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Implanted Devices Detect High-Risk Heart Failure Patients

...hen it comes to the new devices, their role in the treatment of heart failure, and how to make best use of the new data which they can provide. Additional trials will be needed to tease out the relationships between different patient characteristics, the use of the new technology, and patient outcomes, Gilliam...

Rush Physicians Using Gene Therapy For Heart Patients With Moderate To Severe Chest Pains Who Do Not Benefit From Other Treatments

...o severe angina, but cannot also be candidates for treatment using angioplasty or bypass surgery. Angioplasty involves a catheterization with a balloon-like device that opens blocked arteries, while bypass surgery requires open-heart surgery to place veins removed from the patient's leg or arteries taken from ...

Opposing fat metabolism pathways triggered by a single gene

...vide opportunities for altering their function for treatment of fat metabolism disorders such as diabetes and obesity. ### Citation: Van Gilst MR, Hadjivassiliou H, Jolly A, Yamamoto K (2005) Nuclear hormone receptor nhr-49 controls fat consumption and fatty acid composition in C. elegans. PLoS Biol 3(2): e5...

Ophthalmologists Use Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip To Treat Vision Loss

...r sure how these patients will respond to this new treatment since this is still an experimental trial. If this study and future studies show safety and efficacy of the chip and it's approved by the FDA, it could be as soon as three to five years that this technology would be available to others." Surgical In...

Chemists identify key gene in development of type 1 diabetes

...ved in its development, he says. A potential drug treatment based on blocking the MIF protein is already being...ls to determine whether it will help in the actual treatment of ongoing type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes, the more common type. Results are not yet available ...

Towards precise classification of cancers based on robust gene functional expression profiles

...ved in its development, he says. A potential drug treatment based on blocking the MIF protein is already being...ls to determine whether it will help in the actual treatment of ongoing type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes, the more common type. Results are not yet available ...

Antibiotic might fight HIV-induced neurological problems

... ago. "It's a really demanding test of a potential treatment for HIV." The animal model has already helped imp...ry "sleeping" HIV and SIV even when antiretroviral treatment is effective. "If this preliminary observation holds up, minocycline could be really important for ...

Ophthalmologists implant five patients with artificial silicon retina microchip

...r sure how these patients will respond to this new treatment since this is still an experimental trial. If this study and future studies show safety and efficacy of the chip and it's approved by the FDA, it could be as soon as three to five years that this technology would be available to others." Surgical In...

Asthma gene clusters identified

... be used to customize care. The current methods of treatment primarily consist of anti-inflammatory drugs, which may not be optimal for acute attacks," Dr. Hershey said. Previous studies using microarray technology have been conducted using RNA from adults with asthma, but this approach has not been successfu...

Expression Project for Oncology (expO) completes first phase of standardized gene expression analyses

...orm testable clinical hypotheses for use in future treatment decision making. Tissue collection and data dissemination will be conducted in a manner that fully protects patient privacy. Over a three-year period, IGC expects to obtain 2,000 to 3,000 tumor specimens representing a broad spectrum of malignancies ...

Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see

... artificial corneas, which have revolutionized the treatment and care of patients like her. "I was blind for twenty years in both my eyes," Phifer says. "A regular cornea wouldn't work because of the severity of damage to my corneas. But now my life is more like normal and I can do more things on my own and f...

Effective Cancer Treatments Follow The Clock

...treated with CY survived better when they received treatment in late afternoon than those whose treatments were initiated early in the morning. Antoch further extended these original findings after she moved to Cleveland and established her research program in the Department of Cancer Biology at the Cleveland ...

US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say

...insurance reimbursement for obesity prevention and treatment are also contributory." The researchers predict that unless effective interventions are developed to reduce obesity, children today may live less healthy and shorter lives than their parents. "In addition to the enormous economic costs of obesity, ...

Potential treatments for neurofibromatosis

...se frustrates doctors because there's no effective treatment even though the responsible gene was identified more than a decade ago. Currently little can be done to treat a disease that affects more people than cystic fibrosis, hereditary muscular dystrophy, Huntington's disease and Tay Sachs combined. Now, h...

Surprising findings reported about iron overload

...rt of routine medical exams," said Acton. Delaying treatment ?the weekly removal of a pint of blood by phlebotomy ?can permit the progressive accumulation of iron deposits in target organs that may result in complications such as cirrhosis of the liver, liver cancer, arthritis, diabetes, impotence and heart fa...

World-first Living Donor Islet Cell Transplant A Success; Procedure Offers Promise For Diabetics

...ioneering work in developing the Edmonton Protocol treatment for diabetes, has taken another important step in the fight against diabetes. On January 19, at Kyoto University Hospital, Dr. Koichi Tanaka and Dr. James Shapiro, along with a team of Japanese surgeons, removed part of a 56-year-old woman's pancrea...

Gene Signatures Predict Interferon Response For Multiple Sclerosis Patients

...e at all. Given the variability of the disease and treatment response, being able to predict how a particular patient is likely to respond to interferon would help doctors decide how close to monitor the patient or even whether to consider alternative treatments. In a new study, Sergio Baranzini et al. describ...

Norovirus, AIDS vaccine and Hepatitis Virus

...rferon lambda may be therapeutically useful in the treatment of chronic HBV or HCV infection." (M.D. Robek, B.S. Boyd, F.V. Chisari. 2005. Lambda interferon inhibits hepatitis B and C virus replication. Journal of Virology, 79. 6: 3851-3854.) ...

DuPont's first biologically derived polymer receives global recognition

... stain resistant, requiring no additional chemical treatment to prevent stains. Sorona® can be used in a variety of applications including soft floor covering, textiles for apparel and interiors, engineering resins and packaging. DuPont scientists recently developed a way to make Bio-PDOTM, the key Sorona® in...

NASA links nanobacteria to kidney stones and other diseases

...tion-related diseases. "Hopefully, eradication or treatment of these diseases will be possible in the near future. We need more research and support to solve this puzzle, but we feel that we are close," adds Ciftcioglu. NB was discovered in the 1990s and has been found in the calcium phosphate centers of kid...

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