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Resistance to anti-HIV drugs in Uganda developed due to drug supply problems

Some HIV-infected patients in Uganda who self-paid for their antiretroviral m...s not about the occasional missed dose—most of the patients had near perfect adherence and full suppression of the virus?but about supply interruptions that led...

New research may overturn conventional wisdom on drug-resistant tuberculosis

...of cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) among patients undergoing treatment for the disease may be due to...or controlling TB. A major difficulty in treating patients with pulmonary TB is that the organism can become progressively resistant to standard therapy. This ...

Tumor cells evade death through autophagy

...y of apoptosis-inducing chemotherapeutics in human patients with cancer. ...

New test for most virulent HPV strains under study

...most likely to cause problems. “Seventy percent of patients clear the infection. The 30 percent who don’t, if they still have it by the time they are age 40, are heading down the wrong path,?he says. Less expensive Pap smears likely would continue to be used in the under-30 group to catch the few infections t...

NIH announces phase III clinical trial of creatine for Parkinson's disease

...work of sites to allow researchers to work with PD patients over a long period of time, with a goal of finding...niversity of South Carolina in Charleston, and the patients will be seen by movement disorders specialists at the NET-PD sites across the United States and Cana...

Using dental X-rays to detect osteoporosis

...Amsterdam have created a unique way of identifying patients at risk of osteoporosis by using ordinary dental x...image information from these radiographs to detect patients at risk for osteoporosis involves no extra radiation and almost no extra cost, while undetected oste...

Tiny clue reveals new path toward heart disease

...e. The researchers first obtained DNA from 500 patients who had volunteered to be studied while being examined at the cardiac catheterization laboratories at Duke University Hospital. Using these DNA samples, the researchers scanned the same small section of chromosome 3 for SNPs that differed in sequence...

Key found to kill cystic fibrosis superbug

...the eradication of these bugs from cystic fibrosis patients and to improve their quality of life by developing new treatments."...

Natural polyester makes new sutures stronger, safer

...elp of a new type of suture based on MIT research, patients who get stitches may never need to have them removed. A biopolymer suture cleared last month by the FDA is made of materials that the human body produces naturally, so they can be safely absorbed once the wound is healed. They are also 30 percent st...

Gene hunters close in on Lou Gehrig’s disease

...The researchers found 34 genetic variants that ALS patients were more likely to have compared to normal indivi...l replicate the research using a similar number of patients and controls. Traynor, who has a joint affiliation with the National Institute of Mental Health in B...

Leukemic cells find safe haven in bone marrow

...ratory, demonstrated that ALL cells from different patients became much more resistant to asparaginase when cultured on top of a layer of mesenchymal cells. In order to determine whether it was the high levels of asparagine released by mesenchymal cells that protected ALL cells from asparaginase, the St. Jude...

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

... statistics show that as many as 25 percent of all patients admitted to the ICU and placed on ventilators deve...t the same bacteria identified in dental plaque of patients when they were admitted to the ICU and placed on ventilators were found later in the lungs from thos...

Anti-herpes treatment reduces HIV levels in women infected with both viruses

...tion of HIV transmission and for the management of patients co-infected by the two viruses. In 2005, an est... the HIV viral load in the blood of HIV-1 infected patients increases, at least temporarily, during episodes of HSV reactivation. Lead author Dr. Nicolas Nago...

FDA causes unnecessary scare about common painkillers

...erg. European countries require clear warnings for patients at high risk of heart attacks and have said COX-2 inhibitors should not be taken by patients with heart disease. With the non-selective NSAIDs, Europe has given a "clean bill of health" to t...

Moonlighting enzyme linked to neurodegenerative disease

...ech, but eventually the symptoms progress and most patients become wheelchair-bound and succumb to heart failu... could aid in the development of new therapies for patients with Friedreich's ataxia. In addition, further study could confirm the presence of mutations in the ...

New hereditary breast cancer gene discovered

...started to use this new knowledge in our work with patients and now recommend regular mammograms for young women with this syndrome. Several early cases of breast cancer have already been uncovered with mammography," says Pelle Sahlin, chief physician at the Plastic Surgery Clinic. The scientists are now ...

Hay fever can send work productivity down the drain

...articipant responses into one of three groups: 240 patients received care from a family physician; 172 patients saw an allergist for treatment; and 165 chose to self-manage their symptoms (most of the patients in...

How stem cells are regulated

...eir aim is to use these inhibitors to treat cancer patients with increased levels of the Jumonji proteins....

New culture method for hepatitis C virus uses primary hepatocytes and patient serum

...o sustain replication of novel virus isolates from patients using nontransformed hepatocytes. Nelson Faust... established, the group examined whether sera from patients carrying HCV could infect the human fetal hepatocytes. When sera from patients infected with differe...

Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates

... gives CD the opportunity to spread in the guts of patients recently treated with antibiotics. Infected patients can develop diarrhoea, colitis, and other conditions associated with intestinal inflammation. Rarely...

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