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Study suggests some drug resistance to influenza B medications

...d after oseltamivir therapy and from 348 untreated patients with influenza (including 66 adults). Four hundred twenty-two viruses from untreated patients and 74 samples from patients after oseltamivir therapy were analyzed. The researchers identified ...

Helium helps patients breathe easier

...y combining helium with 40 per cent oxygen allowed patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ...nt helium) improves the exercise tolerance of COPD patients to a greater extent than oxygen alone, which is currently used for treating patients with this disor...

A 'traffic light' for neurons means 'go' for improving brain research

...e lacked tools to understand what's going wrong in patients with ailments such as depression or Parkinson's di...healthy ones fail and how healthy ones work. In patients with Parkinson's disease, for example, researchers have shown that electrical "deep brain stimulatio...

Researchers from the University of Navarra analyze new kinds of cancer-fighting antibodies

...l. Currently this treatment is being tested in patients with melanoma, kidney and ovarian cancer because t...t of this kind, anti-CTLA-4, began to be tested in patients in 1999. In melanoma treatment, between 15 and 20% of clinical objectives have been reached (reducti...

Glucose triggers brain cell death in rats after hypoglycemic coma

...evels is very bad for rat brains. The way we treat patients for hypoglycemia may have to be reevaluated." Swanson adds two strong cautions, however: "First, the work was done in rodents, and it is not legitimate to immediately extrapolate these findings to humans. Second, there are many ways to go wrong in...

Allergy to hair dye increasing

... be easy to reverse these trends, however, as some patients have continued to use such dyes even when advised that they are allergic to them and risk severe reactions, they conclude. ...

Gene found for rare disorder may reveal new pathway in mental retardation

...ormalities. "Our work suggests that a subset of patients with mental retardation may have mutations in thes... together maintain the world's largest database of patients with CdLS. The current study screened 115 patients who did not have mutations in the NIPBL gene, but...

Major gene study uncovers secrets of leukemia

...ach to analyze leukemia samples from 242 pediatric patients with ALL. This identified an unexpectedly high fre... the paper. The study found that 40 percent of patients with ALL had deletions or mutations in one of three so-called "master genes" that control the normal...

Better assessment of transfusions could save blood

Nearly 95 percent of patients admitted to hospital intensive care units are affected by anemia. Consequently, these patients receive a large number of red blood cell (RBC) transfusions in order to restore proper hemoglobin le...

Researchers identify ovarian cancer biomarkers

...nificant dent in this disease, where 70 percent of patients are diagnosed after the tumor has grown large or s...t the earliest stage and 20 percent survival among patients diagnosed with advanced disease. "All the things we could hope for are present with this approach...

MIT model helps researchers 'see' brain development

...comparing the images to those being collected from patients with autism. “We now have some idea of what normal development looks like. The next step is to see if we can detect abnormal development in diseases like autism by looking at folding differences,?said Fischl. This tool may also be used to shed light...

Woven scaffolds could improve cartilage repair

...oint repair involves removing cartilage cells from patients and then "growing" them in a laboratory to form ne... stimulate their growth and then implant them into patients during a single procedure, the researchers said. "By taking a synthetic material that already has...

OHSU surgeon implants donated tissue allografts

... obtain tissue for transplant to treat some of his patients suffering with severe joint disorders. "I found ...t disability and restore joint function offers the patients the chance to return to a healthy, pain-free and productive life. Crawford said the collaboratio...

Study calculates patient time costs associated with cancer care

...End Results–Medicare database on more than 760,000 patients with 11 different types of cancer and from 1.1 mil...length of time for hospitalization was highest for patients with gastric and ovarian cancers (21.1 and 20.8 days) and shortest for patients with melanoma (2.2 d...

Type of stem cell found to reside in transplanted lungs

... a type of stem cells from the lungs of transplant patients demonstrates for the first time that these progeni...ant because of the large number of lung transplant patients who experience chronic rejection of donated lungs, with rejection rates of about 60 percent during t...

'Marathon mice' elucidate little-known muscle type

...ential to boost physical strength and endurance in patients with a variety of muscle wasting conditions. The research team, led by Bruce Spiegelman of Harvard Medical School, found that increasing activity of the gene known as PGC-1â in the skeletal muscles of mice caused them to become crowded with IIX mu...

Bypassing eggs, flu vaccine grown in insect cells shows promise

... also help make it possible to boost the dose that patients receive, by increasing the nation’s capacity to churn out vaccine. That’s especially crucial in the fight against bird flu, as Treanor and other scientists have shown that an experimental vaccine appears to be effectively only at high doses. The e...

Study examines risk of soft tissue sarcomas in hereditary retinoblastoma survivors

...e can often be cured; 97 percent of retinoblastoma patients survive 5 years after diagnosis. However, patients with hereditary retinoblastoma are at a high risk of developing another cancer, including soft tissu...

Stress may help cancer cells resist treatment, research shows

...ik said the findings have several implications for patients and for researchers. "It may be important for patients who have increased responses to stress to learn to manage the effects," said Kulik. "And, the result...

Drug-resistant bacterial infections serious complication after corrective eye surgery

...esearchers found MRSA infections in the eyes of 12 patients after refractive surgery. These are the first cas...orts of MRSA keratitis after refractive surgery in patients with no known exposure to a healthcare facility, the first report of MRSA keratitis after a laser in...

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