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To slow AIDS in Russia, treat HIV-positive addicts, Stanford study says

...airs Palo Alto Health Care System and professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Margaret Brandeau, PhD, professor of engineering at Stanford. Estimates vary, but around 1 million Russians - slightly more than 1 percent of the adult population - are infected with HIV, the vi...

LSD treatment for alcoholism gets new look

...other things, the University of Alberta history of medicine professor has found records of the psychiatrists' research that indicate a single dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD, provided in a clinical, nurturing environment, can be an effective treatment for alcoholism. Her findings are published this mo...

'GreeneChip' -- New diagnostic tool that rapidly and accurately identifies multiple pathogens

...f hemorrhagic fevers poses challenges for clinical medicine and public health. Syndromes associated with agents are not distinctive, particularly early in the course of disease. In some instances, including the case presented above, more than one agent may be endemic in the region with an outbreak. Outbrea...

Studies find general mechanism of cellular aging

...on the three studies and an assistant professor of medicine and genetics at the UNC School of Medicine. "The studies indicate that certain stem cells lose their ability to divide and replace themselves with age as the expression of p16INK4a increases," said Sharpless, a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehen...

Firefighters face increased risk for certain cancers

...y, professor of environmental health and pulmonary medicine at UC. "In addition, firefighters should meticulously wash their entire body to remove soot and other residues from fires to avoid skin exposure." ...

First Quantum Grant to fund stem cell repair of damage from stroke

... Therapy at BCM; and Malcolm Brenner, professor of medicine and pediatrics and director of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at BCM. Robin Lovell-Badge, head of the division of developmental genetics at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, serves as co-principal investigator of the pro...

Study IDs protein that inhibits HIV from growing in cell cultures

... City Health Care System and professor of internal medicine at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. "Identifying a specific protein made by GBV-C that inhibits HIV growth in cell culture strengthens the argument that GBV-C is responsible for the prolonged survival observed in several s...

University of Iowa scientists explore function of 'junk DNA'

...drew Fire and Craig Mello the 2006 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology. Since their discovery, the field has exploded and small, non-coding RNAs have been shown to play an important role in development and disease in ways that scientists are only just beginning to understand. "Not so many years ago our...

Drug can quickly mobilize an army of cells to repair injury

...uthor Daniel C. Link, M.D., associate professor of medicine in the Division of Oncology. "In a patient who has had a heart attack, that may be too late. In fact, two clinical trials of G-SCF found the treatment doesn't improve recovery from heart attacks." In an article in the journal Blood, the researchers ...

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

...Centre for Bioethics), the study says regenerative medicine has the potential to help developing countries add...ugh largely neglected by the field of regenerative medicine to date, we suggest that developing countries could potentially benefit from advances in regenerativ...

Key to acute lung injury lies in Ang2 protein

...demar Von Zedtwitz Professor and chair of internal medicine at Yale, looked at the response to hyperoxic acute lung injury (HALI), first in mice and then in human adults and babies. The team found that mice in which the Ang2 gene was genetically eliminated or silenced lived longer and had evidence of decrease...

Children of allergy sufferers prone to same problem

...s departments of environmental health and internal medicine and at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the study is reported in the October 2006 edition of The Journal of Pediatrics. The Cincinnati researchers collected data on 680 children being evaluated for enrollment in the Cincinnati Childh...

Faster, more accurate tuberculosis test developed

...enior lecturer in infectious diseases and tropical medicine at Imperial College London. "This is a curable illness. MODS was developed for developing countries in developing countries. The study authors acknowledge that MODS testing requires a trained technician and a biosecure environment in which to perf...

Electric jolt triggers release of biomolecules, nanoparticles

...could someday be used to dispense small amounts of medicine on command from a chip implanted in the body. The ...to a biocompatible implant chip that would release medicine inside a patient on command. Scientists elsewhere are working on other new drug delivery technique...

What's next for gene therapy? Plastic

...iruses, to deliver genes, therapeutic proteins, or medicine to cells within the body. Many scientists are looking for better chaperones across the cell membrane. Virginia Tech researchers think polymer molecules can be created to do the job. The research will be presented at the 232nd national meeting of t...

Public Library of Science to launch new, open access journal on neglected tropical diseases

...untries, and some of the biggest names in tropical medicine and global health, including renowned health economist Jeffrey Sachs and the director of the World Health Organization's African river blindness control program, Uche Amazigo. Dr. Amazigo said: "PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases will play a crucial ...

UCSD researchers create roadmap to integrin activation

...berg, and Sanford Shattil, M.D., UCSD professor of medicine and Chief of Hematology/Oncology, and colleagues published a paper in the journal Science about the discovery that talin ? a large cytoplasmic protein that binds to the inside of an integrin or family of integrins ?delivers the critical activation s...

Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring

... Communications on the technology. "21st Century medicine recognizes that individual patients respond differently to diagnostic and therapeutic interventions," Rosero said. "The key to personalizing an individual's care is to improve the manner in which one can detect abnormalities in chemical signals or ph...

Proteins anchor memories in our brain

...aid Mark Anderson, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the UCSF Diabetes Center, and senior author of a scientific paper describing the discovery. "It is removing or pulling out autoreactive T cells. What this new study shows is if just one self-antigen is missing as the T cells go through the filter,...

Autoimmune disease triggered if T cells miss a single protein early on

...aid Mark Anderson, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the UCSF Diabetes Center, and senior author of a scientific paper describing the discovery. "It is removing or pulling out autoreactive T cells. What this new study shows is if just one self-antigen is missing as the T cells go through the filter,...

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