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Measurement Challenges In Detecting Cancer Biomarkers

...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...

New study: Sexually transmitted disease treatment can be effectively administered by sex partners

...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...

15-year hunt finds cause of pseudothalidomide syndrome

...al number of patients with Roberts syndrome in the clinic at the University of Bogotá. Fairly quickly, he tracked down seven families with Roberts syndrome in two villages outside Bogotá. Four of the families share an 18th-century ancestor, he and Miriam Gordillo, then an undergraduate, discovered. "The fa...

South African Tribunal Asks For Damages Estimates in GSK AIDS Drug Case

...u for people’s hope) clinic, a free AIDS treatment clinic in Umlazi Township, KwaZulu Natal in partnership w...with AHF in the Ithembalabantu free AIDS treatment clinic in Durban. “So much so, that more than 100,000 South Africans recently signed a petition calling on ...

Technique may allow cancer patients to freeze eggs, preserving fertility before starting treatment

...-M expects to make the technology available in the clinic soon. "With traditional slow-freeze techniques, j...blished as the technique begins to be offered in a clinic setting, Smith says. "This is a very new technology and it requires education both of patients and p...

Rare surgery performed to remove pancreas, prevent diabetes

...eras. Vickers, who removed the pancreas, directs a clinic for the management of chronic pancreatitis, is chief of gastrointestinal surgery and co-director of the UAB Pancreaticobiliary Center. Eckhoff is director of the division of transplantation, and directs the University's islet cell transplant program,...

MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs

...ondoms and extensive prevention counseling at each clinic visit. The trial is one of numerous studies conducted through NIH's HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), which is funded by NIAID, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National I...

International trial of two microbicides begins

...ondoms and extensive prevention counseling at each clinic visit. The trial is one of numerous studies conducted through NIH's HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), which is funded by NIAID, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National I...

Gene variations explain drug dose required to control seizures

...on for a dosing scheme that could be tested in the clinic to assess whether pharmacogenetic diagnostics can improve dosing decisions, he added. In particular, it may be clinically relevant to determine whether physicians can safely increase drug doses more rapidly for some patients. Such a trial might also ...

DNA Molecules Used To Assemble Nanoparticles

...y and easily in many different ways would enable a clinic to offer 25 different "flavors" of dendrimer with only ten synthesis steps, Baker said. Baker foresees a nanoparticle cluster in which a single dendrimer carries three single-strands of DNA, each with a sequence specific to the DNA attached to other...

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