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Doctors should stop prescribing antibiotics for the common cold, review advises

...nts will get adverse effects." In addition to the side effects, mainly diarrhea, "overuse can increase le...sal discharge; and if antibiotics have significant side effects in people with colds. Although there may be some benefit of using antibiotics to treat the ...

New type of rejection blocker protects kidneys after transplant

... kidney function and experienced less of the toxic side effects associated with standard anti-rejection drugs, including kidney damage, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. In the August 25 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers report on the safety and efficacy of belatacept duri...

Hepatitis C responds best to combo of ribavirin and interferon, study concludes

...nterferon alone, but it also increases the risk of side effects, according to a new systematic review of r... in the interferon-alone group. The most frequent side effect was anemia, which occurred in 22 percent of cases of combination recipients and less than 1 p...

Gene therapy advance treats hemophilia in mouse models

...er cells, thus reducing the likelihood of negative side effects. The laboratory findings have significan...ay said. "This modification helps prevent negative side effects. For example, if the gene were expressed in immune cells instead of liver cells, it could le...

Study casts doubt on 'Snowball Earth' theory

...turned up strong evidence on the "Slushball Earth" side of a decades-long scientific argument. The study ...nce of small warm spots, or refugia. On the other side are supporters of a "Slushball Earth" that would have included large areas of thin ice or open ocean...

NIH renews network focused on how genes influence drug responses

...the benefits of treatment while minimizing adverse side effects. This will ultimately improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, MD. The network is supported by nine NIH components: NIGMS; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Cance...

Gap-climbing fruit flies reveal components of goal-driven behaviors

...d and middle legs still holding on to the starting side and the front legs just about reaching the edge of the target side. Forward shifting of the body into the gap, primarily by little hind-leg steps, contributes the most to gap-crossing. Auxiliary actions of the middle legs keep the body close to a hor...

Engineered molecule amplifies body's immune response

...xample during treatment with interferon, there are side effects due to the increased nonspecific response ...e body's defense against infection without causing side effects that occur with interferon treatment by engineering a hyper-responsive Stat1 molecule. By in...

Compound from Chinese medicine shows promise in head and neck cancer

... benefit long-term by avoiding surgery because the side effects of surgery for head and neck cancer can be particularly difficult for patients. It affects how you talk, how you swallow and how you breathe," says study author Carol Bradford, M.D., professor of otolaryngology at the U-M Medical School and c...

Hybrid grass may prove to be valuable fuel source

...chgrass, a prairie grass native to Illinois. Grown side by side, Miscanthus produces over twice as much biomass as switchgrass, Heaton said. To investigate how Miscanthus is so productive, Dohleman and others take measurements of photosynthesis throughout the day. He measures the intensity of the sun and...

HIV Therapy Greatly Extends Life of Key T Cells, Scientists Find

...is experimental and can be associated with various side effects, IL-2 is licensed to treat certain cancers. NIH researchers have long observed that in responsive patients, intermittent cycles of IL-2 therapy lead to substantial increases in the number of circulating CD4+ cells. The mechanisms driving thi...

Beyond genes: Lipid helps cell wall protein fold into proper shape

...eins that penetrate the membrane or bind to either side of it. "What we've demonstrated again is that it's not just a membrane protein's genetically determined sequence that dictates how it folds so that it can function properly. Its lipid environment also plays a role," Dowhan said. "People used to assu...

New Lab Research May Help Those Deafened By Immune System Attack

...lp them, or if they can be spared the drugs' harsh side effects. It may also expand the definition of the condition, known as autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss or AISNHL, and help more people get a firm diagnosis of what's causing their mysterious hearing loss. In the August issue of the Archives of ...

Neurologix announces positive results of gene therapy clinical trial in Parkinson's disease

...y significant improvement in motor function on the side of their body correlating to the treated part of t...r, PET scans at one year revealed that the treated side of the brain exhibited a statistically significant decrease in abnormal metabolism, results consider...

Treatments have same target, different responses for lung cancer patients with genetic mutation

...s such as which drug has more toxicity or negative side effects are still unanswered. However, they did examine the outcomes of four patients with EGFR mutations in their tumors who had been treated with gefitinib and then cetuximab, or vice versa. They found that all patients displayed partial response...

Monkeying around to improve organ transplantation

...ction, hypertension, cancer, and other undesirable side effects. Therefore, specific suppression of the T cells that attack the transplanted organ is needed. It was known that anergic T cells (immune T cells that do not respond to antigen stimulation) generated in an artificial environment outside the li...

Rensselaer researchers develop approach that predicts protein separation behavior

...an's group for rapidly predicting the efficacy and side effects of small drug-like molecules. The newly developed model successfully predicted the amount of a protein that binds to a material under a range of conditions by using molecular information obtained from the protein structure. These predicted ad...

Women cautioned against using herbal supplements

... reported to have some benefit, reports of serious side effects have led to it being banned for sale in the United States and elsewhere. For premenstrual syndrome, several studies found some benefit in about half the women studied for evening primrose oil, but two of the best designed studies found no ef...

Menopause Symptoms May Come Back After Stopping Menopausal Hormone Therapy

... reported to have some benefit, reports of serious side effects have led to it being banned for sale in the United States and elsewhere. For premenstrual syndrome, several studies found some benefit in about half the women studied for evening primrose oil, but two of the best designed studies found no ef...

Genetics links whale to two different ocean basins

...ast of Loango National Park in Gabon--on the other side of the African continent. "While the movement of whales from one ocean to another has always been a possibility, it's quite difficult to track in the wild," said WCS researcher Dr. Cristina Pomilla, lead author of the study. "This study demonstrates...

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