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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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An adequate amount of Vitamin D is known to advance bone density, but the impact goes much further than bone strength; Vitamin D deficiency can impact almost all of the body's functions. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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The amount of oxygen available to a baby in the womb can affect their susceptibility to developing particular diseases later in life. |
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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The risk of osteoporosis (bone fracture) in women is very recognized by the public. Less appreciated is the fact that the disorder also occurs in men. Some 2 million males have been diagnosed with osteoporosis and another 3 million are at risk. |
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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In 2006 researchers investigating the interaction between the brain, behavior, and the immune system found that simply anticipating a mirthful laughter experience boosted health-protecting hormones. |
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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Parion Sciences, Inc. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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Choral singing has a profound and positive effect on health and well being, according to Dr Maria Sandgren, who will present her findings on Tuesday 29th April in Folkestone. Dr Sandgren's seminar, entitled 'Singing, Stress and the Endocrine System', is free to the public. |
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
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In men with localized but aggressive prostate cancer, the combination of testosterone-lowering therapy and radiation improves survival substantially more than radiation therapy alone. But testosterone-lowering therapy isn't so hot for the heart, reports the April issue of the Harvard Heart Letter. |
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
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Senesco Technologies, Inc. ("Senesco" or the "Company") (Amex: SNT) announced that Dr. Raghavendra Mirmira, one of the Company's funded researchers, will be presenting his findings regarding preclinical pancreatic islet cell data at 2 conferences in April 2008. |
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
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A human hormone known to stimulate the growth of cells throughout the body has a new role - helping to set up the proper nerve connections in the aroma center of the brain, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists. |
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
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Roche Diagnostics announced the launch of the first fully-automated immunoassay for the determination of autoantibodies to the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor for the differential diagnosis of Graves' disease. |
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Thursday, 20 March 2008 |
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The Wall Street Journalon Tuesday examined the use of estrogen to treat memory loss related to menopause. |
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Wednesday, 19 March 2008 |
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TorreyPines Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TPTX) announced it has initiated a Phase II study of NGX267, a muscarinic agonist in development for xerostomia, or dry mouth, secondary to Sjogren's syndrome. |
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
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The Institute for Progressive Medicine (IPM) has announced the clinic's Hormone Pellet Therapy. |
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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
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Amicus Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing small-molecule, orally administered pharmacological chaperones for the treatment of human genetic diseases, announced that the Company will present positive results from an ex vivo response study and 3 Phase 1 studies of AT2220... |
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE:WYE), announced that it would need to conduct additional clinical studies to address questions from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) regarding the risk-benefit profile of desvenlafaxine as a treatment for vasomotor symptoms. |
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Saturday, 08 March 2008 |
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UroToday.com - This a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled, parallel group, multicenter study involving 200 men with or without erectile dysfunction. Men (25-64 years of age) did not have ejaculatory dysfunction. |
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
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University of Iowa researchers have found a clue about how resistance to the hormone leptin might disrupt the brain signals that tell the body when to stop eating. |
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
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The "female sex hormone" estradiol is present in both men and women, and is generated from testosterone in men by the protein aromatase. Estradiol plays different roles in addition to its gender-specific ones, including having effects on the hearing (auditory) system. |
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Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
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Considerable attention has been paid to the effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals in aquatic environments, but rather less attention has been given to routes of contamination on land. |
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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The association of ABG with thyroid disorders (TD) was first described about 40 years ago. These older studies assessed the association between Pernicious Anemia (PA) and Thyroiditis on the basis of gastric and or thyroid auto-antibodies. |
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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Armed with thousands of patient case histories that show the damaging consequences of excess insulin and adrenaline - hormones usually assembled in large quantities by driven, extremely successful people - Platt Medical Center has developed a wellness program for executives utilizing extremely... |
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
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Speciality European Pharma (SEP) has announced the launch of Plenaxis® in Germany. Plenaxis® is used to treat improved and metastatic hormone responsive prostate cancer and it causes a fast and sustained decline in testosterone levels, thus giving fast control of prostate cancer symptoms. |
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
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A new US study found that women taking combined hormone therapy had an increased risk of otherwise avoidable abnormal mammograms and breast biopsies that compromised the capability of these 2 methods to help diagnose breast cancer. |
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Sunday, 24 February 2008 |
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UroToday.com - Dr. Balk discussed the modest clinical benefit of AR antagonists in addition to androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT). However, AR is expressed at levels that are comparable to primary CaP, although the expression may not be heterogeneous. |
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
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Insulin administered intranasally, acutely decreases food intake in men but not women and in contrast, the compound improves memory function in women but not men according to a new study accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). |
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
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Contrary to preceding studies, female-to-male transsexuals do not have a higher prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), though they do have significantly higher androgen levels, according to a new study accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). |
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
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Thyroid hormone deficiencies in early pregnancy can cause locomotor underdevelopment in the child, according to research from Karolinska Institutet. The results bring new insights into brain development and could affect routine pregnancy testing. |
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
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In patients with enhanced acute pancreatitis, probiotics are associated with increased mortality and do not in reality decrease the risk of additional infection, according to an article published on February 14, 2008 in The Lancet. |
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
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While most people understand the dangers of flushing toxic chemicals into the ecosystem through municipal sewer systems, one potentially devastating threat to wild fish populations comes from an unlikely source: estrogen. |
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