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...firm Myriad Genetics was testing r-flurbiprofen to treat prostate cancer, because the agent had shown it co...“I think Alzheimer’s is going to be much easier to treat if you can prevent accumulation of AB in your brain, than if you try to treat it once plaques form,”...White Blood Cell Booster May Help Cancer Patients Avoid Deadly Complications
...presents an important part of the effort to better treat this common complication in cancer patients receiv...nts receiving chemotherapy of varying intensity to treat several different types of cancers. The researchers found that nearly 40 percent of the patients who...Structure of TB Enzyme Points the Way to New Drugs: Study
...g in a latent form. Antibiotics that are used to treat the illness are decades old, can be toxic and don't work on the bacteria in its dormant stage. What's more, some virulent strains of the airborne germ have emerged that are extensively drug resistant. Pieters said that the new drugs by targeting di...Amnesia Drug That Blocks Bad Memories on the Anvil
...rlier. Some patients were given the drug used to treat amnesia, while others were given a placebo. After a week, patients given the drug showed fewer signs of stress when recalling their trauma, reports Live Science. Professor Joseph LeDoux led a similar experiment on rats at New York University, w...Maxygen Initiates Phase IIa Clinical Trial of MAXY-G34 in Breast Cancer Patients
...ify one or more doses of MAXY-G34 that effectively treat chemotherapy-induced neutropenia. Patient tolerability, safety, and immunogenicity will be monitored and assessed. Data will also be collected on the pharmacokinetic properties of MAXY-G34 and the mobilization of CD34+ stem cells. Phase I Results ...US Traveler With Deadly TB Has Less Serious Strain
...eople, "we now have some drugs available to try to treat them and prevent them from developing TB." Speaker was the first person in more than four decades to be placed under mandatory isolation by US health authorities, who feared he suffered the rare XDR TB infection. He was engaged to be married and ...Former US Vice President Al Gores Son Continues to Be Dogged by Drug Abuse Problem.
...Valium, Xanax and Adderall, an amphetamine used to treat attention deficit disorder, Amormino said. "He didn't have a prescription for any of it," Amormino said. Gore was booked into Orange County Jail in Santa Ana on four charges, including possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and possession ...Stem Cells from Human Fat Tissue to Hunt for and Kill Cancerous Tumours
...y to find a less toxic method than chemotherapy to treat colon cancer, researchers extracted the mesenchymal stem cells from human fat tissue, and after expanding their number in the lab, used a retrovirus vector to insert the gene cytosine deaminase into the cell. The gene can convert a less toxic drug...Reduction in Antidepressant Leads to Suicidal Risks
... Antidepressant medications are frequently used to treat depression among children and teens, but in 2003 d...ffect of the warnings was to alter the decision to treat a newly presenting patient, the authors write. Previous studies have shown that the use of antidep...Stem Cell Treatment may Prolong Lives of Children With Brittle Bone Disease
... born. Fisk believes that though drugs exist to treat the disease, stem cell transplants may offer extra benefits. The researcher, who presented the study at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research in Cairns, Australia, stresses that need for offering the treatment on a...Lab Tests Throw Up New Path for Parkinson's
...e brain called the substantia nigra. Attempts to treat Parkinson's have focussed mainly on a pharmaceutical substitute for dopamine or on restoring or protecting dopamine-producing cells.......t candidate for development of targeted therapy to treat gliomas, Zhang says. Gliomas kill about 13,000 people in the United States annually. The possibilities are not limited to brain cancer, Fuller notes, because of the pervasive overexpression of IGFBP2 documented in other cancer types. The gene is ex...Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now
...gist, and her colleagues at Cedars-Sinai currently treat more than 400 children from 2 to 21 years of age with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis are two different types of inflammatory bowel diseases that affect the digestive system. Symptoms include diarrhea, somet...... MRSA and to develop novel antibiotics in order to treat these infections. The success of this research will be judged by both improved patient outcomes and savings to the NHS in the costs of treating infections. CHAI was officially launched in December last year as a national research centre to lead th...Scientists Destroy Cancer Cells Using Electric Pulses
...imally invasive, inexpensive surgical technique to treat cancer. It has the advantages that it is easy to a... would continue to advance the promising method to treat cancer, which is being featured in a special issue of Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment....China Cracks the Whip Against Drug Manufacturers Who Fail Quality Norms
...arters it has suspended the sale of a drug used to treat acute leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis. In the past week alone, a former department head at the State Food and Drug Administration was sentenced to death on bribery charges, and it was announced that production licenses of five drug makers had bee...Buddhist Food Festival in Ludhiana
...r plant products. Indeed! Buddhist cuisine was a treat for Punjabis to cherish for long....Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US
...ugs and devices now being used without approval to treat atrial fibrillation.......a news agency said. The medicine is also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, it said. The watchdog ordered food and drug administrations in Shanghai and the Guangxi region in the nation's south to re-evaluate the drug, it said. The latest move comes after China's former head of drug registrations was...