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Key Trigger Of Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms Found

Researchers have discovered an important chemical in the brain's neuronal machinery that triggers some of the withdrawal symptoms of opioid drugs like morphine and heroin. They believe that drugs to inhibit the chemical--called a transporter--could relieve some of the early physical symptoms of withdrawal, such as teeth-chattering, uncontrolled shaking, and jumpiness. Such drugs could bec...

U. Iowa researchers improve Huntington's disease symptoms in mice

Researchers at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have taken another step toward a potential treatment for Huntington's disease (HD). Using an approach called RNA interference (RNAi), the scientists reduced levels of the disease-causing HD protein in mice and significantly improved the movement and neurological abnormalities normally associated with the diseas...

Menopause Symptoms May Come Back After Stopping Menopausal Hormone Therapy

Women who take soy or herbal supplements, such as black cohosh, red clover and ginseng, should do so with care, says a Cornell University expert affiliated with the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) at Cornell, the land-grant institution of New York state. "Although there is no direct evidence that any herbal medicines can increase or decrease breast cancer ri...

Variant prion protein causes infection but no symptoms

Abnormal prion proteins are little understood disease agents involved in causing horrific brain-wasting diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in people, mad cow disease in cattle and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk. Now, new research suggests that a variant form of abnormal prion protein--one lacking an "anchor" into the cell membrane--may be unable to signal cells to start the letha...

Bacteria in Household Dust May Trigger Asthma Symptoms

New research shows that bacteria lurking in household dust produce chemicals that may trigger asthma and asthma-related symptoms such as wheezing. These bacterial chemicals, called endotoxins, particularly those found on bedroom floors, were linked with increased respiratory problems in adults. This study, supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a part of the...

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Predictive medicine: Genes indicate diseases before symptoms do

Today, doctors still follow the same basic paradigm for healthcare, said William Clarke, executive...

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Cell transplants used to fend off Parkinson's symptoms

Doctors report they have had long-term success implanting cells into the brains of Parkinson's disease patients by passing a needle through the skull. Dr. Ray Watts, professor of //neurology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, told that patients had improved motor function - movement of their arms and legs - by up to 60% using this procedure. Watts implanted retinal pigm...

A hormone may decrease Menopause Symptoms

An experimental estrogen lotion appears to reduce the number of hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, according to results from a pivotal-stage trial of the drug Estrasorb. If approved by regulatory authorities, it would be the first estrogen replacement therapy in lotion form.// The drug's developer Novavax Inc. said that in a phase 3, 200-patient trial the lotion reduced by 8...

Occupational exposurer aises respiratory symptoms

According to a Norwegian study of 1656 subjects over an eleven year period reveals how exposure to dust and fumes in the workplace is linked to a significant increase in respiratory symptoms.// Initially, 2500 subjects from the city of Bergen and its surroundings were enrolled in 1985 and asked about lung symptoms, workplace dust and fume exposure, smoking habits and asthma. Then, aft...

Heart Attack Symptoms in Women

A new study shows the symptoms women experience before having a heart attack may be very different from the symptoms they expect to experience.// Researchers from the University of Arkansas interviewed more than 500 women who experienced a heart attack and were discharged from five different medical sites. The average age of the women studied was 66. Researchers asked the women to iden...

Heart Attack Symptoms Different in Women

A new study shows the symptoms women experience before having a heart attack may be very different //from the symptoms they expect to experience. Researchers interviewed more than 500 women who experienced a heart attack and were discharged from five different medical sites. The average age of the women studied was 66. Researchers asked the women to identify their symptoms before their h...

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Actemra (tocilizumab) Third Phase III Study Results Show Significant Improvement in Symptoms of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

- Multinational Phase III Study Meets Primary Endpoint inRheumatoid Arthritis Patients Who Failed to Respond to Anti-tumorNecrosis Factor Treatments - NUTLEY, N.J., July 10, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche todayannounced that results from the Actemra Radiate (RheumAtoiDArthritIs Study in Anti-TNF FailurEs) trial successfully met itsprimary endpoint in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoi...

New Poll Shows Men, Women Incorrectly Blame Symptoms of Low Testosterone on Normal Aging

Women Report Partner's Symptoms Negatively Affect Relationship BOCA RATON, Fla., June 25, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Results of a newnationwide survey show that more than half of women whose malepartners have symptoms of a medical condition known as lowtestosterone incorrectly attribute them to the normal course ofaging. The survey also found that, while women believe their malepartner's sympto...

Actemra (tocilizumab) Significantly Improves Symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis Compared to a Current Standard of Care

NUTLEY, N.J., June 15, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Results of theOption (TOcilizumab Pivotal Trial in Methotrexate InadequaterespONders) trial, the first multinational Phase III study outsideof Japan, showed that patients treated with Actemra (either 4mg/kgor 8mg/kg) plus methotrexate achieved a significant and clinicallyimportant improvement in the signs and symptoms of moderate tosevere rheum...

Cimzia Effective in Reducing Signs and Symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis

New Data Presented at EULAR Confirms Efficacy with Either EveryTwo Weeksn or Monthly Dosing BARCELONA, Spain, 14 June 2007 - 7:00 am CET - New pivotal data(RAPID 1 and RAPID 2) presented at the Annual European Congress ofRheumatology (EULAR) show that Cimzia (certolizumab pegol), thefirst PEGylated, Fc-free anti-TNF, combined with methotrexatetherapy has a rapid and significant eff...

New Data Confirms Significant Improvement of Disease Signs and Symptoms in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Second Multinational Phase III Study Provides Further Evidence ofthe Significant Role of IL-6 Receptor Inhibition in the Treatmentof Rheumatoid Arthritis BASEL, Switzerland, June 6, 2007-Roche announced today thatToward (1), the second multinational phase III Actemra(tocilizumab) study, successfully reached its primary endpoint andshowed that a greater proportion of patients treated with...

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