How to lose weight and not go hungry: HU researcher develops drug that mimics feeling of 'fullness'
...2-day period of daily dosages, the mice weighed 40 percent less than the average for mice of their size and age who were not being given the compound. The peptide has been patented in Europe and the U.S., and a commercial firm, Bioline RX Ltd. of Jerusalem has purchased development rights from Yissum, th...... In 2003, we set a five year goal to increase the percent of New Yorkers 50 and older who have been screened... In 2003, we set a five year goal to increase the percent of New Yorkers 50 and older who have been screened for colon cancer to 60%, said Mayor Michael R. Bl...Loss of stem cells correlates with premature aging in animal study
...bute to tissue renewal; nevertheless, the 10 to 20 percent of cells that escaped ATR deletion were able to reconstitute tissues in the engineered mice, at least initially. Think of aging as a slow loss of stem cells, a deterioration of pools of cells that reside in each tissue type, says Brown. We accele...Rochester spreads knowledge of cancer-related fatigue
...illion Americans diagnosed with cancer in 2005, 95 percent of the people scheduled to receive chemotherapy or... chemo ranges from 70 to 100 percent; likewise, 90 percent of patients who receive radiation therapy report fatigue. Also, up to 40 percent of patients report ...Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
...strong role. Conservative Protestants were only 65 percent as likely as Catholics to have executed a DPAHC. And not surprisingly, the odds of naming a proxy were lower for individuals who scored higher on a measure of "fear of death." The study further examined whom people chose as their DPAHC. The overwhe...Low libido in menopause linked to trouble sleeping
...ad hot flashes, night sweats, or both. Of them, 64 percent reported diminished sexual desire, 43 percent slept poorly, and 18 percent had major depression. It seems reasonable that night sweats can dist...UGA study finds that violence costs nation $70 billion annually
...ence stem from males and young adults. Sixty-eight percent of the costs from assaults and 63 percent of the costs from self-inflicted injuries were in males aged 15 to 44. The most burdensome catego...Dartmouth's alternative breast imaging techniques sort abnormal from normal tissue
...rovided an increase in contrast between 150 to 200 percent to discriminate between breast cancer and benign tissue. We put our new imaging techniques to the test to quantify their effectiveness, said Steven Poplack, associate professor of radiology and OB/GYN at Dartmouth Medical School, and co-director ...GSK announces launch of largest ever Phase III trial in lung cancer treatment
...n as MAGE-A3, which is present in approximately 35 percent to 50 percent of early NSCLC.1 The final analysis was performed at a median follow-up of 28 months. At this time...Folic acid supplements do not appear to reduce risk of colorectal tumors
...irst follow-up interval, adenomas occurred in 42.4 percent of the participants in the placebo group and 44.1 percent of the participants in the folic acid group. In the second follow-up interval, adenomas occurred in ...Born to lose: How birth weight affects adult health and success
... by one-third, reduces yearly earnings by about 15 percent and burdens people in their 30s and 40s with the h... weight siblings, low birth-weight children are 30 percent less likely to be in excellent or very good health in childhood. They also score significantly lower...USC researchers show that molecular markers predict tumor recurrence
...y effective for treating stage II cancer, 20 to 30 percent of patients do develop tumor recurrence and die fr...umor relapse, he notes. That means that 70 to 80 percent of stage II patients would be treated with chemotherapy without benefit, but with an increase of pot...Benefits of trastuzumab are lasting, reducing both HER2 + breast cancer deaths and recurrence
...e surgery. Trastuzumab treats the approximately 20 percent of tumors that are HER2 +, that is, their cancer m...r years of follow-up data have concluded that 85.9 percent of 1,989 women treated with trastuzumab are cancer free and 92.6 percent are alive, compared with 73...New drug shows promise in treatment of advanced thyroid cancer
... most common side effect was fatigue, affecting 50 percent of patients, but only 5 percent had severe fatigue and only one patient left the trial for this reason. Axitinib also caused hypert...MU researchers find mechanisms that may unlock answers to Alzheimer's disease
...e likely to triple by 2050 due to the fact that 24 percent of the population will be more than 65 years old. In their attempt to combat the disease, two University of Missouri-Columbia professors have identified new mechanisms that could have major implications in the development of treatments for the diseas...Trial shows circulating tumor cells predict how prostate cancer patients do with chemotherapy
... study, circulating tumor cells werent found in 38 percent of the men. That might mean a better prognosis, but in fact their prognosis still isnt very good, he points out. There are some limitations in our ability to detect them....Research shows survival benefit for leukemia patients treated with arsenic trioxide
... standard first-line therapy. Approximately 81 percent of patients with APL who received arsenic trioxide...emia -- three years after diagnosis compared to 66 percent of patients treated with the standard regimen of chemotherapy. The enhanced effectiveness of the exp...Old memory traces in brain may trigger chronic pain
...probably drive this memory abnormality. About 10 percent of the United States population suffers from chron... While the physical pain appeared to be reduced 30 percent their emotional suffering completely disappeared. Rat are nocturnal animals that prefer to be in...U-M study finds lymphoma drug effective over long term
...ted with a new drug for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 86 percent of patients were still alive and half had not had ...their first treatment for the disease. Ninety-five percent of the patients saw their tumors shrink from the treatment and three-quarters of patients went into ...After epilepsy surgery, quality of life related more to seizures than memory
...ilepsy surgery can eliminate seizures for 60 to 85 percent of people with temporal lobe epilepsy who do not r.... But surgery leads to memory problems in 25 to 40 percent of people. New research helps doctors and patients weigh the risks and benefits of surgery. The st...