News tagged with medication therapy


Combined asthma medication therapy shown to reduce attacks

A Henry Ford Hospital study has found that using two types of common asthma medications in combination reduces severe asthma attacks.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene therapy is a 'disruptive science' ready for commercial development

The time for commercial development of gene therapy has come. Patients with diseases treatable and curable with gene therapy deserve access to the technology, which has demonstrated both its effectiveness ...

Genetics created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

University of Kentucky offers stroke stem cell trial

The University of Kentucky will be the first site in the state and one of a select few in the entire country participating in the first stages of a groundbreaking study to investigate the effects of MultiStem, a human adult ...

Medical research created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cabazitaxel with radiation and hormone therapy may improve prostate cancer survival

Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center has started a Phase I clinical trial investigating the latest prostate cancer chemotherapy drug to extend survival, Cabazitaxel, in combination with radiation and hormone therapy. This first-of-its-kind ...

Cancer created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Traditional Chinese medicine makes fertility treatments more effective: study

Traditional Chinese medicine has long been used to ease pain, treat disease, boost fertility, and prevent miscarriage. Known in the Western medical community by its acronym TCM, these traditional remedies include herbal preparations ...

Other created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

JAMA commentary contends vitamin therapy can still reduce stroke

A commentary by Dr. David Spence of The University of Western Ontario and Dr. Meir Stampfer of the Harvard School of Public Health in today's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) argues that vitamin therapy still ...

Health created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Abolish the criminalization of HIV

Routine criminal prosecutions for not disclosing HIV status should be abolished, write three HIV/AIDS experts in an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

HIV & AIDS created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 7

Surgery improves endocarditis-induced heart failure survival rates

Surgery significantly improves short- and long-term outcomes in patients with heart failure caused by a bacterial infection known as endocarditis, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers.

Cardiology created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Low risk? Women and young men responsible for large portion of heart attacks

In a contemporary cohort of acute heart attack patients, 70 percent of the patients were unaware they had coronary heart disease (CHD) prior to the event and 60 percent of those patients were women or young men. However, ...

Cardiology created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Male breast cancer patients stop taking tamoxifen early because of drug-related side effects

The largest study to investigate the tolerability of the breast cancer drug tamoxifen in male breast cancer patients has shown that men stop taking their prescribed therapy early because of problems with side effects caused ...

Cancer created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Phase I trial begins using gene therapy and bone marrow stem cells in the treatment of brain cancer

University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Lentigen Corporation announced today the initiation of a novel Phase I clinical trial of LG631 gene therapy for the protection ...

Cancer created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Delayed stem cell therapy following heart attack is safe but not effective

NIH-funded trial shows that therapy with bone-marrow derived cells does not improve heart function after six months; future clinical benefits still possible.

Cardiology created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Acute Stroke Therapy at Crossroads, Researchers Write

(Medical Xpress) -- Acute stroke therapy is at a crossroads, a University of Cincinnati (UC) researcher writes in a national medical journal, with clinical practice increasingly using approaches that have not been proven ...

Cardiology created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Surgical procedure does not appear to reduce risk of subsequent stroke after 'mini-stroke'

Patients with thickening and blockage of the internal carotid artery (supplies blood to the brain) and hemodynamic cerebral ischemia (insufficient blood flow to the brain, sub-type of stroke) who had a surgical procedure ...

Cardiology created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Texas board mulls stem cell therapy used on Perry

(AP) -- The experimental stem cell procedure that Texas Gov. Rick Perry underwent this summer could be restricted or even blocked under new rules being considered Friday by the state's Medical Board.

Medical research created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1