Nutrition 21, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXXI) announced new published results from a 447 subject, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study that showed Diachrome?, a patented combination of chromium picolinate and biotin, significantly improved glycemic control in patients with poorly controlled blood sugar levels who were being treated with oral anti-diabetic medication (OADs).
Findings from a Phase III study by the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) were presented yesterday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago and demonstrate the impressive survival benefits of using Revlimid (lenalidomide) with reduced doses of the steroid dexamethasone.
A Northwestern University researcher has found a key source of chronic pain appears to be an old memory trace that essentially gets stuck in the prefrontal cortex, the site of emotion and learning. The researcher has identified a drug that controls persistent nerve pain by targeting the part of the brain that experiences the emotional suffering of pain. The drug is D-Cycloserine, which has been used to treat phobic behavior over the past decade.
The message “babies are born to be breastfed” was part of a campaign to improve the cultural acceptance of breastfeeding in Herkimer County, N.Y. The campaign was part of a $1 million, four-year project led Cornell researchers and funded by the US Department of Agriculture.
Researchers investigating the evidence for a potential causal link between khat use and mental illness – in the first ever systematic review of the topic – have called for improved research on the stimulant plant, and its possible association with psychiatric disorders.
Bayer HealthCare, a subsidiary of Bayer AG (NYSE: BAY), and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) announced that Nexavar? (sorafenib) tablets significantly extended overall survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or primary liver cancer versus those taking placebo by 44%.
Consumers who have purchased raw milk from Green Acres Jersey Farm in Lebanon any time after May 8 should discard it immediately due to the risk of Listeria monocytogenes contamination, Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff said today.
Marriage provides greater psychological benefits to depressed people compared to people who are not depressed before they walk down the aisle, a new study reveals.
A former University of Adelaide academic who revolutionised orthodontics has been awarded dentistry’s highest international honour.
Rats paralyzed due to loss of blood flow to the spine returned to near normal ambulatory function six weeks after receiving grafts of human spinal stem cells (hSSCs), researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine report.