Slow diabetic neuropathy by keeping blood sugar controlled 
Sioux City Journal
Eating more fiber may correct bowel disturbances. If your stomach empties too slowly, a medication such as metoclopramide (Reglan) may help. For diarrhea, try an antidiarrheal drug such as loperamide (Imodium). -- Erectile Dysfunction.

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Cleveland Clinic "Cleveland" Named Center of Excellence 
Newswise (press release)
NAFC's National Centers of Excellence: Continence Care initiative was established to offer consumers, seeking solutions to their bladder and bowel control problems and related pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD), a reliable, trustworthy means of finding an ...

 

Sucampo Pharma: Riding The Waves Of Amitiza 
NASDAQ
The company expects to file a supplemental New Drug Application during mid-2012 seeking priority review of Amitiza for the treatment of opioid-induced bowel dysfunction in patients with chronic non-cancer pain. Sucampo also plans to file submissions ...

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Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial and ... 
MarketWatch (press release)
"Sucampo continues to build on the successes from 2011 with the positive results in the third phase 3 trial of lubiprostone for the treatment of opioid-induced bowel dysfunction (OBD) or opioid-induced constipation (OIC) in patients with chronic ...

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Biomarkers can reveal IBS 
Science Daily (press release)
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) causes chronic or recurring problems with pain and discomfort in the abdomen together with changes in bowel habits. The syndrome is common and is believed to be linked to dysfunction of the stomach and intestines, ...

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Cardiac Function in Pre-Clinical Diabetic Diastolic Heart Failure Subjects ... 
MarketWatch (press release)
HAIFA, Israel, May 15, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Pluristem Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:PSTI) (tase:PLTR) today announced that cardiac function in a diabetic-induced diastolic dysfunction in animals improved following PLacental eXpanded (PLX ...

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Pharma needs to take strategic approach to patient-reported outcomes, says report 
Pharma Times
For example, most drugs for Parkinson's disease are targeted at movement disorders, while patients may be more concerned about pain, sleep problems, lack of bowel and bladder control or sexual dysfunction. The foundations for the involvement of ...

 

What online readers are saying about ... 
Salisbury Post
They suffer from such things as oxidative stress, immune dysfunction, inflammatory bowel disease and encephalopathy. They must be treated medically. .... ... Nation to mark 60th anniversary of Korean war One of the most touching monuments in Washington ...

 

I ruined my body with my 90-a-day addiction to laxatives 
The Sun
I was fitted with a special device to send electrical shocks into my bowels to allow me to go to the toilet. Weight fluctuation ... Ruth was down to 16st when she was 24 ?I was sent to a bowel dysfunction centre and I got down to 12 laxatives a day.

 

Cardiac Function in Pre-Clinical Diabetic Diastolic Heart Failure Subjects ... 
PipelineReview.com (press release)
HAIFA, Israel I May 15, 2012 I Pluristem Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:PSTI) (TASE:PLTR) today announced that cardiac function in a diabetic-induced diastolic dysfunction in animals improved following PLacental eXpanded (PLX cells) administration.

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