Cures in Medical News

Harvard Vanguard Cures Data Backup Ills With EMC Avamar

Data Deduplication Technology Slashes Data Backup Size from 3.2 Terabytes to 1 Terabyte; Backup Time Reduced from 35 to 2 Hours HOPKINTON, Mass., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC ), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Harvard Vang...

Dream Flights Luxury Travel, Inc. and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Join Forces to Find Cures and Save Children

Portion of Dream Flights Plus Card™ Sales to be Donated to St. Jude's Efforts - Providing Members with the Opportunity to Receive Special Privileges and Services, while Contributing to Vital Research and Treatment for Pediatric Patients (PRWEB) March 23, 2009 -- D...

Maryland Business, Academic and Biopharma Groups Underscore Commitment to Medical Innovation, Finding Cures for Cancer and Other Diseases and Supporting the Economy

ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by We Work for Health of Maryland: WHAT: We Work for Health of Maryland is a coalition of leaders in research, medicine, public health, academia, education, labor and business that will discuss the impact of...

Bringing Hope and Surgical Cures to the World's Children

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon honored for his tireless efforts to heal LAS VEGAS, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) presented the 2009 Humanitarian Award to David P. Roye, Jr., MD, on February 26th at its 2009 Annual Meeting. This award ho...

Viagra Bulk Effectively Cures Children with PAH (Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension)

Viagrabulk.com is a leading online store offering Viagra, which proves to be a great help for children who are suffering from pulmonary arterial hypertension. Mumbai, Maharashtra (PRWEB) November 3, 2008 -- Viagrabulk.com is a leading online drug store that offers Viagr...

T-Gone Tinnitus Cures -- A Potent New Tinnitus Formula Released

T-Gone Remedies Inc. today announced the release of their brand new tinnitus relief formula. T-Gone Tinnitus Remedies Inc. has been online for almost 10 years now and has a reputation as one of the most reliable suppliers of tinnitus remedies. T-Gone tinnitus remedies continuously develop remed...

The blood-brain barrier: A misunderstood key to finding life-saving cures to brain disease

ST. LOUIS -- An international team of scientists that includes a Saint Louis University researcher suggest several strategies to propel research for treatments of brain diseases that include multiple sclerosis, Alzheimers disease, obesity and stroke in the January issue of the Lancet Neurology. ...

St. Jude Celebrates Next Frontier of Finding Cures With Grand Opening of Chili's Care Center

Chili's Grill & Bar, other partners and donors share in success Governor Phil Bredesen welcomes researchers into the new National Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium headquarters Chili's Care Center culmination of best practice learning in translational research for exceptional patient care ...

Constipation's Many Causes and Cures

Poor diet, medication and nerve-and-muscular dysfunction can create problems FRIDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- If you've tried loading up on fruits, vegetables and whole grains and still can't get relief from constipation, maybe you need more than a boost of fiber. "The idea tha...

Maryland 'We Work for Health' Calls on Elected Officials to Focus on Medical Research and Innovation to Bolster Economy and Find Cures

ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Members from local business, labor, academic and health care groups, including John Hurson, former Chairman of the Maryland House of Delegates Health & Government Operations Committee, today introduced We Work for Health of Maryland -- a uniq...

FDA Warns Companies to Stop Selling Fake Cancer Cures

Fraudulent products present a safety hazard to the public, agency says TUESDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent letters warning more than two dozen companies to stop selling fraudulent products that claim to prevent or cure cancer. The agen...

Study paves way for development of macular degeneration cures

January 28, 2008 Owings Mills, MD -- A new study of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a disease that affects more than nine million Americans, will pave the way for the biopharmaceutical industry to develop better treatments and cures, according to the Foundation Fighting Blindness, which ...

Cancer Cures for Canines

One of the major issues associated with longer life expectancy in man and his best friend is an increase in the incidence of cancer. Even though they cannot talk it seems dogs might be able to tell us why and how certain cancers develop. In turn that could lead to better treatments for both canine ...

Single Drug Dose Cures Malaria in Mice

Johns Hopkins University researchers have cured malaria-infected mice with single shots of a new series of potent, long lasting synthetic drugs modeled on an ancient Chinese// herbal folk remedy. The team also has developed several other compounds, which defeated the febrile disease in rodents afte...

A Combination of Botox and Surgery Cures Migraines

An innovative surgical technique involving Botox brings relief to a long time migraine sufferer//. Five years ago, Sharon Schafer Bennett suffered from migraines so severe that the headaches disrupted her life, kept her from seeking a job and interfered with participation in her children's da...

Radiation Therapy Combo Cures Prostate Cancer Long-Term

Seventy-four percent of men treated with a combination of radiation seed implants and external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer are cured of their disease 15 years following their treatment, according to a study. // This study was conducted by the physicians at the Seattle Prostate I...

Radiation Therapy Combo Cures Prostate Cancer Long-Term

Seventy-four percent of men treated with a combination of radiation seed implants and external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer are cured of their disease 15 years// following their treatment, according to a study released today in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*P...

Taste Buds Could Suggest Best Cures For Depression

Clinicians treating depressed patients often decide on the method of treatment by speculating about the probable neurotransmitter in the brain which needs help, whether it// is serotonin, noradrenaline or if it is both. Doctors are often correct in their estimate 60% to 80% of the time, yet the res...

Transplant Cures Rats’ Type 2 Diabetes without Need for Immune Suppression Drug

An approach proven to cure a rat model of type 1 or juvenile-onset diabetes also works in a rat model of type 2 or adult-onset diabetes//, according to a new report from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "Finding that we can cure type 2 diabetes in the same ...

Nature Cures The Best, Say WIC Clinic Clients

Under nourished Latini Children in WIC Clinics, belonging to the low income group are often administered with herbs by care givers for common // ailments like colds, rash, stomach aches , according to the findings by Penn state researchers.. Approximately 48% of Latinos used herbs for common...

Miracle Cures Do Exist

Statistical evidence has been provided by researchers that faith healing and special diets also serve to heal people. Radiation oncologist Michael MacManus of Melbourne led the research // which studied as many as 2,337 patients who suffered from incurable lung cancer. Alternative medicine served ...

Yoga Cures Chronic Back Pain

The Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies of Seattle has revealed that chronic lower back pain can be cured through yoga. //As many as 101 adults who suffer from back pain were assessed by the study. The people who practiced yoga for 75 minutes every week displayed greater progress whe...

Protein Fragments Blocking Cures Alzheimer's Disease

Professor Yadong Huang and his team from Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease have found that the protein apolipoprotein E (apoE) is responsible for causing Alzheimer's disease //that acts by inactivating the conversion of glucose into energy in Mitochondirial cells due to the protein fragme...

The Cup That Cheers and Cures

Devil or doctor? - The debate may never end. Yet scientists from the US Department of Agriculture now hold court with a toast to your health. //Drink more tea, they say. Researchers have found various cancer- fighting active ingredients in samples of tea extracted by water and ethanol. Dr...

Diabetics press for additional government involvement in finding cures

With diabetes becoming a notorious disease, diabetics feel the government could do a lot more to curb the growth of the disease. //To steer the focus of people in the ivory tower to pressing healthcare issues, especially Type 2 diabetes, juvenile diabetes, the diabetics have placed fifteen thousand...

American Health Assistance Foundation & Asbury Methodist Village to Host Special Community Screening and Discussion of the HBO Series, The Alzheimer's Project

...he American Health Assistance Foundation: The American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding cures for age-related and degenerative diseases by funding research worldwide on Alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma. The American Heal...

Finding key to cancer drug Gleevec's limitations

... survive five years. Yet it soon became clear that the disease almost always returns without maintenance treatments of imatinib. Imatinib treatment cures the disease in at best 5 percent of cases. Maintenance treatments are a concern, because the drug can cause side effects such as extreme fatigue, naus...

Bionovo Presents Positive Results from Phase 1B Trial of Bezielle for Metastatic Breast Cancer

...substrates), results in the inhibition of glycolysis, energetic collapse, and programmed necrosis. There are currently no effective therapeutic cures for advanced breast cancer and treatment is primarily aimed at palliation of symptoms as well as improving overall survival. Over 192,000 women in the...

House Tri-Committee Bill Would Hurt Patients and Kill Jobs

... Such incentives are vital for ensuring continued development of biologics that patients with complex diseases rely on today and will help to provide cures in the future. Recently, the Senate HELP Committee also agreed overwhelmingly to support this important provision. "Unfortunately, the total...

Lilly Announces Continued Commitment to Transparency with Faculty Registry

...contracted faculty are key resources in our efforts to improve individual patient outcomes," Harris said. "They advise us on how to bring the best new cures and treatments to market, and give lectures to their peers on Lilly products and disease-state information to help keep them current on the ever-chang...

Texas on Top of Cancer Research: Dallas Regional Chamber Hosts Forum on New $3 Billion Fund

...cer research activity. Texas now has a $3 billion fund investing in cutting-edge, Texas-based research and commercialization projects aimed at finding cures and preventing cancer. "It is a privilege for me to be part of CPRIT and to have a role in the historic part Texas will play in the fight again...

Americans Spent $33.9 Billion Out-of-Pocket on Complementary and Alternative Medicine

...mary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov NOTES: (1) Nahin, RL, Barnes P...

Bally Total Fitness Flexes Fundraising Muscle to Fight ALS

.... Augie's Quest , MDA's fast-track ALS research initiative, is an aggressive, cure-driven effort singularly focused on finding treatments and cures for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). For more information on Augie's Quest or to make a donation, please visit www.augie...

Eleven Veterinary Students Win Top Awards at Morris Animal Foundation's Annual Research Competition

...on: Morris Animal Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established in 1948, is dedicated to funding animal health research that protects, treats and cures companion animals, horses and wildlife. MAF has been at the forefront of funding breakthrough research studies benefiting animals on all seven contine...

Ongoing Study Shows That Endovascular Therapy is Associated With High Cure Rate for Childhood Eye Cancer

...d on children with eye cancer (retinoblastoma) shows that chemotherapy delivered through endovascular (through the vessel) means not only successfully cures the cancer in a majority of cases, but achieves this cure with preserved vision. Study outcomes were presented this week at the Society of NeuroInter...

Report Shows New York City Companies Playing Key Role In Development of New Medicines for Wide Range of Diseases

...e Bronx has the highest rates in New York City. "Pharmaceutical and biotechnology scientists are making exciting progress in the search for new cures and treatments for cancer and other diseases. But these efforts are wasted if the medicines we develop aren't accessible to patients who need them," s...

Food Illness Accountability Undermines Food Safety Overhaul: Food Safety Legislation Propped up by Antiquated Estimates Rather Than CDC Data

...ccountability calls for emphasis on foodborne illness reporting to strategize targeted solutions. "Legislators need to know whether we're seeking cures for the common cold or pandemic flu," says Hazen. "Forty years ago, NASA pledged to send men into space. In 1958 NASA launched its first sat...

URI awarded $13 million grant to develop vaccines for emerging infectious diseases

... earlier this year at URI's Providence Biotechnology Center, applies cutting edge bioinformatics tools to accelerate the development of treatments and cures for immune-system diseases like HIV and tuberculosis. The Institute also aims to quickly make these tools available to the global research community ...

Comprehensive Look at Rare Leukemia Finds Relatively Few Genetic Changes Launch Disease

... St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering work in finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. Founded by late entertainer Danny Thomas and based in Memphis, Tenn., St. Jude freely...

Moores UCSD Cancer Center Luau & Longboard Invitational Celebrates 16 Years of 'Surfing for a Cure' to Raise Funds for Cancer Research

...;D facility in La Jolla. "We salute the researchers at Moores UCSD Cancer Center and Pfizer La Jolla for their innovative research into the causes and cures for cancer." The surfing competition is free for viewing; a ticket to the luau fundraiser is $150. For more information about sponsorship oppo...