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Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

...son's disease at its onset and another strategy to treat the devastating side effects that occur when treating the disease in its later stages. By inserting corrective genes into the brain, scientists studying small monkeys called marmosets prevented brain damage by producing therapeutic levels of a prote...

Ophthalmologists Use Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip To Treat Vision Loss

...a (ASR) microchips in the eyes of five patients to treat vision loss caused by retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The implant is a silicon microchip 2mm in diameter and one-thousandth of an inch thick, less than the thickness of a human hair. Four patients had surgery Tuesday, January 25. The fifth patient is sch...

Vascular structure and function improve with diet and exercise

...studies looking at diet and exercise to prevent or treat cardiovascular disease," said primary investigator Robert J. Petrella, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor in the Schulich School of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. "The difference here is that the calories and composition of the diet and...

Antibiotic might fight HIV-induced neurological problems

...amage is increasing. Currently, there's no drug to treat it directly." In use for more than 30 years, minocycline was specifically designed to cross the blood-brain barrier, the biological "wall" that limits what can pass from the blood into the brain. Other researchers have reported that this antibiotic ...

Ophthalmologists implant five patients with artificial silicon retina microchip

...a (ASR) microchips in the eyes of five patients to treat vision loss caused by retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The implant is a silicon microchip 2mm in diameter and one-thousandth of an inch thick, less than the thickness of a human hair. Four patients had surgery Tuesday, January 25. The fifth patient is sch...

Asthma gene clusters identified

...sicians will be in a better position to assess and treat a patient's asthma with greater precision. "As we learn more about disease and how patients respond to treatment, we will eventually be able to develop customized therapy for patients with different gene expression profiles," she said. ...

Multiple Campylobacter Genomes Sequenced

...n disease, how to control their spread, and how to treat the infections caused by them. By comparing genome sequences, scientists can learn much more about what makes a bacteria tick than they can learn from a single sequence. Derrick Fouts and his colleagues have taken this comparative approach with Camp...

US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say

...ife-shortening effects of obesity, to find ways to treat it more effectively and to prevent it. If we succeed in our efforts, our predictions will be wrong. And that's what we hope." The full text of the article is available free on the journal's web site at http://www.nejm.org. Olshansky will also prese...

Potential treatments for neurofibromatosis

...than a decade ago. Currently little can be done to treat a disease that affects more people than cystic fib...M.D., Ph.D., have identified a promising target to treat the symptoms of neurofibromatosis. They hope to begin preliminary testing in humans by the end of th...

Drug-resistant bacteria on poultry products differ by brand

...lones are some of the most important drugs used to treat a variety of infections, including those caused by...y would immediately stop using fluoroquinolones to treat poultry flocks. One year after the Tyson and Perdue announcements, Price and his team began a surve...

UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders

...arch to find novel and more effective therapies to treat many diseases for which present-day therapy is either unsatisfactory or unavailable." Because the university and medical school at UCLA are located on the same campus, researchers are well positioned to compete for stem cell grant funding, Witte sai...

Norovirus, AIDS vaccine and Hepatitis Virus

...ction. One class of interferons (alpha) is used to treat chronic infection with HBV and HCV. There is a vaccine available to prevent the spread of HBV but not HCV. In the study, a new class of interferons, interferon lambda, was tested for its ability to inhibit HBV and HCV replication. Results showed 90%...

Pulsating ultrasound enhances gene therapy for tumors

...d in the body. Pulsed-HIFU is non-invasive and can treat any area of the body accessible by ultrasound, the exceptions being the lungs and bones. Additional advantages of pulsed-HIFU include no scarring, limited blood loss and infections, reduced risk of other complications, shortened recovery time, signif...

Molecular models advance the fight against malaria

...develop a new drug that will finally empower us to treat this terrible disease," said Trumpower. Dartmouth Medical School co-authors of the paper are Dr. Jacques Kessl, research associate in biochemistry, Kevin Ha, Anne Merritt and Benjamin Lange. Other co-authors are Dr. Brigitte Meunier and Philip Hill ...

Discovery Promises Simpler Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease

...ibilities, Stamler said. Current therapies fail to treat the disease itself and are instead geared toward minimizing pain and preventing infection, he added. In patients who become anemic, blood transfusions replenish the red blood cell supply in the body. The team further found that differences among pat...

Stem cells from brain transformed to produce insulin at Stanford

...t of insulin produced wasn't enough to effectively treat diabetes. Still, the work is a first step towards that eventual goal. It also hints that neuronal stem cells have many potential uses beyond treating brain disease. He thinks this work has additional value because the method used to produce insulin ...

New Drugs For Bad Bugs: UF Approach Could Bolster Antibiotic Arsenal

... resist at least one of the drugs commonly used to treat the infections they cause, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The agency warns that unless problems are detected early and swift action taken to find substitute drugs, previously treatable diseases could again emerge in more virulent form...

Gene Therapy Cures Inherited Liver Disease In Rats

...oints the way to using gene therapy to cure and/or treat a host of other disease that occur because of the lack of genes in this area of the cell. The viral vector itself is important because it has no long term effect. It does not become part of the genetic machinery of the cell and poses no risk of caus...

FDA Clears the Way for Generic Versions of Transdermal Patches to Treat Chronic Pain

...agesic Patch (Fentanyl Transdermal System) used to treat patients suffering from severe chronic pain that cannot be managed with alternative analgesics. When applied to the skin, this patch technology delivers fentanyl, an opioid pain medication that is slowly absorbed into the body through the skin provid...

Scientists Propose Sweeping Changes to Naming of Bird Neurosystems to Acknowledge Their True Brainpower

...agesic Patch (Fentanyl Transdermal System) used to treat patients suffering from severe chronic pain that cannot be managed with alternative analgesics. When applied to the skin, this patch technology delivers fentanyl, an opioid pain medication that is slowly absorbed into the body through the skin provid...

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