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New Treatment Rivals Chemotherapy For Lymphoma, Study Finds

...ymphoma, including chemotherapy regimens that take months to complete. It's very well-tolerated by patients ...y given every three weeks over a span of up to six months and can cause many unpleasant side effects, including nausea, hair loss and infections. Follicular ...

Rush Physicians Using Gene Therapy For Heart Patients With Moderate To Severe Chest Pains Who Do Not Benefit From Other Treatments

...ill be examined for chest pain at one month, three months and six months. A total of 404 patients will be enrolled in the study at the 20 study sites across the country. The Genetic Angiogenic Stimulation Investigational Study (GENASIS) is funded by Corautus Genetics. More than 11 million people in the Un...

PCRM develops world's first cruelty-free insulin assay

...um in millions of medical tests every year. After months of painstaking detective work, PCRM research analyst Megha Even, M.S., working with BiosPacific, an Emoryville, California, lab, succeeded in culturing cells using an animal component-free, peptide- and protein-free, media supplement as a replacement...

Sexual cooperation: Mating increases longevity in ant queens

.... Sexual offspring are only produced after several months or years of colony growth, during which a sterile worker force is built up in the population. The fact that mates bond so early reduces the conflict between mating partners because both sexes benefit from the queen experiencing a long reproductive ph...

Bone Density Recovers After Teens Stop Injected Contraceptive

...eral densities when the study began, and every six months thereafter for the next two to three years. During...never taken the drug. They added, however, that 12 months after these women stopped using DMPA, their average bone mineral density scores were “at least as hi...

Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see

...visits to the ophthalmologist at least every three months (more frequently immediately after surgery) ?complications can be kept to a minimum, she said. Because of the intensiveness of the lifetime commitment to follow up, the procedure is rarely performed in children. Many researchers credit Claes Dohlman...

Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity

... release these manuscripts to the public within 12 months or less after publication in the journal. The timing of the release would be determined by the authors, who "should ensure that their PMC submissions are consistent with any other agreements, including copyright assignments," according to the NIH sta...

HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research

...lacebo were given by injection seven times over 30 months and the participants were assessed for risk. At ea...ll counts were monitored on a regular basis for 24 months after the initial diagnosis. Of the 5,417 volunteers who were enrolled, 368 became infected during ...

A frog's life is food for thought

...sorb nutrients 40 percent more effectively after 3 months without food, than frogs that had eaten regularly.... Green-striped burrowing frogs spend upwards of 10 months of the year in underground burrows in a hibernation-like state known as aestivation. During this tim...

NIH Calls on Scientists to Speed Public Release of Research Publications

...upported by NIH as soon as possible, and within 12 months of final publication. These peer-reviewed, NIH-fu...ronic archive. The release of this policy follows months of intensive deliberations with representatives of patient and scientific organizations, researchers...

Researchers identify protein crucial for survival of Lyme-disease bacterium

...ing the ticks to feed on mice, waiting a couple of months for the tick to molt, then refeeding them ?that we began to see the effect. Our results required a much more comprehensive assessment of the total life cycle of the bacterium, as opposed to just focusing on the mammalian infection, which is what many...

Strongest proof yet found for prion hypothesis

...ters, which began showing TSE symptoms within four months and, on average, died less than six months after inoculation. "For many years, people have tried to make these infectious prions in test tubes...

Infants With Rare Genetic Disease Saved by Cord Blood Stem Cells

... Thus, disease progression stabilizes about 2 to 4 months earlier in patients who receive cord blood compare...n a week, whereas a matching adult donor can takes months to locate and obtain if available at all, said Kurtzberg. Similar benefits of cord blood were seen ...

UNC launches study of liver injury caused by drugs

...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 injury but who have taken any of the medications in question also will be enrolled for comparison. In add...

Roche clinical trial registry and results database launched

Within only three months after deciding to create an electronic database, Roche is launching a public clinical trial registry and results database using an independent host, CenterWatch. On www.roche-trials.com information on Roche’s clinical trials can be accessed by anyone...

Turning viruses into allies against cancer

...is remains poor with a median survival of about 10 months following diagnosis. For this reason, scientists are anxious to find novel methods that could improve short- and long-term survival from this disease. "The attenuated vaccine strain of measles virus is an oncolytic virus which has shown anti-tumor a...

Measles Deaths Worldwide Drop By Nearly 40% Over Five Years

... district and to ensure that every child from nine months to 14 years of age receives a "second opportunity" for measles immunization through routine services or supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) every three to four years. The SIAs have proven especially effective. From 1999 to 2003, more than 35...

Researchers make surprise discovery that some neurons can transmit three signals at once

...oping rat brain, a time period comparable to three months gestation in a human, when neurons are meticulously organizing and self-selecting to assemble into specific brain structures and neuronal networks. It has long been known that a specific receptor for glutamate, the NMDA receptor, plays a crucial role...

Brain May Be Less Plastic Than Hoped

...o monitor cortical activity for seven and one-half months after injury to the retina of adult monkeys. They ...tinal injury recover to pre-lesional levels in the months following the lesion??said Smirnakis. “The answer is, in that time interval the primary visual corte...

Infants with Rare Genetic Disease Saved By Cord Blood Stem Cells

... Thus, disease progression stabilizes about 2 to 4 months earlier in patients who receive cord blood compare...n a week, whereas a matching adult donor can takes months to locate and obtain if available at all, said Kurtzberg. Similar benefits of cord blood were seen ...

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