Tag: "advanced" at medical news

More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies

...lung cancer. Usually it goes undetected till it is advanced and beyond cure. However a lot of awareness has been created about this condition and now men over the age of 40 years can be screened regularly to detect the cancer. One of the most promising "tumour markers" in medicine was developed over a decade...

Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

...read of the deadly disease in the country is in an advanced stage of finalisation. Two Hyderabad-based biotechnology/pharma companies -- Shanta Biotechnics and Biological E -- are reportedly the front-runners for the proposed project, which entails an upfront technology transfer fee of $30 million being soug...

New drug helps boost cancer treatment

...g chemotherapy drugs thereby extending survival of advanced colorectal cancer patients. IMC-C225, the new drug which is actually a monoclonal antibody, is designed to interfere with the epidermal growth factor receptor, a molecular structure that, when blocked, makes it more difficult for tumor cells to repr...

ZD1839 Proves Effective - A Breakthrough in fighting Lung Cancer

...med, durable responses and safety in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as monotherapy ...mittent dosing of ZD1839 in Japanese patients with advanced lung cancer, more than 20% of patients showed partial responses to ZD1839 between 1 and 11 months. ...

Double impact vaccine

...s vaccine virus into a treatment for patients with advanced lymphomas. The study involves the use of the derivatives of the Edmonston-B, strain of the measels vaccine to study its effects on the lymphomas. Dr. Feilding cited that injecting the vaccine strain of the virus into the tumor caused remission of th...

Angiotensin-II-receptor blockers - Treat kidney failure

...er cent in patients on irbesartan. Even those with advanced disease could benefit, although the treatment is best started early on. A final study of irbesartan on diabetic patients with early signs of kidney disease showed the condition was less likely to progress than in similar patients on placebo. The tria...

Collagen improves voice quality in Parkinsonism

.... In the other cases, the disease was probably too advanced for the injection to make a difference. The surgeons think the new procedure, which does not require a general anaesthetic, is very promising for many Parkinson's patients with voice problems....

Smallpox Vaccine May Help Fight Cervical Cancer

...ntists are also working on vaccines for women with advanced disease and preventive vaccines to protect young girls from becoming infected with HPV....

A new treatment for liver cancer

...s many patients have undergone this treatment with advanced liver tumours, who cannot be treated by any other means. TheraSphere involves injecting millions of microscopic glass beads containing the radioactive element yttrium into the femoral and hepatic arteries.// The beads travel to the liver and delive...

Letrozole Beats Tamoxifen in Breast Cancer Therapy

...amoxifen in treating breast cancer in women// with advanced disease. Femara is a member of a new class of drug...proved Femara as first-line hormonal treatment for advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women. At that time, an FDA advisory panel enthusiastically backed F...

Genetic disorder related with sleep patterns

... may be suffering from a disorder called "familial advanced sleep-phase syndrome". This means the person's body clock is three to four hours faster than normal. Writing in Nature Medicine, the scientists, led by Dr Louis Ptacek, say they found 34 people in three families who suffered from the disorder. In o...

Infection linked with heart attack

... The figures were higher still in those with more advanced atherosclerosis. The study does not show that infection causes heart disease. But it shows that the infection and heart disease link is worthy of further investigation....

Link Between Infection And Heart Disease

...or those with 6 or more infections. In people with advanced hardening of the arteries, 20% of those who tested positive for at least 6 infections died during the study period compared to just 7% of those with 3 or less infections. "We showed a significant association between the number of infections to whi...

Cytobrush to detect oral cancer

... sample is sent to a lab where it is scanned using advanced computer technology. Suspicious slides are tagged for further evaluation by a technician. The computer is so exacting, Green berg said, that the false negative rate, which was as high as 30 per cent using the scraping method, dropped to nil in the cl...

The winter worry

...tion. In Ghana, more cases of eclampsia - the more advanced and potentially dangerous form of the disease - ha...p through routine ante-natal checks. In its more advanced stages, mothers may experience severe headaches, vomiting and vision problems. It is treatable, ofte...

Blood test may identify ovarian cancer

...ters of women with ovarian cancer are diagnosed in advanced stages of the disease, when they have only about a 20 percent chance// of surviving five years. But if the disease is caught early, the five-year survival is around 95 percent. So providing a way to routinely identify the disease in its stage I phas...

Diabetics prone to periodontitis

...esearcher Dr. Janet Guthmiller said. "But the more advanced periodontal disease we observed in pregnant diabetics, who are already considered high risk for pregnancy problems, may affect blood sugar control during this critical time." Additionally, periodontal disease may trigger increased levels of biologica...

Glenmark’s new molecule to go through trial

...is scouting for partners to take the molecule into advanced phases of clinical trials. Mr. Saldahna said that the pre-clinical trials for the molecule are expected to be completed in the next six months and then the Phase I clinical studies will be initiated in Europe. "We are scouting for contract research...

Ethnic discrepancy in ovarian cancer

...he African women, the cancer was more likely to be advanced by the stage of diagnosis, and they were less likely to undergo surgery. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the survival rate among African American women is lower. They survive, on average, for 22 months after diagnosis, while the survival time fo...

Blood test may aid foretell Alzheimer's

...ptoms until the condition has progressed into more advanced stages. There is no cure for Alzheimer's but scientists are interested in an early screening test because earlier detection could mean starting treatment before symptoms -- such as forgetfulness, disorientation and dementia -- become unbearable. "Th...

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