health - "medicine"

Military medicine - August 01, 2008 Originally Published:20080701. Imagine an environment where soldiers can walk the roads of Iraq with a standard issued m-4 in hand, feel the shockwave from an I...

People often take their medicines wrongly - including one man who sprayed his asthma inhaler on his cat.

Understanding your asthma medicine is key to keeping asthma under control. But that's not as easy as it sounds, with several different classifications of asthma medicines available, along with medicines...

Submission Based on Phase III Study Showing Superior Results for MabThera in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) When Added to Standard Chemotherapy Today, Roche submitted a Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) for the use of its biotechnology drug MabThera (rituximab) as first-line treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, the most common form of adult leukaemia.

Staying awake slows down our brains, scientists have long recognized. Mental performance is at its peak after sleep but inevitably trends downward throughout the day, and sleep deprivation only worsens these effects. For the first time, researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis have found a way to stop this downward slide.

The University of Miami Miller School of medicine and Seed-One Ventures announce the formation of Heat Biologics Inc. to develop two related platform technologies which introduce a novel lung cancer vaccine and asthma therapy, with potential applications in the treatment of a number of other inflammatory diseases. The two treatments were developed by Eckhard Podack, M.D., Ph.D., Sylvester Distinguished Professor of medicine and chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.

The basic tenet of evidence-based medicine is very simple. That tenet states that if a treatment or therapy works, a scientific study will be able to prove its efficacy.

Researchers have used a drug to achieve normal levels of blood sugar in animals genetically engineered to have abnormally high insulin levels. If this approach succeeds in humans, it could become an innovative medicine for children with congenital hyperinsulinism, a rare but potentially devastating genetic disease in which insulin levels become dangerously high.

Short durations of stretching prior to activity may not alter muscle strength, and appears to temporarily improve joint range of motion (ROM), suggests a study published in the August 2008 issue of medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise ®, the official scientific journal of the

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine have discovered that a protein called FOXA2 controls genes that maintain the proper level of bile in the liver. FOXA2 may become the focus for new therapies to treat diseases that involve the regulation of bile salts.