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Fighting influenza & co. with 40,000 blood samples

...ew years at Bonn University Clinic. They come from patients who were taken to hospital with completely differe...will find antibodies in the blood samples of older patients which are less effective against these pathogens than in the case of younger patients.' The Dutch...

Breakthrough vaccine to treat chemo-resistant ovarian cancer

...rs of America's number one priority is to help our patients win the battle against cancer," said Dr. Edgar Sta...enters of America will offer this new treatment to patients whose cancer has recurred after chemotherapy. "To win the fight against cancer, it is absolutely ...

Misusing vitamin to foil drug test may be toxic; plus, it doesn't work

... attempts to foil urine drug tests. Both adult patients suffered skin irritation, while both adolescents h...eens also had disrupted heart rhythms. All four patients recovered after treatment in hospital emergency rooms for the adverse effects. The report appeared o...

Columbia scientists determine 3-dimensional structure of cell's 'fuel gauge'

...rug target for people with type 2 diabetes. These patients are insulin-resistant, meaning that their cells are not responsive to insulin which normally helps glucose get out of the bloodstream, where it does damage, and into cells. When AMPK detects low levels of ATP in the cell, it works through a different...

Genes set scene for metastasis

...tastasis ?the leading cause of mortality in cancer patients ?entails numerous biological functions that collectively enable cancerous cells from a primary site to disseminate and overtake distant organs. A number of genes are already known to contribute to the spread of breast cancer cells to the lungs. U...

Are one-third of costly implanted heart devices unnecessary? New study suggests yes

..., Medicare will pay for tens of thousands of heart patients to have high-tech devices implanted in their chest... to shock damaged hearts back into rhythm and save patients from sudden cardiac death, which kills 300,000 Americans each year. But a new study finds that whil...

Lithium builds gray matter in bipolar brains, UCLA study shows

...creases the amount of gray matter in the brains of patients with the illness. The research is featured in th...hen the researchers compared the brains of bipolar patients on lithium with those of people without the disorder and those of bipolar patients not on lithium, t...

When your brain talks, your muscles don't always listen

...prove movement quality in older adults, as well as patients with disorders such as cerebral palsy or multiple sclerosis, or who are recovering from strokes. Every move you make is made possible through a miraculous communications network involving the brain at the command center, the spinal cord, billions ...

A genetic 'gang of 4' drives spread of breast cancer

... how the genes that we identified in breast cancer patients as being associated with lung metastasis manipulate blood vessels to give them an advantage both in the primary tumors and in the lung," he said. Two drugs already on the market act directly on proteins produced by the genes Massagué’s group had be...

Robotic exoskeleton replaces muscle work

...ild such technology. "This could benefit stroke patients or patients with incomplete injuries of the spinal cord," said Daniel Ferris, associate professor in movement sc...

New recommendations against a major opportunistic infection -- cryptococcosis

... Institut Pasteur conducted research in France on patients diagnosed with cryptococcosis which ranks second among fatal opportunistic infections in patients infected by HIV and who are profoundly immunosuppressed. A multicentric prospective study, published...

Cold sore virus might play role in Alzheimer's disease

...es and Alzheimer's. She has shown that Alzheimer's patients who have the ApoE-4 form of the gene have more her...e affected by Alzheimer's, compared to Alzheimer's patients who also have herpes but who have a different form of the ApoE gene. And she has shown that people w...

Gene elevating breast cancer risk also causes prostate cancer

...ere cancer occurred in several generations and all patients showed the single mutation in PALB2 that was studi... two of the mutations identified in Fanconi anemia patients in non-Finnish populations seem to be associated with familial breast cancer," says Winqvist. Win...

Radiation therapy combo cures prostate cancer long-term

...nts a few weeks later. Sixty-five percent of these patients had T2b-T3 disease and the entire group had an ave... is less invasive, spares healthy tissue and helps patients return to regular activities sooner than surgery."...

Anxiety disorders surprisingly common yet often untreated

... Institute, Inc. reports that nearly 20 percent of patients seen by primary care physicians have at least one ...ch can alert busy primary care physicians to those patients with one or more anxiety disorders. The study is published in the March 6 issue of the Annals of In...

Genetic pathways to curable and incurable forms of pancreatic cancer identified

... time of diagnosis. However, a small percentage of patients develop a form of ductal adenocarcinoma associated with cystic lesions that can be detected earlier, is less aggressive and has a 50 percent long-term survival rate. Why cystic ductal pancreatic cancer behaves differently, despite carrying the same b...

Robotic therapy helps restore hand use after stroke

...University of California, Irvine study. Stroke patients with impaired hand use reported improved ability t...sco. Developed by UCI researchers, HOWARD aids patients as they grasp and release common objects. The robotic device wraps around the hand and couples with ...

Chemo combination improves survival in asbestos-related cancer

...asbestos. There is no known cure. In the study, patients receiving pemetrexed and cisplatin ?along with the... and B12 ?survived nearly three months longer than patients getting cisplatin alone. Researchers led by John Green, M.D., at the Clatterbridge Center for On...

Liver regeneration may be simpler than previously thought

...ly affect the way physicians make livers regrow in patients with liver diseases such as cirrhosis, hepatitis, ...ing livers this way would be especially useful for patients whose livers are so damaged ?say, by a tumor that has spread to most of the liver ?that a large part...

New protein inhibitor impedes growth of cancerous cells

...s now been brought into use in clinical studies of patients with locally advanced or metastatic cancers in order to address the therapeutic potential of the compound. In the companion paper, Lenart et al. use BI 2536 as a tool to probe the functions of Plk1 in normal cells. The availability of a specific P...

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