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(HealthDay)—A patient with Crohn's disease is concerned about the attempt by the makers of adalimumab to prevent disclosure of trial data submitted during the drug's approval process, according to a personal view piece published online April 16 in BMJ. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-patient-lack-biological-drugs.html Medications Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:00:03 EST news285517875 A potential new treatment for alcoholism called nalmefene is effective and safe for reducing alcohol consumption in alcohol dependent individuals, says a new study published this week in Biological Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-treatment-option-alcohol-consumption-abstinence.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:02:42 EST news284878955 People with multiple sclerosis (MS) who were treated with combination therapy did not see significant clinical benefit over those treated with single drug therapy, but combination therapy did reduce the development of new lesions, according to an international research team led by The Mount Sinai Medical Center. The findings, part of the largest-ever MS trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, are published in the March 11 issue of Annals of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-combination-therapy-similar-clinical-benefit.html Neuroscience Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:00:01 EST news282228386 A recent clinical trial found that interferonβ-1a (INF) and glatiramer acetate (GA), two of the most commonly prescribed drugs for multiple sclerosis (MS), provide no additional clinical benefit when taken together. While findings published today in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society, suggest that taking both INF and GA together was not superior to GA monotherapy in reducing relapse risk; the combination therapy does appear to reduce new lesion activity and total lesion volume. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-common-ms-drugs-relapse.html Neuroscience Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:45:09 EST news282224703 (HealthDay)—Natalizumab may be safe in pediatric multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with highly active disease, according to a small study published online Feb. 18 in JAMA Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-natalizumab-teens-multiple-sclerosis.html Neuroscience Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:10:01 EST news280765852 Lung and head and neck cancer patients who smoked before surgery are more likely to relapse than those who had quit before surgery, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers say. They found that smoking-relapse prevention interventions are needed immediately after surgery to help prevent relapse. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cessation-successful-cancer-patients-surgery.html Cancer Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:53:32 EST news278135604 (Medical Xpress)—Before all the excitement about embryonic stem cells, doctors were using hematopoetic – that is, blood-forming—stem cells. Hematopoetic stem cells can replenish all the types of cells in the blood, and are the centerpiece of transplantation as treatment for diseases such as multiple myeloma or leukemia. They can come from two different places: directly from the marrow of a donor's hip bone, or indirectly from the donor's blood after a drug nudges the stem cells out of the bone marrow. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-landmark-blood-stem-cell-transplant.html Medical research Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:20:01 EST news276509199 Appropriately dosed hypofractionated radiotherapy was gentle on healthy tissues and effective in controlling local-regional early breast cancer, according to 10-year follow-up results from the U.K. Standardization of Breast Radiotherapy Trials (START), presented at the 2012 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-hypofractionated-radiotherapy-safe-effective-early.html Cancer Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:40:03 EST news274095123 It's a sad but familiar scene near the grounds of many medical campuses: hospital-gowned patients, some toting rolling IV poles, huddled in clumps under bus shelters or warming areas, smoking cigarettes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-habits-die-hard-cancer-patients.html Cancer Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:50:15 EST news273156596 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, concerned that women who quit smoking during their pregnancies often resume smoking after they deliver their baby, tested self-help interventions designed to prevent postpartum smoking relapse. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-relapse-healthy-mothers-babies.html Health Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:24:56 EST news267873851 (Medical Xpress) -- This week the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study with unfortuate news for the millions of people who suffer from multiple sclerosis. In the large study, a therapy known as interferon beta failed to stave off the progression of the incurable disease. Albert Lo, associate professor of neurology and epidemiology, comments on what the study means for patients, why it was well-designed, and how a new effort to support research on the disease in Rhode Island could help. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-multiple-sclerosis-drug-disappoints-disability.html Neuroscience Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:41:11 EST news262248063 (Medical Xpress) -- A drug shown to help break alcohol addiction can also help recovering methamphetamine addicts stay clean, a study led by University of Virginia School of Medicine researcher Dr. Bankole A. Johnson has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-meds-recovering-meth-addicts-sober.html Addiction Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:29:13 EST news258874146 (HealthDay) -- A new study finds that antipsychotic drugs can help many people with schizophrenia, cutting patients' risk of relapse by 60 percent. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-antipsychotics-schizophrenia.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 03 May 2012 15:20:03 EST news255274744 Health warnings on cigarette packs can help ex-smokers stave off the urge to start smoking again, indicates research published online in Tobacco Control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-cigarette-health-ex-smokers-stave-urge.html Addiction Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:30:02 EST news254592712 Opioid-dependent individuals who want to kick the habit typically begin the road to recovery with detoxification. But detox is ineffective as a stand-alone treatment, with relapse rates ranging from 65% to 80% just one month after discharge. New research published online today in the journal Addiction reveals that individuals with substance use disorders may be as much as ten times more likely to stay abstinent when they have access to drug-free recovery housing and day-treatment programs following detox. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-recovery-housing-treatment-relapse-recovering.html Addiction Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:43:25 EST news249626579