Stubborn ulcerative colitis responds to arthritis drug, review finds
In good news for patients with stubborn cases of ulcerative colitis, a serious intestinal disorder, a new research review suggests that the drug infliximab can be a useful alternative if other treatments don't work. The drug is currently used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's dis...Debilitating jaw and neck pain targeted through $19 million NIH support, multidisciplinary center
One of the most stubborn and debilitating pain syndromes will come under intense and unprecedented scrutiny over the next seven years as researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill fulfill a new $19 million cooperative agreement with the National Institute...Promote use of drugs to prevent AIDS infection, researchers urge
...havior, still more weapons are needed to fight the stubborn scourge, they say. Writing in today's (Sept. 30) issue of the journal Science, an international team of researchers, clinicians and others explains that a promising, relatively new approach is for people not infected but at high risk to take drugs th...Drug combination boosts survival rate in head and neck cancers
...the most successful results in patients with these stubborn cancers. Cancers of the head and neck are diagnosed in more than 40,000 people in the United States each year, with about 7,200 deaths. Based on recent results of Phase III trials of the therapy and on the new data, Haddad, who is also an assistant p...