Breakthrough Treatments
21 May 2009
Loss of Weight: A Cause, or a Symptom of Dementia? It seems that there is relationship between humans loosing their minds and weight loss. An eight-year study conducted on 1,836 Japanese Americans about the link between weight loss and dementia found out that people who were thin, or lost weight…
Drug Combo Keeps Kidney Artery-Vein Grafts Viable, University of Iowa Study Supported by National Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive. For the first time, a combination of aspirin and the anti-platelet drug dipyrida-mole has been shown to significantly reduce blockages and extend the useful life of new artery-vein access grafts used…
23 Feb 2009
CORCEPT THERAPEUTICS (CORT)According to Corcept Therapeutics, CORLUX, its GR-II receptor antagonist mitigates the weight gainand other metabolic effects associated with atypical antipsychotic drugs.All atypical antipsychotic drugs for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are known to cause obesity and contain a warning for hyperglycemia (increase blood glucose levels) -…
21 Feb 2009
The proposition of Genentech and Salk institute scientists about a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease could be, in our opinion, an additional pathway of the disease, which does not necessarily refute the existing ones. The new supposition is based on that Alzheimer's disease occurs when a prenatal development process where…
Initial tests conducted on mice by Stanford University scientists demonstrated that the drug Zophran, currently used to treat nausea can prevent symptoms of withdrawal from illegal and prescription opioid drugs such as heroin, morphine and codeine. The scientists added that the anti-nausea drug, can do the job without some of…
