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PET/MRI scans may help unravel mechanisms of prenatal drug damage

... mechanisms of damage and suggest ways to test new treatment or prevention strategies," said Benveniste. The imaging tools could also be used to assess the effects of therapeutic drugs, such as administering synthetic narcotics to pregnant women following surgical procedures performed on fetuses in utero. "Fo...

Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges

...e made in a laboratory and then used as a clinical treatment for addiction. In theory, antibodies to the drug could be mass produced and administered at therapeutic levels that are high enough to clear the drug from the body, he says. "Methamphetamine has become the ‘crack' of the 21st century," Janda says. "...

Antiretroviral therapy may prevent excess risk of some cancers in people with HIV

...ere found among nonsmokers. "In conclusion, HAART treatment may prevent excess risk of [Kaposi sarcoma] and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but not that of Hodgkin lymphoma or other non–AIDS-defining cancers," the authors write. "Focusing on ways to encourage persons infected with HIV to quit smoking would be effective...

Reducing malarial transmission in Africa

... trends have forced many countries to change their treatment policies and use more expensive drugs, including d...nclude that although co-artemether as a first-line treatment is not likely to reduce overall transmission of Plasmodium falciparum within the community it might ...

Stopping smallpox in its tracks: A new anti-viral approach

... have been discontinued and no clinically approved treatment currently exists. In the February 1 issue of the J...iral replication and spread. The authors show that treatment with these erbB-1 inhibitors are effective in lowering morbidity and mortality, and boosting T cell ...

WHO Warns Of Increased Risk Of Vector-borne Diseases In Tsunami-affected Areas

...hey are protected from disease, and have access to treatment when they need it". "To reduce the risk of a deng...000 rapid diagnostic tests for malaria and 150,000 treatment courses of artemisinin-based combination therapy - the most effective available antimalarial treatme...

Scientists discover how plants disarm the toxic effects of excessive sunlight

...let oxygen, which could impact agriculture and the treatment of human and plant disease, and aid the effort to create alternative bioenergy sources," Donohue says. Donohue and his group studied a photosynthetic microbe and identified the cellular pathways it used to sense the presence of singlet oxygen and de...

Gene Therapy Cures Inherited Liver Disease In Rats

...the toxic symptoms of these kinds of diseases. The treatment could be repeated when needed. The treatment used a specially developed adenovirus to carry the gene into the animal's cells. This viral vector, ...

HIV-1 spread through six transmission lines in the UK

...tle correlation between widespread availability of treatment and reduction of transmission. This is highly pert...ub-epidemics, which HIV monitoring, prevention and treatment programmes may want to take into account when developing new initiatives.?/p> More than 57,700 p...

Gene therapy promising for growing tooth-supporting bone

.... The study showed that animals that got the BMP-7 treatment produced nearly 50 percent more supporting bone around dental implants than those receiving the conventional treatment. "This study represents a proof-of-concept investigation. We are encouraged about the promise of this treatment," said Giannobile,...

New drug shows promise as powerful anticancer agent

...d appears to be nontoxic, it may be beneficial for treatment of some advanced cancers that are resistant to conventional therapies. "Clinical studies, which are currently in progress, should reveal the best way to utilize ON01910 in human cancer therapy," writes Dr. Reddy. The other members of the research te...

Alzheimer's cognitive decline slowed

...nction, was administered at screening, the time of treatment and at several intervals after treatment. Over an average post-treatment follow-up period of 22 months, the rate of decline on the MMSE among NGF-treated patients was reduced by as much as 51 percent. An additional test, called the Alzheimer's Diseas...

Microbial fuel cell: High yield hydrogen source and wastewater cleaner

...ay help offset the substantial costs of wastewater treatment as well as provide a contribution to nations able to harness hydrogen as an energy source," Logan notes,. The new approach is described in a paper, "Electrochemically Assisted Microbial Production of Hydrogen from Acetate," released online currently...

Newly discovered pathway might help in design of cancer drugs

... The method could enable future doctors to target treatment more precisely, rather than directing chemotherapeutic medication or radiation to tumors through a scattershot approach, said Marc Greenberg, a chemistry professor in the university's Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, who will present his t...

Buying Time Through Hibernation on Demand

...r clinical benefit potentially could revolutionize treatment for a host of human ills related to ischemia, or d...ial medical benefits also include improving cancer treatment by allowing patients to tolerate higher radiation doses without damaging healthy tissue. Cancer cell...

Anti cancer virotherapy well tolerated in first human administration, research finds

...erapy. Psiron is developing a suite of viruses for treatment of a range of cancers. Research and development is currently at preclinical stage, progressing to Phase I clinical trials in 2005. Initial clinical trials will be on melanoma and ovarian cancer. More information is available at www.psiron.com ...

U-M team recovers ancient whale in Egyptian desert

...r clinical benefit potentially could revolutionize treatment for a host of human ills related to ischemia, or d...ial medical benefits also include improving cancer treatment by allowing patients to tolerate higher radiation doses without damaging healthy tissue. Cancer cell...

Chemicals in tattoo inks need closer scrutiny

...ical characteristics of the components to select a treatment that will be most effective and, hopefully, the least painful for the patient," Wagner says. The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization, chartered by the U.S. Congress, with a multidisciplinary membership of more than 159,000 chemists...

Harmful chemicals may reprogram gene response to estrogen

...es involved in cell growth. "We found that the DES treatment somehow 'reprogrammed' how these genes respond to estrogen, making them much more responsive to estrogen than normal," said Walker. "We realized that the DES exposure enabled estrogen to drive the tumor development when combined with a genetic predis...

Disease diagnosis, biodefense among UH chemical research projects

...re relevant to early-stage disease diagnosis, when treatment is still an option. Cai also is an author on four other papers that will be presented at the ACS meeting. # Dar-Chone Chow, assistant professor of chemistry, will discuss "Thermodynamics of interactions between glucose and maltose binding protein." ...

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