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Restless Legs Syndrome - Help at hand

...rchers studied 24 patients who were given either a placebo or the medication gabapentin for a six-week period. Physical and neurological examinations were done at the beginning of the study, at the first visit, and at the end of the study. Researchers also conducted sleep studies to monitor movement during t...

A Compilation of recent Diabetes Research articles

...women with type 2 diabetes who //either received a placebo or a dietary supplement with phytoestrogens. Phytoestrogens are naturally occurring compound of plants, such as soybeans, or plant products, such as whole grain cereals, that act like estrogen in the body. The participants were put on this regime for...

Need for Blood Transfusions reduced

...ys. Participants were assigned to receive either a placebo or 40,000 units of rHuEPO on day three in the ICU...usion. More than 59 percent of patients taking the placebo had transfusions in contrast to 50.6 percent of patients taking rHuEPO. Around 18 percent reduction ...

Lamictal as add-on therapy for children with epilepsy

...nti-epilepsy drugs (AEDs). The study was a 18 week placebo controlled study in which 200 patients aged betwee...EDs, were randomized to treatment with Lamictal or placebo added to their current AED regimen of up to two drugs (Lamictal: 99, placebo: 101). The results show...

Lowering blood pressure beneficial for PAD patients

...ssure and 52 of whom had PAD, were given, either a placebo or a blood pressure lowering drug. In the first gr...rt attacks, while among the 31 PAD patients in the placebo group, 12 were reported to have suffered from heart attacks. The importance of lowering blood press...

Kidney function can be affected by lead exposure

...ead. The subjects in the group were given either a placebo or chelation therapy - a method of removing lead. They found that those on chelation therapy had an improved glomerular filtration rate (GFR) compared to those on placebo. It was also found that the rate of decline of the GFR, which is a standard mea...

Former smokers can be protected with vitamin A derivative

...roup of former smokers that was given either RA or placebo for three months. A lung biopsy that was taken later showed that there was a marked increase in the activity of RAR in the active treatment group. The researchers claim that, though this study did not prove that RA prevents cancer in former smokers, ...

Lower chance of bone fracture with Vitamin D supplementation

...y. They sent either one capsule of Vitamin D3 or a placebo every four months for five years. They asked the participants to provide them with information on bone fractures// and any major illnesses. They found that those who were given the vitamin D3 capsule had a 22 per cent lower rate for first fracture at...

Treatment over a longer period for blood clotting

...dard treatment and then were assigned to receive a placebo or low-intensity warfarin. Participants were follo... found that 37 of the 253 patients assigned to the placebo had recurrent venous thromboembolism, as compared with 14 of the 255 patients on the low-intensity w...

New treatment for interstitial cystitis

...ts responded well compared to only 27 percent in a placebo group. Interstitial cystitis is a condition whose causes are not clearly known and hence treatments are aimed at relieving symptoms. In 1996, Elmiron? (pentosan polysulfate sodium), the first oral drug developed for interstitial cystitis, was approv...

Estrogen Patch is Safer than Pills for Heart

...e protein in blood was unchanged when women took a placebo or used the estrogen patch, but rose when they took estrogen in the pill form....

Antiseizure Drug in help for Alcoholics

... cut back drinking sharply. In comparison with the placebo treatment, those given Topiramate were six times more likely to abstain from drinking. It is believed that the drug acts against the chemicals that provide pleasure from alcohol. While Antabuse, an anti-drinking drug //makes people sick when they dri...

Hormone Therapy Linked to Dementia

...e dementia. This was compared to 34 percent in the placebo group. Patients, whom researchers believed developed dementia as a result of taking the hormone therapy, were given neuro-psychological tests and were evaluated by physicians. Authors of the study say the results are unexpected and are in striking co...

Try Iron to overcome fatigue

... 136 women either 80 milligrams a day of iron or a placebo for four weeks. The study shows the level of fatig...nt in the iron group compared to 13 percent in the placebo group.// The difference in depression was not statistically different between the two groups, but a ...

Antidepressant Helps Relieve Hot Flashes

...ered by women in the study.Women who took an inert placebo also had fewer hot flashes, though the improvement was not as great as with the drug, which cut hot flashes to a median of 3.8 per day from 7.1 per day in women taking a relatively low daily dosage of 12.5 milligrams of Paxil. Paxil and other antid...

Breaking up Dangerous Clots

...rgery, was 35 percent in the patients who received placebo vs. 1.4 percent in those who received fondaparinux...rend towards more major bleeding than those in the placebo group. Finding ways to prevent dangerous blood clots in hip surgery patients is a major concern amo...

Tea Pill Lowers Cholesterol

...ought to have cholesterol-lowering properties or a placebo pill. The study lasted for 12 weeks. At the end o...sterol measures did not change in those taking the placebo pill. The tea pill was well tolerated in the participants. Researchers say these findings indicate ...

Finasteride lowers risk of prostate cancer but increases risk of high-grade tumors

...18.4%, compared with 24.4% of the 4692 assigned to placebo group, a significant difference (p Treatment was...s administered finasteride and 9.8% of those given placebo because of side effects. Finasteride was more likely to affect sexual functioning, whereas placebo w...

Finasteride lowers risk of prostate cancer but increases risk of high-grade tumors

...18.4%, compared with 24.4% of the 4692 assigned to placebo group, a significant difference (p Treatment was...s administered finasteride and 9.8% of those given placebo because of side effects. Finasteride was more likely to affect sexual functioning, whereas placebo w...

Reduced Fatigue Boosts Mental Health

...Aranesp at a starting dose of 2.25 micrograms or a placebo once a week for 12 weeks. Patients then completed questionnaires.// At the beginning of the study, 25 percent of patients reported high levels of anxiety while 35 percent of patients reported high levels of depression, both higher levels than are re...

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