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Treatment Outcomes of Patients With HIV and Tuberculosis

... therapy when compared to those receiving daily or longer treatment. The results appear in the first issue... took their medicine daily or who were treated for longer periods. The study also found that the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) during ...

Gene Therapy a Better Alternative to Viagra Please

...ED) - gene therapy. And it could be effective far longer than the pills. Human and animal trials suggest gene therapy could offer a credible alternative to the current treatments available. A University of Pittsburgh team, led by Dr Joseph Glorioso, tested an experimental gene therapy in rats with ED cau...

Recurrent Gliomas: Vorinostat Shows Anti-cancer Activity

...patients had no tumor recurrence for six months or longer following treatment initiation. The median overall survival of the patients enrolled on the trial was 5.7 months -- similar patient populations enrolled in prior NCCTG trials had a median overall survival of between 4 and 4.4 months." This study wa...

Hot Flashes in Men Treated for Prostate Cancer Reduced by Non-hormonal Drug

...out 40 percent of participants had hot flashes for longer than nine months and a similar percentage reported having at least 10 hot flashes a day. Because gabapentin works on the central nervous system, its function may be similar to some antidepressants that are prescribed to reduce hot flashes in women ...

Gay Gang in Netherlands Lures, Rapes and Infects Fellow Homosexuals With HIV/AIDS

...f a Supreme Court ruling that found AIDS should no longer be seen as an inevitably fatal disease, but rather a chronic illness". The investigation was continuing to determine exactly what crimes might have been committed by the third suspect, who Mr Heidanus said was involved in the sex parties. A fourth ...

Brain Tumor Patients Survival Depends on Predicting Treatment Responses Earlier

...the possibility that brain tumor patients may live longer and respond better to drug treatments," said Wei Chen, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. "Malignant brain tumors are very difficu...

Scientists Discover How HIV Escapes Cells

... tethers or clumping signals from Gag, it could no longer get out of the cell. However, when they were replaced with synthetic membrane anchors and clumping domains, Gag regained its ability to get out of cells in exosomes. Gould believes that cells might have initially developed exosomes as a quality co...

Women of Child-Bearing Age Urged to Take a Multivitamin With Folic Acid

...nefit was even greater in those trials involving a longer treatment duration or in those subjects who had no previous history of stroke. The study also found that in countries and population groups that did not already have access to increased amounts of folic acid through fortified or partly fortified grai...

Cancer Drug Induces HDAC Inhibitor and Enhance Long-term Memory

... with HDAC inhibitors froze in place significantly longer than those that did not receive the drug, indicating that the treated mice formed stronger memories of the chamber than the untreated mice. The scientists also examined brain tissue and found that neural connections in the hippocampus were stronger i...

Cisplatin-very Effective Than Carboplatin in Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer Treatment

.... Patients who received cisplatin lived slightly longer than those treated with carboplatin, with a median survival of 9.1 months compared with 8.4 months. The difference in survival was not statistically significant, because both drugs had side effect. Carboplatin was more likely to decrease blood platel...

Low Levels of Testosterone may Increase the Risk of Death in Older Men

...hether testosterone supplements can safely promote longer life. Such a trial is in the planning stages at UC...macist." "Conventional wisdom is that women live longer because estrogen is good and testosterone is bad," said Barrett-Connor. "We dont know. Maybe the dec...

"Pre-treatment Blood Test" A New Guide to Lung Cancer Therapy

...icts non-small-cell lung cancer patients will live longer when they are treated with certain targeted cancer therapies -discovered by a multi-center team, led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators. This could help physicians decide which lung cancer patients to treat with drugs known collectively...

Cuba is Exporting Healthcare Now

It almost reads like some phantasy. They live longer than almost anyone in the region. Far fewer babies...nated nationwide effort to eradicate it. Cubans no longer suffer from diphtheria, rubella, polio, or measles and they have the lowest AIDS rate in the America...

Talcum Powder Curbs Lung Tumor Risk

...oracoscopy with talcum powder live up to 18 months longer than expected. To figure out why, Antony compared lung fluid from 16 patients with malignant pleural effusions before and after doctors dusted their lungs with talc. The results were startling. We were surprised to find that talc has added benefits...

Robotic Surgery A Cutting Edge in Medical Field

...t perform surgery can be driven by surgeons who no longer stand by the patient, but direct the operation from a computer console . The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery reports Now a team of surgeons and scientists have shown that the surgeon and robot can be linked via...

Second Hand Smoke Has Serious Consequence on a Childs Heart

...e adults working in a smoke filled environment for longer periods of the days is at much greater risks. This calls in for stricter laws to protect the citizens against second hand smoke....

Biologic Replaces Ointments & Surgery to Stop Aging

...on will have better results and, most importantly, longer lasting results," she says. Much of the scientific research in skincare is currently focused on biologic treatment of the signs of aging. "Out with the skin cream and in with gene therapy," Dr. Patel says. "I observed that when people returned af...

Cord Blood Transplant Benefits Blood Cancer Patients

...le the study showed that umbilical cord blood took longer to rebuild the blood-making cells in the body, it was associated with a lower risk of graft versus host disease, a potentially lethal complication, especially when HLA types are mismatched. Rates of leukemia relapse also are lower with mismatched umb...

Should Genetic Information Be Disclosed to Insurers?

..., such as a persons BMI or cholesterol level we no longer have any principled reason for excluding genetic information: Genetic information is not special. It is not inherently more specific, predictive, sensitive or private than other kinds of health information. Professor Holm concedes there are worri...

Remicade(R) Get Approval for First and Only Biologic Treatment for Pediatric Crohn's Disease

...l to maintain clinical benefit, while for others a longer dosing interval may be sufficient. Available data do not support further REMICADE treatment in pediatric patients not responding within the first 10 weeks of treatment....

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