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Scientists Claim Encouraging Progress On Hereditary Diseases

... Breakthroughs by the HDF's scientists include the landmark discovery of the Huntington's disease marker in 1983 and the gene itself in 1993. The Hereditary Disease Foundation and its scientists also helped to launch the Human Genome Project. Collectively, they have created a vast, international, collaborativ...

Brain Defect boy Compensated for Medical Error

...ts' -- trauma began Dec 13, 1989. What was to be a landmark day for Shibhu Thomas (now 44) and Geetha George (now 38) turned out to be a devastating moment from which they never recovered. Geetha's expected date of delivery, of their first child, was Dec 6, 1989. Their gynecologist told them that all was fi...

Chemistry Over The Counter: Is It Just What The Doctor Ordered?

...rld-class hospitals and services have made India a landmark in healthcare. Laudable efforts in complex heart surgeries of people from yonder, enabling life over near-death situations, has won India world-wide acclaim, apart from cementing troubled relationships across borders. The Indian Pharmaceutical Ind...

International Conference on The Costs And Benefits of HIV/AIDS Interventions in Developing Countries to be hosted by Harvard

...ence said, 'This Harvard-wide conference will be a landmark meeting for researchers and policymakers to meet in person and constructively discuss major HIV/AIDS and costing issues that both parties grapple with in their work. Over these two days, we will work together to develop adaptable economic models that...

ACTOS Linked to Several Cardiovascular Benefits

... percent, P=0.010). These results were part of the landmark PROactive (PROspective PioglitAzone Clinical Trial...Azone Clinical Trial In MacroVascular Events) is a landmark study that prospectively looked at the impact in total mortality and macrovascular morbidity using A...

ADHD Linked To Smoke And Lead

... to environmental lead and smoke exposure. "It's a landmark paper that quantifies the number of cases of ADHD that can be attributed to very important environmental exposures," said Dr. Leo Trasande, assistant director of the Center for Children's Health and the Environment at Mount Sinai School of Medicine i...

Carefully Monitored Treatment Can Help Those Who Suffer from Depression

...ment for depression. An important feature of the landmark clinical trial is that the 3,671 patients included were treated in “real-world” settings – 41 primary-care and psychiatric clinics around the country – rather than being nonpatient volunteers, as often is the case in such studies. In addition to suff...

New Treatment For Skin Cancer Using Body's own Immune System

...e at New York University, said, 'The research is a landmark study.'However, boosting of immune system does increase the risk of diseases like hepatitis, colitis and dermatitis. Further studies are required to validate the findings of these two studies. If it woks well, the treatment would be extended to oth...

North Texas Surgeons Lead Robotically Assisted Laparoscopic Surgeries.

...ates. In addition, UT Southwestern was part of a landmark study that proved laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer is just as effective as traditional open surgery. The robot-assisted surgeries have all those patient-centered advantages, plus the robot often can provide better visuals, access and mechanica...

New Study Shows Efficacy of AROMASIN on Early Breast Cancer

...ofessor Charles Coombes, lead investigator for the landmark Intergroup Exemestane Study (IES) and director of cancer medicine, Imperial College, London, “Results from the IES show a clear benefit for women who receive Aromasin after two to three years of tamoxifen. The B-33 study results presented today show ...

Is Your Child Allergic To Peanuts?

.... Her parents enrolled Elizabeth, at 4 1/2, in a landmark experiment that set to discover-'Could eating tiny amounts of the very foods that endanger them eventually train children's bodies to overcome severe food allergies?' Preliminary results suggest that it just may work. The study included a handful o...

Highlights from World Transplant Congress

...ls after transplantation. Dr. H?yry also performed landmark studies of the diagnosis and prevention of kidney transplant rejection. ? Sir Peter John Morris, who performed trailblazing research into the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system, which plays a critical role in matching organs for transplantation to...

Robotically Assisted Colo-resection And Gastric Bypass Surgeries Are Becoming Popular

...gery. In addition, UT Southwestern was part of a landmark study that proved laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer is just as effective as traditional open surgery. The robot-assisted surgeries have all those patient-centered advantages, plus the robot often can provide better visuals, access and mechanica...

A New Test to Detect Drug-resistant HIV Strains

...North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the test is a major landmark in the ongoing research. Recent research shows 15 percent or more of newly diagnosed HIV patients harbor drug-resistant strains of the virus. The test is designed to pick up a common mutant strain, which offers resistance to one of the first-line...

Is Evidence-based Medicine Enough to Support Additional Research in Alternative Medicine?

...tegrative Cancer Therapies now reports a series of landmark studies on the effects of homeopathy on prostate cancer. These are the first rigorous studies on homeopathy simultaneously using genetic, cellular and whole animal models of cancer. These studies show that rigorous basic science research can be condu...

A New Therapy for CFS

...ke the ones studied here, it would be an important landmark in the treatment of this illness." Montoya has received a $1.3 million grant from Roche Pharmaceutical, which manufactures the drug under the brand name Valcyte, to conduct a randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind study set to begin this quar...

Software Tools & Fonts in Seven Indian Languages

As a landmark in the series of release of Software Tools and Fonts in various Indian languages that are contemplated, //the Department of Information Technology (DIT), will be bringing out CDs containing software tools and fonts in as many as seven Indian Language...

Rett Syndrome Reversed in Genetic Mouse Model

The RSRF announced the results of a landmark study reversing the symptoms of Rett Syndrome (RTT) in a genetic mouse model//. The findings, by Adrian Bird, Ph.D., of the University of Edinburgh and Chairman of the Rett Syndrome Research Foundation (RSRF) Scientific Advisory Board, appear online ...

Women Will Be Paid to Donate Eggs for Science

... to donate their eggs for scientific research in a landmark decision that will prompt a fierce backlash from// leading figures in the medical world. The Human Fertility and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the government regulator of this highly sensitive area, is expected to approve the policy when it meets on...

China, France to Jointly Develop Traditional Chinese Medicines

The governments of China and France signed a landmark cooperative treaty here Thursday to set new standards for traditional// Chinese medicine (TCM) expected by practitioners to help in the fight against AIDS and cancer. The two countries will cooperate in academic and clinical TCM research, setting n...

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