| UK drug shows early promise against Alzheimer's (Reuters)
April 14, 2009 at 3:02 am
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| | Reuters - A new drug against Alzheimer's disease, developed by British researchers, has shown promise in tests on a handful of patients. |
| A Drop of Blood May Help Assess Cancer Therapy (HealthDay)
April 13, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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| | HealthDay - MONDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) -- A specialized technique that can detect subtle changes in cancer cells contained in a drop of blood or a tiny piece of tissue may one day be used by doctors to better assess how cancers are responding to treatment, say U.S. researchers. |
| Clinical Trials Update: April 13, 2009 (HealthDay)
April 13, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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| | HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com and CenterWatch: |
| Screening Lowers Stroke Risk for Sickle Cell Kids (HealthDay)
April 13, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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| | HealthDay - MONDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) -- A specialized ultrasound scan is helping more children with sickle cell disease avoid strokes, but that good news is tempered by the limited access most children with the disease have to labs offering this screening, a new report notes. |
| Treating kids with malaria at home doesn't work (AP)
April 13, 2009 at 7:19 pm
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| | AP - Treating African children at home for malaria doesn't help in cities because most fevers aren't actually caused by malaria, a new study said Tuesday. |
| Screening Lowers Stroke Risk for Sickle Cell Kids (HealthDay)
April 13, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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| | HealthDay - MONDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) -- A specialized ultrasound scan is helping more children with sickle cell disease avoid strokes, but that good news is tempered by the limited access most children with the disease have to labs offering this screening, a new report notes. |
| Parkinson's drugs may trigger pathologic behavior (Reuters)
April 13, 2009 at 4:55 pm
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| | Reuters - About one in five patients taking a therapeutic dose of a dopamine agonist, a class of drugs used to treat patients with Parkinson's disease, may develop compulsive gambling or hypersexuality, according to a study of patients treated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. |
| Retina undamaged by long-term use of impotence drugs (Reuters)
April 13, 2009 at 4:54 pm
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| | Reuters - Healthy men who use drugs to treat impotence may be able to stop worrying - at least for now -- about a loss of vision caused by the drugs. A new study, published in the Archives of Ophthalmology, detected no changes in visual function, signs of retina damage or intraocular pressure after the daily use for 6 months of sildenafil (Viagra) or tadalafil (Cialis). |
| Where you live may effect cancer survival (Reuters)
April 13, 2009 at 4:52 pm
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| | Reuters - A study of neighborhoods suggests that modifiable factors, not genetics, underlie the racial disparities that have been seen in survival of breast and prostate cancer. |
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