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Gene therapy reverses genetic mutation responsible for heart failure in muscular dystrophy

...ao Xiao, Ph.D., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine...esearch associate in the department of orthopaedic surgery and the first author of the study. "In fact, if this study holds up in human clinical trials, it may...

'Patient-choice' C-section rate rises 36%: HealthGrades study

... the risks involved, and should never choose major surgery when it is not necessary. Despite the controversy, this much is clear: the 'patient-choice' C-section rate in America has accelerated in each of the three years HealthGrades has been conducting this study, so consumers are making their preferences kn...

FDA: 'Highly Unlikely' Green Tea Lowers Cancer Risk

... and for pediatric gallbladder removal and stomach surgery to prevent gastric reflux. The robotic system gai...ay not previously possible with minimally invasive surgery via laparoscopy, he said. "And that's the key to its success," Boggess added. "The robot takes us a...

Screen all at risk for HIV, plus pregnant women

... and for pediatric gallbladder removal and stomach surgery to prevent gastric reflux. The robotic system gai...ay not previously possible with minimally invasive surgery via laparoscopy, he said. "And that's the key to its success," Boggess added. "The robot takes us a...

Surgical Robot 'Scrubs In' At UNC, May Be More Precise Than Conventional Surgery

... and for pediatric gallbladder removal and stomach surgery to prevent gastric reflux. The robotic system gai...ay not previously possible with minimally invasive surgery via laparoscopy, he said. "And that's the key to its success," Boggess added. "The robot takes us a...

Results of world's first gene therapy trial for arthritis show approach safe, feasible

...olecular genetics and biochemistry and orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine...26 years. Each was scheduled for joint replacement surgery involving the four knuckles on one of their hands and one additional joint. In the weeks prior to jo...

No small feat: First ever gene therapy success for muscular dystrophy achieved

...ao Xiao, Ph.D., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and molecular genetics and biochemistry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, report that treated mice had physiological improvements in the muscles of the heart, diaphragm, abdomen and legs; and they grew faster, were physically more a...

Muscle repair: Making a good system better, faster; implications for aging, disease

...ery following damage from overuse during exercise, surgery or trauma can be stymied. Furthermore, as we age, muscle repair slows noticeably, and in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and other degenerative muscle diseases, normal repair functions can't cope with disease progression. Researchers from the University...

Why do aneurysms form? New studies suggest leading role for white blood cells

...denly from such a rupture. And another 36,000 have surgery to repair or replace the swelling section of aorta...nd. Upchurch is an associate professor of vascular surgery and the Leland Ira Doan Research Professor of Vascular Surgery at the U-M Medical School. ...

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

... and 12 months. The Gene Therapy Procedure The surgery entailed a stereotactic neurosurgical procedure performed under local anesthesia with the patient awake. First, MRI was used to image the target subthalamic nucleus (STN) region of the brain. The STN was mapped using microelectrodes by recording fr...

Compound from Chinese medicine shows promise in head and neck cancer

...y. "Patients really 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 yo...

New type of rejection blocker protects kidneys after transplant

...ng to Vincenti, clinical professor of medicine and surgery at UCSF and a kidney transplant specialist at UCSF Medical Center. "This is the first clinical trial of a treatment for transplant recipients based on this new principle of inducing immune tolerance of the transplanted organ. If belatacept and simil...

Sleeping Sickness Epidemic Spreading in Uganda

...tain types of painkillers offers an alternative to surgery after miscarriage, according to a study by researc...ans have begun prescribing misoprostol in place of surgery to women who have experienced a miscarriage. Until the current study, however, no large-scale studie...

Drug Offers Alternative to Surgical Treatment After Miscarriage

...tain types of painkillers offers an alternative to surgery after miscarriage, according to a study by researc...ans have begun prescribing misoprostol in place of surgery to women who have experienced a miscarriage. Until the current study, however, no large-scale studie...

Scalpel-free surgery could reduce risk of HIV and hepatitis exposure for health care workers

...aid Martin A. Makary, M.D., assistant professor of surgery and public health at Johns Hopkins and lead author...th traditional precautions and early education for surgery trainees are the most practical ways to reduce the risk of infection to health care workers," said M...

Brown-Harvard team solves mobile DNA's surgical sleight-of-hand

...o another organism, and perform a sort of grafting surgery that allows it to insert its chromosome into a chromosome of the target cell. The process is important because mobile DNA can carry genes that cause drug resistance or transmit viruses that cause disease or tumors that result in certain leukemias or ...

Researchers grow stem cells from human skin

...s," said Shay Soker, Ph.D., associate professor of surgery at Wake Forest's School of Medicine, which is part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. "The bulk of our bodies is made up of fat, muscle and bone." The promise of stem cells lies in their ability to develop into specialized types of ce...

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

...intestines," said John Alverdy, M.D., professor of surgery at the University of Chicago and director of the s...e host ?usually during stress, such as after major surgery ?let them know there's a problem." For Pseudomonas, detecting interferon-gamma, "is like receiving ...

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

...that favored patients most likely to survive their surgery over those most likely to die. In this system, the patients getting a liver transplant were often the most likely to benefit from it, but not always in greatest medical need of surgery. Due to public pressure, the allocation system was revised to put...

Chronic Sinus Infection Thought To Be Tissue Issue, Mayo Clinic Scientists Show It's Snot

...ons have already started to change the way they do surgery for patients with chronic sinus infections, focusi...ucus from healthy patients undergoing septoplasty, surgery to fix a deviated septum, for comparison with the specimens from the chronic sinus infection patient...

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