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Chocolate, wine, spicy foods may be OK for heartburn, Stanford study finds

... go away. Many of Gerson's patients walk into her clinic upset, having been advised elsewhere to severely l... stream of "very unhappy" patients referred to her clinic by outside doctors caused her to doubt the efficacy of the usual treatment advice. "The patients wer...

UGA study explains peaks and troughs of dengue epidemics

...ta from the government of Thailand and from a Thai clinic that keeps what is widely regarded as the most comprehensive set of data on dengue. Southeast Asia has been a dengue hot spot since the 1950s, but the researchers note that their model applies to other regions where all four dengue strains circulate....

VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers identify a new class of anti-cancer drugs based on platinum

... are the largest class of anti-cancer drugs in the clinic and the most important in terms of treatment. Cisplatin is a chemotherapy drug that is given for the treatment of metastatic testicular or ovarian cancers, and some advanced bladder cancer, and is a very effective drug in combination with other thera...

Stem cell transplants improve recovery in animal models for stroke, cerebral palsy

...ving more aggressively into carrying this into the clinic but, at the same time, we are going to be very cautious and thorough in monitoring for any safety issues." Researchers also are working toward delivering the stem cells intravenously, an approach they believe will work because the cells naturally mi...

Carnegie Mellon develops non-invasive technique to detect transplant rejection at cellular level

...ence. "Successful translation of this work to the clinic ultimately will reduce the number of biopsy procedures and should greatly improve the quality of life for cardiac transplant patients, especially children," added Ho, who directs the Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research. "Perhaps most import...

Study shows AIDS drugs cost-effective, care underfunded

...non-HAART medications, hospitalization, outpatient clinic visits, and more. According to the study, as long...ntrast, expenditures for physicians' services and clinic fees accounted for less than $2 of every $100, or on average, $360 per patient per year. This is fa...

Is it Possible to Change Prescribing Habits?

...In addition, the setting was a single primary-care clinic outpatient setting within a large public-health-integrated health-care delivery system, and results may be different in other settings such as hospitals and private physician offices. However, changing prescriber practice at all is not easy to achiev...

Viagra's hidden help for wildlife

...aged 50 to 76, who sought treatment at a large TCM clinic in Hong Kong. The men were questioned about their previous and current use of TCM and Western treatments for arthritis, indigestion, gout and impotence. The study's lead authors are Dr Bill von Hippel, a psychologist from the University of New South...

Nanoparticles, nanoshells, nanotubes: How tiny specks may provide powerful tools against cancer

...53 targets tumors and metastases is going into the clinic as a prototype of gene delivery strategy for this technology," she notes. "It's a platform technology." A phase I study of the strategy has already begun at Georgetown University Medical Center and will enroll 20 patients with advanced solid tumors, ...

Embryonic stem cells accrue genetic changes

...mbryonic stem cells is still in the lab -- not the clinic -- focusing on what the cells can do and how they are controlled, the hope is that in the future these cells might help replace or repair tissues lost to disease or injury. Because embryonic stem cells can become any type of cell found in the body, i...

Most embryos produced during IVF do not result in live births

...ky, M.D. "We as practitioners in the reproductive clinic are in a paradoxical situation," Patrizio added. "There is pressure to reduce multiple births, but we need to do so knowing that the majority of the embryos that are transferred do not implant. It is difficult to strike a balance between these two ne...

Women feel more pain than men, research shows

... In a study of 150 patients referred to a hospital clinic with chest pain, researchers discovered that the factors that predicted pain in men and women were different. Researchers believe that it is the fear of anxiety-related sensations and an increased tendency to negatively interpret such sensations, bo...

Genetic variation alters response to common anti-clotting drug

...farin dose. However, it can take several months of clinic visits and needle pricks to determine an individual's ideal dose. Scientists know that variations in a gene encoding the CYP2C9 enzyme that metabolizes warfarin account for about 10 percent of the difference in people's responses to the drug, but tes...

Gaining ground in the race against antibiotic resistance

...We were mimicking what is going on in the doctor's clinic -- putting selection pressure on the enzyme by giving higher doses of antibiotic," said Vila. "The only ones to survive will be those that have an enzyme that can work more efficiently." The researchers conducted their experiments using a drug call...

Scientists discover gene that controls speed of tuberculosis development

...e MUHC combine scientific research, technology and clinic expertise, enabling scientific breakthroughs to be developed into treatments and cures that directly benefit patients." ...

Visceral Leishmaniasis: Successful Vaccine Trial In Dogs

...pellier, in conjunction with the Rocher veterinary clinic (La Garde, Var) and the biopharmaceutical company ...esearch centre, working with the Rocher veterinary clinic (La Garde, Var, France) and the biopharmaceutical firm Bio Véto Test (La Seyne-Sur-Mer, Var), have r...

Investigating 'brain shrinkage' in alcoholics

... the change in the condition of the brain from the clinic to the laboratory and back to the clinic." - Both gene and protein changes can occur in the brains of alcoholics. "Even after death, tissues can reveal the secrets of diseases," said Harper. "For this research, brain tissues were obtained, with eth...

Female volunteers prepare for a second 'bedrest'

...urned to an upright position at the space medicine clinic at the French Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology (MEDES) in Toulouse. For two months, the twelve women hade been lying in beds inclined at an angle of 6°, with their feet slightly higher than their heads, to induce the same conditions in the...

Newly discovered genetic disease sheds light on body's water balance

...conducting a series of further studies in both the clinic and the laboratory to better understand how these mutations affect water balance. ...

New Finding May Aid Adult Stem Cell Collection

...rral, the researchers enrolled 977 men from an STD clinic in New Orleans. The men had all had a diagnosis of urethritis due to chlamydia and/or gonorrhea infection, and most reported two or more sex partners. The men were each randomly assigned to one of the three partner treatment arms. Nearly 80 percent o...

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