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Healing honey: The sweet evidence revealed

...unds summarizes the data. Scientists performed 22 trials involving 2,062 patients treated with honey, as well as an additional 16 trials that were performed on experimental animals. Honey was found to be beneficial as a wound dressing in...

Mutation in blood stem cells provides clues to cancer development

... and Stanford researchers plan to conduct clinical trials in the near future and are working with colleagues at Harvard University, the Mayo Clinic, and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to help expedite these trials. The study's principle investigator was Irving L. Weissman, M.D., Director, Insti...

Radiotherapy advance points way to noninvasive brain cancer treatment

...d likely another five to ten years before clinical trials and available treatments would emerge. While the human health payoff seems far away, De Stasio says she is committed to the timetable needed for success. "(Fighting cancer) is the type of work that makes you feel good about being a scientist," she s...

Anti-inflammatory drug's potentially deadly side effect found to be rare

...ses of a serious brain infection in large clinical trials halted in early 2005. The new study found no new ...rcent of the patients who had taken natalizumab in trials that were halted last year after reports of PML. These studies involved patients at 485 sites around...

Experimental drug reverses key cognitive deficits, pathology in Alzheimer's

...se pathologies. "Further work, including clinical trials in humans, will be necessary to determine if this new generation of M1 agonists will produce a similar therapeutic efficacy as was observed in the [knockout] mice," they concluded. ...

Trial success for diabetic nerve therapy

...rve damage or 'neuropathy'; initial-stage clinical trials on patients in the United States have also been en... have had some striking success." The US clinical trials ?carried out by Professor Tomlinson's collaborators at biotech firm Sangamo BioSciences Inc ?have al...

New device could cut chemotherapy deaths

... preliminary laboratory trials. The first clinical trials on volunteer patients with ovarian cancer in Avon,... Nicholas Johnson and Mr Kenneth Jaaback, clinical trials experts and specialist nurses such as Tracie Miles. "Side effects from chemotherapy can be very unp...

U of MN uses robotic surgery techniques in cardiac cell therapy research

...f injured heart muscle. Both are in human clinical trials as well. The research is published in the current issue of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Once more animal studies are completed, the technique could be applied in human clinical trials. "In people with heart failure, open...

Better beetle sought for salt cedar control

...eetles being released into the confined salt cedar trials wereprovided by Dr. Jack DeLoach with the U.S. Department ofAgriculture-Agricultural Research Service at Temple, where other studiesare being done. Each egg mass had 10 to 30 eggs. Another 60 adults were releasedbetween the three sites, Carney said....

Traditional Chinese medicine for diabetes has scientific backing

... evaluated properly following the defined clinical trials process", said Professor James, head of the Garvan's Diabetes & Obesity Research Program and co-author of the Diabetes paper. The next step is to investigate how berberine activates the enzyme that mediates these 'insulin-sensitising'effects. ...

Radioactive scorpion venom for fighting cancer

...r traditional radiotherapy. The first, early human trials of the venom therapy showed promising signs for tr...n gliomas. A recent study of the earlier phase II trials showed that patients receiving up to 40 mCi of weekly dose did not show evidence of any adverse reac...

Revolution in the fight against cancer & viruses

.... "While our research is at an early stage, human trials using siRNA are currently underway in the USA and Europe. We're confident our have a significant impact on the way siRNA is being developed as a weapon in the fight against viruses and cancer," said Professor Williams. ...

For Stanford scientists, RNAi gene therapy takes two steps forward, one step back

...h groups. Now, with three human RNAi gene therapy trials under way, Kay's initial excitement is proving to ...up for RNAi with three RNAi therapies now in human trials - two for macular degeneration and one for a type of pneumonia. However, these studies involve simpl...

Production of key Alzheimer's protein monitored for first time in humans

...could let us directly monitor patients in clinical trials to see if the drug is really doing what we want it...for determining which drugs go forward in clinical trials and at what doses." The test also may be useful in diagnosis of Alzheimer's prior to the onset of ...

Food-crop yields in future greenhouse-gas conditions lower than expected

Open-air field trials involving five major food crops grown under carbon-dioxide levels projected for the future are harvesting dramatically less bounty than those raised in earlier greenhouse and other enclosed test conditions ?and scientists warn that global food suppli...

Viagra improves high altitude exercise performance up to 45% for some

...to cover six kilometers by 15% compared to placebo trials at altitude. The cyclists also significantly impro...erformance between the sea level and high altitude trials without the drug. "Without sildenafil, their performance went down more than others," Friedlander ...

Mechanism identified for promising neurological drug

...to Swanson. Currently, he says, there are clinical trials under way of minocycline as a potential treatment ...nceivably increase the risk of cancer. In clinical trials where people are taking minocycline for months at a time, I think that investigators need to take th...

The molecular mechanism of a diabetes vaccine revealed

... The vaccine is currently being tested in clinical trials in Europe and the United States, but its precise mechanism has until now been unknown. "When translating these findings into a practical vaccine, we knew enough about the mechanism to understand that this protein is able to cause a decrease in the i...

Spinal cord bridge bypasses injury to restore mobility

...and successful with primates, it could go to human trials within a relatively short time. His next step is a neural bridge that would help quadriplegics, who are unable to breathe without assistance, move their diaphragms on their own. In future animal studies he plans to undertake nerve grafts from t...

HIV infection requires an accomplice: B cells with special protein direct HIV to T cells

...egimens and most of those being tested in clinical trials focus on T cells of the immune system, where HIV replicates and thrives. HIV hijacks T cells by binding to a cell membrane molecule called CD4 and to either or both of two other receptors, from which the two strains of HIV, X4 and C5, take their name...

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