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Emory Participates in Study to Slow Progression of Parkinson's Disease

...s a nutritional supplement, but is not an approved therapy for PD or any other condition. Studies have suggested that it can improve energy production by the mitochondria, the "powerhouse" of cellular metabolism. In persons without PD and in patients with PD, it can improve exercise performance so long as th...

Lack of Timely Intervention Results in Needless Death Due to Stroke in US

...serious as stroke and where you basically have one therapy and it's only used in 3 to 4 percent of patients."With strokes , rapid treatment is crucial. During a stroke, an estimated 1.9 million nerve cells and 7.5 miles of nerve fiber die each minute. Half of all strokes could be prevented if patients cont...

Study Tests Depression Treatment for Diabetes Patients

...ffectiveness of a combination of exercise and talk therapy as a treatment for depression in patients with typ...eir doctors. Its important, too, to know that talk therapy has been shown to be effective in treating depression in type 2 diabetes, she said, and that antidep...

Breast Cancer on Rise Across Middle East

...Tamoxifen has been the gold standard for endocrine therapy in early breast cancer. In recent trials, however, third generation aromatase inhibitors, such as Letrozole, have been shown to be more effective than Tamoxifen in advanced disease, neoadjuvant therapy, and adjuvant therapy. "Endocrine therapy, suc...

Remicade Responders Maintain Improvement

...h less than five percent of patients discontinuing therapy due to an adverse event (AE). As previously reported, other notable serious adverse events (SAEs) included: prostate cancer, breast cancer, pneumonia, sarcoidosis, abscess and a death following Histoplasmosis pneumonia....

Blood from Bird Flu Survivors Provides Breakthrough in Treatment of H5N1

...ystem molecules from survivors could provide a new therapy for the hard-to-treat H5N1 flu strain. If the research pans out, it could be possible to stockpile these antibodies, the immune system's search-and-destroy force, as an additional way to treat or even prevent H5N1 in case the worrisome flu strain e...

Personality Changes may Help to Identify a Form of Dementia

...t features of dementia may enable doctors to begin therapy as soon as possible. This will become increasingly important as newer, potentially disease-modifying medications are developed. It also gives the patient and family members more time to plan for the progressive decline," said study author James E. Ga...

Specific Imbalance Between Two Peptides may Cause Alzheimer's

...rils. "This has the potential to become a simple therapy to prevent the formation of toxic AB42 species. I ...ical advantage of using AB40 for the prevention or therapy for Alzheimers is that AB40 is already known to be largely free of side effects at near physiologica...

IDRI and Chembio to Develop Tests for Leishmaniasis and Leprosy

..., it became possible to treat leprosy. A multidrug therapy (MDT) comprised of several drugs given orally for ...vere side effects. Although combination antibiotic therapy provided during the early stages of the disease reduces disease progression and spread, poor diagnos...

Aerobic Exercise Helps Maintain Muscle in Elderly: Research

...s and California suggests that a simple, cost-free therapy appears to largely overcome that drop-off in insulin response: moderate aerobic exercise such as walking. Experiments at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles conducted on ...

Significant Scientific Breakthrough in Stem Cell Banking

...servation, maybe of significant value to stem cell therapy applications. "Storing MSCs from the cord lining has the potential to broaden future cellular therapeutic application. We already know that umbilical cord blood contains stem cells which could be turned into many tissues including brain, liver and ...

CIGNA HealthCare Teams With HopeLab to Help Blast Teen Cancer

...ng that Re-Mission helps patients adhere to cancer therapy regimens. Re-Mission was developed by HopeLab through a collaborative process that included video game developers and animators, cancer experts, cell biologists, psychologists, and young people with cancer themselves. Re-Mission's 20 levels of game...

IDD Therapy Offers Non-Surgical Back Pain Relief

...is, sciatica and acute or chronic back pain. IDD therapy is deployed via the Accu-SPINA System, and works t...te the area of stress,' says Dr. Arber. 'While IDD therapy is not currently reimbursable by insurance carriers, the cost of getting lower-back surgery is far g...

Monogram Presents Results of First ETag Breast Cancer Studies

...+) breast cancers respond equally well to targeted therapy with Herceptin. And second, why do many HER2(+) breast cancers develop resistance to Herceptin treatment. The presentations are: 'Differential survival following trastuzumab treatment based on quantitative HER2 expression and HER2-HER2 dimerizatio...

Human Stem Cell Therapy Restores Motor Function to Paralyzed Rats

...testing the safety and efficacy of human stem cell therapy in other animal models, and may begin clinical tri...imilar results. The researchers believe that the therapy may eventually prove even more effective in human patients. "Physical therapy may accelerate integ...

New Drugs Hold Hope for HIV Patients

...6, when the near miraculous effects of combination therapy were first observed, the authors wrote. The findings of the study were published in the British Medical Journal....

Genetic Testing Helping Cancer Survivors Fight For Their Loved Ones

... such as closer medical surveillance, drug/hormone therapy for prevention, or surgery to thwart the onset of cancer even though they show no signs of developing the disease. In essence, genetic testing is helping cancer survivors fight for their loved ones. Dinora Niedzwiedz was tested after her mother dev...

Survey Shows Asthma Not Controlled in Severe Asthma Patients

...for at least one year who were prescribed standard therapy for preventing symptoms. Over the past 15 years, the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program has emphasized daily preventive management as opposed to treating asthma attacks. The objective of the Real-World Evaluation of Asthma Control and...

Patients With OSA at Higher Risk for Cardiovascular Disease

...tic endothelial cells as a marker to fine-tune the therapy is one potential application. This may potentially reduce OSA patients risk of CVD. Dr. El Sohl mentioned that statins, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, and vitamin C reduce enthothelial apoptosis, but it is not known if these agents could h...

Implanting Electrodes in the Brain Could Help Treat Severe Depression

...amining the prospects of deep brain stimulation, a therapy used to treat tremors associated with Parkinson's disease, to treat depression. The idea behind the study is to rearrange disordered neural activity in the brain in a parallel way to how a person might reboot a computer to terminate a problem. Th...

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