used safely for years as a cough suppressant and is available in many over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold preparations," the authors write as background information in the article. But when taken...Randomized study indicates that patients with herniated disk improved with or without surgery
... Lumbar diskectomy (surgical removal, in part or whole, of an intervertebral disk) is the most common surgical procedure performed in the United States for patients having back and leg pain. The vast majority of the procedures are elective. However, lumbar disk herniation (protrusion from its no...GSA confers 2006 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award to Virginia Tech's Calasanti
... The award presentation will take place at GSA's 59th Annual Scientific Meeting, which will be held from November 16th-20th, 2006 in Dallas, TX. The actual conferral will occur on Saturday the 18th at 12:15 p.m. at the Adam's Mark Dallas Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster...GSA confers 2006 Nathan Shock New Investigator Award to NIA's de Cabo
... The award presentation will take place at GSA's 59th Annual Scientific Meeting, which will be held from November 16th-20th, 2006 in Dallas, TX. The actual conferral will occur on Saturday the 18th at 12:15 p.m. at the Adam's Mark Dallas Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interacti...Cell wall of pneumonia bacteria can cause brain and heart damage
Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered in mouse models how cell walls from certain pneumonia-causing bacteria can cause fatal heart damage; researchers have also shown how antibiotic therapy can contribute to this damage by increasing the number of cell wall pieces shed by dying bacteria. The team also demonstrated in a mouse model how to prevent this from happeni...Three-dimensional, miniature endoscope opens new diagnostic possibilities
... "This new ultraminiature endoscope is the first to allow three-dimensional imaging of areas inside the body," says Guillermo Tearney, MD, PhD, of the MGH...Dopamine imbalances cause sleep disorders in animal models of Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia
... ... The same processes likely occur in humans, according to the researchers. They said the findings give insight into the sle...New study in JCSM shows effective treatment for elderly insomniacs
... The study, conducted by Anne Germain, PhD, and colleagues of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, focused on 17 older adults who were randomly assigned to receive BBTI, and 18 selected to receive an information-only control (IC) condition. All participants completed clinician-administered and self-report measures of sleep quality, as well as a sleep diary. Interventions were de...University of Virginia health system wins $5.5 million grant to help detect atherosclerosis
... About one in every three adult men and women in the United States has some form of cardiovascular disease and it is the number one cause of death, according to the American Heart Association, one reason it is...NIAID awards $4 million to develop anti-radiation treatments
... "These new grants will help identify new drug candidates that could be acquired by the strategic national stockpil...About 5 percent of adults with insomnia use alternative therapies
... Approximately 10 to 34 percent of Americans regularly experience difficulty sleeping, also known as insomnia, according to background information in the article. Treatment options include prescription and non-prescription medications, antidepressants and cognitive behavioral therapy. Complementary and alternat...Over 1.6 million Americans use CAM for insomnia or trouble sleeping
... In 2002 the NHIS, an in-person, annual health survey, included over 31,000 U.S. a...Mediterranean neurosciences in Albania
Fifty years since its inception the Albanian Neuropediatrics Society becomes member of the ICNA (International Child Neurology Association) and is on its way to becoming a fully fledged member of the international scientific community for the accurate scientific level of the research conducted in the field of child neurology. ... The XII Mediterranean Meeting of Child Neurology taking place in D...New treatments for epilepsy may benefit patients at University of Virginia
... Neurologists at the University of Virginia Health System are now testing two separate devices...Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania selected to '25 Most Influential' list in radiology
... RT Image selected HUP for its recent installation of three new, state-of-the-art, high-powered MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) systems. The combination of the three units is a "Radiology First...National study compares delivery methods of schizophrenia medicines
... ... "Compliance with oral medication is such a problem, particularly in people with schizo...