Winemaking waste proves effective against disease-causing bacteria in early studies January 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Potential source of next-generation drugs against oral disease: Pinot noir
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Pain relief effectiveness down to mind-set? December 21, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Research by the Human Pain Research Group at The University of Manchester suggests that people's responses to placebo or 'dummy' pain relief varies according to their way of thinking. | |
FDA approves first drug for Huntington's disease August 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved tetrabenazine, the first drug approved for use in the United States to treat Huntington's disease, a fatal, inherited neurodegenerative disorder for which there is no cure. ... | |
FDA: Some cholesterol and heart drugs don't mix August 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Patients taking some common medications for high cholesterol and irregular heart beats can suffer severe muscle damage because of a problem in the way the drugs interact, the government warned on Friday. | |
Epilepsy drug may help alcoholics recover from dependence, small study suggests August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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It's a Catch-22 of the highest order. People with alcohol problems often use alcohol to get to sleep -- but it actually keeps them from getting good-quality sleep all night long. | |
Could arthritis wonder drugs provide clues for all disease? July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Drugs that have helped treat millions of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers may hold the key to many more medical conditions, including atherosclerosis – a leading cause of heart disease – says the researcher who jointly invented ... | |
Newborn vitamin A reduces infant mortality July 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A single, oral dose of vitamin A, given to infants shortly after birth in the developing world can reduce their risk of death by 15 percent, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ... | |
'Faulty' brain connections may be responsible for social impairments in autism June 12, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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New evidence shows that the brains of adults with autism are "wired" differently from people without the disorder, and this abnormal pattern of connectivity may be responsible for the social impairments that are characteristic ... | |
Vitamin supplement little more than 'snake oil' June 12, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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A popular vitamin supplement is being advertised with claims that are demonstrably untrue, as revealed by research published in the open access journal BMC Pharmacology. | |
Researchers find drugs being tested for Alzheimer's disease work in unexpected and beneficial ways June 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Researchers at Mayo Clinic, with their national and international collaborators, have discovered how a class of agents now in testing to treat Alzheimer's disease work, and say they may open up an avenue of drug discovery ... | |
Actual use of asthma medications contradicts guidelines March 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A study has found only 16% of the 352,082 Australians who filled a prescription for asthma preventer medications for the first time during the period July 2004 to June 2005, went on to use them regularly. | |
A link between antidepressants and type 2 diabetes March 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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While analyzing data from Saskatchewan health databases, Lauren Brown, researcher with the U of A’s School of Public Health, found people with a history of depression had a 30 per cent increased risk of type 2 Diabetes. | |
Study raises caution on new painkillers March 12, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A new class of painkillers that block a receptor called TRPV1 may interfere with brain functions such as learning and memory, a new study suggests. The experiments with rat brain found that the TRPV1 receptor regulates a ... | |
Who benefits from antidepressants? February 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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A new study published today in PLoS Medicine suggests that antidepressants only benefit some, very severely depressed patients. | |
Drug fights cystic fibrosis February 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
An experimental drug that has proven effective in treating muscular dystrophy also works for cystic fibrosis, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). | |
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