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Early therapy aids eyesight

...most common form of glaucoma appears to impact the progression of vision loss.// This has very few significant si... about 25 percent. Many patients showed no disease progression during the study. However, researchers are concerned that as many as 20 percent of treated patients ...

Laser may stop macular degeneration

...ill lead to resorption of the drusen and delay the progression of the condition. Researchers hope to recruit 800 patients for this study, and they hope to answer two main questions. First, should the laser be used as a prophylactic treatment for everyone? And, second, they hope to determine whether the laser ke...

Shunt for Alzheimer's Disease

...t a surgically implanted shunt could help slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The research focuses on draining cerebrospinal fluid. This type of shunting was first used in 1970 for dementia, however the procedure was no longer used// when there seemed to be a high incidence of side effects related to th...

Tumour marker for melanoma found

...c to that cancer which might aid in monitoring the progression of the disease. Scientists at New York University now report on a molecular marker called HDM2 which appears to be important in tracking melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer. They studied a group of 132 patients with various grades of mel...

Protein in eye fights diseases

...he drug can then prevent the onset of and stop the progression of uveitis in mice. Uveitis is a sight-stealing autoimmune disease. "The results of our study are exciting and significant because they confirm for the first time that this factor can be successful in the treatment of an autoimmune disease, somethin...

Progression of Glaucoma could be controlled with early detection

...x years, found that 53 percent of the patients had progression of their glaucoma. They reported that the progression risk was cut in half in patients who were treated as compared to those who were not treated. They ad...

Lifestyle linked to prostate cancer risk

...chers discovered that patients with a high risk of progression were significantly more likely to be obese.// Moreover they exercise less than twice a week and do not undergo annual prostate screening. On the contrary, those who have kept their weight down, exercise regularly and were screened regularly for sign...

Missing Protein In Cancer Development

...his proliferation of centrosomes may be key in the progression of breast, prostate and colon tumors. However there are other factors involved in this process. What is identified an just an regulator....

Lithium May help in Alzheimer's Disease

...y it is unclear what role tau plays in cellsin the progression of Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's disease usualy starts at the age of 60 years and involves the parts of the brain that control thought, memory, and language. At present we do not know what causes Alzheimer's and there is no cure....

Age-Related Macular Degeneration - Risk Factors

...hip ratio, and physical activity would have on the progression of the disease. About 100 patients progressed to more advanced disease during the study. Results showed those with a higher body mass index, higher waist circumference, and higher waist-to-hip ratio were all around two-times more likely to develop t...

Brain Scans Help Predict Alzheimer's Disease

...0s. The patients' neurologists first predicted the progression of the disease without seeing the PET scans, then ...y-four percent of neurologists correctly predicted progression of the disease without a PET scan, rising to 94 percent when a PET scan was available. Overall, pat...

Drug to Prevent the Onset of Arthritis

... the molecular pathways that are implicated in the progression of arthritis. They hope this understanding will help in the discovery of novel targets for arthritis drugs....

Shyness Linked To HIV Progression

...up for 12 months to 18 months, measuring their HIV progression and response to antiretroviral therapy. Researchers found men who reacted negatively to stress tests and other psychological measures had viral loads that were about eight-times higher than those who were not considered to be socially inhibited. Th...

Onset Linked To Severity of Asthma

...e patients suffered different symptoms and disease progression based on the age of onset. Eighty patients with severe asthma that could not be controlled by steroids participated in the study. They were divided into two groups including those diagnosed before 12 years old and those who developed the disease la...

Hope for Babies Born With Spinal Muscular Atrophy

... Lou Gehrig’s disease. The drug riluzole slows the progression of ALS, and a small study shows it may do the same for babies with SMA. Of the 10 babies in the trial, three received a placebo. All died in the first year. Seven were given riluzole. Four of those babies died too, but three survived and are still ...

A Combination Of Drugs Effective In The Treatment Of Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer

...uivalent response. The patients' median time to progression was 10 months, with a range of 6 months to over 20 months. Two patients are living; 8 died due to disease progression; and 2 died of other causes. The toxicity episodes consisted of 6 neutropaenic events, all afebrile. Otherwise, the investigators do...

New Drug For Parkinson’s Disease With Less Side Effect

...es of Parkinson’s disease but it may even slow the progression of the disease. // The new drug rasagiline is found to cause fewer side effects than many Parkinson’s drugs, including less sleepiness, nausea and fewer hallucinations. Treatment of Parkinson’s symptoms allow patients to better carry out everyday ta...

Fruits found To Be Good For Eyes

...ng high doses of some of these vitamins slowed the progression of the disease in those already diagnosed with it. Thus researchers looked at fruit and vegetable intake and vitamin-supplement use among about 77,500 women and 41,000 men taking part in larger health studies. All were at least 50 years old at the ...

Identifying Virus Found To Be Essential for HIV Patients

...tions that spread out of control and led to faster progression of the disease and shorter time to death. Resear...re CMV positive had significantly shorter times to progression of the disease and a fourfold shorter time to death when compared to those who were CMV negative. T...

Embryonic Cells Might Prevent Parkinson’s Disease From Worsenin

...e may be able to stop or even slightly improve the progression of the disease if they undergo a surgical procedure to implant // embryonic cells into their brains, say researchers. The cells work by producing dopamine, a neurochemical that helps control movement. People with Parkinson’s don’t produce enough dopa...

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