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Statins stop hepatitis C virus from replicating

...illion people worldwide are infected with HCV. The standard treatment is a combination therapy of interferon a... than interferon alone and more effective than the standard combination therapy of interferon and ribavirin. "Statins are good reagents for combination therapy...

Large-scale genomics project will hunt genes behind common childhood diseases

...ion of children. This project will help to set the standard for identifying biological links to childhood diseases." ...

Trials for new drug to overcome HIV

...al drugs is about to be tested in combination with standard antivirals. Called PA-457, it is the first of a ne...ve either PA-457 or a placebo in addition to their standard drugs. There are plans to try the drug along with new regimes tailored to individual patients, thoug...

New study reveals structure of E. coli multidrug transporter protein

...r example, requires so-called second-line drugs if standard treatment fails. According to the Centers for Disease Control, second-line drugs can cost as much as "$33,000 per patient in industrialized countries compared to $84 for first-line drugs." In addition, the centers noted, second-line drugs need to be ...

A cleaner, greener rice industry

...ange of benefits. To give a simple example, once a standard was agreed on how to measure a person's blood pressure, a whole range of activities and treatments were developed to help a person live a more healthy life. "The same reasoning could be applied to environmental standards or indicators for ASEAN rice...

Clot-busting drug helps revive cardiac arrest patients

...patients with cardiac arrest who didn't respond to standard therapy. Of 50 patients who received clot-busting ...evived, compared to 12 percent of patients who got standard therapy alone. However, not all patients who were revived lived long enough to be discharged from th...

Results with newer bladeless LASIK equivalent to standard microkeratome LASIK

...ue by an excimer laser, and replacing the flap. In standard LASIK with a mechanical microkeratome, the flap is created by a blade; in bladeless LASIK, the newer type, the flap is created by a femtosecond laser. "At six months after surgery, there are no differences between the eyes that had bladeless or mic...

Eat less, weigh more? Enzyme makes lean mice 'susceptible' to dietary fat

...rived of food for four hours prior to feeding with standard laboratory mouse chow, the knockout mutant mice ate about 25 percent less food than their normal siblings. Therefore, the researchers concluded, CPT1c must play a role in feeding behavior and appetite control. And when fed a high-fat diet (mouse c...

Scientist works to improve treatment for brain tumors

...to all solid tumors and is known to interfere with standard therapies. Researchers aren't sure exactly what causes hypoxia ?one theory is that the blood vessels in tumors are underdeveloped compared to the needs of rapidly proliferating cells. They also aren't sure how it affects treatment using cytotoxins...

Inheriting a tendency to brain infection

... simplex encephalitis may be treated with both the standard antiviral, acyclovir, and with type I interferon, to replace the interferon they lack if they have the mutation, said Casanova. That hasn't happened yet, although patients susceptible to tuberculosis (TB) because of an inherited deficiency in another...

UCSD study reveals how plants respond to elevated carbon dioxide

... exchange pores in the leaf surface." One of the standard arguments against taking action to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels is that the elevated carbon dioxide will stimulate plants to grow faster. The assumption is that plants will take up excess carbon dioxide to produ...

Save the whales? Sure, but how many?

...aphics, not ecology, Sanderson says. The highest standard for animal populations is achieving 'historical ba...cting like animals in the fullest sense, seems the standard conservationists should seek, whether it's bison on the Great Plains or Asia's forests with tigers a...

Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms

... Sandia would eliminate these problems. "Today's standard detection methods, frankly, are too slow and labor-intensive," said Lane. "By the time the process is complete, it's too late: the shellfish beds are already toxic." The ability to quickly sample organisms low on the food chain, Lane said, can provid...

Elasticity imaging identifies cancers and reduces breast biopsies

...ly, most treatable stage. While mammography is the standard breast cancer screening exam, screening with magne...“The patient does not notice any difference from a standard ultrasound.? Dr. Barr used a real-time, free-hand, elasticity imaging technique in correlation wit...

International team analyzes human genetic variation in key immune region

...he most common genetic variants in the region than standard HLA typing methods. Nearly three-quarters of the DNA samples that the scientists analyzed had been previously examined as part of the International Haplotype Map ("HapMap") Project, a worldwide scientific collaboration to catalogue human genetic v...

For super-obese patients, duodenal switch beats gastric bypass

...substantially better weight-loss outcomes than the standard operation, the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. In the October issue of the Annals of Surgery, the researchers report that the duodenal switch (DS) produced greater weight loss than the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) by all measures in patients with a bo...

On the golf tee or pitcher's mound, brain dooms motion to inconsistency

...ice makes perfect"" If complete consistency is the standard of perfection, then it seems that nobody will ever be perfect. ...

Computer-based 'games' enhance mental function in patients with Alzheimer's

...dia internet-based system, in combination with the standard pharmacological treatment of Alzheimer's disease, ...eks of treatment, participants were assessed using standard measures of cognitive function and performance including the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Co...

Long-term cancer risk follows stem cell transplant recipients

.... Myeloablative, allogeneic HSCT is an effective standard therapy for specific life-threatening diseases, such as leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome, for which blood cell lineages (which originate principally in the bone marrow and circulate in the blood) are abnormal. Destroying the patient's own unhealt...

Renewed dolphin slaughter prompts new campaign

...f dolphins every year, are inhumane by any ethical standard and should be discontinued immediately. Occurrin...hin drive hunts are an abominable violation of any standard of animal welfare, and these hunts inflict measurable pain and suffering on animals that are intelli...

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