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Alcoholism Drug Fails To Prevent Drinking Relapses

...to alcohol.// A new study casts sobering doubts on earlier claims that an alcoholism drug can truly treat the addiction. The government is sponsoring a large trial comparing naltrexone, which is also used to treat heroin addiction, with another alcoholism drug, acamprosate. Both medications act on the brai...

Cinnamon combats Diabetes

... insulin-dependent diabetes, which normally begins earlier in life and requires a regimen of blood testing and insulin injections. It happens when cells in the body normally responsible for dealing with excess blood sugar lose their ability to respond to insulin, the hormone which instructs them to perform t...

Thumb Sucking in children Lead to Overbite

...pared with their peers who gave up the habit at an earlier age. While it is known that longer, "nonnutritive sucking" can affect the development of the jaw and influence the placement of developing teeth, the current report suggests that even shorter-term sucking can have a notable impact. According to rese...

Particulate matter affects lung development

...ritical Care Medicine.// “This study confirms our earlier work showing that air pollution can have long-term effects on lung health in children. It also shows that cleaning up the air actually has a measurable effect on chindren’s health,” says Edward L. Avol, associate professor of research in preventive m...

Smoking stripes longevity

...lculated that smokers were likely to die 7.3 years earlier than non-smokers. The researchers admit that their calculation is unrefined as it relies on averages, assumes the health effects of smoking are evenly spread throughout a smoker's lifetime and postulates that the number of ciagrettes smoked througho...

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

...receive cholesterol-lowering medication. Under the earlier recommendations, the two sexes were roughly equal in eligibility. Now, men make up 55 percent of the pool and women 45 percent....

AAI Pharma Files Lawsuit Against Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

...won the case against the patent holder, EIi Lilly, earlier this year, this lawsuit should be fairly easier to go through. This is the second time that DRL has suffered a setback in the past three weeks as recently Novartis withdrew from developing its licensed anti-diabetes molecule to Novo Nordisk that had ...

WBC linked with periodontitis

... certain level." The current research supports on earlier work by the Forsyth team and other scientists who have studied the cellular and molecular basis of aggressive periodontitis. Specifically, the research team is studying the genetics of both the host and the infecting organisms. Working with Dr. Ni...

Scios Inc. targets drug giants in arthritis war

...nflammation. Scios' lead comes in part because an earlier trailblazer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. , was forced to drop back after its lead p38 kinase inhibitor showed toxicity in high doses in some animals. There are also many competitors. They include drug giant GlaxoSmithKline, which first isolated the p...

Periodontitis a common problem in patients with arthritis

..., such as red, swollen gums that bleed easily. The earlier you detect periodontal disease and treat it, the better off you are."...

Tomato Sauce reduces Cancer Risk- Study

..., the first author of the study, said it supported earlier research involving foods such as tomatoes that were high in lycopene, a powerful antioxidant. According to the author, these most recent findings add support to the notion that a diet rich in tomatoes and lycopene-containing foods, as well as other ...

The earlier the treatment, the more the benefit

...efore that deadline. Now, a new report finds that earlier treatment - in the first 90 minutes after symptoms begin - doubles the chances of full recovery compared with treatment that starts later. "If we can convince people that every minute counts, it could be a big boost. We can't relax for one minute. W...

New device for discerning Osteoarthritis

...new technique which images cartilage could lead to earlier detection of Osteoarthritis. An X ray exam is the ...o screen for Osteoarthritis, so it can be detected earlier and management started sooner. The other possibility is to use DEI to test new Osteoarthritis drugs,...

Drug Offers Hope for Alzheimer's disease

...The company is also exploring uses for the drug in earlier stages of the disease and in conjunction with currently approved treatments....

Alzheimer's with psychosis runs in families

... more aggressive behaviour, more swift decline and earlier need for institutional care. Researchers at the Alzheimer's disease Research Center in Dallas, US, have found that Alzheimer's with psychosis tends to run in families. They studied 200 people with the condition and found a further 400 siblings who ...

Blood test may aid foretell Alzheimer's

... are interested in an early screening test because earlier detection could mean starting treatment before symptoms -- such as forgetfulness, disorientation and dementia -- become unbearable. "There's a tremendous ethical question for diagnosing (early) a disease for which this is no cure," James L. Olds, a ...

No explanation on schizophrenia gene

...glas F. Levison and colleagues report that despite earlier findings to the contrary, there is no close link between schizophrenia and genes on the long arm of chromosome 1.// The researchers scoured the chromosome in more than 1,900 patients before reaching this conclusion."Schizophrenia is a complex psychi...

High Altitude ‘Speeds up ageing process

...living at high altitude may suggest that women age earlier at high altitudes. “These hormonal changes might have a significant effect on the lives of women living in hihg altitude areas suh as the Andes, the Alps, the Rockies, and the Himalayas.” A number of hormone systems change with age, under normal cir...

Detecting Colorectal Cancer

...-blood assessment, in detecting the disease in its earlier stages. Colorectal cancer causes about 300,000 deaths each year worldwide. The protein, mini chromosome maintenance protein 2 (MCM2), was found in 35 of 40 patients known to have colorectal cancer during a recent study. There was no protein found in...

Birth weight may be influenced by genes

...imilar role in people. In fact, a study published earlier this year found that while women smokers were more likely to have a low birth weight baby, the odds were greatest among women with certain genetic make-ups. Environmental factors like maternal smoking certainly play key roles in birth weight. But the...

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