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Drug Effective for Vascular Dementia

... improvements in cognitive function as measured by standard tests when compared with those who received the placebo. The 10-milligram per day dose resulted in additional treatment benefits on a test aimed at measuring dementia severity. The drug was also well tolerated, causing few unwanted side effects among...

Better Drug for Heart Transplant

...gs were given once a day in combination with other standard treatments. Researchers followed patients for one year to determine if they had any complications from the transplant. Researchers report the patients on either dose of everolimus fared much better than the patients on azathioprine. After one year, ...

New Treatment for Some Cancers

...n the area of the tumors. But the radioactivity of standard radio-isotopes currently used in this treatment doesn't have enough energy to slow down or destroy tumors. Bone metastases act like a magnet to this kind of radioactive phosphorous compound, which collects near the cancer cells and damages or destro...

Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.

...ents. They were put on two different regimens -- a standard low-cal, low-fat, high-carb diet and a low-GI plan that let them eat all they wanted. After one year, the low-GI volunteers had dropped seven pounds of pure fat. The others had put on four. Now he is repeating the study on 100 heavy teenagers. Even ...

Music soothes labour pain

...r started. The women in the second group received standard care during labour. Standard care at the two hospitals was to not give analgesic medication to women in labour because of its effect on the infants. Much less pain and distressThe women's reports of labour pain were measured during the first three h...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

...cience is the first for a companion animal. // A standard size poodle named Shadow, the family pet of gene researcher J. Craig Venter, provided the specimen that researchers used to sequence the canine genes. "Shadow is now one of history's most valuable dogs," said Venter, founder and leader of one of th...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

.../ Science is the first for a companion animal. A standard size poodle named Shadow, the family pet of gene researcher J. Craig Venter, provided the specimen that researchers used to sequence the canine genes. "Shadow is now one of history's most valuable dogs," said Venter, founder and leader of one of th...

Ginseng Associated with Pregnancy Risks

...than 30 micrograms scored significantly lower on a standard test to assess organ development. The scores went down as the dose of the ginsenoside increased. Researchers say, their study has demonstrated that ginsenoside exerts a direct teratogenic effect on rat embryos: that is to say it is capable of causin...

Drug-Coated Stent

...ents received either a sirolimus-coated stent or a standard stent. The researchers report the rate of the artery re-closing with the use of the sirolimus stent was reduced from 21 percent to 8.5 percent. Researchers say, "In this randomized clinical trial involving patients with complex coronary lesions, the...

Promising Treatment for Diabetes

... of these complications than those who remained on standard oral medications. The study involved 16 patients. Eight remained on usual care and eight discontinued their usual oral medications and received a continuous infusion of GLP-1 via an infusion pump for 12 weeks. Although blood sugar levels and body we...

Corticosteroids Safe for Bones

...s lung disorders. She concluded, “ICS treatment at standard doses in patients with asthma or COPD does not have a clinically meaningful effect on BMD.” <BR...

Easier Treatment for Blood Clot

...monary embolism annually; 60,000 die from one. The standard treatment for a pulmonary embolism is intravenous ...roblem compared to 56 of the 1,110 patients on the standard treatment. They also found major bleeding occurred in 1.3 percent of the patients on fondaparinux co...

Extended Therapy for Blood Clots

An oral drug given after a standard six-month treatment could help prevent future bloo...tran or placebo as a treatment after the six-month standard treatment. The study included 1,233 patients with VTE who had six months of anticoagulant therapy. ...

New Test for HIV Patients

...se measurements with those obtained using the gold standard for CD4 assessment. Researchers say the filter-paper method compared well with the standard method. Investigators say, based on this study, the dried blood stored on filter paper may be a fiel...

Sudden Cardiac Death due to inherited Heart Disease

...eeded to better understand the most cost-effective standard of care and also how to help those left behind after a sudden unexplained death....

Corticosteroids Safe for Bones

...s lung disorders. She concluded, "ICS treatment at standard doses in patients with asthma or COPD does not have a clinically meaningful effect on BMD....

Leech Therapy for Osteoarthritis

...ned to receive either traditional treatment with a standard topical medication for 28 days or a single treatment involving the application of four to six leeches to the affected area. At a one week follow-up, patients who received the leech therapy reported significantly less pain than those who were using t...

Partial-Breast Irradiation an Unproven Therapy

...year results aren't long enough to say, 'This is a standard alternative.'" Interest in partial-breast irradiation heightened after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new radiation device in 2002. Bearing radioactive seeds, it's implanted after a lumpectomy into the site from which the tu...

Tomatoes Might Inhibit the Development Of Prostate Cancer

...er, some were fed lycopene alone, and others had a standard diet. The whole tomato powder contained lycopene a...e cancer than rats fed diets of pure lycopene or a standard diet. Specifically, the rats fed the tomato powder had a 26-percent lower risk of prostate cancer de...

Breast Cancer Survivors Worry About Infertility

... in this age group go through menopause because of standard treatment, and some studies even show a zero-percent incidence in patients. Ann H. Partridge, M.D., says this study should serve as a wakeup call for health care providers. "We don't have a great system for educating these women and showing them da...

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