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FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Tysabri, a New Drug for MS

... in November 2004, is an innovative treatment that represents a new approach to treating patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). "FDA worked with the company to make sure this information, even though preliminary, was given to physicians and patients as soon as possible and supports their de...

Eleutherobin From Coral Fights Cancer Cells

... most common causes of death. In male, oral cancer represents 4% of total body cancer and in female; it is 2% of all cancers. Majority of the oral cancers affect the outer layer of mucous membrane covering the oral cavity. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/oralcancer.a...

Britney Spears Donates $50 000 To Support Cancer Patients

... most common causes of death. In male, oral cancer represents 4% of total body cancer and in female; it is 2% of all cancers. Majority of the oral cancers affect the outer layer of mucous membrane covering the oral cavity. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/oralcancer.a...

Gene-Nanoparticle Gene Transfer Is Better Than Viral Vector Transfer System

...ogram. "This transition, from in vitro to in vivo, represents a dramatic leap forward in developing experimental, non-viral techniques to study brain biology and new therapies to address some of the most debilitating human diseases." Viral vectors for gene therapy always carry with them the potential to revert...

Virtual Colonoscopy May Be Better Than Real-time Colonoscopy

...tions as well," Dr. Yee said. Dr. Yee's research represents the longest follow-up (3.6 years) of patients after CTC and is one of the first to include average-risk patients among the study cohort. There was no significant difference between the numbers of clinically important findings in average- and high-ris...

Low bone mass in Postmenopausal Women

...ften slow to heal. A condition known as osteopenia represents low bone mass, but not to the severe extent of osteoporosis. Both osteoporosis and osteopenia can be diagnosed by bone density scans. Dr.Ethil said dual energy X-ray absorptiometry of the hip and spine currently is the "gold standard" for measuremen...

Breakthrough In Stem Cell Work

...o consist of human-like bone and cartilage. “This represents the first time a human-shaped articular condyle with both cartilage and bone-like tissues was grown from a single population of adult stem cells,” say researchers. Specialists however emphasize much more work must be done before tissue-engineered st...

Study holds promise for new way to fight HIV

...hatever amount of A3G that people do have from Vif represents a new way to attack HIV. To confirm that A3G offers strong protection against HIV, researchers in the current study measured A3G levels in the immune cells of six people not infected with HIV and in 25 patients with the virus. It was found that high...

GlaxoSmithKline to Supply United States with 8 Million flu vaccine, Fluarix

... US last year. This amount of 8 million doses only represents about 10% of the demand from the US, due to increased need for vaccines against flu.// The immense need for vaccination increased due to large vaccination awareness programs organized in the US during recent years, due to the protection it offers aga...

Cardiac bypass seems to be favoring men more than women

...higher risk. For most of the patients, CABG still represents the optimal therapy for their coronary heart disease, and the results shouldn't scare women away from heart bypass surgery. Source: Indo-Asian News Service...

Patient Choice Cesarean Section on The Rise

...cent in America’s "patient-choice" C-section rate represents an increase from 1.9 percent to 2.6 percent of deliveries in the years 2001, 2002 and 2003 for women with no history of C-sections. The study covers deliveries in the 17 states that release this data. When extrapolated to the nation, the study shows ...

Increased demand for Bird flu anti-viral drug world wide

...meet the increased demand. Pegasus Health, which represents most Christchurch GPs, has advised its doctors to avoid prescribing Tamiflu to the "wealthy, worried well" due to concerns about supply. ...

Use of a fast-acting insulin analog to control diabetic ketoacidosis in Children

...ent with a subcutaneous fast-acting insulin analog represents a cost-effective and technically simplified procedure that precludes intensive care unit admission....

“Provenge”, Dendritic cell vaccine for Prostate Cancr

...ognize tumors. // “If these results are true, this represents the first proof of principle of a dendritic cell vaccine altering the natural history of a solid tumor”, says Philip Kantoff, Chief of solid tumor oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Provenge carries the patients own dendritic ce...

PET Scanning can help in early detection of Alzheimer’s diseas

...ody's biological functions. PET imaging with FDG represents one of the most promising tools for diagnosis of Alzheimer's. In fact, using PET imaging with FDG may be the best indicator for determining which MCI patients are most at risk of developing Alzheimer's. Most MCI patients who showed abnormalities typi...

Complete Robotic Surgery To Revolutionize Surgical Treatment of Prostate Cancer

... list. Robotic-assisted laproscopic prostatectomy represents one of the most innovative treatments, minimally invasive, high-tech treatment, that is gaining importance. The University of Pennsylvania Health System is currently one of only a handful of facilities across the country offering this form of treatme...

Higher incidence of bile duct injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

...pidly substituted traditional cholecystectomy, and represents the gold standard for surgical treatment of cholelithiasis. Bile duct injury (BDI) remains the most serious //complication of cholecystectomy. According to a recent survey, published in the October issue of the journal Archives of Surgery, the incide...

Morphine Withdrawal Complicates Hepatitis C Infection in Drug Abusers

...duce the infectious virus, the HCV replicon system represents the best available system for examining the impact of opiates on HCV at the time of the study. It was found that there was an increase in the number of HCV replicon in both the withdrawal scenario. Furthermore, there was an inhibition of the IFN-al...

Protein Markers for Identification of Brain Tumor

...an attractive new treatment approach and the EphA2 represents a novel target for the development of molecular therapeutics for the imaging and treatment of patients with glioblastoma,” Professor added that , “New therapies are clearly needed because, despite the standard treatment of surgically removing the tum...

Kidney failure shows a tendency to run in families

...elatives with kidney disease. The following study represents the high rates of familial clustering of kidney disease. It also underlines the need for the parallel evaluation of close family members by screening for the presence of kidney disorders that would minimize the physical, financial and emotional traum...

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