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Newer imaging techniques may lead to over-treatment

...r risk of hemorrhagic stroke in patients receiving oral anticoagulant therapy when compared to the general population," Dr. Prologo said. It is imperative that "clinicians consider the risk-benefit ratio of therapy in patients with previously undetectable small clots in the peripheral pulmonary vasculatur...

FDA Approves New Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis B

... the approval of Baraclude (entecavir) tablets and oral solution for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B in adults. Chronic hepatitis B is a serious disease caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) that attacks the liver. The virus can cause lifelong infection, cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver, liver cance...

Recombinant DNA technology may enable oral, rather than injectable, delivery of protein drugs

... colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) to create a new oral compound that is capable of surviving the journey ...School of Pharmacy. This technology may allow for oral administration of drugs that previously could only be given by injection, notes Wei-Chiang Shen, Ph....

Bacteria feed on smelly breath (and feet)

...hat methylotrophic bacteria are part of the normal oral microbial environment or 'microflora'. The resear... bacteria and their possible relationship with the oral concentrations of methylated sulphides. This may lead to a natural way of reducing smelly breath and...

Achilles heel of the herpes virus possibly found

...tal herpes and millions more have the more visible oral variety. Once someone is infected, they're infecte...rpes drugs. The findings may help explain why the oral and genital herpes virus has such a successful track record: The receptor, dubbed B5, is made by mos...

New Vaccine To Be Used For First Time In Polio Outbreak Response

... response, using the recently-developed monovalent oral polio vaccine type 1(mOPV1). This new vaccine enables a precisely tailored immunological response to the type 1 poliovirus that is causing the outbreak. Compared to the commonly-used trivalent OPV, which offers protection against all three types of w...

Green catalyst destroys pesticides and munitions toxins, finds Carnegie Mellon University

...fely destroying pollutants and microbes in water," oral presentation by Terrence Collins, INOR 265, Strategies and Molecular Mechanisms of Contaminant Degradation Chemistry, 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 29, Convention Center 147B; "Micellar regulation of the activity of Fe-TAML activators of peroxides in aq...

Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month

...at Chapel Hill. In Phase II clinical trials, a new oral drug, DB289, demonstrated safety and high effectiv...frican sleeping sickness in 50 years, and the only oral drug that's ever been specifically developed for it." Oral administration is important for treating...

Investigating 'brain shrinkage' in alcoholics

...re, thiamine deficiency can be treated easily with oral or injected thiamine. Patients with acute deficiency respond very quickly but some permanent damage can occur if patients are not treated and particularly if they suffer repeated episodes of the deficiency." - Combining in vivo brain imaging and ani...

Bitter or sweet? The same taste bud can tell the difference

...erness, the study's lead author and a professor of oral biology and neuroscience at Ohio State University . The current study builds on previous work by Herness and his colleagues. A few years ago, the team found that another chemical messenger, cholecystokinin (CCK), is active in some taste bud cells. T...

Biota makes major antiviral discovery

... allow the product to be developed in a convenient oral formulation, such as a tablet or suspension. "The discovery of a novel, orally available RSV antiviral is a major achievement," said Dr Simon Tucker, Vice President of Research for Biota. "Others, including several large pharmaceutical companies, ha...

Neanderthal teeth grew no faster than comparable modern humans'

...l Academy of Sciences. Donald J. Reid, lecturer in oral biology at the University of Newcastle , Thomas A. Bishop, associate professor of statistics, and Clark Larsen, professor and chair of anthropology, both at Ohio State , were co-authors in the study. "Based on our study of the enamel of these Neand...

Researchers develop gene therapy to reverse pulmonary arterial hypertension

...PAH, prolonging the survival of rats. Because this oral therapy has already been tried in humans with congenital mitochondrial diseases, the team is initiating a clinical trial in human PAH. Similarly, newer drugs that inhibit Survivin, currently in trials in oncology, might also be directly applicable to...

Forsyth scientists find three bacteria associated with oral cancer

...pecies are associated with the most common form of oral cancer--a discovery the researchers hope will lead...icular bacteria in saliva indicate the presence of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC)--one of the deadliest of cancers because it often goes undetected in ...

Infectious disease expert warns of spread of Rocky Mountain spotted fever

... immediate, twice daily 100-milligram doses of the oral antibiotic doxycycline (a version of the common tetracycline) until the patient's fever subsides. Patients continue to take the medication for an additional five days to prevent the disease from rebounding. Infected children would receive the same dr...

Genetic variation alters response to common anti-clotting drug

...nclude CoumadinTM) is the most commonly prescribed oral anti-clotting drug. Allan E. Rettie, Ph.D., University of Washington professor of medicinal chemistry and senior author of the paper, estimated that 2 million people in the United States take warfarin on any given day. Despite its wide use, physicia...

New research puts a fresh spin on current thinking of speech evolution in humans

...is area in the monkey was electrically stimulated, oral and facial motor responses were evoked ?such as ja...ally as an area exercising high-level control over oral and facial actions, including those related to communicative acts, and that, in the human brain, thi...

Give thanks for the cranberry, say dental researchers

...ant clues for preventing cavities. A team led by oral biologist Hyun (Michel) Koo, D.D.S., Ph.D., at the...s an expert on natural substances that can improve oral health. Currently, as an assistant professor in the Eastman Department of Dentistry and a researcher...

New study shows patients more willing to consider self-injectable HIV therapy than many physicians anticipate

...were less likely to doubt its efficacy relative to oral therapies, when compared to physicians less experienced with this type of treatment. Dr Mike Youle, Director of HIV Clinical Research, Royal Free Hospital, London and co-author of the OpenMind study stated, "With the increasing choice of injectable ...

Polio vaccination strategies assessed as eradication nears

...nd Prevention examined the duration of shedding of oral poliomyelitis vaccine by individuals with HIV infection. Dr. Hennessey and colleagues tested stool specimens at various intervals following vaccination. Out of a total of 419 adults with HIV infection, no poliovirus was isolated from any of the s...

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