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...With schizophrenia, you pick your poison. But until last week, it often felt like a game of chance, played with a loved one's precious marbles. Now, thanks to a landmark study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) comparing four of the new drugs and one older one, we finally know how these potions stack up. All in all, the results are pretty heartbreaking. Three-quarters of the nearly 1,500 patients in the 18-month trial stopped taking the drug they were assigned, often because it wasn't working or had intolerable side effects. Zyprexa did best (merely...
...wait, haven't we heard this story before? Does the phrase "water pill" ring a bell? Three years ago another big NIH study showed that a cheap, old-fashioned diuretic (a.k.a. water pill) worked better for most folks with high blood pressure than did costly, cutting-edge medications. (These included a calcium-channel blocker and an ACE inhibitor). Then there's the sad lesson of Vioxx and its ilk. That category of painkillers captured a $5 billion-a-year market on the celebrated promise that they were safer than older, cheaper analgesics like Tylenol or Advil. In this case...
...professor at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) has been awarded a $500,000 five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct cell biology research that may have significant repercussions on future treatments of neural diseases like Parkinson’s and Huntington?...
Professor of Cell Biology Junying Yuan is one of 13 recipients of this year’s NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, the results of which will be officially announced at an NIH Symposium this morning. The grant is intended to fund chancey biomedical research in unexplored areas...
This is only the second year that the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award has existed. It marks a new provision, in the traditionally conservative grant system, for “individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research,” according to the NIH website...