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Rush Physicians Using Gene Therapy For Heart Patients With Moderate To Severe Chest Pains Who Do Not Benefit From Other Treatments

...funded by Corautus Genetics. More than 11 million people in the United States suffer from coronary artery disease. Many patients receive medications to increase blood flow but nearly 500,000 angioplasties and coronary bypass procedures are performed each year in those patients who do not benefit from medic...

PCRM develops world's first cruelty-free insulin assay

...ives that could help save the lives of millions of people and animals." There are an estimated 194 million people worldwide with diabetes. More than 15 million Americans suffer from the disease and resulting compli...

Ophthalmologists Use Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip To Treat Vision Loss

...t 5,000 applicants. The implants are designed for people with retinal diseases such as macular degeneration... million Americans. More than one million of these people are legally blind. "As is commonly seen in with retinitis pigmentosa, these patients all have sever...

Chemists identify key gene in development of type 1 diabetes

...diabetes, a disease that affects about one million people in the U.S. and is on the rise worldwide. They des...cting oral drug that could be taken by prediabetic people to achieve lasting protection, perhaps a lifetime. But such a drug would take years to develop and t...

International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort

... from which they were collected. Although any two people are 99.9 percent identical at the genetic level, u...mpare the genetic variation patterns of a group of people known to have the disease with a group of people without the disease. Finding a certain pattern more...

Vascular structure and function improve with diet and exercise

... blood pressure and two-thirds to three-fourths of people with diabetes mellitus die of some form of heart or blood vessel disease, according to the American Heart Association. "For both of these groups, their lifetime risk of developing hypertension is high," Petrella said. "Anything we can do to reduce t...

Towards precise classification of cancers based on robust gene functional expression profiles

...diabetes, a disease that affects about one million people in the U.S. and is on the rise worldwide. They des...cting oral drug that could be taken by prediabetic people to achieve lasting protection, perhaps a lifetime. But such a drug would take years to develop and t...

New Insights Into HIV Immunity Suggest Alternative Approach to Vaccines

...when you inject the envelope of the HIV virus into people or animals, no broadly neutralizing antibodies ?th...st, but we have not been able to give a vaccine to people or animals that stimulates the production of these types of antibodies," said Haynes, who has studie...

Antibiotic might fight HIV-induced neurological problems

...t may still cause damage in the brain. And because people are living with HIV longer than ever, the prevalen...r minocycline has the same effects in HIV-infected people as it does in SIV-infected monkeys, but it is not expected to start until sometime next year. "It i...

Ophthalmologists implant five patients with artificial silicon retina microchip

...t 5,000 applicants. The implants are designed for people with retinal diseases such as macular degeneration... million Americans. More than one million of these people are legally blind. "As is commonly seen in with retinitis pigmentosa, these patients all have sever...

Protein offers way to stop microscopic parasites in their tracks

...spread by mosquito bites, kills at least 1 million people per year through damage to red blood cells and clo...tes are more devastating in terms of the number of people they affect, but they're somewhat harder to work on," Sibley explains. "Because it's so much easier ...

Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see

... and friends to help her do many of the activities people with normal vision sometimes take for granted. Now... read the things that I want to read." While many people with cornea damage are eligible to become candidates for standard human cornea transplants, some can...

Vampire bats keep out of trouble by running

Although most people think of bats as stealthy mammals that flit about in the night sky, at least one species has evolved a terrestrial trot never before seen in bats, according to a recent Cornell University study. It's known that the common vampire bats of Central and...

Multiple Campylobacter Genomes Sequenced

...astroenteritis. In the US, 15 out of every 100,000 people are diagnosed with campylobacteriosis every year, ...ular). Disease-causing bacteria generally get into people via contaminated food, often undercooked or poorly handled poultry, although contact with contaminat...

US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say

...e dramatic rise in obesity, especially among young people and minorities, is from a special report appearing...o not take into consideration the health status of people currently alive. Longevity predictions are crucial for health policy and for economic policy as wel...

Potential treatments for neurofibromatosis

...e can be done to treat a disease that affects more people than cystic fibrosis, hereditary muscular dystrophy, Huntington's disease and Tay Sachs combined. Now, however, research by IU School of Medicine scientist D. Wade Clapp, M.D., and his colleagues David A. Ingram, Jr., M.D. and Feng-Chun Yang, M.D., ...

Surprising findings reported about iron overload

...supplements ingested. The abnormality affects many people worldwide, is prevalent in the South, and sometime...eived $3.1 million of study funds to screen 20,000 people for the group of disorders called hemochromatosis and iron overload. Ronald T. Acton, Ph.D., profes...

Drug-resistant bacteria on poultry products differ by brand

...lly vulnerable are the very young, the elderly and people whose immune systems are compromised. In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration proposed to withdraw approval of fluoroquinolone drugs for use in poultry production. That effort has since been stalled by legal objections from Bayer, one of the pharm...

UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders

... the existing body of knowledge for the benefit of people worldwide." UCLA will provide $20 million over five years to launch the campuswide institute, which will enable teams of researchers to compete for state grants created by the passage of Proposition 71. The money will pay for recruitment for a dozen...

Wisconsin researchers identify sleep gene

...chiatry, was the senior author on the paper. Most people sleep seven to eight hours a night, and if they ar...nitive performance suffers greatly. However, a few people do well with just three or four hours of sleep-a trait that seems to run in families. "We wanted to...

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