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Study of gene transfer for erectile dysfunction shows promise

... ED. The new therapy is a potential alternative to oral medications, such as Viagra, which are not effecti...ential of combining gene transfer with traditional oral medications to further increase the clinical utility of the technology. The Albert Einstein College ...

Got inexpensive contrast agent? Milk plays new role in imaging

...alization of the small intestinal wall, a negative oral contrast agent should be used. VoLumen is a barium-based oral contrast agent that works with intravenous contrast to allow better visualization of the bowel wall ...

Resistant bacteria increasing source of muscle infection

... Antibiotics that successfully treat MRSA include oral clindamycin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, which are usually used out of the hospital, and vancomycin or clindamycin, which is given intravenously, usually to hospitalized patients. The form of MRSA that is acquired in the community spreads mo...

Long-term cancer risk follows stem cell transplant recipients

...ncers of the skin (basal and squamous cell), lung, oral cavity, and colon. Furthermore, data analysis showed that the risk more than tripled for patients who received their transplant when they were over 40 years of age. The study also identified a new risk factor: patients who received stem cells fro...

Planning ahead: Having the healthiest baby possible

...rders, obesity, sexually transmitted diseases, and oral health; Protecting one's health through suppleme... anti-epileptic drugs, acne-controlling medicines, oral anticoagulants and smoking More information on these and other measures are now freely accessible o...

Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease

...same to start with, and children are usually given oral rehydration therapy, which is cheap and puts back ...d by EPEC and Shigella does not usually respond to oral rehydration therapy. They are much more severe forms of the disease and even if they don't kill the...

Novel mechanism of action of new drug for MS identified

...s novel mode of action and the added benefit of an oral formulation, further clinical development of FTY720 might have a major impact on treatment of MS, said Spiegel. "By clearly understanding the mechanism of action of drugs such as FTY720, we can develop more optimal treatments for inflammatory disea...

Vaccine-producing 'plant-factories'

...t other applications, these can be used to produce oral vaccines which, upon being ingested, will be able to immunise against diseases. Moreover, this discovery opens the door to the design of protein-manufacturing plants of great interest therapeutically and in the development of vaccine antigens. This ...

Signal protein shows promise for blocking tumor promoters in skin cells

...ents. Initially, clinicians may try this method on oral cavity and skin cancers. Next, the Penn researchers will determine whether Srcasm can actually reverse tumor formation in skin. Seykora's team has already prepared an adenovirus and mice with the tumor-forming Src kinases expressed in their skin....

Monoclonal antibody reduces exacerbations in asthmatics

...tions we saw in our study warranted treatment with oral corticosteroids or hospitalization, so they cannot be considered to have been severe," said Dr. Hansel. The researchers noted there were no adverse events associated with using the monoclonal antibody for treatment. "Given that infliximab therapy w...

Chemicals in brown algae may protect against skin cancer

...roliferation in BAP-treated animals. "Both the oral and topical BAP treatment reduced COX-2 and prostaglandin E2 cell proliferation levels in the skin," Stoner says, "which corresponds with fewer tumors and small tumors in the treated animals." ...

Anti-fungal drug stops blood vessel growth

...e taken orally for fungal infection, and therefore oral delivery may work for angiogenesis as well,?Liu notes. ...

Bacteria from patient's dental plaque causes ventilator-associated pneumonia

...dy shows that a strong relationship exists between oral and respiratory pathogens in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia," said Paul Heo, D.D.S., a doctoral student in the UB dental school’s Department of Oral Biology and first author on the study. "We are saying that if the patients?mouth...

'Ancestral eve' was mother of all tooth decay

...entistry (NYUCD) research team has found the first oral bacterial evidence supporting the dispersal of mod...d ethnicities we know today," Caufield said, "this oral bacterium evolved with them in a simultaneous process called coevolution." "It is relatively e...

Lead-'scrubbing' drug may also improve muscle function in lead-exposed children

... the dangerous metals. Succimer (Chermet) is an oral chelating drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat children with extremely elevated blood lead levels (44 to 69 micrograms per deciliter). The UC team has found that succimer chelation therapy improved static balance by 6 percent...

Xylitol reduces risk of cavities

...e xylitol affects the bacterial composition of the oral cavity even in low doses. On the other hand, a re...at effects the substance has on the ecology of the oral cavity and its role in preventing tooth decay (caries). In a series of studies on children and adol...

Rapid oral HIV test shows great promise according to MUHC-led research

...ing to a new MUHC study. The study shows that the oral fluid-based OraQuick HIV1/2 test is 100 per cent a...OraQuick test from two samples - one obtained from oral fluid (saliva) and the other from a blood-based finger stick - with traditional blood tests. They de...

Stem cells act through multiple mechanisms to benefit mice with neurodegenerative disease

...ies, the investigators then gave the mice a simple oral drug that permitted the amount of enzyme provided by the engrafted stem cells to work even more efficiently by presenting them with a smaller burden of material to metabolize. The lifespan of the mice doubled. (Neither treatment could work as effecti...

Jefferson scientists find rabies-based vaccine could be effective against HIV

...train that has been used for more than 20 years in oral vaccines against rabies in wildlife in Europe. The study was aimed at studying the safety and effectiveness of the rabies vaccine approach against HIV and related diseases. Four macaques were immunized with both vaccines, while two animals receive...

Hexavalent chromium in drinking water causes cancer in lab animals

... Male and female rats had malignant tumors in the oral cavity. The studies conducted in mice found increases in the number of benign and malignant tumors in the small intestine, which increased with dose in both males and females. "We found that hexavalent chromium is absorbed from the gastrointestin...

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