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New Drug in Diabetic Neuropathy

...hope lies with experimental drug, memantine, which blocks NMDA receptors, which are believed to mediate pain effects in diabetic neuropathy being researched by Central Arkansas Research, Arkansas. This drug showed a definite reduction of pain compared to placebo. What does this mean for India? We...

Evidence Links Protein Damage to Neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's

...in, called alpha-synuclein, is one of the building blocks of the brain lesions characteristic in patients with neurodegenerative diseases. Oxidative damage, normally occurs when the body's cells are overwhelmed by molecules that have changed because they have combined with nitrogen (nitration) or oxygen (o...

Brisk Walking lowers memory loss in women

...y, physical activity was measured by the number of blocks walked per week and also by the number of calories burnt in walking and other activities....

Strong pain killers likely to cause miscarriage

...ll group of women who have an immune disease which blocks implantation.With this low dose, very little gets into the general circulation. Most of it goes into the liver," said Dr. Illingworth, he suggested a more detailed study on this....

Prescription Drug - Helps People Stop Smoking

... together. The medication in Smoquit, buproprion, blocks nicotinic receptors so as to prevent the reuptake of neurotransmitters norepinephrine and dopamine. This sidesteps the problem of the urge to smoke and withdrawal symptoms, which is otherwise a hurdle when a smoker tries to quit smoking. A study of...

Hormone contraceptives lead to bone problems

... decline. Now, researchers say that DMPA, which blocks pregnancy by suppressing estrogen production and stopping ovulation, has the same effect on the bones as menopause -- preventing a woman from making new bone fast enough to keep up with the level of bone loss. The most significant dangers linked t...

Therapy for stopping the spread of cancer cells

...ents do seem to suggest that inhibiting the enzyme blocks the invasion of cancer cells into neighbouring tissues....

FDA Approves Contraceptive Ring

...lant. NuvaRing, sold by Organon, Inc., effectively blocks conception between 98 percent and 99 percent of the time -- meaning that for every 100 women who use it for a year, only one or two will become pregnant, the FDA says. That rate is similar to both the birth control pill and the yet-unapproved contrac...

Drugs to stop burgeon of HIV

...ew drug to tackle HIV. "We have found a drug that blocks the channels HIV may use to spread to uninfected cells," said Professor henry.Budding is the method by which viruses spread. After working their way into cells and making copies of themselves, the virus goes to the surface membrane and wraps it aroun...

Contraceptives have dual effects

...estrogen in the Pill is released into the body, it blocks the growth of cancer cells by reducing the amount of bile acids, which have been linked to colon cancer. The oestrogen may also help to reduce levels of a hormone called IGF-I that has also been linked to an increased risk of bowel cancer. They focu...

Ibuprofen weakens aspirin's effect

...hes and pains. The popular pain reliever ibuprofen blocks the heart-protecting effects of aspirin, according to a study that sounds a warning for people who take both medicines. In the study, when patients took a single dose of ibuprofen beforehand, aspirin lost 98 percent of its blood-thinning power. Whe...

Researchers trick Alzheimer's Enzyme

... called "click chemistry," to make a molecule that blocks neurotransmitter destruction caused by the brain e...rpless and his team synthesized molecular building blocks that, when pieced together, create a single larger molecule with no by-products -- an acetylcholines...

Possible benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

... the more common type of stroke, occur when a clot blocks blood flow to part of the brain. Transient ischemic attacks, or TIAs, occur when the blood flow is only briefly interrupted. Most TIA symptoms disappear within an hour, but they are warning signs that a person is at risk for a more serious stroke. H...

Novel research on liver cancer

...mbolization, which delivers chemo to the tumor and blocks off the artery, they found encouraging results. The researchers observe that with 3-bromopyruvate in the rabbits, healthy liver seems to be spared, but sections of healthy liver were damaged by chemoembolization. Doctors felt, at this time, the tes...

Gene variant foretells diabetic neuropathy

...ral neuropathy, however. It may be that it somehow blocks the circulation in the lower limb or impairs the secretion of the growth factors which the peripheral nerves need to be healthy....

Stroke Risk and Fish :A factual interconnection

.... Ischemic stroke// which is caused by a clot that blocks the blood vessel supplying the brain with blood was confirmed with 378 participants, 105 were confirmed as hemorrhagic stroke, caused by a leaky blood vessel that bleeds into the brain, and the rest could not be classified from the data available. R...

Gene connected to Multi-System disorder discovered

... therefore determined the sequence of its building blocks in affected and unaffected members of the 17 families. The researchers reported that only people with the disorder had changes in connexin 43. The researchers also reported that though a different change, or mutation, in the gene was found in each of...

Damage to arteries from injury can be avoided with carbon monoxide

...ts. The researchers claim that the carbon monoxide blocks white cells of the immune system from infiltrating the damaged area, which stops the build up of plaque inside the vessels and so makes the procedures more successful in the long term. It was also observed that there was no negative effect from carbo...

Stroke victims have new hope with activated protein C

...sis by this team of researchers has shown that APC blocks p53, a molecule that drives cells towards apoptosis following stroke. APC works through two cellular receptors, called endothelial protein C receptor and protease-activated receptor 1, to reduce the level of p53 in damaged cells by 75 per cent. APC a...

Lithium May help in Alzheimer's Disease

...ure has reported that in mice experiments, Lithium blocks the production of proteins that form deposits in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Lithium, though widely used to treat mental problems does have many side effects, including kidney damage. "Potentially, lithium could be used to reverse both the ...

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