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Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards $710,000 to Understanding of Parkinson's Disease Subtypes

...at patients with existing therapies. It could also advance development of new treatments and enable better design of future clinical trials." Applicants under PD Subtypes were required to propose research that would make use of existing data from well-characterized populations of Parkinson's patients. Seve...

Scientists Observed Live Cell Migration

... in living tissue. Cell, the scientists say their advance could lead to strategies for controlling both normal growth and the spread of cancer, processes that depend on the programmed, organized movement of cells across space. "The stars of our live show are a cluster of fruit fly cells that literally cra...

Combination Therapy Reduces Tumor Resistance to Radiation

...ytokines. In a study appearing online on June 7 in advance of publication in the July print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Claire Magnon and colleagues from Institut Gustave Roussy, France, show that a combination of radiation treatment and the use of angiogenesis inhibitors such as canstati...

Test Drug Seen as Best Hope in Decades for Tackling Parkinson's

...nce," said Surmeier. "There has not been a major advance in the pharmacological management of Parkinson's in 30 years."...

Genetic Secrets Behind the Dragline Silk

...the 'dragline silk' of the black widow spider an advance that may lead to a variety of new materials for industrial, medical and military uses. The black widow spiders dragline silk is a standout compared to other spider silks because of its superior strength and extensibility, a combination which enable...

Cadbury to Introduce Healthier, Low Calorie Sweets to Health Conscious Consumers

... that it would take some time to make the critical advance of creating a low-fat bar that had the same, soft texture of normal milk chocolate. A launch of Dairy Milk was "probably years, rather than months away", he said. While Cadbury works on the low-fat chocolate, it is launching a series of low-sugar...

Blood Test Reveals Colon Cancer Proteins

...am - which did not know the colonoscopy results in advance -- were 100 percent accurate in identifying the 28 existing cancers. Using the same protein markers, investigators also correctly identified 51 of 53 individuals (96.2 percent) with normal colons and 14 of 18 (77.8 percent) people with advanced preca...

American Cancer Society Launches Major New Study

...on of American Cancer Society research and further advance the understanding of the lifestyle, environmental, and genetic factors that cause or prevent cancer. It is the latest in a series of important large-scale American Cancer Society studies stretching back to the 1950’s that have contributed significant...

Cricket Science and Medicine Congress in Barbados

...killed players. * The skilled batsmen depend on advance cues and ball flight information while batting. The methods described in this study may be used to identify emerging batting talent, different aspects of visual input to batting and the efficacy of interventions on batting performance. Arm Ac...

Multiple Sclerosis Patients to Benefit With AVONEX(R) Nurse Services Program

...inistered with a smaller needle, which can further advance patient comfort. The storage and transportation of AVONEX has been made even easier with the introduction of ambient storage for the AVONEX luer-lock prefilled syringe. A new AVOGRIP(TM) is available to aid patients in the administration of injection...

A Realistic Arm on the Anvil for Injured Soldiers

...e Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago continues to advance this applied research and bring the application of the Targeted Reinnervation technique to the forefront to benefit our nation's service men and women,' Kuiken said in a statement. GPL/B...

New Test Helps Identify Hepatitis C Patients at High Risk of Developing Cirrhosis

...the study, which will be published in the April 27 advance online issue of the journal Hepatology. Cheung is a paid consultant for Celera, which also funded the study. "Current therapy for hepatitis C unfortunately is very expensive, has multiple side effects and a suboptimal response rate for most patient...

Novartis Drug Diovan Shows Superior Benefits

... "Innovative clinical trials have helped Diovan to advance cardiovascular patient care,” Ameet Nathwani, Global Head of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Clinical Research, Development and Medical Affairs, Novartis Pharma AG was quoted. "The results of the independent Jikei Heart Study add to the already large bo...

Tobacco Control Laws to Be Regulated in India

...om tobacco growers but we are going to steadfastly advance the tobacco control agenda in India to save the lives of lakhs of poor people in the country. We must envisage the cities of Delhi and Mumbai going smoke-free by 2009… as India now has the honour of hosting the 2009 WCTOH Conference in February 20...

Heat Wave Claims Three Lives in Orissa

...t the likely day temperatures at least 48 hours in advance so that alerts could be issued. A heat wave in the state in May 1998 killed over 2,000 people. Titilagarh recorded the state's highest temperature of 50.1 degrees Celsius in June 2003. Both private and government educational institutions have be...

Emergency Contraception Does Not Reduce Unintended Pregnancy Rate

... a good option for individual women in crisis, but advance access to emergency contraception is// no antidote... to a new review of studies, women who received an advance supply of birth control pills for emergency contraception had an equal chance of becoming pregnant a...

Stem Cells Provide New Tool for Studying Disease and Identifying ALS Drugs

... funded by Project A.L.S. and appearing in today's advance online publication of Nature Neuroscience //demonstrate that embryonic stem cells may provide a new tool for studying disease mechanisms and for identifying drugs to slow ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Both studies were completed by resea...

Court Issues Notice to Venugopal Over Fund Irregularities

...e center had been collecting fees from patients in advance for various procedures such as angiography, angioplasty, by-pass surgery and brain surgery," said the petition. After the expenditure, about Rs.450 million had been left in the account over 10 years, which should have been returned to the patients,...

New Therapy for Lipid Disorder Demonstrates Varied Results

...ials of new pharmaceutical agents. 'Such studies advance the understanding of risks and benefits of new approaches and enable subsequent development programs to refine future study designs. Prompt publication also allows better protection of patient safety by providing study sponsors, investigators, and da...

Use Filtered Blood for Transfusion: Expert

...ationwide. "Rarely do we come up with a medical advance that saves money and is better for patients at the same time. This is as basic as washing your hands before conducting a physical examination of a patient," Blumberg said. "But despite much scientific evidence that supports this notion, millions of p...

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