Does vitamin C help prevent or treat the common cold? Maybe not, after all.
...ore against a dummy pill (placebo). Did vitamin C given for prevention reduce the risk of picking up a col...In these prevention studies, those people who were given vitamin C and then caught a cold experienced a small reduction in the duration of the cold compared ...Cancer drug slows poxvirus in mice
Mice given a relatively new cancer drug can survive an otherw...ution or with Gleevec at a dose equivalent to that given to humans being treated for CML. Next, they exposed the mice to ordinarily lethal amounts of vaccini...Stem cell treatment improves mobility after spinal cord injury
...ze it after injury. Currently, drug treatments are given during the acute phase to help stabilize the injury site, but they provide only a very mild benefit, and they do not foster regeneration of insulation tissue. For the study, the UCI team used a novel technique they created to entice human embryonic ...New study: Sexually transmitted disease treatment can be effectively administered by sex partners
...d talk to their female partners about the STD when given medicine to give to their partners than the men wh...of side effects with azithromycin," the antibiotic given to patients in patient-delivered partner treatment. Another worry that clinicians may have about pa...Measurement Challenges In Detecting Cancer Biomarkers
...d talk to their female partners about the STD when given medicine to give to their partners than the men wh...of side effects with azithromycin," the antibiotic given to patients in patient-delivered partner treatment. Another worry that clinicians may have about pa...New Finding May Aid Adult Stem Cell Collection
...d talk to their female partners about the STD when given medicine to give to their partners than the men wh...of side effects with azithromycin," the antibiotic given to patients in patient-delivered partner treatment. Another worry that clinicians may have about pa...Newest HIV drugs should be used with FUZEON(R)
...dies presented this week show that when FUZEON was given in combination with the novel HIV medication, tipranavir, an impressive 70% of FUZEON naïve patients achieved a ten-fold reduction in their viral load and furthermore they also had double the increase in immune cell count1, compared to patients recei...Recombinant DNA technology may enable oral, rather than injectable, delivery of protein drugs
...inistration of drugs that previously could only be given by injection, notes Wei-Chiang Shen, Ph.D., professor and acting chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Shen, along with colleagues David Ann, Ph.D., professor of molecular pharmacology and toxicology, and Yun Bai, doctoral student in th...Study: Well-known protein helps stem cells become secretory cells
...y determines the amount of secretory activity in a given cell type," said Andrew. ...Morphine for Chest Pain Increases Death Risk
...ter. The researchers found that patients who were given morphine had 48 percent higher risk of dying and 3...said. "What we found interesting was that patients given morphine were more likely to receive evidence-based medicine, were more likely to be treated by a ca...Mechanism for the captation of nutrients in plants- unknown to date
...y saccharose is capable of initiating endocitosis, given that, in the trials undertaken with substances sim...iggered the process could be confirmed. Moreover, given that endocitosis is involved in the acquisition of substances for their subsequent conversion into "...One hit of crystal meth causes birth defects
... have such an effect. "It's an important finding, given the increasing use of club drugs among women of childbearing age. It has clinical implications, because it shows that the fetus is exquisitely sensitive." The developing fetus appears to be vulnerable to DNA damage from methamphetamine exposure beca...Scientists reveal how disease bacterium survives inside immune system cell
...permits the HGA agent to survive. "This study has given us a global model of how bacteria can inhibit neutrophil apoptosis," says Dr. DeLeo. "Our next step is to look at specific human genes or gene pathways within this model and try to determine which of these molecules help prolong cell life following i...Scripps research scientists identify infertility molecule
...he first time that this number topped 100,000 in a given year. The success of these older-than-traditional women at childbearing belies the difficulty that many women over the age of thirty have in getting pregnant. Successful conception depends on a variety of factors. A man has to produce an adequate a...Scientists discover the body's marijuana-like compounds are crucial for stress-induced pain relief
... effects." When rats used in Hohmann's study were given the compound developed by Piomelli and his collaborators at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo and the University of Parma, it increased stress-induced analgesia dramatically, proving the connection between pain suppression and the release of these ma...Caloric restriction won't dramatically extend life span in humans: UCLA research
...npleasant demeanor, unlike the more docile animals given more "normal" amounts of food, Phelan said. "I think about food all the time," he said. "I'm not going to be so extreme that I become the mouse that bites anyone who touches me. My advice about food is be sensible, and don't be a fanatic about it be...Anthrax test, developed by army and CDC, receives FDA approval
...k) premarket notification process--the designation given to devices and other non-biologics. USAMRIID, with support from CDC, prepared and submitted a 510(k) Premarket Notification using both USAMRIID and CDC data on use of the gamma phage method. With FDA recognition of the assay as substantially equi...Researcher gets NSF grant to create mutant maize lines
... the vitamin. The project is especially important given the breadth of uses for maize, Brutnell adds. "If you walk into a grocery store, 80 percent of the products on the shelves contain maize, in the form of starch, sugar, meal or oil," he says. "It's a $23 billion-a-year industry in the U.S. alone." Br...Scripps research scientists solve structure of a critical innate immune system protein
...e for Chemical Biology. "but But the structure has given us great insights into experiments we can design to explore their function. In advance, we wouldn't have known where to look." In addition to helping scientists better understand how TLRs work, the structure may also help scientists take steps towar......k) premarket notification process--the designation given to devices and other non-biologics. USAMRIID, with support from CDC, prepared and submitted a 510(k) Premarket Notification using both USAMRIID and CDC data on use of the gamma phage method. With FDA recognition of the assay as substantially equi...