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BioCryst Receives Special Protocol Assessment for Fodosine

...mpound, Fodosine(TM) (forodesine hydrochloride) in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. A Special Protoco...g the third quarter of 2007. The trial will enroll patients with CTCL of Stage IB through Stage IVA who have disease that is persistent, progressive or recurren...

Specific Protein is Instrumental in Myelination

...th severe motor and cognitive deficits, such as in patients affected by cerebral palsy. Remyelination is a natural attempt by the brain to repair damage of the white matter; however the brain does not have the ability to completely repair itself. Dr. Gallo and colleagues work used enhanced epidermal growt...

Mutated Gene Zaps Pancreas Cancer in Mice

... "There are no good options for pancreatic cancer patients now," said James Abbruzzese, professor and chair of MD Anderson Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology. Two types of mice were treated after they were infected with two aggressive lines of pancreatic cancer, one in a very advanced stage. Infecte...

New Therapies for Kidney Diseases

...ntation in early age has been the only way to save patients suffering from NPHP. With a new mouse model Mathia...ersity of Michigan carried out a genetic screen of patients suffering from NPHP. They found that like the mouse model some patients carried mutations in the...

Gene Therapy Eradicates Pancreatic Cancer in Mice

... "There are no good options for pancreatic cancer patients now. That's why we are trying new approaches such as this one as part of SPORE," says Dr. Abbruzzese....

FDA Approve S Robotic Device to Help Stroke Patients

Robotic devices, that help stroke patients practise daily tasks with impaired limbs, are pro...ice called the Myomo e100, designed to help stroke patients regain motion in their arms. It is to hit the market shortly. Worn as an arm brace, the device wor...

Selenium Supplements may Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk

...further explored. Nevertheless, I would not advise patients to take selenium supplements greater than those in multiple vitamins," Stranges said. In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Eliseo Guallar from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, agrees that selenium seems to offer few benefits...

Parkinson's Targets Two Distinct Brain Networks, Finds Study

...g a five-year study of newly diagnosed Parkinson's patients who agreed to be followed several times over the c...lize this network, the scientists gave Parkinson's patients eight weeks of treatment, but it didn't work. "We really don't know precisely what's going on in t...

Roches Arthritis Drug Successful in III Stage Trail

...oms of rheumatoid arthritis in difficult-to-treat patients in a clinical study thus bringing it closer to reg...Radiate study was conducted over 24 weeks with 498 patients with difficult-to-treat RA. Actemra was given in combination with a standard treatment called methot...

Advancement in Gene Associated With Colon Cancer

...of genetic material from thousands of colon cancer patients and non-patients, and by evaluating the incidence ...amily history of more than 1,800 colorectal cancer patients with that of 1,900 healthy people with the same breakdown of age, gender and ethnicity - either Ashk...

Hormone Inhibitor in Prostate Cancer Treatment

... a marker of cancer activity, and shrank tumors in patients in whom hormone therapy had stopped working and also in patients who had previously been treated with chemotherapy. For prostate cancer patients whose tumors have ...

Reduction in Drug Costs

...hypertensive drugs. Before the change, one in ten patients starting antihypertensive medication was prescribe...ansition period, before stabilizing at one in four patients throughout the post-intervention period. A slightly higher proportion of patients reached their re...

Switzerland Approves Brain Cancer Vaccine

...ics Inc. has made public that in clinical trials, patients treated with DCVax-Brain survived twice as long as those who did not receive the vaccine, and this too, without major side effects. The financial angle was supported by Navid Malik, an analyst at Collins Stewart, who was quoted: This is an unpreced...

Americas Best Hospital Reduced Heart Attack Rates

...olleagues assessed 30-day death rates among 13,662 patients admitted to 50 hospitals ranked on the U.S. News l... best in Heart and Heart Surgery and among 254,907 patients admitted to 3,813 unranked hospitals in 2003. The researchers also compared the hospitals standar...

Clinicians Ordering Inappropriate Prostate Screenings

...for prostate cancer are frequently performed among patients for whom the PSA test is not shown to be beneficia...on, and colleagues analyzed data from 105,765 male patients who were treated at Veterans Health Affairs (VHA) facilities in New England from 1997 to 2004. Infor...

Electronic Health Records Shows No Improvement in Quality of Outpatient Care

...- not prescribing benzodiazepine tranquilizers for patients with depression, and avoiding routine urinalysis d...idn't. But when it came to prescribing statins for patients with high cholesterol, physicians using electronic systems did worse. Electronic health record sys...

Early Parkinsons Show Hallucination,sleepiness

... sleepiness, said Biglan. This is the first time a patients other health problems have been identified as a ri...s disease and should be considered when talking to patients about the risks of treatment, said Biglan. When beginning pramipexole, doctors should explain the ri...

Simple Blood Test May Predict Alzheimers Disease

...n identify it before it sets in and therefore give patients an opportunity to have effective treatment."Our ho...nical trial can cost 12million as large numbers of patients are needed to get accurate results. "This research could revolutionize practice because a blood test...

Polyclinics Could Threaten NHS Services, Warns BMA

...terests of patients. The concept of care closer to patients homes may sound appealing but polyclinics have the...onsultation and dialogue with local clinicians and patients is unclear. Successful change occurs when it is clinically-led, in partnership with patients, and ba...

Screening for Behavioral Health

...andeis, says that requiring health plans to screen patients for mental health and substance abuse problems cou...eatment. Horgan and her colleagues recommend that patients be routinely screened in primary care settings for several reasons. First, primary care physicians h...

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