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Bioartificial kidney under study at MCG

...sis therapies in which patients with renal failure receive dialysis around the clock. With more standard inte...en back to the patient. In the study, all patients receive this standard approach to cleaning the blood. But two-thirds of the study participants take the add...

Adding Radiation Therapy To Chemotherapy Improves Survival In Patients With High-risk Breast Cancer

...9 and 1986, 318 patients were randomly assigned to receive no radiation therapy or to receive radiation. A 15-year follow-up found that radiation therapy was associated with improved breast canc...

Novel Asthma Study Shows Multiple Genetic Input Required; Single-gene Solution Shot Down

...9 and 1986, 318 patients were randomly assigned to receive no radiation therapy or to receive radiation. A 15-year follow-up found that radiation therapy was associated with improved breast canc...

Emory Study Tests Bone Marrow Stem Cells to Improve Circulation in Legs

...s why.Recent studies show that when muscles do not receive enough blood, thebody makes growth factors that stimulate the bone marrow to releasestem cells that "home" to the muscle that is not getting enough blood.These stem cells include endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), which isthe type of cell needed to...

Current human embryonic stem cell lines contaminated UCSD/Salk team finds

...vatedserum from the actual patient who is going to receive the therapy, thescientists said. However, it may still prove difficult to completelyeliminate the Neu5Gc, because is has become metabolically incorporatedinto the currently available, federally-funded human embryonic stemcell lines."With this discove...

Plants respond similarly to signals from friends, enemies

...ied L. japonicus plants missing the receptors that receive signals from other organisms ?certain genes in the plant were modified to accomplish this ?they discovered that the plants failed to respond to signals from both friend and foe, and therefore no changes were viewed in the plant's cytoskeleton. "This...

HIV Patients May Be at Risk of Heart Problems When Taking Protease Inhibitor Drugs

...ndings "In no way does it mean patients shouldn't receive protease inhibitors," says Andrew Badley, M.D., associate director of Mayo Clinic's Program in Translational Immunovirology and Biodefense. "It just means clinicians need to be aware of this new risk we've found, and act accordingly. Worldwide, tens ...

U of M researcher examines newly emerging deadly disease

...s. Patients who present symptoms of purpura should receive antibiotic therapy not only against Neisseria meningitidis and streptococci, but also against methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), with the consideration that the staphylococcal disease may be more common than the two prior illnesses. Patients sho...

Female sex hormones play a vital role in defense against sexually transmitted diseases

...the progesterone-treated mice and mice that didn't receive any hormones, showed extensive infection, and additionally, the progesterone-treated mice had increased inflammation and were more susceptible to the virus. The mice treated with a combination of the two hormones, estradiol and progesterone, were pro...

New imaging method gives early indication if brain cancer therapy is effective, U-M study shows

...nly 10 months after diagnosis. Typically, patients receive seven weeks of treatment, followed by a traditional MRI scan six weeks after completing therapy to determine if the tumor shrank. If the cancer did not respond to the treatment, a new approach may be tried. Using diffusion MRI and the functional dif...

Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections

... immunity,including those who have HIV/AIDS or who receive cancer chemotherapy,steroid treatments, or therapy to prevent rejection of transplantedorgans. One study indicated that as many as 13 percent of AIDS patientssuffer a life-threatening cryptococcal infection at some point duringthe course of their HIV...

Genetically modified natural killer immune cells attack, kill leukemia cells

...gests a way to improve the outcome of children who receive treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or other blood cancers. Results of the St. Jude study are published in the current online issue of Blood. The researchers demonstrated how to overcome significant technical hurdles that have until no...

Introduced foxes transformed vegetation on Aleutian Islands from lush grasslands to tundra

...hipelago can only support dense grasslands if they receive regular doses of fertilizer in the form of bird droppings. On islands without foxes, seabirds transfer nutrients from the ocean to the land by feeding on marine fish and invertebrates and spreading nutrient-rich guano around the islands. Add foxes, a...

Potential Cure for Lymphoma in HIV patients

...therapy.Throughout the study, all patients were to receive highly activeantiretroviral therapy (HAART) to help reduce these opportunisticinfections and improve immunodeficiency, however, only nine patientswere able to tolerate this treatment for the entire study due to sideeffects such as nausea and inflamma...

Research Gives Hope For Liver Damage

...rrhosisand a patient's only hope of survival is to receive a liver transplant.The Edinburgh scientists from the University's Centre for InflammationResearch, in collaboration with colleagues from the University ofSouthampton and Cincinnati, USA have, for the first time, identifiedtwo separate populations of ...

International trial of two microbicides begins

...ot use any gel. In addition, all participants will receive condoms and extensive prevention counseling at each clinic visit. The trial is one of numerous studies conducted through NIH's HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), which is funded by NIAID, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Developme...

MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs

...ot use any gel. In addition, all participants will receive condoms and extensive prevention counseling at each clinic visit. The trial is one of numerous studies conducted through NIH's HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), which is funded by NIAID, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Developme...

RNA project to create language for scientists worldwide

...ir progress at the annual RNA Society meetings and receive feedback from the wider community of researchers. The ontology team will identify all RNA motifs, or repeated patterns, mentioned in the literature or appearing in databases, to agree upon and write a definition for each motif. The consortium's work...

UCSD team discovers specialized, rare heart stem cells in newborns

...ry raises the possibility that an individual could receive their own cardiac stem cells to correct a wide spectrum of pediatric cardiac diseases, according to co-first authors Moretti and Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, M.D., a Heisenberg-Scholar of the German Research Foundation. "Conceptually, these cells could pro...

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

...e new study, patients will be randomly assigned to receive the gene administered through a cardiac catheter t...herapy or a placebo. For every three patients that receive the active gene, one will receive a placebo. Following treatment, patients enrolled in the study wil...

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