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Afro- American Women Have More Aggressive Breast Cancer

...ervene in a more specific way with a more targeted therapy to reduce the risk of the cancer returning, and improve survival," said Dr. Morris. "We would like to explore future research that will enhance our knowledge and allow better understanding of these biological differences, and devise better treatme...

Study Confirms Benefits of Chemo, Trastuzumab Combo to Battle Breast Cancer

...ast cancer trials has confirmed that a combination therapy of chemotherapy and antibody trastuzumab chemotherapy improves survival in women with operable HER-2 positive breast cancer. Issa Dahabreh from the University of Athens conducted the meta-analysis of 5 trials involving more than 13,000 women whose...

Mutated Gene Zaps Pancreas Cancer in Mice

...cancer-specific expression that it can be used for therapy and perhaps for imaging" that could lead to early ...y. "This looks like a promising approach to gene therapy for pancreatic cancer and we are working to bring it to a clinical trial," said Abbruzzese. He est...

Gene Therapy Eradicates Pancreatic Cancer in Mice

... pre-clinical trials that a molecularly engineered therapy selectively embeds a gene in pancreatic cancer th...cancer-specific expression that it can be used for therapy and perhaps for imaging," notes senior author Dr. Mien-Chie Hung, Professor and Chair of Department ...

FDA Approve S Robotic Device to Help Stroke Patients

...of the first scientists to envision robot-assisted therapy for stroke patients and others with brain injuries...strokes every year. Of these, some 500,000 require therapy for problems with language, memory or movement. It is the last aspect that is the focus of M.I.T. ro...

Ice Bath by Sports Star Questioned

...er after an intense game or race. Adherents of the therapy include Paula Radcliffe and the England rugby team. Paula Radcliffe says when she emerges from the bath, her limbs fills up with fresh blood which invigorates the muscles with oxygen and helps the cells repair. Although physiotherapists who promote ...

Hormone Inhibitor in Prostate Cancer Treatment

...ity, 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 continued to grow despite medical or surgical castration, a new drug candidate that inhibits production of ma...

Reduction in Drug Costs

...sts only if they prescribe thiazides as first-line therapy for uncomplicated hypertension, unless there are medical reasons for selecting other drugs. Atle Fretheim and colleagues, in a research article published in PLoS Medicine, show that the change in prescribing practices reduced drug costs per Norwegi...

New Cancer Therapy in Clinical Trial

...n cancers. A new study identifies a combination therapy that may sensitize human cancer cells to a promisi...pathway called apoptosis, and unfortunately, TRAIL therapy is not effective in cells that have certain defects in apoptotic pathways. Dr. Wafik S. El-Deiry f...

Study Confirms No HRT Benefit for Older Women

New evidence confirms that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) should not be prescribed to older women who ...ps. One was given a daily dose of combined hormone therapy (oestrogen and progestogen) and the other group was given a placebo pill. Women who had had a hyster...

New Data Reinforces Correlation Between Carbohydrate Quality and Loss of Vision

... called the macula. Although there is no effective therapy for AMD, dietary intervention may delay its progress. Identifying modifiable risk factors for AMD is becoming increasingly important as the population ages. As Taylor and colleagues point out, the number of people in the US with visually impairing AM...

Anti-malarial Drug may Help Reduce Risk of Diabetes in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

...xamined the association between hydroxychloroquine therapy and risk of diabetes in patients with rheumatoid a...dard component of rheumatoid arthritis combination therapy in the future, and to evaluate the potential role of hydroxychloroquine as a preventive agent for di...

Alternative Option for Type2 Diabetes Treatment

...ess the effectiveness and safety of incretin-based therapy (GLP-1 analogues and DPP4 inhibitors) in nonpregna...mized controlled trials showed that incretin-based therapy with GLP-1 analogues or DPP4 inhibitors in adults with type 2 diabetes is moderately effective in im...

Cell Toxin Inhibits Survival Protein in Cancer Cells

...ce to multiple types of chemotherapy and radiation therapy found in many types of cancers. scientists at Fre...her agents, and could lead to a targeted molecular therapy to enhance the effectiveness of cancer treatments. Hockenbery said his groups approach illustrated t...

Scientists Revealed the Key Molecule That Controls Pain

...mpson. Inhibiting P2X as a potential pain-relief therapy would be the Holy Grail of rational drug design and could revolutionise the way we manage chronic pain conditions like back pain and migraine....

New Understanding on Growth of Human Stem Cells

... they can be more readily used for future clinical therapy to regenerate damaged tissue such as neurons for Parkinsons disease, or insulin producing cells for diabetes . The research has been funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the National Cancer Institute of CanadaThe Nature article ...

Tumor Blood Flow can Improve Chemotherapy

...d be especially helpful for developing combination therapy with both bevacizumab and chemotherapy drugs, not only for neuroblastoma, but also for other tumors. The results of our study are a significant step toward establishing such guidelines, said Andrew Davidoff, M.D., director of surgical research at S...

A New Monoclonal Antibody Kills Cancer Cells

...re very excited because this is the first targeted therapy for liver cancer. Other therapies have some modest benefits, but no one knows exactly how they work. We now have identified a pathway that appears to be overly active in more than 70 percent of the cancers we examined and, when targeted, leads to ...

Human Pain-controlling Molecule's Structure Identified

...ying. "Inhibiting P2X as a potential pain-relief therapy would be the Holy Grail of rational drug design and could revolutionise the way we manage chronic pain conditions like back pain and migraine," he added....

The Importance of Junk DNA

...cture or meaning to these genes, would render gene therapy ineffective....

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