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Innovative device aids in advanced heart failure

A mesh jacket positioned around the heart improves function in patients with advanced heart failure. Researchers at the University of New York felt that in heart failure, the heart enlarges and is unable to effectively pump blood around the body.// Commonly, the heart valves are damaged too. Heart failure is a progressive condition, with no cure other than a transplant - although it can be manage...

Advanced STD programs required

There is always a question of how effective are programs intended to reduce the number of people with sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. That is the question researchers from Scotland set out to answer in a study reported //in this month's Archives of Internal Medicine. The answer they come up with is, essentially, that it'sdiifficult to say. More than 1,500 studies were g...

Light therapy devotes new hope in advanced lung cancer

Light therapy given during surgery extends survival time in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Life expectancy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is often measured only in months, for the disease is very hard to treat, especially when it has spread// to the chest wall. In a new approach, doctors at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, have tried photodynamic therapy (PDT)...

Hope For Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

A recent study identified a specific gene that’s responsible for controlling the activated leukocyte cell adhesion molecule ( ALCAM ), which plays a role in helping // cells stay clumped together. The gene is less active in aggressive tumors than in normal breast tissue or tumors that don’t result in a spreading of the disease. Researchers speculate less activity on the part of ALCAM allows tumor...

Race an important links to the risk of advanced colorectal cancer

For the first time an interesting report looks at the relationship between racial subgroups and colorectal cancer // outcome. This report is to appear in the August 1, 2005 issue of CANCER. Colorectal cancer is a common cancer responsible for causing up to 11 percent of all cancer-related deaths in the United States . The Prognosis of the cancer is dependent on the stage of disease a...

HIV Vaccine Field Trials In Advanced Stage

Field trials of a HIV vaccine developed in the US are at an advanced stage but it could be a while before it is made available to the public, says an expert involved in the project. // "You must appreciate that this is a huge effort. There are large numbers of people involved and we have to be very careful with our testing methods. We are on the way but it will be a while before the v...

Twin Treatment Could Be Used Increase Survival Rates In Advanced Melanoma

Patients with advanced metastatic melanoma could live longer if given peptide vaccines after surgery, a new study appearing in the March 15 issue of Cancer has found//. The average survival rate of such patients was 4 years, which was significantly more than seen in previous trials. "Patients with resected Stage IV melanoma can do a lot better than we thought," said lead researcher Dr....

NICE supports application of advanced biological therapies as treatment option for acute psoriasis

The UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has brought out guidance to effectively use biological therapies, Enbrel?// (etanercept) and Raptiva? (efalizumab), to help adult patients suffering acute plaque psoriasis. Despite this move, renowned specialists are still skeptical about its benefits for many patients in Europe due to the financial issues surrounding it. Yet, th...

Eddie Thompson Receives Advanced Cancer Treatment

Dundee United’s Chairman, Eddie Thompson, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer three years ago is now undergoing more advanced treatment// for the disease at Ninewells Hospital. In a statement released by the Tannadice club officials on his behalf last night, details of his illness were released putting an end to the growing speculation in the media about his health. The...

PSA Can Predicts The Treatment Response In Advanced Prostate Cancer

A new study that has been conducted by researchers from the University of Michigan (U-M) medical school states that patients with lower PSA levels, //7 months after therapy lived longer. According to a new multicentre study that has been conducted by the Southwest Oncology Group and led by researchers at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Centre, that has been published in the August 20th i...

Rapid Aging of Arteries In People With Advanced Heart Disease

A study by British Heart Foundation (BHF) suggested that people with advanced heart disease have arteries that are biologically 40 years older than their real age.// In a study conducted by researchers from Cambridge University, they examined tissues from heart bypass and transplant patients to study how artery cells age. They found that the artery cells divide seven...

Aricept Cleared for Advanced Alzheimer's Treatment

Aricept becomes the first drug to be cleared for treatment of all stages of Alzheimer's, the FDA declared on Oct 13. It had been previously approved// for treating the initial stages of the disease. Eisai shares rose on the announcement upto 6,180 yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday morning. Alzheimer's is a progressive disease with no known cure, which affects brain functions of...

Adding Radiation Therapy For Treatment of Advanced Prostate Cancer May Offer Benefit

Treating advanced prostate cancer with radiation therapy after removal of the prostate gland reduces //the risk of disease recurrence, but does not appear to significantly improve the length of survival, according to a study in the November 15 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on men's health. Gregory Swanson, M.D., of the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, presented th...

New Pill for Patients With Advanced Prostate Cancer

Scientists have developed a Vitamin D pill that could give a longer lease of life to patients// in the advanced stage of prostrate cancer when given along with chemotherapy drugs. Patients taking the pill produced by US drug company Novacea lived for an average of an extra nine months longer than those taking chemotherapy drug taxotere alone, reported the online edition of BBC News. <b...

Hormone Drug Type Makes Survival Difference in Advanced Breast Cancer

Aromatase inhibitors, a type of hormone therapy used to treat advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women, result in a small but significant increase// in overall survival when compared to other hormone treatments, according to a new systematic review of studies. In addition, aromatase inhibitors — drugs known as Arimidex, Aromasin and Femara — are less likely to cause blood clots...

Taxotere Improves Survival in Advanced Prostate Cancer

Sanofi-Aventis, one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, issued a press release that stated Taxotere (docetaxel) improves survival in patients// with metastatic prostate cancer. A Phase III clinical trial named TAX 327 compared Taxotere plus prednisone to Novantrone (mitoxantrone) plus prednisone. The study included a little over a thousand men who had recurrences or spre...

Advanced Cancer Patients Have Sleep Disorders

Patients with advanced-stage cancer experience very poor sleep quality and often have troubling staying awake, says Emory University researcher Kathy Parker, PhD, RN . The study provides the first comprehensive description of sleep and wake patterns of cancer patients using continuous polysomnography (PSG) data, deemed the gold standard in objective physiological measurement of sleep. It involved...

Statin Drugs and Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer

Statins are commonly prescribed agents to lower cholesterol and the associated risks// of vascular events. Statins are also known to have proapoptotic and antimetastatic effects in cancer. In fact, some studies inversely associate statin use with breast and colorectal cancers, but others to include epidemiologic ones have not supported this observation. Dr. Platz and colleagues evalua...

Pazopanib Shows Positive in Advanced Renal Carcinoma, Ovarian Cancer and Soft Tissue Sarcoma

CHICAGO, GlaxoSmithKline today announced results from ongoing Phase II studies of pazopanib in advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC), ovarian cancer and soft tissue sarcoma (STS). These trials were presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago. The results observed in these trials with pazopanib support further investigations. <br...

Advanced Breast Cancer: Study Reveals White and Black Women Have Different Survival Rates

CHICAGO The last two decades have seen modest overall improvements in breast cancer survival rates for women with advanced disease . However, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, there has been no improvement in the rates for black women; differences in life expectancy between white and black women continues to widen. The study, presente...

Advanced Scientific Brings Help for Breast Cancer Survivors

CHICAGO:- Scientific advances have enabled better diagnosis and treatment for women with breast cancer, according to studies presented at the world's premier conference on cancer. "We've made tremendous progress in detecting and treating many cancers unique to women," Julie Gralow, assistant professor of oncology at the University of Washington, said on Sunday. "The studies discuss...

Journal Sleep: Advanced Cancer Patients Have Less Quality Sleep

WESTCHESTER, Ill. Patients with stage four cancer are more prone to disturbed sleeping patterns due to factors such as pain, treatment side effects and psychological causes, according to a study published in the June 1st issue of the journal SLEEP. The study, conducted by Kyriaki Mystakidou, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Athens, Greece, was completed by 102 patients...

Advanced Cancer Treatment Brings New Hope to Michigan Patient

Beginning next week, thousands of Michigan patients will have a new -- virtually pain free -- defense in the fight against cancer. Saint Joseph Mercy Health System (SJMHS) announced today it will begin treating patients with the CyberKnife(R) Robotic Radiosurgery System on Wednesday, June 6th. This advanced radiosurgery system non- invasively treats cancers anywhere in the body, in...

Study Implicates Protein as a Trigger of Advanced Prostate Cancer Recurrence

Scientists with the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have for the first time implicated a growth-promoting cellular protein as one trigger of the inevitable recurrence of advanced prostate cancer in men who are undergoing drug treatment to shut down their sex hormones, or androgens. The new research may help solve a mystery:...

Back to Basics in Health in Advanced Countries Now

Clearly a new wind is blowing across in three key advanced countries, UK, Australia and USA. People are sick, literally and metaphorically, one might say. The market-oriented policies pursued by the respective governments seem to have failed the people in a big way, nearly sparking off a major healthcare crisis. The powers-that-be are forced to reorient their strategies. In...

Genopole(R) is Organizing an Advanced Course on Stem Cells and Their Therapeutic Applications

From November 18th to 22nd, 2007, under the responsibility of Marc Peschanski, director of I-Stem(1), Genopole(R) is organizing an advanced course on stem cells and their therapeutic applications, aimed at exploring the latest advancements of research in this field, with input from 17 renowned specialists worldwide. Major topics to be covered include embryonic stem cells, mesenchymatic, hematopo...

Cancer Patients in New South Wales to Receive Advanced Image Guided Radiation Therapy Treatments

North Coast Cancer Institute (NCCI) Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie began providing radiotherapy treatment services for the first time in the North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia . Cancer patients in New South Wales now have access to state-of-the-art treatments as the latest in image-guided radiation therapy ( IGRT) equipment from Elekta went clinical at both sites. The...

Advanced therapy offers cure for relapsed cancer patient

About 90 percent of testicular cancer patients respond to traditional therapy, which involves multiple courses...