A possible new phase for rheumatoid arthritis treatment
...nding rheumatoid arthritis - suggesting a distinct pathological process during the early phase of rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is a common, serious and disabling autoimmune disease in which inflammation of the joint lining (or synovium) results when the body's tissues are mistakenly attacked by the ...Pathological gambling associated with brain impairments
...making functions and inhibitory control in chronic pathological gamblers appear to be altered and may influence th...elopment of more effective strategies for treating pathological gamblers. The study, led by Dr. Maria Roca, investigated the decision-making processes and executive...MR spectroscopy may be superior for determining prostate cancer prognosis
...determine a tumor's prognosis better than standard pathological studies do. The report appears in the April 15 is...cal components with the information gathered from pathological analyses of the removed glands and the patients' clinical outcomes. Several chemical components of ...Melbourne researchers develop safer and more effective 'aspirin'
...ified the mechanism that promotes the formation of pathological blood clots (clots that lead to heart attack or stroke) and how it differed from the mechanisms involved in normal blood clotting. Their research is published today in the international journal Nature Medicine. Dr Jackie Fairley, CEO of Cerylid Biosc...Keyhole surgery set to become the new gold standard for colon cancer treatment
...eyhole surgery to open surgery. Based on detailed pathological examination of the resected bowel, which contained the tumour, the investigators found that local recurrence rates were unlikely to be higher for keyhole surgery than for local surgery. They also found that cancer-related survival and quality of life...Drug combination boosts survival rate in head and neck cancers
...nd 5-fu yields a 25 to 50 percent rate of complete pathological responses (the tumor disappeared). Robert Haddad, ... 5-fu regimen significantly increased the complete pathological response rate to 89 percent. The data (Abstract 5511) will be presented as a poster discussion sessi...Test accurately predicts aggressiveness of breast cancer
... "Furthermore, in clinical practice, tumors with a pathological size of <1cm are a true challenge in term of therapeutic decision (mainly chemotherapy indication). Consequently, it will be important to correlate Ki67 expression and prognostic in these very small tumors (<1 cm), which ultimately could help...Report describes details of four transplant recipients who contracted rabies from donor
...escribes details of the clinical, radiological and pathological findings of four patients who received organs or tissue from a single donor, contracted rabies from the transplant and subsequently died, according to a study in the June issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Previous art...Study ties risk of problem gambling with proximity to casinos and other gambling opportunities
... with a 90 percent increase in the odds of being a pathological or problem gambler, said John W. Welte, Ph.D., principal investigator on the study. The likely reason for the increase, he added, is that the availability of an attractive gambling opportunity can lead to gambling pathology in some people who ...Problem gamblers share personality profiles of substance abusers
...f comorbidity [conditions which occur together] of pathological and problem gambling with other addictive disorders," the authors write. "In the present study, the personality profile associated with problem gambling was strikingly similar to the profiles associated with alcohol, cannabis, and nicotine dependence...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...even laboratory mice can become fierce, displaying pathological violent behavior as well as hypoplastic brian and retinal development. Abrahams et al. tested whether the mouse and human (NR 2E1 ) genes are equivalent....Parkinson's medication appears to trigger excessive gambling
...ure associating Parkinson's disease treatment with pathological gambling, and they compared their patients' experi...amine agonist. They noted that in seven patients, pathological gambling developed within one to three months of reaching the maintenance dose or with dose escalati...Parkinson's disease drugs may cause pathological gambling
...n patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) developed pathological gambling behavior following dopamine agonist thera...ith Parkinson's disease who had recently developed pathological gambling and review similar cases from the medical literature. Pathological gambling is defined as a...Clinical factors can help determine risk of prostate cancer death after radical prostatectomy
...asis: time from surgery to biochemical recurrence, pathological Gleason score (a grading system for prostate tumor...vs. 3.0-8.9 vs. 9.0-14.9 vs. 15.0 or more months), pathological Gleason score (7 or less vs. 8-10), and time from surgery to biochemical recurrence (3 or less vs. g...Anti-inflammatory function of Alzheimer's disease drugs revealed
...n. In recent years it has been shown that another pathological process that occurs in the brain of Alzheimer's Disease patients is excessive immune activation and inflammation, which are induced by overproduction of an inflammation-producing protein called interleukin-1, as well as a few other related compounds....Anxiety disorders can compromise success of alcohol-dependence treatment
...cate the very anxiety symptoms that were caused by pathological drinking in the first place. This creates a vicious cycle, in which more drinking leads to greater anxiety, which, in turn, leads to more drinking. Once this vicious cycle is firmly in place, which disorder is operating as the cause' and which as t...Psychologists find more sensitive tests for predicting Alzheimer's as well as changes in cognition
...sodic memory] tasks may only differentiate between pathological and normal aging when dementia has progressed to a more advanced stage." In the second Neuropsychology study, an established psychological test has picked up early-warning signs of Alzheimer's disease. A new study in the September issue of Neuropsy...Eating fish associated with slower cognitive decline
...no insight as to whether this cognitive decline is pathological or the result of a normal aging process. Nonetheless, data from the United States and other countries indicate that it is a widespread and increasing public health problem." "This study suggests that eating one or more fish meals per week may protect...Notch signaling molecule important in type 2 immunity
... be useful for treating diseases associated with a pathological Th2 response, such as asthma," says Pear. He is also a member of Penn's Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and The Institute for Medicine and Engineering. Helper T cells fight many types of infectious diseases and are also the cells that regu......e of diagnosis, prevention, or amelioration of the pathological eye and/or an understanding of the normal vision processes. The award is presented to two researchers annually. Miller was selected for her research in non-human primates, and subsequent translation to humans, leading to the development of photodynam...