Theories
A clinical trial into the experimental Alzheimer's medication semagacestat ended this week when the drug was found to increase symptoms of memory loss, rather than decrease them. Drugmaker Eli Lilly says the most disappointing news is that their drug is one of many in development that blocks beta amyloid in the brain, and those other experimental medications may also worsen dementia symptoms. Experts say this is a blow to researchers who have believed that blocking the protein holds the key for...
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Study Supports Theory That Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is an Autoimmune...
A new clinical trial published in the online journal PloS ONE studied the effects of the anti-cancer drug Rituxan (rituximab) on chronic... Read more »
A New Theory of Mental Illness
It is fairly rare to come across a groundbreaking theory that makes scientists take stock of their existing assumptions. This may be... Read more »
Radical New Theory on the Cause of MS sends some Patients to seek...
The latest buzz to circulate in the MS world is that some folk believe that Multiple Sclerosis is not an auto-immune disease after all. ... Read more »
New Study Challenges Theory that RA is an Autoimmune Disorder
In a new study published in the November 2006 issue of Arthritis and Rheumatism, scientists at the University Of Michigan Medical School... Read more »
The Spoon Theory: Managing Energy with Rheumatoid Arthritis
There I was at the computer, staring at my monitor, seeing a vast expanse of white space that needed to be filled with this post. This post... Read more »
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Multiple Sclerosis Blood Vessel Theory Dealt Blow
A theory that multiple sclerosis is caused by obstruction in the blood vessels that carry blood from the brain back to the heart has been called into... Read more »
Study: Media misrepresents 'chemical imbalance' theory
The theory that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance is often presented by the media as fact, but a new study has found little scientific... Read more »
Heart study contradicts 'fit but fat' theory
A new study of 39,000 women contradicts the theory that it's possible to be fit, but fat. Harvard researchers followed the women for 11 years to... Read more »
Attachment Theory and Chronic Pain
Source: eOrthopod
Social scientists help us understand the theories behind pain and disability. For patients with chronic pain, pain intensity and disability are... Read more »
New Theories About Knee Osteoarthritis
Source: eOrthopod
Computer technology combined with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has changed the way we think about knee osteoarthritis (OA). New models of knee... Read more »
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