Discovery Promises Simpler Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease
...se itself and are instead geared toward minimizing pain and preventing infection, he added. In patients who become anemic, blood transfusions replenish the red blood cell supply in the body. The team further found that differences among patients in their ability to process nitric oxide in the blood corre...PET/MRI scans may help unravel mechanisms of prenatal drug damage
...logists are relying on the mother transferring the pain medication to the fetus via the placenta. But we a...now if what we give is sufficient to 'satisfy' the pain level of the fetus," said Benveniste, who is also a professor of anesthesiology at Stony Brook Unive...Potential treatments for neurofibromatosis
... miserable and debilitated with chronic itching or pain from disfiguring tumors. Infants affected by the disease face possible paralysis or damage to the brain and other organs. The disease frustrates doctors because there's no effective treatment even though the responsible gene was identified more than......s enrolled in the study will 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 ...UCLA scientists transform HIV into cancer-seeking missile
...fur. The method is non-invasive and does not cause pain or harm to the animal. Though excited at proving that HIV can be used to target cancer cells, Chen emphasizes that the carrier must be further enhanced for safety and specificity before it can be tested as a gene-therapy method in humans. "Our next...First 'atlas' of key brain genes could speed research on cancer, neurological diseases
... on specific TF genesregulating nerves involved in pain sensation, certain brain tumors, andspeech problem...development of theneurons that generate the severe pain that is a common symptom ofmetastatic tumors.The research was funded by the Charles Dana Foundation,...