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Computer-Assisted Knee Surgery

... middle-aged Americans. Now a new technique offers hope for active years ahead. Michael Baroli is finally back on his feet, crouching and clicking, kneeling and directing. His glamour photography business depends on his knees. "My knees are like my lifeblood," he says. "If they don't work, I don't work."...

Gleevec for Lung Disease

...s Gleevec should stop that scarring. "At best, we hope to stop the progression of the disease," he says. "It's our hope that the treatment of Gleevec will increase the length of their life as well as improve the quality....

Gene Therapy Gives Hope For Patients With Muscular Dystrophy

... vector in humans. If it is safe, then researchers hope to test the method in larger animals and humans. ...

Patients With Severe Hemophilia At Risk Of Developing Osteoporosis

... osteoporosis in their later years. But there is hope in preventing osteoporosis from hitting these children, say researchers. Hemophiliac children are now encouraged to do more impact activities than was previously advised by doctors. An exercise regimen that was once limited to low-impact sports like ...

Pain-Free Heart Attacks Often Misdiagnosed

...fter all. In conclusion researchers say that they hope in future their findings will remind physicians that these events do occur in the absence of chest pain and will prompt them to make the diagnoses and institute the appropriate treatment more rapidly....

The Benefits Of Dual Therapy for Patients With Prostate Cancer

...tate cancer this year. However, a new study offers hope for these patients: // The combination of androgen suppression therapy (hormone therapy) with radiation therapy improves survival rates. AST inhibits the release of androgen, a male sex hormone. Researchers say that combining three years of AST with...

Effective Screening Required to Rule out Prostate Cancer

...ave or not have a biopsy. The authors of the study hope this new model can be used in a clinical setting in the future....

Prevention Of Prostate Cancer

...a way to prevent the disease altogether. Doctors hope that the drug -- finasteride -- will make a difference in preventing prostate cancer. In smaller doses, it’s commonly known as Propecia for baldness. It works by stopping testosterone’s conversion to DHT -- a more active form of the hormone. It is k...

Drug to Delay the Onset of Arthritis

...e implicated in the progression of arthritis. They hope this understanding will help in the discovery of novel targets for arthritis drugs....

fMRI Offers Insight Into An Infants Brain

...dicapping condition of childhood. Specialists also hope that the mapping of specific brain-language relationships will foster understanding of the mental processes underlying language itself....

Asthma Sufferers Lacking Physical Activity

...ients to meet the national recommendations. They hope health care providers can help educate patients about the importance of being active and help patients find a way to achieve a higher level of physical activity....

Weight Of Child A Predictor Of Heart Disease Later In Life

...mference, and hypertension. Researchers say they hope their findings will lead to risk-reducing interventions and better research in order to understand the relationship between metabolic syndrome and heart disease. In another study researchers looked at parental and early-life characteristics and thei...

Yet Another Treatment Option For Cancer

...sts say that the new findings have given them some hope as they can now take patients with advanced cancer and give them a therapy with very few side effects that stops the growth of the disease. Since 2C4targets the pathway, rather than the tumor, it has little toxicity. However researchers say the dru...

Shrinking Cancer Cells

...sts say that the new findings have given them some hope as they can now take patients with advanced cancer and give them a therapy with very few side effects that stops the growth of the disease. Since 2C4targets the pathway, rather than the tumor, it has little toxicity. However researchers say the dru...

Different Drug May Help Children With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

...chers for the study feels that the drug will bring hope to many suffering from this disease as now it is possible to slow the onset and progress of the dreaded DMD. They are also hopeful, that looking at the effects of the drug, more research will be able to link it positively to other congenital heart pr...

Risk of preeclampsia in pregnant mothers may be inherited

...seases of preeclampsia and others. The scientists hope that one single blood test will be able to predict the gene that gives a woman with the STOX1 genotype a fift percent chance of having preeclampsia. The study is published in the April issue of Nature Genetics....

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

...to ACAT2. Thus in conclusion researchers say they hope that in the future their findings may one day lead to a drug to target ACAT2 in humans, thereby reducing the incidence of heart disease caused by plaque build-up in the artries....

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

...to ACAT2. Thus in conclusion researchers say they hope that in the future their findings may one day lead to a drug to target ACAT2 in humans, thereby reducing the incidence of heart disease caused by plaque build-up in the arteries....

Gold to be used for cancer detection

...ancer cells under the microscope. The researchers hope that this technology may be used to perform low cost automatic detection of cancer cells in the biopsies. The researchers also feel that their technology for scattering and absorption may be used with some modifications to test for cancer in human bo...

Researchers developed world’s smallest toothbrus

...ls for a better brushing effect. The researchers hope to use the brush for a number of biomedical aspects as well. Their research was published in the new edition of the journal Nature Materials. Reference: Nature Materials, June 2005, toothbrush, cardbon nono tubes, silicon carbide fibre, single row ...

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