Abbott's RealTime Hepatitis B Viral Load Test Receives CE Marking in Europe
...al therapy, while monitoring HBV DNA levels during therapy can influence its duration and also signal the development of drug resistance. In addition, the higher the baseline viral level the more likely a patient is to develop hepatocellular carcinoma, a primary cancer of the liver. "The ...Phase II Data Show Efficacy and Tolerability of Tapentadol in Chronic Pain Treatment
...bout Grunenthal - Grunenthal is an expert in pain therapy and gynaecology and a pioneer in intelligent, user-friendly drug delivery technologies. The company discovers, develops, produces and markets high therapeutic value pharmaceuticals that contribute to patients' ability to control their own lives. Grun...Gene Therapy for Parkinsons Disease
... treatment over the last three years ,a novel gene therapy technique is safe and may be effective at staving ...ng to calm this hyper-reactive circuit. The gene therapy would be used to reduce symptoms and not alter the underlying disease process. Finding novel therapi...Untreatable Eye Disease Improves With Avastin
...eye cancer patients who are treated with radiation therapy and commonly develop radiation retinopathy, said P...d with a catch-22 in terms of treatment. Radiation therapy is the treatment of choice for most patients; but, it commonly causes a troubling side effect -- rad...Stem Cell Licensing Deal Positions Toronto as World Leader in Technology
...ystem. Published uses of mesenchymal cells in cell therapy include combating auto-immune and inflammatory diseases (Crohns, juvenile diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis), cancer, heart disease and tissue engineering. While the HUCPVC technology is still in the pre-clinical stage, TRT CEO Dr. Jeffrey Turner s...US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers
...blems from a severe brain injury, he now does work therapy delivering mail at a VA hospital and tries to re-e... brain injuries, and guys who could remember their therapy dog's name but not their doctor's, or who could carry on a conversation but not recall what they had...University of Zurich Announces Worldwide Clinical Trial of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
...o evaluate the impact of cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with advanced heart failure (NYHA Clas...he heart as a pump. This can be helped by a device therapy called CRT. CRT has been proven effective as an adjunct to drug therapies in patients with advanced ...Stem Cells Aid in Hearing Recovery
...stem cell transplantation into the inner ear. Cell therapy targeting regeneration of the cochlear fibrocytes may therefore be a powerful strategy to cure sensorineural hearing loss that cannot be reversed by current therapies, state Dr. Matsunaga and colleagues....Emergency Department Guidelines to Improve Quality Patient Care
...physicians may need more education on a particular therapy or procedure.In addition, if there are physicians who are doing an excellent job, we want to try to emulate their practice, Wright says. Wright admits that although nursing staff have embraced the new focus on quality care and the use of guidelin...Violent Videogames Attract Criticism Again
...ng. The game system has also been used in physical therapy and in retirement communities, where elderly residents are using it to play virtual golf and bowl. Now that the system has been out for a while, the violent games are emerging -- Scarface, Resident Evil 4, and Far Cry Vengeance, all rated M, are amon...Eating Fish Oil can Save Eyesight: Study
..., according to the National Eye Institute. Laser therapy and cryotherapy -- which burn or freeze the periphery of the retina -- have proven effective, but also destroy some side vision and may have other unknown long-term effects....Estrogen Therapy Protects Against Fading Mental Powers: Study
Estrogen therapy may protect the aging brain cells of post-menopaus...o further stir the debate over hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The study suggests that estrogen protects the neurons in the post-menopausal female brain f...Gene Therapy Awakens the Brain Despite Blindness from Birth
...earchers have shown in an animal study that a gene therapy used to restore retinal activity to the blind also...ed that multi-institutional study, feels that gene therapy can improve retinal, visual-pathway, and visual-cortex responses in animals born blind, and that it ...Tinnitus Patients can Lead a Normal Life
...ise. To achieve this, therapeutic advice and sound therapy are used. The father of TRT is professor Pawel ...pointing out that, without these interviews, sound therapy will not produce results. The second TRT tool, sound therapy, arose from the discovery that, depri...Researchers Reverse Mental Retardation Symptoms in Mice
... certain enzyme in the brain could be an effective therapy for countering the debilitating symptoms of FXS in children, and possibly in autistic kids as well," Hayashi said. The findings of the study will be published in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Initiates Patient Enrollment In New Cotara(R) Brain Cancer Trial
...uate the safety and efficacy of its tumor necrosis therapy (TNT) agent Cotara(R) in patients with glioblastom...up to a 10,000-fold greater concentration in local therapy exposure than conventional intravenous drug administration, while minimizing unwanted exposure to he...Genopole(R) is Organizing an Advanced Course on Stem Cells and Their Therapeutic Applications
...rs of biological products needed for gene and cell therapy or represent flexible and powerful tools for screening molecules for predictive toxicology or therapeutic efficacy trials. The body of gathered knowledge, which is already very large, can be even further extended, for example, to the hematopoetic s...HIV Prevention to Thai Prisoners
...s the rights of prisoners to access antiretroviral therapy is very positive,' say the authors. 'The fact that none have questioned that three prisoners facing the death sentence receive antiretroviral treatment is a clear indication of the staffs commitment to treatment as a basic human right.'...Oral Treatment as Effective as Injections in Treating Kids With Pneumonia
... quickly, suffered less pain, required less oxygen therapy in hospital and were able to go home sooner than those given intravenous (IV) treatment. The findings suggest that such injections, endured by generations of children, may be unnecessary and could be replaced with oral doses of the medicine in the ......e first attempt at using cord blood as a potential therapy for type 1 diabetes. We hope these cells can either lessen the immune system's attack on the pancreas or possibly introduce stem cells that can differentiate into insulin-producing cells," Haller said. "This isn't a cure-all. We think that giving ...