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New imaging technology shown to detect pancreatic inflammation in type 1 diabetes

...able inflammation of pancreatic islets in recently diagnosed diabetic mice. As T lymphocytes invade the pancrea...st be individuals over the age of 17 who have been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes within the last six months or who are at increased risk for developing type 1 d...

Neurologix announces positive results of gene therapy clinical trial in Parkinson's disease

.... The 12 patients participating in the trial were diagnosed with severe Parkinson's disease of at least five years' duration and no longer adequately responded to current medical therapies. Following treatment, patients were evaluated at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months. These evaluations included scoring via the UPDR...

Drug resistance testing in treatment-naive HIV patients is cost-effective

... not a standard procedure at the time a patient is diagnosed with HIV, probably due to lack of data on its bene...of resistance are present [when a patient is first diagnosed with HIV], our study projects a substantial increase in survival" of more than 14 months, compared w...

Compound from Chinese medicine shows promise in head and neck cancer

...nd avoid surgery. More than 29,000 people will be diagnosed in 2005 with head and neck cancers, which include cancer of the tongue, mouth, throat and voice box. University of Michigan holds a patent on the negative isomer, (-)-gossypol, and has licensed the technology to Ascenta Therapeutics of San Diego, Ca...

Malaria killing a million a year

...ise estimate, given that malaria is most often not diagnosed with certainty, as well as the scarcity of reliable data from the communities where it occurs," WHO and UNICEF say. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of targets agreed at a UN summit in 2000 to halve or eliminate many socio-economic ill...

Morphine for Chest Pain Increases Death Risk

...f a heart attack on the initial ECG. They might be diagnosed with a heart attack only when the results of the blood tests are reported a few hours later. The researchers found that patients who were given morphine had 48 percent higher risk of dying and 34 percent higher risk of suffering another heart attack...

Newer imaging techniques may lead to over-treatment

... questions such as whether or not every small clot diagnosed with CT warrants the risks of treatment," he said. ...

'Smart drug' targets deadly brain cancer

...he estimated 18,000 primary malignant brain tumors diagnosed each year in the United States. When first diagnos... with radiation therapy in patients who have newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme. They will also test CCI-779 in combination with other targeted therapies in...

AIDS Public Awareness Campaign Expands Following Report Of Rapidly Progressive HIV

...highly resistant strain of rapidly progressive HIV diagnosed in a New York City resident. The patient is a male in his mid-40s who reported multiple male sex partners and unprotected sex, often while using crystal methamphetamine. At the direction of Governor George E. Pataki, the State Health Department is e...

Infants with Rare Genetic Disease Saved By Cord Blood Stem Cells

...in the U.S. ?they are best treated if patients are diagnosed and treated in early infancy, said Kurtzberg. In fact, transplantation in newborns yields the best long-term outcomes and newborns tolerate the transplants more easily than older babies and children. "Time is of the essence in treating these childre...

Bevacizumab Combined With Chemotherapy Improves Progression-Free Survival for Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

..., persisted with this trial in patients with newly diagnosed advanced breast cancer, as the agent is clearly ac...etting.?/p> An estimated 211,240 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States in 2005. Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer...

Study reveals dramatic difference between breast cancers in US and Africa

...at women of African ancestry are more likely to be diagnosed with a more virulent form of the disease than women of European ancestry. Researchers from the University of Chicago, working with colleagues at the University of Calabar in Nigeria and the University of North Carolina, found that breast cancers in ...

NIH Researchers Discover How Insulin Allows Entry of Glucose Into Cells

... obtain cell samples from volunteers who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance. ...

UNC launches study of liver injury caused by drugs

...ot receive treatment with certain drugs. Patients diagnosed with potentially severe liver injury due to any medication are eligible if enrolled within six months of the event. These people will be followed over time to find out what happens as a result of their injury. People who have not sustained liver inju...

Canada approves marijuana-based pain spray

... three more people are diagnosed. MS is most often diagnosed in people between the ages of 20 to 40 years of age. ...

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

A new technique might allow women diagnosed with cancer the opportunity to have children when chemotherapy and radiation treatments rob them of their fertility, researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have found. By having her eggs frozen before she begins cancer...

Infants With Rare Genetic Disease Saved by Cord Blood Stem Cells

...in the U.S. ?they are best treated if patients are diagnosed and treated in early infancy, said Kurtzberg. In fact, transplantation in newborns yields the best long-term outcomes and newborns tolerate the transplants more easily than older babies and children. "Time is of the essence in treating these childre...

Silence the gene, save the cell: RNA interference as promising therapy for ALS

...well understood. An estimated 5,000 Americans are diagnosed with ALS every year, and most of these cases are "sporadic", with no identifiable cause. About 5-10% of ALS cases are inherited. Of these, 20% have been linked to any of more than 100 mutations in the gene that expresses the superoxide dismutase enzy...

First frozen egg baby born in Canada

...umber of reasons. "The process enables young women diagnosed with cancer to preserve their fertility before undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which can cause infertility and premature menopause," says Dr. Lucy Gilbert, Director of Gynecological Oncology at the MUHC. Over the past two years, 16 cancer p...

Alzheimer's cognitive decline slowed

...ian-scientists took skin cells from eight patients diagnosed with early Alzheimer's disease. The tissue was modified in the lab to express nerve growth factor (NGF), a naturally occurring protein that prevents cell death and stimulates cell function. In surgeries that took place in 2001 and 2002 at UCSD's John...

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