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New Way to "See" Genes, Evaluate Effectiveness of Gene Therapies Discovered

...nd infused into a patient, the patient receives an injection of a special radioactive molecule. The reporter genes produce a protein that traps the radioactive molecules, and the radioactivity causes the regions of the body in which the reporter gene is present to glow "hot" during a positron emission tomograp...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

...group was the placebo group which received placebo injection whenever the other group received the vaccine. When compared after the two-year period the difference was startling. While the symptoms came down by 49% in the group, which received the grass pollen vaccine, the medication requirements came down by ...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

...group was the placebo group which received placebo injection whenever the other group received the vaccine. When compared after the two-year period the difference was startling. While the symptoms came down by 49% in the group, which received the grass pollen vaccine, the medication requirements came down by...

New FDA Approved Drug NATRECOR For Heart Failure Patients

... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved an injection of Natrecor as a way to treat these acute flare-up...bout 4 percent of patients. So the FDA approved an injection containing the lower Natrecor dose. Studies showed patients could breathe better as blood circulat...

A poke to cure your snore

...entists say they have developed a cheap, pain-free injection to stop people snoring. Snoring occurs when airflow vibrates across the soft palate tissue which becomes relaxed during sleep.The "snoreplasty" procedure involves injecting a chemical called tetradecyl sulphate into the fleshy soft palate at the back...

Collagen improves voice quality in Parkinsonism

...ses, the disease was probably too advanced for the injection to make a difference. The surgeons think the new procedure, which does not require a general anaesthetic, is very promising for many Parkinson's patients with voice problems....

Safe for people with asthma

...00 patients, aged from 4-50. One group got the flu injection while the other got a placebo injection. After 15 days, the two groups swapped over, and hence everyone got both injections, in a different pattern.// Every day for two weeks after each injection, the patients were monitored for peak expiratory flo...

IVF technique May Increase The Risk Of Birth Defects

...rtilisation (IVF) technique intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) may increase the risk of babies being born with abnormalities such as ambiguous genitalia. Researchers from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, say that men whose infertility is genetic are likely to have other, more serious genetic faults...

Magnetic resonance angiography in clinical medicine

...dy. However, it requires arterial catheterisation, injection of contrast, and exposure to ionising radiation wi...o a conventional angiogram.It does not require the injection of an external contrast because MRA uses the natural magnetic properties of the hydrogen atoms prese...

New technique to diagnose heart disease

...r conventional methods. And it does not require an injection of material to make the X-ray visible....

New treatment for diabetics

... life, and sufferers may need at least one insulin injection every day. Type 2, or non-insulin dependent diabetes is the most common form of the disease, and usually affects people later in life. Patients with the condition do not make enough insulin, or cannot use it properly, which means they cannot move b...

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories launches Hyalosy

... Hyalosyn (sodium hyaluronate), an intra-articular injection that provides relief from knee-joint stiffness and immobility among patients suffering from severe osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is a widely prevalent disease. More than 90 per cent of people above the age of 45 are estimated to show signs of this d...

New Prostate Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise

...fever and four men experienced inflammation at the injection site, but overall, the vaccine was well tolerated. Vieweg points out this vaccine could have applications in other cancers, particularly kidney and skin cancer....

The route to fertilization

...e egg once the sperm and the egg make contact."The injection of nitric oxide gas from the sperm triggers the release of calcium inside the egg about 30 seconds later. Calcium then activates nitric oxide synthase already present in the egg, producing more nitric oxide gas, which in turn causes the release of ...

Blood test may aid foretell Alzheimer's

...s." The mice's brains were studied 24 hours after injection to affirm whether the levels detected in the blood...protein had built up in the brain tissue. The m266 injection appeared give an accurate picture. "If this worked the same way in humans, it has the potential to ...

Sharing injection equipment spreads Hepatitis C

According to findings of a new report, the risks injection drug users face for infection with the hepatitis C...aring hypodermic needles, the new study found that injection drug users who shared cookers--containers used to dissolve and heat illicit drugs including heroin a...

A promising treatment for wart removal

...ds. In a previous trial, they showed how a single injection got rid of warts in 70 per cent of participants.// The new treatment is a form of immunotherapy - that is, it stimulates the body to fight and destroy warts using its own defences. Warts are caused by a viral infection. Sometimes they go away by th...

Men happy to take contraception

...ked if they would consider daily tablets, a weekly injection and a two-monthly injection. "These are all methods which may have been researched by pharmaceutical companies as convenient times for modes of administration," Dr Weston explained. The most tested method of male contraception is a hormonal suppressa...

Camera gives hope for detection of breast cancer

...nique called scintimammography, which involved the injection of a radioactive tracer chemical.// Scintimammography, is good at distinguishing between malignant and benign tumours, has been done on a standard gamma camera. The limitation of this kind of camera is that it cannot pick up small tumours within dens...

Toxin injections support stroke associated spasticity

...d and finger spasticity had either a one-off botox injection or placebo. Significant improvements were reported in the botox group during the 10 weeks of follow up. They were better able to take care of personal hygiene and dressing and had fewer problems with pain or positioning their hands, they said....

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