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New vaccine for brain cancer

...ein on the surface, they will try to attack it and kill the tumor cell. It sounds confusing, but it works. By giving this vaccine, patients are surviving longer. Early research suggests, when combined with chemotherapy, the vaccine increases the two-year survival of patients with grade IV glioblastomas...

Animals can give us a second chance at life

... from a pig virus that could mutate and spread and kill lots of other people.”Biotech companies are working to eliminate that. They’re breeding pigs they say do not pass on the PERV virus --the one deemed most dangerous to humans. While it may be too early for species to share organs, researchers contin...

Cholesterol-lowering drug Found To greatly Reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack

...5 million Americans have the condition, which will kill half of them within five years. It can be caused by high blood pressure, valve disease, clogged arteries or even an infection. In a recent study it was seen that heart failure patients who took statins ( work by reducing inflammation, helping to be...

A Vaccine For Non – Hodgkin’s Lymphom

...es the immune system to recognize cancer cells and kill them. Researchers say , "There are certainly patients who've been vaccinated who have yet to have their cancer return, and whether those patients are cured, or simply having very long remissions, we don't know yet." Researchers conclude saying , t...

Cancer Patients Might Be Able To Actually Help Themselves

...searchers say the failure of these immune cells to kill // cancer may be due to different cell priming or suppressing mechanisms. Researchers now say that they have found a method to activate the anti-cancer cells in mice. For the study, researchers took bone marrow from breast cancer patients and separ...

Identifying Predictors Of Anthrax

...lease of just one kilogram of anthrax spores could kill more than 100,000 people in a city of 10 million. Researchers believe these findings represent preliminary efforts toward identifying clinical predictors of inhalational anthrax, but they say more study is needed....

Women With A High-Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease Under treated

Heart disease is at least six-times more likely to kill high-risk women compared to women without cardiovascular disease // say researchers based on findings of a recent study . 8,353 women who had cardiovascular disease or who were at high risk because of diabetes or multiple risk factors were studied. ...

Futuristic devices are here to take care of dental problems

...ials that rebuild damaged teeth, mouth rinses that kill bacteria and drill that use air and water to remove decay in tooth. Link: http://www.cds.org/media/release_detail.wu4?articleid=b69da66f...

New treatment for Cancer by injecting heated drugs

...fficacy of the drug while the direct contact helps kill the carcinogenic cells. A trial was performed under Dr. Y Yoshida of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Fukui, Japan to test the efficiency and over-all survival of patients with advanced ovarian cancer who had been administered...

Treating Latent Herpes With Licorice

... the licorice compound glycyrrhizic acid ( GA ) to kill cells infected with the latent form of the herpes virus that causes Kaposi sarcoma, a disease characterized by tumors under the skin’s surface that often afflicts people with HIV and AIDS. Results of the study showed that GA killed the cells in whic...

More Errors From Computerized Prescriptions

...s. It is known that adverse drug events injure or kill more than 770,000 people in hospitals each year. One way hospitals are trying to cut back on that number is with computerized physician-order entry systems. But according to a new study, use of computerized systems may actually be leading to more mis...

Cure For Persistent Oral Fungal Problem May Be Possible

...hibitor cocktail that may inhibit the enzymes that kill the peptides. This cocktail thus may be able to increase the ability of the peptides to treat potential oral infections up to double their original power. One peptide called MUC7 12-mer, which occurs naturally in the human salivary mucin molecule i...

Light can help fight gum bacteria

...y of the bones ultimately. Using light exposure to kill bacteria may become better good way to treat people with chronic periodontitis The results of the study were published in the new issue of Journal of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Reference: Journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, is...

Compound from cottonseed for neck and head cancers

... compound from the cottonseed oil has been able to kill carcinogenic cells to a success rate of 70% to 90%. The treated cell cultures of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma with gossypol compound have also been seen to inhibit the growth of tumors. This new treatment may be like a boon to patients suff...

Biomarker for prostate cancer may be separated for treatment

...mmunotherapy, for better and more effective way to kill the cancerous cells. The researchers had placed the prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) at a new location for the immunotherapy that is carried by the blood, to reach the biomarker. This had been done by a chemotherapy agent, which destroys th...

New info about Huntington's disease found

...e brain cells reacts with the neighboring cells to kill the cells surrounding it. Researchers feel that the findings are important as the entire treatment of the disease is based on the fact that target cells are the place which gives rise to the Huntington's disease. The new information regarding the HD...

Virus to treat brain tumor

...stomatitis virus (VSV) can successfully target and kill glioblastoma, which is one of the deadliest forms ...affect the brain tumor cells, replicate itself and kill more tumor cells in the surroundings. The study was published in the current issue of Journal of Vi...

Ceramide can target and kill cancer cells

...into the blood stream it is possible to target and kill breast cancer cells. Ceramide is a natural substance that accumulates in the cancer cells and thus may be used to get better results out of breast cancer treatments. Researchers had used their techniques on mice for successful results. However in...

Virus that does not cause disease can kill cancer cells

Adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2) can kill cancer cells of cervical, breast, prostate//, and squamous cell cancers in six days in laboratory conditions. Penn State College of Medicine researchers who had conducted the study reported that the virus kills multiple types of cancer cells and yet...

Antibiotics help combat dangerous tropical disease

...s repeating. "Although the drugs currently in use kill the micro-filariae, they largely leave the adult worms unscathed," Bonn parasitologist Professor Achim H?rauf explains. "Due to the long lifespan of the wuchereria worms, therapy lasts several years, during which time the symptoms continue to persist...

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