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Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis

Directly observed therapy (DOT) has no quantitatively important effect on cure rates or treatment completion in people receiving treatment for tuberculosis (TB).

18 Apr 2006

Inhaled corticosteroids ease asthma symptoms

Adults and children with asthma will breathe deeper and have better control over their asthma with inhaled corticosteroids than with the medicine cromolyn, according to a new review of recent studies comparing the two treatments.

18 Apr 2006

Prostate cancer research may be faster with prostate-specific antigen endpoints

A new study from Columbia University Medical Center researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia, who are members of the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG), suggests that certain changes in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels may serve as surrogate endpoints for prostate cancer survival.

18 Apr 2006

Fast tracking the healing process for common ear infections

The research will aim to understand why some eardrums heal by themselves (and why some do not heal at all) by identifying which genes are responsible for the wound-healing process of an infected human ear drum.

18 Apr 2006

It's a vicious circle - exposure to stress causes anxiety and depression

Experts in the United States say the results of a study with mice suggests that stress in itself may cause anxiety and depression.

18 Apr 2006

Genetic switch that links animal growth and cancer

Laboratory discoveries by scientists at two universities may lead to new directions in cancer therapy drugs. The researchers have discovered that a genetic switch involved in growth and development of an animal is the same one used to prevent normal cells from becoming cancerous.

18 Apr 2006

STEPPS group treatment for borderline personality disorder in The Netherlands

Trade between countries usually involves products. However, one successful export from the United States to the Netherlands, Norway and several other countries is a cognitive therapy treatment program created by University of Iowa experts to help people with borderline personality disorder.

18 Apr 2006

Locally injected steroids may not do much good for chronic headache pain

Locally injected steroids apparently don't enhance treatments for acute headache or migraine pain.

18 Apr 2006

Anxiogenic-like effect of chronic corticosterone in the light-dark emergence task in mice

Neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School and its affiliate McLean Hospital have shown that long-term exposure to stress hormone in mice directly results in the anxiety that often comes with depression.

18 Apr 2006

Saccharide complexes improve binding of Pentosanpolysulfate and Heparin to bladder epithelium

Anionic glycosaminoglycans including pentosanpolysulphate (PPS) and heparin show weak or no staining of the bladder epithelium and thus do not bind to human or rabbit bladder epithelium in any appreciable amounts.

17 Apr 2006

First gene therapy human trial in the United States for a form of muscular dystrophy under way

The clinical trial for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) tests the safety and effectiveness of a therapy that was developed over two decades by scientists at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh.

16 Apr 2006

Computer program lets people with Trigeminal neuralgia diagnose themselves

Trigeminal neuralgia, or TN, is a disorder affecting the areas of the face where the trigeminal nerve's branches are distributed, including the lips, eyes, nose, scalp, forehead, and upper and lower jaws.

13 Apr 2006

Hormone therapy associated with increased risk of breast cancer among black women

Previous research has suggested that the long-term use of female hormone therapy is associated with an increased risk of developing breast cancer, according to background information in the article.

13 Apr 2006

Angiotension-converting enzyme inhibitors may reduce cardiovascular risk

Angiotension-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, medications commonly used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure), may reduce cardiovascular risk and the risk of death in patients with coronary artery disease, according to a new analysis of previously conducted clinical trials reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

13 Apr 2006

A hormone receptor with regulatory roles in food intake, fear response, and cardiovascular function may also be involved in breast cancer

The UC research team, led by Hassane Amlal, PhD, and Sulaiman Sheriff, PhD, report their laboratory findings on the hormone, neuropeptide Y, and its receptor in the April edition of the journal Cancer Research.

13 Apr 2006

No evidence that taking estrogen alone increases the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women

The findings come three years after a related WHI study found that a different type of hormone therapy - which combined estrogen and progestin - did result in a higher risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women.

13 Apr 2006

Advances in chemotherapy significantly reduce risk of disease recurrence in breast cancer patients

Recent advances in chemotherapy have significantly reduced the risk of disease recurrence and death in breast cancer patients whose tumors are not hormone sensitive, according to a study by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and 10 other institutions.

13 Apr 2006

Therapy News and Research

Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis

Inhaled corticosteroids ease asthma symptoms

Prostate cancer research may be faster with prostate-specific antigen endpoints

Fast tracking the healing process for common ear infections

It's a vicious circle - exposure to stress causes anxiety and depression

Genetic switch that links animal growth and cancer

STEPPS group treatment for borderline personality disorder in The Netherlands

Locally injected steroids may not do much good for chronic headache pain

Anxiogenic-like effect of chronic corticosterone in the light-dark emergence task in mice

Saccharide complexes improve binding of Pentosanpolysulfate and Heparin to bladder epithelium

First gene therapy human trial in the United States for a form of muscular dystrophy under way

Computer program lets people with Trigeminal neuralgia diagnose themselves

Hormone therapy associated with increased risk of breast cancer among black women

Angiotension-converting enzyme inhibitors may reduce cardiovascular risk

A hormone receptor with regulatory roles in food intake, fear response, and cardiovascular function may also be involved in breast cancer

No evidence that taking estrogen alone increases the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women

Advances in chemotherapy significantly reduce risk of disease recurrence in breast cancer patients

Environmental scientists identify new culprits in the cancer equation

Maintaining high blood pressure treatment may reduce the risk of dementia in old age

Drug firms in the business of 'diseasemongering'

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