New treatments for common vaginal infection being studied
...in a small pilot study who used the device for one week indicated they were beginning to see improvement, says Dr. Eileen D. Dickman, clinical researcher, coordinator of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Center and a co-investigator. Bacterial vaginosis is the most common type of vaginal condition that ...Regular vigorous physical activity could slow progression of prostate cancer
...icipants were asked to report the average time per week they took part in the following activities during the past year: walking or hiking outdoors, jogging, running, bicycling, lap swimming, tennis, squash or racquetball, and calisthenics or rowing. During 14 years of follow-up, 2,892 new cases of prost...Innovative study finds way to 'bio-synthesize' an anti-cancer compound
...lamides. The research paper, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), demonstrates that Prochloron didemni produces two patellamide compounds (A and C) and pinpoints the gene pathways that are used in that chemical biosynthesis. "Coral reefs and other ocean...News briefs from the journal Chest, MAY 2005
...18 patients stopped receiving aspirin at least one week beforehand. The results show that the patients who stopped aspirin one day before the operation had significantly improved oxygen levels with only a slight increase in bleeding. This group had a significantly shorter ventilation period following th...Lack of sleep can affect athletic performance in teens
...ng extended training trips (eg. spring break) of a week or more may experience schedule difficulties on the return home. "This scenario is most problematic for teams on the east coast that travel west, as student athletes may return with a significant sleep-phase delay that is difficult to correct," Cars...Magnetic stimulation treatment for depression helping difficult-to-treat cases at UT Southwestern
... that she's willing to drive 115 miles five days a week from Decatur to UT Southwestern Medical Center where she is participating in an experimental study. She undergoes transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a noninvasive, nonpharmacological technology, in which short pulses of magnetic energy stimulat...News tips from the journal of Neuroscience
... from the site. However, only those transplanted 1 week after injury went on to remyelinate axons and improve locomotion....Younger is better when implanting cochlear implants, IU study finds
... researchers said. The work will be presented next week at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. The study, by Mario Svirsky, Ph.D., professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, and Rachael Holt, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, also supports the theory ...Active vaccine prevents mice from developing prion disease
...w disease. The new findings, published online this week in the journal Neuroscience, could provide a platform for the development of a vaccine to prevent a group of fatal brain diseases caused by unusual infectious particles called prions. Although no cure for these diseases -- which include scrapie...Mayo Clinic researchers report on effectiveness of treatments for hot flashes
...udy kept a daily hot flash diary during a baseline week and during the eight-week cross over treatment period. They kept track of the daily number of hot flashes and hot flash scores (measured by assigning points to each hot flash based on severity and then adding the points for a given time period). Mayo...Multiple views from CT scans may improve diagnosis
...dical Center. The results are being presented this week at the American Roentgen Ray Society meeting in New Orleans, La. "You can see things in one view that you might miss in another," said Craig Barnes, M.D., section head of pediatric radiology at Wake Forest Baptist's Brenner Children's Hospital. "It ...Study compares stomach acid control of three proton pump inhibitors in chronic NSAID users
...ple over the age of 65 take NSAIDs at least once a week and nearly half of them take seven doses or more per week. NSAID use is one of the most common causes of gastroduodenal injury in the United States. Approximately half of all people who regularly take NSAIDs have gastric erosions and between 15 per...UCLA researchers find common gastrointestinal condition keeps patients up at night
...d heartburn/acid reflux more than two times in the week prior to being surveyed, but had not consulted with a doctor. 1 The survey showed that among the 1523 participants who reported experiencing symptoms in the previous seven days, 55 percent of patients diagnosed with GERD and 45 percent of undiagnose...Changing medication packages could help patients follow prescriptions, study suggests
...ts that can hold pills to be taken each day of the week these blister packs included the day that each dose was to be taken. Blister packages are cards in which individual pills are put in small plastic bubbles, and then backed with foil. A person pushes on the bubble, forcing the pill through the foil t...Biologic therapies for bowel disease show promise in clinical trials
...he study, receiving 40mg of adalimumab every other week for one year. This study only includes data from ...ximab, respectively, were in clinical remission at week eight compared to 14.9 percent of those on placebo. In the ACT II trial, 33.9 percent of the patien...New stomach cancer therapy potentially more convenient and better tolerated
... twice a day every day for three weeks, and took a week off to recover before starting the cycle all over again. In all, 41 patients participated and were evaluable; researchers have examined information on the drug's safety in 30 patients and on the drug's effectiveness in 20 patients. In the 13 patient...Yoga takes a bite out of eating disorders
...er the number of hours a woman practiced yoga in a week was associated with even less self-objectification and greater satisfaction with her body, while the more hours a woman spent performing aerobic activity was linked with greater disordered eating. The article discusses two studies. Study 1 consiste...Researchers find way to streamline new non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment
...ith a radioisotope known as indium 111. Finally, a week later-and only if imaging sessions have shown the medication accumulating in the right areas-they inject ibritumomab tiuxetan that has been tagged with another radioisotope called yttrium 90. After the injections of ibritumomab tiuxetan with indium 1...Combo drug controls hypertension in hard-to-treat patients
...own 14.9 points. At the conclusion of the study at week 18, after patients had received a higher dose of the combination medicine, their systolic readings had dropped an average of 23 points, to 134. In the African-American subgroup, blood pressure dropped 20.7 points by the end of the study to an average...Testicular cancer gene in mice may offer clues to origins of cancer in men
...cells were so altered that tumors developed just a week after the mice were born. Matin, working as a post-doctoral researcher at Case Western Reserve University with Joseph Nadeau, Ph.D., a co-author of this paper, decided to study tumor development in mouse embryos. In 2001, she mapped the location of t...