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Potential Cure for Lymphoma in HIV patients

...nt for the entire study due to sideeffects such as nausea and inflammation of the mouth lining. Themajority of patients, though, did resume the HAART therapy soon afterdischarge from the hospital.Although two patients died of relapsed lymphoma a few months aftertransplant, 17 of the 20 patients (85 percent)...

New Treatment Rivals Chemotherapy For Lymphoma, Study Finds

...eks after the treatment. There is no hair loss and nausea is rare. Results from this study are even more promising than results using Bexxar after other therapies have failed. In those studies, 70 percent of patients responded to Bexxar and 20 percent to 30 percent saw a complete remission. Bexxar is marke...

Hepatitis C responds best to combo of ribavirin and interferon, study concludes

...rash; stomach complaints such as lack of appetite, nausea and indigestion; infections; insomnia; difficulty breathing, cough and fatigue. "The beneficial effect of adding ribavirin to interferon is not fully understood," the authors conclude. "Ribavirin might have an independent beneficial effect on chroni...

Federal grant funds research on novel HIV therapy

...infection. Aprepitant is currently used to control nausea caused by chemotherapy; this project will determine whether the antagonist may also attack HIV infection in patients. The grant also includes a private sector collaborator, Seracare Bioservices, Inc., of Gaithersburg, Md., for whom the principal inv...

Harnessing genomic research

...lls, so avoiding the side effects of hair-loss and nausea that often result from existing therapies. The genes and biological pathway under investigation are involved in hereditary breast and ovarian cancers and have also been linked to other types of cancers. Rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases?/B>...

Worms know bad food when they smell it

...em sick in the past is enough to trigger a wave of nausea ?and to prevent them from eating that food again. ...s in the intestine, where its release can generate nausea such as that associated with chemotherapy. Patients' receiving chemotherapy experience intestinal da...

Human trial proves ricin vaccine safe, induces neutralizing antibodies; further tests planned

...s administered as a poison, victims develop fever, nausea and abdominal pain or lung damage before dying within a few days of exposure. There is no antidote after the first few hours of exposure and, because symptoms do not appear until later and often mimic other illnesses, individuals often do not know if...

H5N1 avian flu virus vaccine induces immune responses in healthy adults

...nts of fever, malaise, muscle aches, headaches and nausea occurred with the same frequency in all dosage groups as in the placebo group Lab tests did not reveal any clinically significant abnormalities The vaccine, made from an inactivated H5N1 virus isolated in Southeast Asia in 2004, was manufactured ...

New device could cut chemotherapy deaths

...ould cut out some side-effects entirely, including nausea and vomiting, and could reduce the number of people who die each year. "Although the first study will be on patients with ovarian cancer, soon we hope that other cancer sufferers with solid tumours will benefit. "Give that around one in eight peopl...

Device effective in zapping the pain out of migraines

...e initial symptoms is intense throbbing head pain, nausea and vomiting. Yousef Mohammad, a neurologist at OSU Medical Center who presented the results, says that the patients in this study reported a significant reduction in nausea, noise and light sensitivity post treatment. "Perhaps the most significa...

Novel therapy combinations gain ground in treating hepatitis

... exceeding four grams per day. Flu-like symptoms, nausea and vomiting are common in patients with early viral hepatitis and APAP is commonly used in this setting. "This study suggests that acetaminophen, even when taken at therapeutic dosages, is responsible for a second hit in viral hepatitis and explai...

Smooth sailing: 'cruise ship virus' tackled by UH, Baylor College of Medicine

...rolling worse than the waves. Before you know it, nausea and vomiting have replaced shuffle board and sun-bathing. Unfortunately, it's a scenario that's becoming increasingly common on cruise ships. So common, in fact, that the National Institutes of Health's Western Regional Center of Excellence (RCE...

A new target for painkillers

...ne sometimes are used, but can cause constipation, nausea and a spaced-out feeling. Anticonvulsant drugs...ts have been used, but they can cause weight gain, nausea and sexual dysfunction. Topical treatments include capsicum cream derived from chili peppers, but...

Underweight women at greater risk of miscarriage

...nancy is progressing well. Women who suffered from nausea and sickness in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy were almost 70% less likely to miscarry, and the more severe the sickness, the better the odds of the pregnancy continuing. Noreen Maconochie, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Medical Statisti...

ASU researchers test antibacterial effects of healing clays

...poor women would eat the local clay to help soothe nausea and stomach ailments, particularly during pregnancy. The clay was rich in kaolinite. (Kaolinite is the major ingredient in the over the counter remedy Kaopectate). But one day, they ran out of clay and moved over to another mountain and people began ...

Researchers find hepatitis A and hepatitis C attack same protein to block immune defenses

...t with infected blood. Hepatitis A produces fever, nausea and abdominal pain that can last for weeks, but rarely lead to death; hepatitis C, by contrast, often spends decades quietly damaging the liver, until a victim’s only hope for survival is an organ transplant. According to researchers at the Universi...

Chemo combination improves survival in asbestos-related cancer

...er side effects included blood cell abnormalities, nausea and diarrhea, which decreased in both incidence and severity after the vitamins were added to the treatment. People who work trades such as shipbuilding, railway engineering, construction work and asbestos manufacture have higher rates of mesotheliom...

ASU research shows connection between testosterone, dietary antioxidants and bird coloration

...st,’ or why all individuals cannot produce them ad nausea and try to get mates,” said McGraw. “The reason typically is that long tails and fancy dances incur costs. Testosterone, for example, has been thought of as a double-edged sword as it relates to sexual signals, because it enhances trait production bu...