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Warts vaccine -- 1 of many in pipeline

...health specialist Dr David Jardine More than 200 patients in China and Australia have taken part in the tria...the outcome after conventional therapy, which all patients also receive," Dr Jardine said. Trial researchers aim to use a tweaked version of Professor Fraze...

Percutaneous aortic valve replacement safe, successful in high-risk patients

...eplacement of narrowed, calcified aortic valves in patients too sick to withstand open-chest surgery. Accordin...terventions (SCAI), May 9?2, 2007, in Orlando, FL, patients who were treated with the CoreValve Revalving System (CoreValve, Irvine, CA) experienced improvement...

Dealing deadly cancers a knockout punch

...of standard chemotherapy agents in advanced cancer patients without causing additional toxicity," said Dr. Kar...evaluate intravenous administration of Reolysin in patients with sarcomas that have metastasized to the lung. For patients with deadly soft tissue sarcoma, the ...

Study offers clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'

...idence, RI, have developed the largest registry of patients in the United States with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy...ritically ill during the first 48 hours. "These patients can be difficult to manage for emergency physicians and cardiologists alike," said cardiology fellow...

HIV survival improves if patients stay in care

...lood pressure or adult-onset diabetes. "These patients often have a lot of other things going on. They ar...arter. The researchers then looked at how long the patients survived after that first year. Sixteen percent of the patients died. Those who had poorer retent...

High-dose anticlotting drug cuts heart attack, death risk in half

...7, in Orlando, FL. Researchers found that giving patients at least 600 mg of clopidogrel before stenting, ra... of blood clots. Interventional cardiologists give patients a loading dose of this medication before PCI to protect against blood clotting. After the procedure,...

Thymus transplants gives hope to babies with fatal immune disease

...ends in death, usually by infection. These are the patients who are candidates for thymus transplantation. "We want people to know that when the diagnosis of complete DiGeorge anomaly is made, it is no longer a death sentence," said pediatric immunologist Louise Markert, M.D., Ph.D., who developed the proc...

Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia

...d by metabolomics were different for schizophrenia patients than for people without the disease. In patients treated with three different antipsychotic medications, the signatures differed according to which d...

Cow protein aids in treatment of gastrointestinal disorder

...infection-causing bacterium was eliminated in more patients treated with the traditional therapy plus lactoferrin than with the existing treatments and may be used without risk of resistance. “Various studies are under way to evaluate new antibiotics and different therapeutic methods to increase the effica...

Gene thought to assist chemo may help cancer thrive

...able the functioning of this gene in the tumors of patients undergoing chemotherapy. The results appear in the...hat p53 may be a “double-edged sword.?Chemotherapy patients whose tumors had a mutated p53 gene that didn't work had a much better survival rate than those who ...

Switching genes to overdrive improves muscular dystrophy symptoms in mice

...elevate the levels of PGC-1alpha in the muscles of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, it is likely tha...he average age of death is the mid-teens, and most patients die by their 30s. In the United States, about 400 to 600 boys are born each year with DMD or Becker ...

Leukemia drug turns mini-molecules up, cancer genes down

...cells grown in the laboratory and cells donated by patients to study how the drug ATRA affects miRNA levels and how those changes affect the cells. The investigators exposed the leukemia cells to the drug for up to 96 hours, causing the cells to mature. The treatment increased the level of eight miRNAs an...

UCLA study uncovers clues for why Graves' disease attacks the eyes

... researchers discovered that T-cells taken from GD patients contain an abnormal surplus of the receptor target... eye, causing them to protrude. In extreme cases, patients experience trouble closing their eyelids, severe double vision, corneal scarring, optic nerve damage...

NIAID expands capability for influenza research and surveillance

...l medicines; and evaluate flu transmission between patients and physicians in the hospital emergency room setting. Emory will also offer a training program for postdoctoral fellows and veterinarians interested in influenza and other research performed in a biosafety level 3 laboratory. Mount Sinai School o...

Researchers wake up viruses inside tumors to image and then destroy cancers

...n-Barr viruses inside tumors as a way to identify patients whose infection can then be manipulated to destroy their tumors. They say this strategy could offer a novel way of treating many cancers associated with Epstein-Barr, including at least four different types of lymphoma and nasopharyngeal and gastric ...

Investigating the measles virus as a tool to kill multiple myeloma

...third of a series of molecular medicine studies in patients testing the potential of measles to kill cancer. “This is the beginning of a long but exciting process,?says Angela Dispenzieri, M.D., hematologist and lead researcher on the multiple myeloma clinical trial in the measles virus investigation. “We a...

Cure for cancer one step closer

...hat these specimens would be donated by consenting patients during the course of their normal treatment. "I encourage patients and surgeons to support the important work of the Tissue Bank because everybody can play a part in t...

Heart failure: Intervention possibilities from imaging programmed cell loss

...y identify cell loss—or apoptosis—in heart failure patients using annexin A5 imaging," explained Leo Hofstra, ...n imaging could possibly guide treatment for heart patients and be used to determine whether a treatment was working," said Hofstra, co-author of "Noninvasive D...

Out-of-body experiences may be caused by arousal system disturbances in brain

...experiences that occurred during sleep transition, patients were asked, "Just before falling asleep or just after awakening, have you had the sense that you are outside of your body and watching yourself?" A similar question was posed to survey out-of-body experiences during near death, which asked subjects i...

Transfusion expert urges wider use of filtered blood

...donor blood before a transfusion is much safer for patients and long overdue as a national standard for all su... committees in 10 years that voted in favor of all patients in the United States receiving leukoreduced blood, ("universal leukoreduction"), the practice is sti...

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