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A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...e says. Indeed, because it does not inhibit COX at therapeutic levels, r-flurbiprofen is not an NSAID, whereas fl...ally changing its chemical shape. One design for a therapeutic drug could be to inhibit the molecules involved in the abnormal phosphorylation of tau, and another ...

Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials

Ongoing therapeutic cancer vaccine trials have yet to show evidence of... may be abandoned as dead-ends, despite their real therapeutic value in terms of prolonging patient survival. Clinical data are providing evidence that patients ...

Reduction in Antidepressant Leads to Suicidal Risks

...dolescents. The warning recommended more intense therapeutic monitoring to mitigate these risks but did not suggest avoiding the pediatric use of antidepressants. Benji T. Kurian, M.D., M.P.H., and colleagues at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn., examined monthly antidepressant presc...

Skin Cancer can Be Triggered by P53 Mutation

...efully discover ways to target these mutations for therapeutic purposes. A link between skin inflammation and SCC formation was first reported in the 19th century. In the second of these 2 new JCI studies, Robert Nibbs, Gerard Graham, and colleagues from Glasgow University show that the chemokine receptor D6 a...

Fibrinogen may Inhibit Spinal Cord Regeneration

...ak and bleed into the brain. She added that such a therapeutic approach wouldnt interfere with fibrinogens essential role in coagulation, because its blood-clotting mechanism depends on binding with a different receptor....

Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now

...ul medications clearly needs to favor a successful therapeutic outcome, said Dubinsky. Drieband adds that, the new center is wonderful. Its really cozy and more private than the adult infusion center where I used to go. I can watch a movie but I usually fall asleep....

Contraceptive Spray Shows Positive Clinical Trial Result

...07. The study will be designed to demonstrate that therapeutic blood levels of the combination contraceptive are effectively maintained with once daily dosing. The second study was a Phase I, pharmacokinetic study, investigating the delivery of a formulation combining Nestorone and the natural estrogen, Estrad...

Benefits From the Use of the Internet in Healthcare Applications Highlighted

... numerous changes, from advances in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to the emergence of concepts such as managed care and telemedicine. The e-Health model represents another such change with far-reaching implications for healthcare organisations. In such a scenario, the Internet's capability to empower pat...

Parkinsons Disease Mechanism Identified

...m target rather than Cdk5 directly may be a better therapeutic strategy with regard to this pathway....

Cancer Patients in New South Wales to Receive Advanced Image Guided Radiation Therapy Treatments

...t accuracy and higher confidence that the intended therapeutic dose is delivered to the patient as planned....

First Brain Cancer Vaccine Approved in Switzerland

...st company to reach the market with a personalized therapeutic vaccine for brain cancers, which carry a very bleak prognosis for patients," said Alton Boynton, president and chief executive of Northwest Biotherapeutics. "Switzerland is an attractive place to begin commercialisation, due to its highly respected...

Afro- American Women Have More Aggressive Breast Cancer

...pe"" The overall goal, she notes, is to find new therapeutic targets. To that end, Drs. Morris, Mitchell and their colleagues want to use micro-array technology to examine the more aggressive tumour types in African American women and compare them to tumours in Caucasian women to try to sort out differences at...

Boffins Identify Gene That can Protect Humans from Nephronopthisis

... will be to translate the insights gained into new therapeutic approaches to develop alternatives to kidney transplantations. With GLIS2 we have already identified one promising candidate drug target and our mouse model will help us find many others," he added. The study is available in the current online issu...

Anti-smoking Drug Could Help Treat Alcoholism: Study

... finding "suggests that varenicline may serve as a therapeutic treatment to reduce alcohol consumption in alcoholic subjects." The study was published in the newest edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....

New Therapies for Kidney Diseases

... will be to translate the insights gained into new therapeutic approaches to develop alternatives to kidney transplantations. With GLIS2 we have already identified one promising candidate drug target and our mouse model will help us find many others....

Insights into Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

...dentify the key elements and potential avenues for therapeutic targeting of RARA-mediated leukemia but also shed ... complexes and RXR have the potential to be useful therapeutic targets for RARA fusion-mediated cancers....

Clinicians Ordering Inappropriate Prostate Screenings

...and financial costs and may lead to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures of questionable benefit. Because the ultimate decision to perform PSA testing rests with the clinician, it is likely that demographic and other characteristics of physicians, nurses and physician assistants may influence inappropriate sc...

Cocaine Exposure can Alter Neuronal Development in Zebrafish

...an factors, including melatonin, could provide new therapeutic strategies to counteract the developmental effects of prenatal cocaine exposure....

Scientists Identified Obesity Control Switch

...have much brown fat, but there is some, and from a therapeutic perspective the question is whether that pathway can be reactivated." The pathway, according to the new report, is controlled by a gene and protein known as PRDM16 that is found in brown but not in white fat -the type that stores excess calories and...

Scientists Identify "master Switch" for Brown Fat in Mice

...have much brown fat, but there is some, and from a therapeutic perspective the question is whether that pathway can be reactivated," he added. Dr. Spiegelman revealed that the pathway is controlled by a gene called PRDM16, found in brown but not in white fat, which stores excess calories and causes waistlines...

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