A minimally invasive device for treating recurrent stress urinary incontinence in women has been shown to be safe and effective in early clinical trials and is now under review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), says Emory University School of Medicine urologist and trial co-principal investigator Niall Galloway, MD.
Two recent Mayo Clinic studies have found that magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), a new imaging technique invented at Mayo Clinic, is an accurate tool for non-invasive diagnosis of liver diseases.
The following is GlaxoSmithKline?s (NYSE: GSK) response to a press release issued by the US Senate Committee on Finance about Avandia? (rosiglitazone maleate):
GlaxoSmithKline [NYSE:GSK] issued the following response to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on Avandia? (rosiglitazone maleate), a widely used and highly effective treatment for type 2 diabetes:
Any cardio protective effect of hormone replacement therapy may be inhibited if women are taking a particular type of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory pain killer, report researchers led by Garret FitzGerald from University of Pennsylvania in a paper published this week in PLoS Medicine.
Inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, is an umbrella term referring to a group of disorders that cause inflammation of the intestines, including ulcerative colitis, diverticular disease and perianal fistula.
Diverticulosis is a common disease of the large intestine characterized by pouches in the colon that bulge outward through weak spots in the colon musculature.
In genetic engineering?s version of the Pied Piper, chemists have programmed E. coli bacteria to move toward new chemical signals ? an advance they say could enable the production of bacteria with important uses in medicine, environmental clean-ups, and other fields.
Community preparedness for a bioterrorism attack or influenza outbreak has been the focus of much interest and effort in recent years.
In the largest and most rigorous U.S. trial comparing two traditional operations for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women, a team of urologists and urogynecologists supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found that a sling procedure helps more women achieve dryness than the Burch technique.