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Genetic Disease Causes hearing loss

... were identified. the most common ELSTassociated clinical finding in this series was hearing loss. Sensorine... Based on the relationship between the imaging and clinical findings in these patients, 3 distinct mechanisms (either alone or in combination) may account for t...

Contraceptive Spray Shows Positive Clinical Trial Result

...pany, announced positive results from its Phase 1 clinical studies using two unique contraceptive skin sprays, each containing a progestin and an estrogen . The first study was a Phase I, pharmacokinetic study, investigating the delivery of a formulation combining Nestorone and the synthetic estrogen, Ethi...

Scientists Destroy Cancer Cells Using Electric Pulses

...e method of treating cancer and they hope to begin clinical trials on individuals with prostate cancer soon . The development of the process called irreversible electroporation (IRE) is a result of the efforts of Virginia Techbiomedical engineer Rafael V. Davalos and University of California bioengineering ...

NanoSensors Provides Update on Its Biosensor to Detect E.coli and Salmonella

..., marketing and selling systems for testing in the clinical molecular diagnostics, industrial and bio-threat markets. "We have decided to explore these alternatives due to our limited personnel and financial resources," stated Dr. Ted Wong, the Company's Chief Executive Officer. "While we will continue to e...

Napo Obtains Special Protocol Assessment Agreement From FDA for Crofelemer

...been advocated by the FDA to improve efficiency of clinical trials. The ADVENT trial will be executed in two s...ience from approximately 1,500 patients studied in clinical trials involving crofelemer. Already, 55 patients have enrolled in a previously conducted Feasibilit...

Functional Food What is That, Ask First

... is overwhelming evidence from epidemiological and clinical trials to show that a plant-based diet can reduce the risk of chronic disease, particularly cancer, but this does not mean that meat, fish, or milk should be removed from our diets. Functional foods were now popular because health-conscious baby bo...

Tenaxis Medical Inc. Announces First Human Use of Vascular Sealant

...l, Inc. "This is the first step in a comprehensive clinical program to position this product for regulatory clearance and subsequent launch in Europe in early 2008, and in the USA in early 2009....

Benefits From the Use of the Internet in Healthcare Applications Highlighted

... is inhibiting the use of the Internet for sharing clinical information, various technologies and procedures are being developed to deal with these security problems." The European Union is already enforcing strict medical data security standards and the North American market is also demanding improved securi...

Single Drug to Check Both Glucose and Cholesterol in Diabetics on the Cards

...d Clinical Congress. The researchers conducted a clinical trial, dividing patients into two groupsexperimental group (receiving colesevelam HCl), and control group (receiving placebo). It was found that patients in the experimental group had had significant reductions in blood sugar levels, besides regis...

Tobacco Firm's Research Funds Spark Protest in SKorea

...hree hospitals have recruited about 540 people for clinical tests, he said, adding they would receive a total of one billion won (1.08 million dollars) from the US company for the research. Jang said the "basic research" aimed at identifying what harmful factors affect smokers compared to non-smokers. An ...

Liver Cancer More Prevalent in Males

...s, including cancer, said Willscott Naugler, M.D., clinical instructor in UCSDs Department of Medicine and first author of the paper. We wondered if increased inflammation was behind the higher incidence of liver cancer in males and, if so, how and why?" Heptocellular carcinoma (HCC) a devastating complica...

Combination of Tratuzumab and Chemotherapy Yields Better Results for Breast Cancer

...uvant use of trastuzumab. The results are of great clinical value since they indicate that treatment with trastuzumab results in major survival benefit in women with an aggressive disease subtype. The level of effectiveness demonstrated by this analysis is largely unprecedented in the treatment of solid tum...

New Cancer Fighting Virus

...ficacy results and a case report from this ongoing clinical trial in patients with colorectal cancer metastatic to the liver at the meeting. Dr. Mescheders poster presentation described the case of a patient whose cancer had spread to 10 different places around the liver and four in the lungs. He was given ...

Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns

...as a group ... where its rulings can conflict with clinical scenarios," Dr Ford said. For example, he said ...tting there is not only the issue of fees but also clinical considerations that don't apply in private business situations," Dr Ford said. In 2002, the ACCC w...

Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US

...hreaded into the heart through veins. Full-scale clinical trials have not yet demonstrated the long-term ben...ibed off label because, in the absence of adequate clinical tests, they have not gained approval for atrial fibrillation. Developed for other heart problems, th...

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

...diation therapy ( IGRT) equipment from Elekta went clinical at both sites. The first treatment was a major step for a small centre introducing complex treatment technologies such as IMRT and IGRT on an Elekta Synergy(R) system advanced digital linear accelerator, supported by IMPAC MOSAIQ(TM) Oncology informa...

MedAir AB Announces the Launch of Fingertip Pulse Oximeter

...naging director, MedAir AB. "Emergency medical and clinical health care providers need the ability to accurately measure blood oxygen saturation to determine precisely when and how to deliver care. It is equally critical that patients on supplemental oxygen receive accurate readings in order make the proper a...

Genzyme Announces First Phase III Study of Tolevamer in Diarrhea Patients

...ounced top-line data from the first of two Phase 3 clinical studies to assess the safety and efficacy of tolevamer liquid, an investigational, non-antibiotic , polymer therapy for patients with Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea (CDAD). The second Phase 3 study of tolevamer liquid is fully enrolled and...

Doctors Discover Hair-loss Prevention Drug for Cancer Patients

...estatin will be commercialised soon, he said. No clinical tests are yet in sight, but one possible use for humans would be to apply it to the head in the period when hair loss is most likely to occur during chemotherapy, he added....

Hospital Rapped For Failing To Combat Superbug Infections

...at attendance at training was not monitored, while clinical staff were confused about when to isolate people. Says Anna Walker, chief executive of the Healthcare Commission: "It is absolutely critical that the trust is able to say it is doing everything possible to control infection. "This is not yet the ca...

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