News tagged with new medicines

Scientists sound alarm over threat of untreatable gonorrhea in United States

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers are continuing to sound the alarm on the growing threat of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in the United States, according to a perspective  in the Feb. 9 issue of the New En ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tai Chi program helps Parkinson's disease patients

An Oregon Research Institute (ORI) exercise study conducted in four Oregon cities has shown significant benefits for patients with mild-to-moderate Parkinson's disease. In an original article published in the February 9, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Drug costs, not volume, causes regional differences in Medicare drug spending

The cost of medications through Medicare's subsidized prescription drug program varies from region to region across the United States largely due to the use of more expensive brand-name drugs and not because of the amount ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Scientists strengthen memory by stimulating key site in brain

Ever gone to the movies and forgotten where you parked the car? New UCLA research may one day help you improve your memory.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NIAID scientists consider 200 years of infectious diseases

Unpredictable, ever-changing and with potentially far-reaching effects on the fates of nations, infectious diseases are compelling actors in the drama of human history, note scientists from the National Institute of Allergy ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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New European pill works against uterine fibroids

New research offers hope for the first pill to treat a common problem in young women: fibroids in the uterus. The growths can cause pain, heavy bleeding and fertility problems, and they are the leading cause of hysterectomies.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Seasonal changes may influence the efficacy of vaccination against diabetes

The development of a medicine for patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus, based on autoantigen GAD65, received a setback following crucial clinical phase 3 trials that failed to show significant effects. One possible explanation ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers discover the processes leading to acute myeloid leukemia

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a molecular pathway that may explain how a particularly deadly form of cancer develops. The discovery may lead to new cancer therapies that reprogram cells instead ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Elevated risk factors linked to major cardiovascular disease events across a lifetime

In one of the largest-ever analyses of lifetime risks for cardiovascular disease (CVD), researchers have found that middle-aged adults who have one or more elevated traditional risk factors for CVD, such as high blood pressure, ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

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Studies: Avastin may fight early breast cancers

Surprising results from two new studies may reopen debate about the value of Avastin for breast cancer. The drug helped make tumors disappear in certain women with early-stage disease, researchers found.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Will you have a heart attack or stroke?

Will you have a heart attack or a stroke in your lifetime? Your odds may be worse than you think.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Middle-age risk factors drive greater lifetime risk for heart disease

A new study in today's New England Journal of Medicine reports that while an individual's risk of heart disease may be low in the next five or 10 years, the lifetime risk could still be very high, findings that could have i ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cardiologists suggest patient-centered approach to replacing implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

More than 100,000 implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted in the United States annually, fully a quarter of those are generator replacements simply because the battery is depleted. But are all those replacements ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

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Combination of oral drugs suppresses common type of hepatitis C

A new combination of investigational drugs successfully suppressed hepatitis C genotype 1 infection in a high percent of patients who had not responded to previous treatment in a study led by a University of Michigan hepatologist.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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To fight epidemic of unnecessary suffering, Stanford dean calls for major public health campaign

The amount of needless suffering caused by both acute and chronic pain in the United States is a major, overlooked medical problem that requires improved education at multiple levels, stretching from the implementation of ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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