Existing research supports metabolic syndrome link to cardiovascular disease
...p metabolic syndrome, as we still don't succeed in treating our patients with these abnormalities completely and adequately." Dr. Gami and his team recommend that their study initiate a series of new scientific investigations focused on interventions that target metabolic syndrome. Dr. Diamant agrees that re...UIC receives grant to find new drugs for bipolar disorder
... point the way to the design of improved drugs for treating patients with bipolar disorder. More than 2 million American adults, or about 1 percent of the over-18 population, suffer from bipolar disorder, a mental illness that causes extreme mood swings. Also called manic-depression, it may be caused by a c...Transdermal vaccine effective in treating Alzheimer's disease in mouse model
...cination, may offer a simpler way of preventing or treating the devastating neurodegenerative disease with less likelihood of adverse immune reactions. The study was published online this week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "While many groups have shown vaccinating against the b...US beats Europe for hypertension treatment
..., "may be more important than drug selection." By treating sooner and more aggressively, U.S. physicians may actually save money by reducing the overall economic burden of cardiovascular disease associated with hypertension, the authors suggest. One concern about more aggressive treatment is that some patie...Common blood pressure drug treats muscular dystrophy in mice
...am led by Harry "Hal" Dietz, M.D., discovered that treating Marfan mice with losartan (Cozaar) dramatically st...ical trial to assess how effective losartan is for treating people with Marfan will launch within weeks. "In addition to the aortic defect, children with sev...Combination therapy spares some head and neck patients from surgery
... Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, instead focused on treating the patients with chemotherapy and radiation and then measuring the patients' response to the therapy to see if they still needed the follow-up neck surgery. Eighty percent of the patients with advanced head and neck cancer who participated in this s...Study finds differences between blood pressure medicines and newly-diagnosed diabetes
...rug is uncertain, and should be discussed with the treating physician as just one aspect of the choice of drug to lower blood pressure in that individual....Aspirin saves lives of cancer patients suffering heart attacks, despite fears of bleeding
...ause no practice guidelines exist, physicians were treating their patients with great variability and the disparity was obvious," Durand says. Sarkiss, who is the study's lead author, Durand, and a team of researchers which included investigators from Baylor College of Medicine and Duke University Medical C...Health providers could save billions without compromising health care says drug study
...ol treatment and candesartan replaced losartan for treating high blood pressure" explains Juliet Usher-Smith. "Four months after the switch the cholesterol lowering drug was performing in line with the previous drug and the new blood pressure drug had actually resulted in a small, but significant, reduct...'Beavertail' surgery helps tongue cancer patients
...s the study's findings will convince other doctors treating patients with base of tongue cancers that primary surgery followed by radiation gives them the best chance at swallowing after their treatment....Travelers need to know more about diarrhea
...be aware of some important factors in avoiding and treating travellers' diarrhea," said Julie Johnson, lead author of the study and a PhD student in the Departments of Public Health Sciences and Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. The study findings ...Study finds unexpected results in acid suppression between two OTC heartburn treatments
...ake better choices about which therapy to use when treating heartburn, which is caused by stomach acid flowing up into the esophagus, a condition that affects more than 50 million Americans annually. "There have been many studies testing acid-suppression in these two classes of drugs -- PPIs and H2RAs (also...Benefits of testosterone treatment unknown, research shows
...-based guidelines about the use of testosterone in treating men. Dr. Montori says Mayo researchers joined the ...ed evidence supporting the drug's effectiveness in treating sexual dysfunction and the limited data supporting its cardiovascular safety, Dr. Montori says. "Res...Scripps research combination therapy obliterates new vessel growth in tumors and retinopathy
...py. Others have proven to be modestly effective in treating neovascular eye diseases. The new study combined the actions of three classes of angiostatic compounds, each targeting different angiogenic pathways, and showed striking results in the treatment of an animal model of glioblastoma, a highly maligna...Bulimia may result from hormonal imbalance
...level of patients with bulimia could be reduced by treating these patients with oestrogen-dominated oral contraceptives. The result was that the craving for fat and sugar decreased, as did the feeling of hunger, in approximately half of the bulimics after as short a period of treatment as three months. Three ...Binge drinking, gender and clinical depression
...cohol abuse and dependence. Therefore, clinicians treating women for depression really need to be concerned about women's use of alcohol, because of the risks that women may try to medicate their moods with alcohol."...Doctors neglect insomnia in older patients
... the health difficulties that disrupt sleep. But treating the sleep disorders results in improved health and quality of life, Reid noted. Some options include meditation, exercise, and bright light or evening activity to push back circadian rhythm for people who wake up too early. In the study, 1,503 par...Clinical guidelines help identify which children at risk of bacterial meningitis
...ngitis is the greatest concern when evaluating and treating children with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pleocytosis, the majority of these children have viral rather than bacterial meningitis, according to background information in the article. However, because exclusion of bacterial meningitis requires negative ...New treatments prevent brain injury hours after stroke in rats
...ore advantageous than IV for delivering a drug for treating central nervous system diseases," Ying says. "It may get much more of the drug past the blood-brain barrier." Ying characterizes both compounds as "promising," but speculates that NAD+ has the greater potential as an agent for preventing brain cell ......w us to test out such possibilities as a method of treating pain."...