Medical Center

Intermittent administration of lemon juice can decrease the absorption of radiation for patients with thyroid cancer who are undergoing treatment with iodine-131 (I-131). Those findings were presented in a poster presented here at the 56th annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine.
Principal investigator Douglas Van Nostrand, MD, director of nuclear medicine at Washington Hospital [...]

Results of a randomized phase 2 trial suggest that patients with dementia associated with Parkinson’s disease (PDD) or dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) may benefit from treatment with memantine (Ebixa/Abixa, Lundbeck), an agent already approved for use in moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease.
“This is the first positive randomized, placebo-controlled trial of memantine in patients with [...]