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Spinal Cord Stimulation Pilot Study for Chronic Angina

...mulation will offer a minimally invasive treatment option for patients with chronic, intractable angina.” Angina is chest pain or discomfort that occurs when the heart muscle does not get as much oxygen as it needs. The pain is often described as a squeezing pain in the chest, shoulders, arms, neck, jaw o...

Gene Therapy Shows Promise as Treatment for Diseased Limbs

...ration of the study treatment is not considered an option because the body typically generates an immune response to gene therapy. Source-Newsise SRM...

Cholesterol in Stroke Patients Exceeds National Guidelines

...even lower ideal cholesterol levels proposed as an option for people at high risk of cardiovascular disease. The study was supported in part by grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The study information was collected as part of the “Get with the Guidelines” stroke quali...

New Data Shows Significant Asthma Control With Symbicort

...S., SYMBICORT represents an exciting new treatment option and a welcome addition to our respiratory franchise,' said Chris O'Brien, Senior Director, Medical Science, AstraZeneca. 'We are dedicated to the development of new, effective treatments to improve lung health and are looking forward to making SYMBIC...

Low Energy Plasma Treatment Better in Reducing Wrinkles

...ocess is quite minor, which makes it an attractive option for many patients," they said. PRI...

The Long Term Effects on Women Born With a Low Birth Weight

...ix mothers in Britain annually. The only treatment option is a caesarian delivery....

Parents Bank Kids' Umbilical Cord Blood

...Blood Registry, which began offering the baby-gift option last year after noticing grandparents putting up the money. 'The competitive nature seems misplaced to me,' he says. 'Family banking is not in any way detracting from the ability to build a public system.' Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Researchers Discover Potential Targets To Reduce Risk Of Stem Cell Transplants

...y." Allogeneic transplants are the best curative option for many blood cancer patients because the donor's cells replace critical blood cells lost during a patient's pre-transplant chemotherapy, and because the donor's cells can help kill any remaining cancer cells to prevent relapse. But, poorly matched ...

Tamoxifen Yields Long-term Reduction in Breast Cancer Risk

...tage and underscore its worth as a viable standard option for preventing ER-positive breast cancer in high-risk women,” the editorialists write. Source-Eurkalert SRM...

Multiple Low-energy Plasma Skin Treatments Beneficial in Reducing Facial Wrinkles

...ocess is quite minor, which makes it an attractive option for many patients." Source-Eurekalert...

Low Pitch Therapy for ‘ringing in the Ears

...n tinnitus therapy attempts. But he ruled out that option because of the severity of the patient’s tinnitus, so an opposite approach was explored, which provided unexpectedly effective results. After making many adjustments, the researchers created a low-pitched, pulsing sound -- described as a “calming, ...

First Treatment to Directly Target Tumor Blood Supply

...hen it comes to fighting cancer, any new treatment option is always welcome, he adds. "With an antibody to PSMA like J591, we hope to open up a whole new front in the war against this disease." Source-Newswise SR...

Surgeons Develop Simpler Way to Cure Atrial Fibrillation

Physicians have an effective new option for treating atrial fibrillation, a common irregular heart rhythm that can cause stroke//. Heart surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed and tested a device that radically shortens and simplifies a complex sur...

Shedding New Light on Proteorhodopsin

...eorhodopsin.” Liphardt said that the solar power option represents a potentially significant boost for efforts to develop alternatives to fossil fuel energy sources. Microbes that can simultaneously harvest energy from several different sources may be better at producing biofuels than microbes that can on...

New Approach to Routine Prenatal Genetic Testing

... week of pregnancy using a less invasive screening option that includes ultrasound in conjunction with the measurement of certain blood hormones. Invasive techniques involve sampling amniotic fluid that surrounds the baby in the uterus or tissue sampling of the placenta. Sequenom's proprietary Fetal Nucle...

Stem Cells Use in the Future

...tunately parents come to us because that is not an option for them: there are no widespread facilities to donate samples that would be stored by stem cells storage experts. Some of the potential therapies of stem cells would require amplification of samples (technically possible now), raising the possibi...

Umbilical Cord Blood Industry Matures

...and store the blood from their umbilical cords, an option increasingly being presented to expecting parents around the nation. "I decided to bank the cord blood because I knew it could be used for transplants and had experienced firsthand how hard it can be to find a matching donor," Verter wrote on a Web...

Simple Blood Test may Replace Invasive Prenatal Tests

...bstetricians and Gynecologists has suggested the option of genetic screening for all pregnant women though genetic screening is usually carried out for older women. This is because the risk for having a baby with chromosomal abnormalities is known to increase proportionately with age. Amniocentesis- ...

Performing Surgery on a Beating Heart may Be Safer

...thout the aid of a heart-lung machine//, is a safe option that leads to fewer negative side effects for bypa...provided for those surgeons who wish to offer this option to their patients.” Source-Bio-Bio Technoloy SRI...

Study Reviews Seasonal Affective Disorder

...idepressants, and cognitive behavior therapy. Each option seems to be effective, Lurie said, but none has been proven superior. For some patients, SAD is precipitated by darker days causing a shift in 24-hour hormonal rhythms. The loss of natural light outdoors can be replaced with treatment by indoor lig...

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