News tagged with side
Researchers show how morphine can be given more effectively
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found a way to maintain the pain-killing qualities of morphine over an extended period of time, thus providing a solution for the problem of having to administer increasing ...
Grapefruit juice boosts drug's anti-cancer effects
Apr 20, 2009 |
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In a small, early clinical trial, researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have found that combining eight ounces of grapefruit juice with the drug rapamycin can increase drug levels, allowing lower doses of ...
Best intentions: The presence of healthy food can lead to unhealthy choices
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2009 |
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More restaurants and vending machines offer healthy choices these days, so why do Americans' waistlines continue to expand? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research shows that some efforts to control eating may ba ...
'Antedrugs': A safer approach to drug therapy
Apr 17, 2009 |
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Corticosteroids are powerful drugs used to treat inflammatory conditions such as asthma and other chronic diseases which has made them among the most widely prescribed drugs. Although the anti-inflammatory drugs offer swift ...
Side effects of 'gene-silencing' treatment more wide-ranging than previously thought
Apr 06, 2009 |
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The side effects of an experimental "gene-silencing" treatment that is currently being investigated for a variety of diseases are even more wide-ranging than previously discovered, according to a study by a University of ...
More compelling evidence on why earlier HIV treatment lengthens survival
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 02, 2009 |
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A study showing improved survival of starting antiretroviral treatment earlier than current U.S. recommendations is being reported in the April 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study found that not st ...
Licorice compound offers new cancer prevention strategy
Mar 23, 2009 |
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A chemical component of licorice may offer a new approach to preventing colorectal cancer without the adverse side effects of other preventive therapies, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers report.
Progress toward an Alzheimer's drug that saves brain cells
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Flanders Institute for Biotechnology scientists connected to the K.U.Leuven, Belgium, have identified a molecule that can form the basis for a new therapy for Alzheimer's disease. This is the first step toward a medicine ...
Largest study compares cholesterol treatment in HIV patients and patients without HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 02, 2009 |
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A new study in the online issue of Annals of Internal Medicine has found that cholesterol medications can work well among certain HIV patients at risk for cardiovascular disease.
New surgical implant prevents total blindness
Feb 18, 2009 |
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A work accident leaves a woman blind in one eye. As she copes with the loss, within months the vision in the other, previously uninjured eye begins to blur, and the eye becomes red and inflamed.
Gene mutation increases drug toxicity, rejection risk in pediatric kidney transplants
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Screening for mutations in a gene that helps the body metabolize a kidney transplant anti-rejection drug may predict which children are at higher risk for side effects, including compromised white blood cell count or organ ...
Researchers Isolate Protein Domain Linked to Tumor Progression
Feb 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a promising cancer drug reached clinical trials in the 1990s, researchers were disappointed by the debilitating side effects that limited the trials. The drug inhibited a family of enzymes known as matrix ...
What causes motor complications of Parkinson's treatment?
Jan 29, 2009 |
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People with Parkinson's disease commonly suffer a slowing or freezing of movement caused by the death of neurons that make dopamine, a key chemical that allows brain cells to send and receive messages essential ...
First comprehensive paper on statins' adverse effects released
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 27, 2009 |
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A paper co-authored by Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and director of UC San Diego's Statin Study group cites nearly 900 studies on ...
Researchers See the 'Dark Side' of the Sun
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Today, NASA researchers announced an event that will transform our view of the Sun and, in the process, super-charge the field of solar physics for many years to come.
