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New Way to "See" Genes, Evaluate Effectiveness of Gene Therapies Discovered

...ysicians to determine whether gene therapies reach targeted cells and work as they should. "The technology is expected to help patients with cancer and other illnesses, such as cardiovascular disease. The discovery is outlined in the August 2000, issue of the journal Nature Medicine. UCLA researchers plan t...

Doctors at risk- the ugly side of the noble profession

...right and who is wrong the report says doctors are targeted and sometimes made to pay a very heavy price if things go wrong.Calling it the ugly side of the noble profession, the study says that doctors are threatened over phone, hounded relentlessly and at times even attacked by infuriated relatives.After cab...

Cancer drugs in development nearly doubled since 1995

...cer and 52 for prostate cancer. Othercancers being targeted include solid tumors, sarcomas, pancreatic cancer,ovarian cancer, multiple myeloma, lymphoma, liver cancer, leukemia,kidney cancer, brain cancer, stomach cancer and bladder cancer.Of the drugs in development, 17 are waiting for Food and Drug Administ...

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

...k to offer Diflucan to the least-developed nations targeted by the UN and the WHO as the most affected by the AIDS crisis", Dr.Henry McKinnell, CEO of Pfizer, told reporters at a press conference. Many patients stricken with AIDS develop complication of fungal origin. Two common conditions are esophageal ca...

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

...k to offer Diflucan to the least-developed nations targeted by the UN and the WHO as the most affected by the AIDS crisis", Dr.Henry McKinnell, CEO of Pfizer, told reporters at a press conference. Many patients stricken with AIDS develop complication of fungal origin. Two common conditions are esophageal ca...

How much can exercise improve health?

... He also added that studies should be more tightly targeted to exactly how much exercise it takes to get a specific result....

New gene for hairloss

...ce its own activity as well as that of other genes targeted by the hormone. It may be a key factor in the hormone's effects in both brain and skin....

Misleading Advertisements for Prescription Drugs

...es in the US over a year's time. The ads "not only targeted symptom relief but also treatment and prevention of disease," Dr. Woloshin noted. Sixty-three percent were for drugs that relieve symptoms, 26% for drugs to treat disease and 11% for drugs to prevent disease. He pointed out that proponents of direc...

New Way To Treat Lupus

...iscovery scientists say could lead to better, more targeted treatments for lupus in the next few years. The ne... interferon-alpha could potentially provide a more targeted treatment. The findings suggest that a drug that would act against immune system protein called inte...

Syphilis uncovered

...w diagnostic tests and eliminate it with specific, targeted antibiotics."...

Combination therapy to treat breast cancer

The combination of two targeted drug therapies results in dramatic reduction in br...s at times when the disease is more aggressive and targeted therapy used at other times....

Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

... which therapies could best fight it.// Armed with targeted molecular treatments, doctors may be able to fight the disease without risking the side effects of prolonged and powerful radiation and chemotherapy at an early age. The latest research is a collaborative effort looking at a type of childhood tumour...

GlaxoSmithKline To Cultivate Non-Smoking Environment

... up a helpline in order to quit smoking. Glaxo had targeted 50,000 patients for its first year with Zyban. It has already crossed the target of 10,000 patients. It had also sponsored the academic grant for the global initiative for obstructive lung disease in order to promote educating the public for chronic ...

Meningitis C vaccine a cost-effective success

...ng in reducing the incidence of the disease in the targeted age groups in a cost-effective anner....

Chewing gum found to increase brainpower

...clear and specifically we found that chewing gum// targeted memory," Andrew Scholey of the university's Human Cognitive Neuroscience Unit said. "People recalled more words and performed better in tests on working memory." Peppermint gum, menthol or spearmint--it makes no difference. The main key is the repeti...

Liver key to extending life

...we could be using a broader range of interventions targeted at the liver instead," Professor Le Couteur said.His team is exploring avenues such as reducing food intake, using antioxidants designed to work specifically in the liver at time of digestion, improving blood flow to the liver, and using substances t...

Elevating Manganese Levels hold back HIV

...V infection, the antiretroviral zidovudine (AZT), targeted reverse transcriptase. The virus is notorious for developing resistance to drugs, however, so new treatments are needed to keep it in check. Drugs that target PRM1 and increase manganese levels may help prevent the development of resistance, Boeke sa...

Mutating viruses helps produce antibodies

... toxins. The researchers also suspect this highly targeted mutation process may exist in more than just viruses. "I would not be surprised if this turns up in genomes of other organisms," Miller said. They are beginning to examine the human genome for the genetic signatures of this mechanism, as well as yeas...

Developing HIV fighter

...iRNA . Sharp's team made two different siRNAs that targeted cell surface proteins essential for the HIV virus to infect a cell. They targeted the parts of the virus that make the protein as well as a regulator protein. According to Sharp, in...

Gene glitches connecting pot with Schizophrenia

...orm a tissue target for drug development and allow targeted treatments to emerge for the illness. It appears malfunctions in the brain's marijuana-linked circuitry may make one vulnerable to schizophrenia, Ujike said. This holds especially true for a condition called hebephrenic schizophrenia, which is marke...

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