receiving 2 9

Tag: "receiving" at biology news

Morphine for Chest Pain Increases Death Risk

...cent death rate, compared to 3.8 percent for those receiving nitroglycerin. The increase in mortality persisted even after adjustment for the patients' baseline clinical risk. The results of the Duke were published as a fast-track article in the American Heart Journal. "The results of this analysis raise ser...

Newest HIV drugs should be used with FUZEON(R)

...crease in immune cell count1, compared to patients receiving tipranavir/r without FUZEON. This adds to the gro... 90% drop in viral load compared with patients not receiving FUZEON POWER Phase II TMC114 dosing trials Over 24 weeks in the combined TMC114 trials, almost doub...

Immune system's distress signal tells bacteria when to strike back

... Pseudomonas, detecting interferon-gamma, "is like receiving a demolition notice from your landlord," Alverdy said. "It lets them know they need to find a new home. They don't take that news any better than we would." A vulnerable host, like a condemned home, is a liability, a threat to its tenants' survival....

Discovery of New Dopamine Action May Yield Alternative Psychiatric Drugs

...ptors on another to trigger a nerve impulse in the receiving neuron. Receptors are protein switches on the surfaces of neurons that recognize neurotransmitters and translate their signals into a cellular response. Dopamine exerts its functions in the brain by binding to two broad classes of receptors -- one cl...

Antiretroviral Therapy May Prevent HIV Transmission From Breastfeeding Mothers To Infants

...breastfeeding infants. All of the mothers had been receiving this combination of antiretroviral therapy continu...g breastfeeding. Eighty-eight percent of the women receiving antiretroviral therapy had fewer than 50 copies/ml of HIV-1 RNA in their breast milk, compared with ...

Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies

...people in need of drug therapy and only 15 percent receiving any. And, Zenilman notes, treatment for HIV is a l.... "Though more people in developing countries are receiving therapy, growing from 400,000 in June 2004 to 700,000 in December 2004, it still amounts to only 4 p...

NCI Researchers Confirm the Effectiveness of Immunotherapy Approach to Treating Melanoma

...uction in the size of their cancers as a result of receiving a new immunotherapy. This immunotherapy consisted of a combination of chemotherapy and reintroduction of their own (autologous) activated lymphocytes. Autologous lymphocytes are white blood cells that have been removed from the patient, activated or ...

Newer imaging techniques may lead to over-treatment

...imes higher risk of hemorrhagic stroke in patients receiving oral anticoagulant therapy when compared to the general population," Dr. Prologo said. It is imperative that "clinicians consider the risk-benefit ratio of therapy in patients with previously undetectable small clots in the peripheral pulmonary vascu...

While on trail of dioxin, scientists pinpoint cancer target of green tea

...of several harmful genes. This weekend Palermo is receiving the Wallace Fenn Award, named after a long-time physiology professor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. The award is given at graduation each year to a student who has produced an outstanding thesis. The research also ha...

UCLA study assesses cost-effectiveness of Hepatitis B drugs

...additional quality-adjusted life-year, compared to receiving no treatment at all. Compared with interferon, the hybrid strategy of lamivudine and adefovir cost an incremental $8,446 per quality-adjusted life-year. In comparison, treatment with adefovir alone cost over $90,000 for each quality-adjusted life-ye...

Analysis Of Human Genome To Predict The Development Of Illnesses

...healthy and unwell persons and amongst ill persons receiving different treatment. In this way, the behaviour of these molecules at different moments in the illness is registered. Available on Internet Once the function and behaviour of the genes and proteins are registered, this analysis tool detects anomalo...

Researchers make surprise discovery that some neurons can transmit three signals at once

...y bind to specific receptors on the surface of the receiving cell, causing its electrical activity to be enhanced or inhibited. The first week after birth marks a critical phase in the developing rat brain, a time period comparable to three months gestation in a human, when neurons are meticulously organizing...

FDA Warns About Antipsychotic Drugs and Elderly

...ate associated with their use compared to patients receiving a placebo (sugar pill). Today's advisory applies ...mptoms in elderly patients with dementia. Patients receiving these drugs for treatment of behavioral disorders associated with dementia should have their treatme...

Bevacizumab Combined With Chemotherapy Improves Progression-Free Survival for Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

... and blood clots were rare in this study. Patients receiving the combination of paclitaxel and bevacizumab had ...tains an abnormal amount of protein, than patients receiving paclitaxel alone. Other side effects were similar between the two treatment groups. Bevacizumab, a ...

Road salt affects mitigation wetlands

...salt. We see an effect on the midges in the runoff receiving wetland, but so far there is no effect on the slightly salty one," says Silver. "One thing we would like to see is what happens to bullfrog tadpoles and dragonflies that overwinter in the sediment mud." The researcher would also like to sample the s...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

The risk of receiving blood contaminated with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob (vCJD) prions may no longer be a concern for the thousands of people who require a transfusion. Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) announced today the Council of Europe (CE) marking of its Leukotrap® Affini...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

...that a large land animal is capable of sending and receiving vibrational messages. "A lot of research has been done showing that small animals use seismic signals to find mates, locate prey and establish territories," she notes. "But there have only been a few studies focusing on the ability of large mammals t...

Nanoparticle Breast Cancer Drug Approved by FDA

...ith Abraxane was almost twice that of participants receiving the solvent-based paclitaxel injection. Without toxic solvents, Abraxane could be given at higher doses than Taxol, which may account, in part, for the increased anti-tumor activity. In addition, albumin is a protein that normally transports nutrien...

Medical whistleblowers speak out

...treatment of patients in the state system and were receiving money from companies with a stake in these guidelines. The marketing tactics used by drug companies came under scrutiny at the roundtable. Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau, a former drug representative who wrote and directed the movie Side Effects, a fict...

Potential Drug Target For Treating Cocaine Abuse Found

...pleasure and reward by binding to receptors on the receiving neurons, after which it is reabsorbed for later use by a protein that transports it back into the sending neuron. But cocaine blocks the mechanism that transports dopamine, causing it to build up and send an unceasing message of pleasure ?the cocaine...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10