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Potential Treatment For Mood Disorders And Epilepsy From Novel Nerve Cell Modulator Discovery
The discovery of a novel molecular switch that powerfully modulates nerve cell activity offers the potential for new mood disorder and epilepsy treatments, University of California, Irvine researchers report.The researchers looked at the role of the natural substance cholecystokinin (CCK) in modulating communication between cells in the brain.
Generic Prostate Drug Helps Find High Risk Cancers Early
Men now have another good reason to consider taking finasteride, a well known generic drug that shrinks an enlarged prostate and reduces the risk of getting prostate cancer by 25 percent. A new study from the Southwest Oncology Group strongly suggests that for men at risk of the disease which strikes one in six men finasteride also raises the odds that physicians will find fast growing prostate cancers early, when they are most easily treatable.
Grassley Requests Information From Long-Term Care Insurers
Senate Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this week asked 11 long-term care insurers to provide information on their business practices in response to "troubling data," the New York Times reports.