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Glucosamine-like Supplement Inhibits Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes

...ses. Demetriou said. Excitement for this treatment strategy stems from the novel mechanism for affecting T-cell function and autoimmunity and the availability and simplicity of its use. However, additional studies in humans will be required to assess the full potential of this therapeutic approach. Autoimmu...

Gene Thought to Help Kill Cancer Cells may Actually Help Them Thrive

...te. The findings raise the possibility of a new strategy for fighting cancer - namely, developing drugs to disable the functioning of this gene in the tumors of patients undergoing chemotherapy. P53 has long been recognized as a key player in directing chemotherapy-damaged cancer cells to self annihilate...

Health Experts Discuss Effect of DOTS on TB Control in India

...ndicates that there are problems with how the DOTS strategy has been implemented, according to the Indian Medical Association. India routinely has implemented various TB control programs that are used for a few years before being replaced, according to Hisamuddin Papa, a pulmonologist who founded the HUMA S...

25,000 Needless Deaths Each Year Due to Failure to Tackle Blood Clots in Hospital

...nd called for an expert working group to develop a strategy and report back to the chief medical officer. The expert groups report and the chief medical officers response were published last month, recommending that every adult should have a mandatory VTE risk assessment on admission to hospital and that co...

AIDS Vaccine Still a Long Way Off

...ombating the AIDS virus requires a non-traditional strategy in which a vaccine may not totally block infection, but could lower the level of virus and slow down transmission. Fauci says these interim vaccines would work in tandem with the two-dozen or so antiviral therapies currently available. The hope ...

Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

...aid it is "serious". The country needs a long term strategy to control the deadly H5N1 strain, the FAO said. Though no cases of human infection have been reported in Bangladesh, some 157,000 chickens have been culled and 1.5 million eggs destroyed as the virus spread to 11 out of 64 districts since the firs...

Improved Communication may Help to Accept the Death of Loved Ones With Poise

Hospitals that use a simple strategy of enhancing communication with family members of patients dying in the intensive care unit can greatly reduce post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression after their loved one dies, according to a study to be presented at the American Th...

Australia Contributes Additional Funds for HIV Prevention in North-East

...enting the epidemic, said McCarthy. The project strategy includes engaging a community and social action to spread awareness among young people about HIV/AIDS. This includes the introduction of drug awareness programs for schools and the establishment of self-help groups for young women affected and afflic...

Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Reverse Heart Failure in Animals

...s. In addition, they found that this gene therapy strategy had "unique and additive effects" to currently used, standard heart failure drugs called beta-blockers. Reporting in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, researchers led by Walter J. Koch, Ph.D., director of the Center for Translatio...

Is Presumed Consent the Answer to Organ Shortages?

...the University of Toronto, believes that no single strategy is likely to solve the organ shortage. She points out that donation rates vary even between countries that practice presumed consent and suggests that presumed consent will not work unless it is accompanied by the necessary equipment, trained perso...

Researchers Discover Starch Cocktail Fuel for green Car

...developing hydrogen cars. A straightforward, cheap strategy like this will be important in allowing hydrogen energy technologies to come into common use, said Kylie Vincent of Oxford University in the UK. Zhang, who plans to make a prototype toy car within three years, has said his technique could produce ...

Fat Screen Delivers Plant-derived Chemical With Antidiabetic Effects

...des validation for fat cell screens as a promising strategy for identifying new metabolic drugs, according to the researchers. While harmine itself has effects on the central nervous system that may preclude its use, "it may eventually be possible to separate the nervous system and metabolic effects of harm...

Binge Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive Deficits Among College Students

...student samples as it could be due to the sampling strategy employed." "Based on these results and those from several other studies," said Larkins, "adolescence appears to be a time of exquisite sensitivity to the effects of alcohol on the brain. For these reasons, parents and clinicians must be especially ...

Rapid Syphilis Could Prevent Congenital Disease and Stillbirths in Haiti

...ting period for follow-up and treatment. The third strategy is rapid testing that permits immediate diagnosis ...iveness by predicting the health outcomes for each strategy as 'disability-adjusted life years' (DALYs) -- reflecting the number of years of healthy life lost d...

Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury can Be Predicted Using MRI

...indings could result in a more aggressive clinical strategy for patients who may appear to have a severe SCI but may indeed have the capacity for substantial neurological recovery." According to the National Spinal Cord Association, 250,000 to 400,000 people in the United States are living with SCI or spina...

Investigational Drug Being Pursued for the Treatment of Ischaemic Stroke

...e the robust data needed to confirm our new dosing strategy and six hour treatment window for acute ischaemic stroke."...

Americans Optimistic About the War on Cancer

...e patients to live longer and healthier lives. Our strategy involves targeting the differences between cancer cells and normal cells and taking away the key fundamental needs of cancer." More than 1,000 respondents participated in the telephone survey sponsored by Abbott. The goal of the survey was to asses...

Cells Re-Energize to Come Back From the Brink of Death

...e Children's Research Hospital insights into a key strategy cancer cells use to survive and thrive. The St. Jude study also suggests that a drug that disrupts a cancer cell's ability to block this backup program would allow that program to kill the cell. Such a specifically targeted drug might be more effec...

Brain Inflammation A Friend for Alzheimer's Patients

...ications for the development of a vaccine or other strategy to protect against or fight off Alzheimers. Work on an Alzheimers vaccine has at times been promising, reducing the number of plaques in the brains of animals and a few people with the disease, but its also been fraught with difficulty, producing sid...

Mouse Model Points to Strategy for Treating Rare Muscle Disease & Kidney Disorders

...tional Institutes of Health (NIH), has developed a strategy that will be tested as the first treatment for people with hereditary inclusion body myopathy (HIBM), a rare, degenerative muscle disease. In an unexpected finding, the research indicates that the approach also might benefit patients with certain ki...

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