News tagged with effectiveness research


Drinking green tea with starchy food may help lower blood sugar spikes

An ingredient in green tea that helps reduce blood sugar spikes in mice may lead to new diet strategies for people, according to Penn State food scientists.

Health created Nov 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sugar fights still simmer as new brain study finds fructose might stimulate appetite

Fructose, a sugar much maligned in recent years, recently took another hit when a preliminary study by Yale University found that it might stimulate appetite more than other sugar types. The results came ...

Health created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Grapefruit juice lets patients take lower dose of cancer drug

A glass a day of grapefruit juice lets patients derive the same benefits from an anti-cancer drug as they would get from more than three times as much of the drug by itself, according to a new clinical trial. The combination ...

Cancer created Aug 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists devise powerful new method for finding therapeutic antibodies

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found a new technique that should greatly speed the discovery of medically and scientifically useful antibodies, immune system proteins that detect and destroy invaders such ...

Medical research created Sep 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Common diabetes drug may help treat ovarian cancer

A new study suggests that the common diabetes medication metformin may be considered for use in the prevention or treatment of ovarian cancer. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer ...

Cancer created Dec 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cannabis use doubles chances of vehicle crash

Drivers who consume cannabis within three hours of driving are nearly twice as likely to cause a vehicle collision as those who are not under the influence of drugs or alcohol claims a paper published today in the British ...

Health created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Vitamin D relieves joint, muscle pain for breast cancer patients

High-dose vitamin D relieves joint and muscle pain for many breast cancer patients taking estrogen-lowering drugs, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Cancer created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New oral drug found to reduce relapses in multiple sclerosis patients

A new oral drug has been shown in a large international clinical trial to significantly reduce the relapse rate of people with multiple sclerosis and to slow the progression of the disease.

Medications created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Two targeted therapies act against Ewing's sarcoma tumors

A pair of targeted therapies shrank tumors in some patients with treatment-resistant Ewing's sarcoma or desmoplastic small-round-cell tumors, according to research led by investigators from The University of Texas MD Anderson ...

Cancer created Apr 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bioethicists urge less regulatory burden for low-risk comparative effectiveness research

In an opinion article published in this week's theme edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association focusing on comparative effectiveness research, a team of Johns Hopkins University bioethicists argues forcef ...

Medical research created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals how melanoma evades chemotherapy

Nitric oxide (NO), a gas with many biological functions in healthy cells, can also help some cancer cells survive chemotherapy. A new study from MIT reveals one way in which this resistance may arise, and ...

Cancer created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify gene variations that predict chemotherapy side effects

Seemingly benign differences in genetic code from one person to the next could influence who develops side effects to chemotherapy, a Mayo Clinic study has found. The study identified gene variations that can predispose people ...

Cancer created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study examines adverse effects among different radiation therapies for prostate cancer

In an analysis of three different types of radiation therapy used to treat localized prostate cancer, compared with conformal radiation therapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) was associated with fewer diagnoses ...

Cancer created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Trial launched into curry chemical's cancer-fighting properties

Compounds found in curry are being investigated as a way of improving drug response in patients with advanced bowel cancer in a new study launched today (Monday).

Cancer created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New mechanism of action for PARP inhibitors discovered

New understanding of how drugs called PARP inhibitors, which have already shown promise for the treatment of women with familial breast and ovarian cancers linked to BRCA mutations, exert their anticancer effects has led ...

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