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New Oncogene for Brain Cancer

...er that would indicate an active role for Akt in a patients cancer and thus a role for Akt inhibitors in their treatment. The survival of the most advanced stage of glioma, gliobastoma, has not significantly improved for decades, note Zhang and Fuller. We hope IGFBP2 will provide an effective target for tre...

New "second-line" AIDS Drug Shows Promise in Trials

... that researchers hope will cast a lifeline to HIV patients who have exhausted first-line treatment has shown ...o called TMC125, is designed as an alternative for patients who are resistant to a class of drugs called non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs...

EpiCept Accelerates Development of Phase I Clinical Study for Cancer

...os Angeles, it will accelerate the recruitment of patients in the currently ongoing Phase I clinical study of...t (VDA) and apoptosis inducer for the treatment of patients with advanced solid tumors and lymphomas. The first two cohorts of patients have been completed acco...

New Spinal Cord Stimulation System Launched

...on designed to save time and be cost-effective for patients and payers," said Orlando Florete, M.D., of the In...rs the industry's longest wireless range, enabling patients to adjust their pain therapy with simplicity and convenience. The charger is approximately 75 percen...

New Asthma Gene Identified

...r on the paper, compared the genetic makeup of 994 patients with childhood onset asthma and 1,243 non-asthmatics. They looked at mutations in the building blocks that make up DNA, called nucleotides. There are mutations in around one in every 600 nucleotides, and scientists examined more than 317,000 of the...

Australian Patients Who Received Vitamin Injection Infected With Hepatitis C

...New South Wales in Australia are urging up to 2000 patients of a doctor in Sydney to test for hepatitis C and ...found Dr Daniel Hameiri's Double Bay clinic where patients receive vitamin injections was the source of the potentially fatal disease. Double Bay is a harbour...

New Drugs Show Promise in Fighting Drug-Resistant HIV

... in the United States, is the first trial to offer patients infected with resistant HIV the potential of recei...d chance HIV can be very effectively controlled in patients who have advanced, multi-drug-resistant HIV," said William J. Towner, MD, Kaiser Permanente Southern...

Genetic Disease Causes hearing loss

...etermine the mechanisms underlying hearing loss in patients with ELSTs. Clinical findings and audiologic dat...d computed tomography imaging studies. Thirty-five patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease and ELSTs in 38 ears were identified. the most common ELSTassociate...

Australian Research Reveals AIDS, Cancer Link

AIDS sufferers and transplant patients are at a much higher risk than the general populat...ach, cervix, eye, lip, mouth and penis. HIV/AIDS patients were found to be 11 times more likely to develop Hodgkin's lymphoma while those who had undergone a ...

New Strategy to Counter Problem Drinking

...hol-related disease, etcetera. Before the study, patients assigned to nalmefene treatment reported 15.5 average heavy drinking days each month. They were directed to take the drug whenever they felt a looming urge to drink. During the first three months of treatment, the average number of heavy drinking day...

Fibrinogen may Inhibit Spinal Cord Regeneration

...d the spinal cord after damage, which results in a patients paralysis. The researchers were surprised at the massive deposits of fibrinogen found at the sites of injury. That discovery led them to investigate the proteins effect on neuronal cells ability to regenerate. Our study shows that fibrinogen direct...

Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now

...nai. Infliximab, Dubinsky explained, is used for patients who have not responded adequately to standard ther... all designed to lessen the emotional stress young patients sometimes experience during the two to three hours required to administer intravenous treatments. ...

Flu Outbreak Among Children Feared in Western Australia

...r told The Gold Coast Bulletin he had treated four patients suffering from pneumonia in a single morning this week. The doctor said the number of serious flu-like diseases had skyrocketed in recent days. The increase in hospitalisation for the flu played a role in the number of public and private hospital...

New Blood Vessels can Be Created from Bone Marrow Stem Cells: Study

...native to venous grafts that are routinely done in patients undergoing coronary bypass operations, the disadvantages of which include limited availability of vessels, pain and discomfort at the donor site, and a high 10-year failure rate. During the course of study, the researchers used a fluorescent marker...

A New Therapy to Protect Cancer Patients Against Infertility

...e also subsequently returned to normal. 94% of the patients resumed spontaneous ovulation and menses within 12...le time the patient is in chemo. This means that patients get unpleasant side effects related to having low oestrogen levels, such as hot flushes, and can als...

Exercising Significantly Enhances Quality of Life Among Elders

...efits reflect not just health states, but also how patients perceive and value the health- and non-health-related aspects of their conditions before and after receiving an intervention," said Dr. Mau-Roung Lin, co-author of the study. These measures may therefore be beneficial for selecting interventions that...

Womens Mood Plays a Key Role in Infertility Treatment

...roduction. The team asked 129 female infertility patients to undertake a standardised questionnaire, the Pro...out how many embryos to transfer. If infertility patients were to gain a better understanding or the risks and benefits of transferring more or fewer embryos,...

Sleep Disorder Leads to Road Accidents

...ders, so they err on the side of caution and refer patients to sleep centres. Health departments spend nearly ...tified by the software. The software will enable patients to enter their information at home, allowing specialists to conduct a preliminary diagnosis and deve...

New Device to Treat Snoring and Sleep Apnea

...nd unpleasant. It can sometimes be frustrating for patients and their loved ones. There are several medical ...rs are invisible and according to the researchers, patients are unable to feel the device in their mouth. "Results with the first patients treated are very e...

Irish Outsourcing of Smear Test may Result in Cervical Cancer Being Undetected

...enough guidance. "This compromises doctors and patients and could result in a potential abnormal result sl...d. "This offered a continuum of care to all our patients through a shared understanding of result reports," she said. "Much of this has now been lost through...

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