Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
...vior research will help us understand what type of treatments and interventions, often used in conjunction with targeted specific pharmacotherapies such as methadone for opiate addiction, are effective and how they can be translated into real life," says Kreek, Patrick E. and Beatrice M. Haggerty Professor and ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (first issue)
...d out over the years, two drug regimens emerged as treatments of choice. The first was a 6-month regimen in which rifampin (a potent sterilizing agent) was given throughout the time period. Patients began treatment with 2 months of streptomycin, isoniazid, and pyrazinamide, followed by 4 months of isoniazid, ...Asthma patients' immune systems respond differently with allergies
...dings are an important first step to personalizing treatments for allergy and asthma, both worldwide diseases that interfere with life quality and generate high economic burden. Asthma is a chronic obstructive inflammatory lung disease with symptoms including wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness o...Cognitive therapy works as well as antidepressants, but with lasting effect after therapy ends
...tment is rating its effectiveness in comparison to treatments currently in use, and this study has shown cognitive therapy to be a viable alternative."...Sex hormones hold key to higher rates of abdominal aortic aneurysms in males
.... Cassis and Daugherty. Currently no pharmacologic treatments exist with proven efficacy to treat aneurysms. The only existing treatment is surgery when the risk of death due to possible rupture of the abdominal aortic aneurysm is judged to outweigh the risk of surgery....Injectable drug, combined with counseling, shows promise in treating alcohol dependence
...tion. "It is so important that our field find new treatments for alcohol dependence," says Helen Pettinati, PhD, Research Professor in Penn's Department of Psychiatry, Director, Treatment Research Division in the Center for the Study of Addictions, and lead investigator for Penn's component of the trial. "Lon...Exercise, stress management show physiological benefits for heart patients
...ted dilation, patients who received the behavioral treatments displayed nearly a 25 percent improvement when compared to those patients who only received usual medical care. "To our knowledge, this is the first study to show that stress management might reduce cardiovascular risk in part through beneficial effe...Patients with heart disease can lower cardiovascular risk factors with exercise, stress management
...mized controlled trial demonstrate that behavioral treatments provide added benefits to routine medical management in patients with stable IHD," the authors write. But the authors add that "caution should be exercised in interpreting the clinical significance of improvements in intermediate end points. In the ...Q Chip helps make cures more effective
Cancer and fibroid treatments are likely to be early beneficiaries of Q Chip's work. Chief Executive Mark Barry is available to discuss the company's technology, which was spun out of research carried out at Cardiff University. Q Chip is collaborating with Biocompatibles Internat...Hormonal birth control, bacterial infections in women linked to increased shedding of type-2 herpes
...n and related drugs, though, are usually effective treatments for GBS. Since there is no true cure for genital herpes, controlling its transmission is the only option. Women who have HSV-2 should consider alternate forms of contraception, such as condoms. And because there is no vaccine available for genital he...Nutritional supplement reduces need for traditional ulcerative colitis treatment
...positively affect nutrition. "The need to find new treatments that are safe, effective and inexpensive remains and physicians should consider adding this combination of active ingredients as an adjuvant therapy for ulcerative colitis," said Seidner. More information about ulcerative colitis is available at w...Asthmatics naturally deficient in antiviral immunity, report scientists
...atory viruses could help in the development of new treatments for asthma attacks. By giving interferons to asthma sufferers it may be possible to prevent or treat the asthma attacks, stopping sufferers from becoming hospitalised through illness." Professor Stephen Holgate, from the University of Southampton and...Children's hospital neurologist receives Young Investigator Award in spinal muscular atrophy
...N protein in motor axons is a key to advancing new treatments for SMA," said Sahin. "In particular, identifying what RNAs are associated with SMN protein in axons may provide possible therapeutic targets for SMA in the future."...Study finds that women with PCOS are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease
...COS, researchers are working to identify effective treatments as well as possible causes for the condition "Our study highlights the relationship between PCOS, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease," explained senior author, Dr. John Nestler, Professor of Medicine; Chair, Division of Endocrinology & Me...ISHLT updates guidelines for heart and lung transplants
...and lung transplant candidates and determining the treatments they receive while awaiting donor organs is under review by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) during its Annual Meeting and Scientific Session this week in Philadelphia. In the past few years, beta-blockers, ventri...Scientists to study actions of botanical oils
... what mechanisms botanicals may serve as effective treatments or preventive approaches," said Stephen E. Straus, M.D., NCCAM director. "The five centers we are funding will investigate the use of a variety of widely consumed botanicals, from flaxseed to tarragon, for a range of diseases and conditions that aff...'Promiscuous' area of brain could explain role of antidepressants
...ggested by this study is to develop antidepressant treatments that help serotonin enter dopamine terminals....OHSU develops instant, computerized notification system to communicate patients' end-of-life wishes
...orms provide specific health care directives about treatments that are wanted and those that are not. If a chron...- in these cases, initially, all emergency medical treatments are provided. If patients are unable to make their wishes known because an injury to the brain is se...Liver may be source of 'good' cholesterol
...ing that might one day help scientists develop new treatments to raise levels of this heart-protecting molecule ...g more about how HDL is produced could lead to new treatments to raise its levels." Learning more about Tangier disease could help people with less severe cholest......n now lead to more reliable diagnostics and better treatments for a great number of patients." The gene variant was first identified in an animal model and then studied in a number of patient groups to ascertain if there was a link to human diseases. The researchers discovered that people with the variant ran a...