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Tumor cells evade death through autophagy

...gy represents a survival mechanism for tumor cells treated with agents that initiate tumor cell death by a pr...sis were detected. Furthermore, if these mice were treated with the chemotherapeutic agent cyclophosphamide, tumor cell apoptosis and tumor regression was incr...

NIH announces phase III clinical trial of creatine for Parkinson's disease

...th PD within the past five years and who have been treated for two years or less with levodopa or other drugs that increase the levels of dopamine in the brain. Many of the symptoms of PD result from the loss of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that helps to control movement. Half of the participants will rece...

Lead-'scrubbing' drug may also improve muscle function in lead-exposed children

...Bhattacharya, PhD, the UC team found that children treated with succimer (SUX-sim-er) chelation therapy showed a 19 percent improvement in their ability to perform moving tasks—such as crossing an obstacle or walking—than those who did not receive treatment. Chelation (ke-LAY-shun) is a technique, nickna...

Leukemic cells find safe haven in bone marrow

...hat leukemia recurs in some children who have been treated with this drug," said Dario Campana, M.D., Ph.D., a member of the St. Jude Oncology and Pathology departments. Campana is senior author of the report that appears in the online pre-publication issue of "The Journal of Clinical Investigation." ...

Viral protein is an effective preventative against infection

...is mice. He colonized his mice with S. pneumoniae, treated some of them with the lysin and then gave them all influenza. Eighty percent of the mice that did not receive the lysin came down with middle ear infections, but none of the mice given the lysin did. The treatment was 100 percent effective. "It is...

Adding radiation decreases breast cancer recurrence

...hormone responsive tumors. Among women over 65 and treated with breast conserving surgery, the risk of local ...ollowed 1,837 women over 65 for ten years who were treated with surgery for early stage breast cancer to examine the impact of treatment on the occurrence of r...

Hay fever can send work productivity down the drain

...d a greater severity of symptoms than did patients treated by an allergist as well as those who self-managed their allergy symptoms. “Family physicians tend to be the gatekeepers to allergists, and as such are more likely to have initial contact with allergy patients,?Szeinbach said. “So it makes sense th...

Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates

...rtunity to spread in the guts of patients recently treated with antibiotics. Infected patients can develop diarrhoea, colitis, and other conditions associated with intestinal inflammation. Rarely, CD infection can be fatal. By contrast, drugs that target only specific types of bug cause less damage to nor...

Plastic that degrades in seawater could be boon for cruise industry and others

... and serious lung and bowel complications, mothers treated with nitroglycerin had significantly healthier babies. Graeme N. Smith, MD, PhD, states, "Our team is very excited about these findings. It is estimated that it costs the Canadian health system almost $2 billion a year to take care of premature ba...

Improving outcomes in premature births

... and serious lung and bowel complications, mothers treated with nitroglycerin had significantly healthier babies. Graeme N. Smith, MD, PhD, states, "Our team is very excited about these findings. It is estimated that it costs the Canadian health system almost $2 billion a year to take care of premature ba...

Protein therapy may reduce infarct size in heart attack patients

... serious adverse events was similar among patients treated with KAI-9803 compared to placebo, even at the highest dose levels of the study. "In this early study, we believe the data suggest a potential therapeutic role for KAI-9803,?said Matthew Roe, M.D., of the Duke Clinical Research Institute and lea...

MIT: Pulsing light silences overactive neurons

... Parkinson's disease. Such diseases often must be treated by removing neurons that fire incorrectly. The new MIT research could lead to the development of optical brain prosthetics to control neurons, eliminating the need for irreversible surgery. "In the future, controlling the activity patterns of neur...

Chemicals in brown algae may protect against skin cancer

...ion, and for cell proliferation rates. Animals treated with BAPs showed lower levels of both COX-2 and pr...responds with fewer tumors and small tumors in the treated animals." ...

Colour sensor breath test can detect lung cancer

...to pick up the disease at a stage when it could be treated effectively, say the authors. Diagnosis is often therefore only made when the disease is advanced. "Ultimately, this line of investigation could lead to an inexpensive, non-invasive screening or diagnostic test for lung cancer," they conclude....

Non-GMO solution to seafood allergies

...m patients with shrimp allergies, added samples of treated and untreated prawn, and measured how antibodies in the blood reacted. They found that levels of ‘Pen a 1? one of the major allergens, decreased 20-fold after treatment (Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture DOI 10.1002/jsfa.2746). Zhenxi...

Cryoablation -- A new treatment option for some kidney tumor patients

... world in performing ablation techniques, and have treated nearly 300 kidney tumors either with radiofrequenc...ilures and tumor recurrence. Also, the area being treated cannot be effectively monitored with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound. The Mayo study finding...

Fruit flies and global warming -- Some like it hot

...itness in Drosophila. The results showed that heat treated flies were much more often caught at the baits at very hot temperatures while control flies were more often caught at cooler temperatures, while there was an overall balance between negative and positive effects of the heat treatment at intermediate ...

New insights into autoimmunity and depression

...omly divided into treatment groups. Some mice were treated with fluoxetine, the antidepressant marketed as Prozac, and some mice were treated with haloperidol, a psychotropic drug used to treat anxiety, addiction, and depression. To determine...

Groundbreaking Canadian asthma study

...and Journal of Medicine (NEJM) shows that patients treated with bronchial thermoplasty, the first non-drug tr...fter Bronchial Thermoplasty", showed that patients treated with bronchial thermoplasty, compared to another group that did not receive the procedure, showed si...

Does a peptide affect the heart's response to social isolation?

...ing (control conditions) for four weeks. They were treated with oxytocin or saline (control solution) daily for 14 days during the third and fourth week of the four-week isolation period. Electrocardiographic parameters (heart rate and heart rhythms) were recorded using the radio frequency transmitter. F...

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