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Black and White in ‘Shades of Grey

... in accordance to the requirement, enhanced by the selective trends of nature. This resulted in a ‘descent with modification’ as proposed by Darwin, providing the phenotypic variations characteristic of the humans. Discrimination, in some form or the other, has always been part of the history of the hum...

No Evidence to Support Many Off-label Uses of Atypical Antipsychotics

... Depression: For patients who don’t benefit from selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), the supplemental use of atypical antipsychotics was not helpful, according to research. No studies showed the drugs provided a clear benefit for patients with major depressive disorder with psychotic features. E...

Tamoxifen Discontinuation Rates Surprisingly High

...h as indicated by previous studies. Tamoxifen is a selective estrogen receptor modulator that inhibits the stimulatory effect that estrogen has on the development of specific types of breast cancer. Scientists estimate that over 40,000 recurrences are prevented each year worldwide because of this drug. However...

Prozac-popping Elders at Higher Risk of Fractures

...ly used include Prozac and Paxil. These are called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs. Around one in every ten elderly American suffers from depression and SSRIs are the normal means of treatment. Says Goltzman,"There is good scientific evidence that serotonin is involved in bone physiology, a...

Citalopram, a Boon in Treating Depressed Heart Patients

...ngs from a study that indicates the superiority of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) like celexa in combating// depression. Dr. Fran?ois Lespérance, a psychiatrist at the University of Montreal and his colleagues published their findings in this week’s edition of the Journal of the American Med...

UIC Researchers Receive $2.1 Million Grant

...o from mania to depression and back again. Safe, selective GSK-3 inhibitors are needed as both pharmacological tools and as therapeutics for application to a variety of , including several bipolar disorders, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, Kozikowski said. His group has already identified some...

Oral Flu Vaccine On The Horizon In Russia

...pment of newer adjuvants that offer more potent or selective immune stimulation. For example, around two-thirds of GlaxoSmithKline's vaccines in development are formulated with new proprietary adjuvant technologies. Although, FluMist has been on the market since 2003, it remains a minor player compared to i...

Some Antidepressants can Double a Smoker’s Chance Of Quittin

...f giving up smoking and have few side-effects, but selective Serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as fluo...rease a person’s chances of giving up smoking, but selective Serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as fluoxetine (Prozac) do not. An updated version of the review p...

Newer Class of Antidepressants Similar in Effectiveness, Side Effects Differ

... Second-generation antidepressants, which include selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), are often prescribed because first-generation antidepressants (such as tricyclic antidepressants, or TCAs) can cause intolerable side effects and carr...

Ultrasound Technology - Boon or a Bane?

... as a tool to probe the foetus' sex and led to sex selective eliminations. In a country like India, where mo...were suspected of carrying out the practice of sex selective elimination. But the order was set aside by state authorities and the clinics continued to functi...

Health Issues That Can Impact Sexual Satisfaction

...or patients whose depression is being treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) medications – such as Prozac, Paxil, Celexa and other drugs – or other antidepressants, side effects can include a loss of interest in sex and ejaculation problems. With all of these types of medication and any ...

An Aspirin a Day Keeps Heart Disease Away

...e women from using hormone replacement therapy and selective estrogen receptor modulators such as the osteoporosis drug raloxifene to prevent heart disease. They also say supplements such as vitamin E, C, folic acid and beta-carotene do not prevent heart disease and should not be taken to prevent it. Howe...

Researchers Discover Gene Essencial to Cerebellum Formation

...n of truncal nerve cells (or stem cells) and their selective differentiation into 'gabergic' neurons, or cells that contain the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and that act as inhibitors. Eduardo Soriano, Principal Investigator of the Developmental Neurobiology and Regeneration laboratory at ...

‘Emotional’ Genetic Marker for Heart Diseases in Women Identifid

...nsomnia, dizziness, or memory loss that respond to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors [SSRIs]”, he adds. Halder opines that her research which looked at the relationship between variations in the serotonin receptor gene and anger and hostility, have found a genetic marker that may be may be useful for ...

"Cell Suicide Bombers" to Stop Cancer Growth

...ave not been revealed, it has been stated that the selective activation of a gene called p73 caused cell death in tumors. The Beatson facility, only recently thrown open, is touted as the most advanced cancer center in the UK. It boasts of state-of-the-art scanning equipment and was built at a huge cost of a...

Erectile Dysfunction in Diabetes Due to Defect in the NO Mechanisms

... that erectile dysfunction in diabetes is due to a selective defect in the NO mechanisms within the PVN. This defect is a loss in the synthetic enzyme for the production of NO within the neurons of the PVN. Restoring this synthetic enzyme may have a significant therapeutic value for diabetic patients with ED. ...

A Novel Treatment for KSHV-infected Lymphomas

...ploiting reactivation of p53 as a novel and highly selective treatment modality for this virally-induced lympho...tive regulator MDM2. This is based on a potent and selective small-molecule inhibitor of the p53–MDM2 interaction, the Nutlin-3a, originally discovered by Dr Lyu...

Barking Up the Right Tree to Cure Retinoblastoma

...at it kills at very low doses and it appears to be selective to cancer,' O'Brien said. SAV...

Scientists Develop Bacteria-resistant Fish

...eveloped 15 different families of the fish through selective breeding technique and injected them the same bacteria to study the resistance. "It showed encouraging results," Sahoo said. "The Jayanti Rohu is recording 17 percent more growth per generation." In the absence of any commercial vaccine, the impr...

Study Finds No Conclusive Benefit from Treating Kleptomania

...rug belongs to a class of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and earlier studies have suggested that SSRIs can be effective in treating some impulse control disorders, such as skin picking. In an earlier, non-blinded open-label phase of the kleptomania study, when trial participa...

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