Hope for Babies Born With Spinal Muscular Atrophy
One in 5,000 babies is born with SMA ( a terminal condition called spinal muscular atrophy ).// Eighty percent of those babies have a severe form of the disease. No treatment has shown effect against this disorder and these babies rarely live until their second birthday . Although children with SMA have many physical disabilities, they do score well on IQ tests. The pathology of SMA is s...Vaginal atrophy drug Ospemifene found effective in breast cancer Prevention
Study results from two research papers have shown that use of the drug Ospemifene in combination with other anti-estrogens for vaginal atrophy reduces the incidence of breast cancer. // The study has been proved in mouse model and researchers are planning for a clinical trial. DeGregorio and his colleagues at UC Davis compared the ability of ospemifene, tamoxifen and raloxifen to inhi...Face, Facial Lipoatrophy With Radiesse, FDA Certifies
Rockville-The Food and Drug Administration has given the go-ahead to the new cosmetic filler, Radiesse, to treat chronic facial lipoatrophy, otherwise called fat loss,// occurring in patients with AIDS or HIV. This calcium based treatment, is found to assist in the manufacture of collagen. To ascertain the potential benefits of this filler, FDA embarked on a study of 100 HIV patients...Extent of Brain Involvement at Diagnosis May Predict Brain Atrophy
In patients with recently diagnosed multiple sclerosis, the extent of accumulated brain tissue loss and overall// lesion load as determined by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may predict the rate of cerebral atrophy. MRI provides valuable information about the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), according to background information in the article. MRI is used to monitor the number...Treatment Extends Survival in Mouse Model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Drug therapy can extend survival and improve movement in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), new research shows. The study, carried out at the NIH’s National// Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), suggests that similar drugs might one day be useful for treating human SMA. "This study shows that treatment can be effective when started after the disease ap...