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Lab Tests Throw Up New Path for Parkinson's

... on a pharmaceutical substitute for dopamine or on restoring or protecting dopamine-producing cells....

Belgian Doctor Restores Woman's Fertility With Ovary Graft

...Belgian doctor claimed Tuesday a world first after restoring the fertility of a woman made infertile by chemotherapy and other cancer treatment. The gynaecologist, Jacques Donnez, said he had successfully grafted ovarian tissue from the woman's sister last year at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc in B...

China to "salvage" Reputation on Food, Drug Safety

...ised methods... as part of the national crusade on restoring public confidence in the entire sector," the paper said in a separate editorial. Despite such hopes, other Chinese officials were not so upbeat in the prospects of solving the problems. "China is in a time of serious food safety risks and our tas...

Novel Method of Adult Stem Cell Growth may Help to Treat Cornea Disorders

...pose of regaining the damaged epithelium, and thus restoring transparency to the cornea. The experiments proved the therapeutic efficiency in using corneal stem cells in patients with pathologies of the cornea, such as caustications or ocular herpes, by using stem cells from a healthy contralateral eye. D...

Gene Therapy Awakens the Brain Despite Blindness from Birth

... for human benefit from retinal therapies aimed at restoring vision to those with genetic retinal disease. During the course of study, the researchers used functional MRI to measure brain activity in blind dogs born with a mutation in gene RPE65, an essential molecule in the retinoid-visual cycle. The same m...

Coenzyme Q10 Does Not Improve Parkinsons Disease Symptoms

...se, our study does not support the hypothesis that restoring the impaired energy metabolism of the diseased dopaminergic neurons leads to symptomatic benefits in Parkinsons disease, the authors conclude. Future studies will need to explore the protective effects of CoQ10 at the highest effective dose (equivale...

Bush Announces Request for $30B, Five-Year Extension of PEPFAR

...ns are offering comfort to millions who suffer and restoring hope to those who feel forsaken". According to Bush, when he first took office, an "HIV diagnosis in Africa's poorest countries was usually a death sentence," adding that PEPFAR funding has "yielded the best possible return: saved lives." Many inte...

Bush Seeks Doubling of AIDS-fighting Funds

...ns are offering comfort to millions who suffer and restoring hopes to those who feel forsaken," said Bush. "Today, I ask Congress to demonstrate America's continuing commitment to fighting the scourge of HIV/AIDS by reauthorizing this legislation now," he said in the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by AI...

New Probiotic Supplement, Promotes Digestive Health and Boosts Immune System

...probiotics, or healthy bacteria, come in to play - restoring intestinal health by regulating the digestive tract and boosting the immune system. Sustenex(TM), a new daily probiotic supplement recently introduced by Ganeden Biotech, is a natural supplement that's been proven effective in establishing more hea...

Stem Cell Therapy Could Provide Cure for AMD in Five Years

...g to a surgical therapy capable of stabilising and restoring vision in the vast majority of patients. Surgical procedures already developed and trialled in a number of patients using the patients own cells have illustrated that a cell replacement therapy can work. Professor Pete Coffey, UCL Institute of ...

Radical Idea of Implanting Tiny Electrodes to the Deaf

...act on normal hearing, offering the possibility of restoring sensitivity to high frequencies while preserving remaining low-frequency hearing. Middlebrooks says its possible that the low power requirements of the auditory nerve implants might lead to development of totally implantable devices. That would be ...

Fangs Taken Out of Canadas Bill 29

...h the government to talk about undoing the damage, restoring our rights and future legislation, according to Darcy. As of now, Health minister George Abbott has not yet been available for comment....

Exhaustive Study to Expand the Efficacy of Drug L-dopa for Parkinson's

...se aims to revive cellular communication by simply restoring the lost dopamine with L-dopa. Though this therapy is effective for sometime, yet it is unable to halt the gradual decline so evident in long time Parkinson’s sufferers. "The hope is that by altering dopamine transmission through the modulating th...

Bypass Surgery, Drug-eluting Stents Possess Similar Risk and Outcome

...wever, "bypass surgery is much more successful for restoring patients' blood flow in the long-term because arteries with traditional stents re-narrow in about one out of every three cases," said James M. Wilson, M.D., senior author of the study. The newer drug-eluting stents were developed to help keep arterie...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

...the lowly neural progenitor cell may be useful for restoring the deteriorating vision. In a study in rats, neural progenitor cells derived from human fetal stem cells have been shown to protect the vision of animals with degenerative eye disease similar to the kinds of diseases that afflict humans. The...

Cells in Good Cheer With Vitamin C

... and prevents effective treatment. It follows that restoring vitamin C to normal levels means less tumor growth and more successful chemotherapy." SA...

Erectile Dysfunction in Diabetes Due to Defect in the NO Mechanisms

...diated behavioral responses in diabetic rats after restoring the nNOS protein in the PVN using viral gene trans...VN were decreased in rats with diabetes and * restoring nNOS protein within the PVN of diabetic rats with viral gene transfer could alleviate the blunted NM...

Vitamin C Could Help in Curbing Cancer

...s effective treatment," she said. "It follows that restoring vitamin C to normal levels means less tumor growth and more successful chemotherapy." But Vissers said she was not suggesting that people should take high doses of vitamin C supplements as eating fruit and vegetables regularly should be enough. O...

Johns Hopkins Medicine Trustees Support Smoking Ban In Public Spaces

...ces in the State of Maryland.' 'Saving lives and restoring health is what Johns Hopkins Medicine is all about,' said C. Michael Armstrong, chairman of the Board. 'Banning smoking in public places would accomplish that goal and reduce the number of people who die as a result of this potentially lethal habit ...

DVT Treatment Vacuums Away Blood Clots – Prevents Disabilit

...llowing resolution of DVT quickly and safely while restoring blood flow in the vein. The treatment can reduce the length of a hospital stay, thus reducing costs. The current standard catheter-directed thrombolysis treatment uses a clot-dissolving drug only and, although highly effective, can take two to four d...

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