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Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Initiates Patient Enrollment In New Cotara(R) Brain Cancer Trial

...glioblastoma trials with many of the investigators involved with our study." The new Cotara study is being conducted according to internationally accepted ICH GCP guidelines....

Genopole(R) is Organizing an Advanced Course on Stem Cells and Their Therapeutic Applications

...ts. This course is intended for biologists already involved in stem cell research and wishing to reach a more detailed understanding of this area....

New Drug Could Keep High Blood Pressure Under Control for Several Months

...ssels, by inducing antibodies. In the trial that involved 72 people, drug CYT006-AngQb developed by Cytos Biotechnology reduced systolic blood pressure by 25 millimetres of mercury as compared to placebo treatment. The drug also lowered diastolic pressure went down by 13 mmHg. We can certainly reduce bl...

Human Trafficking Booming in Eastern Europe, but Governments Dont Seem to Care

... slaves are kids, and both the traffickers and the involved government officials know that children are highly sought after for the sex trade. The sex trafficking in minors takes place with the assistance of government officials who make the major share of the income from the trade, it is alleged.. Most ...

Personal Disclosure by Physician may Harm Patients

...rns, the authors of the article concluded. Those involved in the investigation said the findings have affected how they conduct their practice. McDaniel, for example, now takes breaks between patient visits to discuss the days news or vent about problems, eliminating those kinds of self-disclosures from pat...

Antidepressents may Lower Bone Density in Older People

...tein that transports serotonin, a neurotransmitter involved in sleep and depression. This protein has recently been discovered in bone as well, raising the possibility that SSRIs may affect bone density and the risk of fracture. SSRIs account for about 62 percent of antidepressant prescriptions in the Unite...

Global Health Enriching the States Economy

... also been seen that Washington state citizens are involved in health, poverty, social justice, economic development, the environment and global learning according to another study conducted. This study identified 350 nonprofit organizations and foundations supporting international projects for sustainable de...

Oral Treatment as Effective as Injections in Treating Kids With Pneumonia

...that the findings were certainly good news for all involved - kids, parents and paediatricians. "This is good news for children who hate injections; good news for parents whose children will spend less time in hospital; good news for paediatricians who hate sticking needles in children and good news for the...

Babys Poop is of Interest for Researchers

...spots representing nearly all bacteria known to be involved in human microbial ecosystems. The researchers inc... fellow Daniel DiGiulio, MD, in Relman's lab, were involved in processing and analyzing more than 500 samples in this study. The team emphasized that the goal...

Surgery- Very Effective for Common Back Pain

... a surgery called decompressive laminectomy, which involved removing bone and soft tissue to relieve pressure on the nerves. The remaining 235 pursued nonoperative treatments such as physical therapy, steroid injections and analgesic medications. Two years after enrollment in the trial, patients in the non...

Men and Women With Multiple Sclerosis Equally Transmit Genetic Risk to Kids

...isk of the disease to their children. "Our study involved 16 times as many people as the previous published study. It casts further doubt on the widely believed multiple gene mode of inheritance of susceptibility to MS," said Ebers. The study is published June 27, 2007, in the online edition of Neurology...

Depression Drugs Could Make Bones Fragile

...in that transports serotonin, a chemical messenger involved in sleep and moods. The protein has also been discovered in bones, raising the possibility that the drugs may affect bone strength. The scientists suggest that people taking SSRIs may need additional screening or extra protection for their bones....

Digital Music Project Aims to Save Tibetan Folk Songs from Extinction

...dent from Qinghai Normal University, China, who is involved in the project. So far the students have recorded more than 250 songs, including melodies for herding, harvesting, singing babies to sleep, and coaxing yaks into giving more milk. "It is quite remarkable how much they have been able to accomplis...

Loss of Antenna Leads to Cancer in Insects

...ey dialysis or a kidney transplant. The proteins involved in dismantling the cilia are no strangers to Golemis and her team. Golemis has been studying HEF1 for over a decade, since she first identified the gene. She first discovered that HEF1 has a role in controlling normal cell movement and tumor cell inv...

A Lucky Number? 7/7/07

...so take place July 7. More than seven cities are involved however -- among them notably Tokyo, Shanghai, Sydney, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, London, New York, Hamburg and Istanbul. But one academic brushed off the 7/7/07 frenzy as pure nonsense. "7/7/07 is not pertinent," said Jean-Pierre Brach, a pro...

Prof Samir K Brahmachari, Dr MRS Rao Jointly Win Bio-medical Research Award

...se and humans. He is a co-discoverer of the gene involved in a particular type of colon cancer and is credited to have initiated genomic approaches towards understanding various biological processes in both normal and diseased conditions. The biennial Ambedkar Centenary Award was instituted in 1991-92 by...

Survivors of Rare Ovarian Cancer may Retain Menstrual Function and Reproductive Ability

... more likely than their healthy counterparts to be involved in meaningful, positive relationships. Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and the Gynecologic Oncology Group claim that this is the largest and most comprehensive survey of survivors ever conducted. Lead author o...

Male Pheromones Build Brain Cells in Female Mice

... brain regions-hippocampus and the olfactory bulb, involved in learning and memory and smell respectively. Mic... in the brain cells. "Adult neurogenesis may be involved in female mate selection," Nature Neuroscience quotes Weiss as saying. "Seeing an increase in bot...

This is How We Learn from Our Past Mistakes

...volunteers took part in a computerised task, which involved them making predictions based on information they were given. New information was then introduced, which made many of their predictions incorrect, so they needed to learn from this in order to avoid repeating the error. While they did this, their bra...

Early Indicator of Kidney Disease May Also Predict Risk of Pre-Diabetes

...baseline study took place between 2001 and2004 and involved 1,455 of the original participants, all of whom hadno known heart or kidney disease. Information on health indicatorswere collected once again. Analysis determined that 91 people who hadnormal glucose levels in 1996 had developed pre-diabetes since ...

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