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Avian influenza survivors' antibodies effective at neutralising H5N1 strain

...icians administering blood taken from survivors to patients infected with the disease. A recent review suggested that this treatment was associated with a halving in mortality. However, directly administering blood carries a risk of infection with other blood diseases, such as Hepatitis C and HIV....

Focused ultrasound relieves fibroid symptoms in women

...ing temperature changes in tissue. Ninety-six patients were treated under the original study protocol (A), and 64 patients were treated under an optimized protocol (B). Protocol A allowed a maximum treatment time of 120 min...

Cytomegalovirus exacerbates atherosclerosis through an autoimmune mechanism

...ame anti-Cytomegalovirus antibodies, isolated from patients with coronary artery disease, are able to induce t...nst Cytomegalovirus-derived proteins purified from patients with coronary artery disease induce endothelial cells damage and support the hypothesis that virus i...

New designer lipid-like peptide with lipid nanostructures for drug delivery systems

... many anticancer drugs are difficult to deliver to patients due to their difficulty to be soluble in water. “This is a systematic study to combine with lipid molecules,” Shuguang Zhang of MIT, a co-author said, “people have been curious about if these similar molecules can interact. This study provided the ...

Extra-aggressive form of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis identified

...onic and progressive lung disorder from which most patients die within 5 years after diagnosis. The disease is...y, strong evidence indicating that a subset of IPF patients has a short duration of symptoms before diagnosis and display an accelerated clinical course to end-...

Gene expression patterns predict rapid decline in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients

...essive onset of shortness of breath or cough. Most patients live about five years after diagnosis. However, ac... today in the online journal PLoS ONE, a subset of patients with a specific genetic profile has a much more rapid progression to complete pulmonary failure and ...

'Virtual Patient' to simulate real-time organ motions for radiation therapy

...the organs and tissues in the human body. "Live patients are not static beings, and a moving organ such as ...modeling tool for the biomedical community to help patients with respiratory and cardiac diseases. At the same time, Xu will continue to work on the 3-D VIP-Man...

An 'elegant' idea proves its worth 25 years later

...oxic nitrogen has saved an estimated 80 percent of patients with urea cycle disorders --- most of them childre...my years I never came across another disease where patients come in near-comatose and you stick a needle in them and lo and behold, they wake up—just like that....

Human stem cell treatment restores motor function in paralyzed rats

...ld some day prove to be an effective treatment for patients suffering from the same kind of ischemia-induced p...us complication that occurs in 20 to 40 percent of patients undergoing a surgical process called aortic cross-clamping. When the surgeon works on the aorta,...

HIVMA opposes The Gambia's unproven AIDS remedy

...ammeh began applying his treatment to a handful of patients who had been doing well on antiretroviral therapy ... stand up to examination. In the meantime, we urge patients receiving his unproven herbal remedy to resume taking their antiretroviral medications, which have a...

Mice with a migraine show signs of brain damage

...c attacks,?said Takano. “It’s long been known that patients having a migraine attack are functionally impaired...tive treatment receive such treatment. Doctors and patients need to be diligent and rigorous about using preventive medications for migraine.? The work puts t...

Machine preservation may promote more organ sharing

...study was to compare outcomes in kidney transplant patients receiving kidneys from older deceased donors based...survival and functional outcomes. In addition, the patients receiving machine-preserved kidneys had a 50 percent reduction in the rates of viral infections and ...

Cancer patients monitor fatigue in real time

...of the most common and distressing symptoms cancer patients experience during chemotherapy and radiation treat...Illinois at Chicago are studying fatigue in cancer patients undergoing stem cell transplants using a method successfully used to monitor behaviors such as smoki...

Maggots rid patients of MRSA

...ity of Manchester researchers are ridding diabetic patients of the superbug MRSA - by treating their foot ulce... used green bottle fly larvae to treat 13 diabetic patients whose foot ulcers were contaminated with MRSA and found all but one were cured within a mean period ...

First clinical trial of gene therapy for childhood blindness

...n the laboratory. Testing it for the first time in patients is very important and exciting, and represents a h...operations have already taken place in young adult patients who developed the condition as children. Mr James Bainbridge, who leads the surgical team, said: "It...

8 plants from South Africa may hold potential for treating high blood pressure

...I, in particular, provide beneficial properties to patients with type 1 diabetes. In an effort to identify ...ly decreased the diastolic blood pressure in human patients 5-14 hours after the dose with no significant side effects. In addition, wild and cultivated garlic ...

Anthrax paralyzes immune cells with lethal toxin, UF research shows

...ymptom appears, the disease progresses rapidly and patients often die from shock before they realize they have...ts that normally help blood clot. "We know that patients with anthrax bleed," Southwick said, adding that victims of inhalational anthrax often suffer hemorr...

Students invent protective pouch to enhance cell therapy

...nted a device to improve cell therapy for diabetes patients by anchoring transplanted insulin-producing cells inside a major blood vessel. A team of five seniors and two freshmen, working with Johns Hopkins doctors and engineers, devised a protective "pouch" that should fit inside the portal vein, which fee...

Genetic roots of bipolar disorder revealed by first genome-wide study of illness

...stry, then repeating the study in a large group of patients in Germany. Similar outcomes were found in both populations, strengthening the validity of the results. A subsequent study is examining whether the results apply to other populations, and will look for common variations among them. The researche...

Risk of lymphoma increases with hepatitis C virus infection

...ted more than 700,000 records; 146,394 represented patients who were diagnosed with the hepatitis C virus, while 572,293 represented patients who were not. Based on that review, researchers determined, first, that the patients infected with H...

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