Pig in Medical News

K-State Researcher, Collaborators Study Virulence of Pandemic H1N1 Virus; Work at K-State Would Protect Pig Industry If the Virus Jumps to Swine Populations

MANHATTAN, Kan., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Laboratory studies at Kansas State University and the work of a K-State researcher are making headway in the effort to control the pandemic H1N1 virus. Juergen Richt is a Regents Distinguished Professor at K-State's College of Vet...

World first: Chinese scientists create pig stem cells

This release is available in Chinese . Scientists have managed to induce cells from pigs to transform into pluripotent stem cells cells that, like embryonic stem cells, are capable of developing into any typ...

Sponsor a Spring Point Project Pig for the Holidays

Within two years, cells from pigs may be used in clinical trials on a path to finally cure diabetes MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- With the season of giving upon us, are you struggling to find the perfect gift for a loved one? If so, ponder this: You could improve t...

Transplanted Pig Cells in Human Produce Insulin

Australia-based Living Cell Technologies (LCT) Limited has published evidence outlining the survival and identification of //live porcine islet cells and insulin production in a human patient 10 years after receiving a pig islet cell transplant. The scientific paper published in the March 20...

India Not A Guinea Pig For Clinical Trials: Ramadoss

Asserting India is "guarded" on issues related to clinical trials, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss has denied that the country has 'opened out as a guinea pig'//. 'If you do clinical trials in India you have to be transparent. We are very, very guarded. We will n...

Diabetes cure can be achieved using pig islets

Bernhard J. Hering, M.D., associate professor of surgery and researchers at the University of Minnesota's Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation has successfully reversed diabetes in monkeys using transplanted islet cells from pigs. // Suppression of graft rejection was possible...

Pig cloning for organs

Researchers say they've taken a major step toward cloning pigs whose hearts, lungs and kidneys could be safely transplanted into humans. Such organs would save the lives of thousands of critically ill people who cannot get transplants because of the shortage of human organs.// Using the same c...

Southern California Surgical Center (heart411.com) Specializes in Mitral Valve Replacement

...ng enough. Mitral valve replacement can be completed with either a mechanical valve replacement or a biological valve replacement from a pig or a cow. There are drawbacks and benefits to both of the mitral valve replacement options, and speaking with a qualified cardiothoracic surgeon is th...

Curing Diabetes, Pigs Turn to Lions

...oint Project, a non profit organization developing pig donors for pancreatic islet transplantation to cur...source Facility where high-health, 'medical-grade' pig donors are produced as a source for the islets sui...inn., is working to provide an unlimited source of pig islet cells to accelerate the availability and aff...

Artificial liver for drug tests

... and the cells become inactive. "We don't build artificial blood vessels for this, but use existing ones from a piece of pig's intestine." All of the pig cells are removed, but the blood vessels are preserved. Human cells are then seeded onto this structure hepatocytes, which, as in the body, are respo...

Living Cell Technologies' Diabetes Clinical Trial Authorized by New Zealand Government

...e New Zealand diabetes trial is another major milestone for LCT. With two diabetes patients not requiring insulin following implants with encapsulated pig islet cells in our first study in Russia, we expect to see further benefit in more patients as we use higher doses of DIABECELL(R) in the New Zealand ...

RIEMSER Announces Upcoming Chicago Bone Grafting Workshop

... pig jaw workshop gives attendees hands-on experience RESEARCH TRIANGLE PAR...mation on bone grafting materials and methods, and hands-on experience with pig jaws. This workshop is designed to help general dentists understand how to ...

Traumatic brain injury caused by exposure to explosive blast presents critical challenge

...equences of airblast exposure, and studied the potential for using a Kevlar vest to prevent death and TBI. The advantages and limitations of using a pig model to study the causes and effects of explosive trauma to the brain is the subject of the article, "An Introductory Characterization of a Combat-Ca...

High Activity, Plant Based Diamine Oxidase Enzyme Introduced by Bio-Research Products

...President and Chief Technology Officer of Bio-Research, reports that this new diamine oxidase is orders of magnitude more active than DAO derived from pig kidney tissue. The enzyme is available as a lyophilized powder. Price will be $200 per kilounit. Diamine Oxidase is useful for test assays to det...

Aflac Outdoor Games Return to Columbus for a Second Year

...vents making an encore performance at the Aflac Outdoor Games will be the pig Bowl , a national and local barbeque cooking contest. The Kansas City Barb...ted States, has put its seal of approval on the professional portion of the pig Bowl competition to be held during the Aflac Outdoor Games. The local conte...

Pig Stem Cells Created

...ESDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- Using cells from pig ears and bone marrow, researchers in China generat...n the Journal of Molecular Cell Biology . "The pig species is significantly similar to humans in its ...em cells to modify the immune-related genes in the pig to make the...

Viable Swine Flu Shot Closer to Reality

...ake measures to be sure that the virus doesn't reemerge in a slightly different form." In the future, scientists will need to keep a closer eye on pig populations to spot similar emerging flu viruses, the researchers said in the Science paper. In the United States, most cases of the swine flu co...

U.S. Closer to Viable Swine Flu Shot

...ake measures to be sure that the virus doesn't reemerge in a slightly different form." In the future, scientists will need to keep a closer eye on pig populations to spot similar emerging flu viruses, the researchers said in the Science paper. In the United States, most cases of the swine flu co...

U.S. Progressing on Swine Flu Vaccine

...ake measures to be sure that the virus doesn't reemerge in a slightly different form." In the future, scientists will need to keep a closer eye on pig populations to spot similar emerging flu viruses, the researchers said in the Science paper. In the United States, most cases of the swine flu co...

CDC Has Candidate Viruses for Swine Flu Vaccine

...ake measures to be sure that the virus doesn't reemerge in a slightly different form." In the future, scientists will need to keep a closer eye on pig populations to spot similar emerging flu viruses, the researchers said in the Science paper. In the United States, most cases of the swine flu co...

Swine Flu Genes Went Undetected for Years: Report

...ake measures to be sure that the virus doesn't reemerge in a slightly different form." In the future, scientists will need to keep a closer eye on pig populations to spot similar emerging flu viruses, the researchers said in the Science paper. In the United States, most cases of the swine flu co...

CDC: Flu Drugs Should Be 1st Choice for Pregnant Women With Swine Flu

...oject what is likely to occur with the virus in the fall. Because the new virus -- technically called H1N1 -- is a highly unusual genetic mix of bird, pig and human viruses, health officials worry that it could continue to mutate and return in a more virulent form for next winter's flu season. The CDC...

Pregnant Women Should Take Flu Drugs Promptly

...oject what is likely to occur with the virus in the fall. Because the new virus -- technically called H1N1 -- is a highly unusual genetic mix of bird, pig and human viruses, health officials worry that it could continue to mutate and return in a more virulent form for next winter's flu season. The CDC...

Swine Flu May Pose Problems for Pregnant Women

...oject what is likely to occur with the virus in the fall. Because the new virus -- technically called H1N1 -- is a highly unusual genetic mix of bird, pig and human viruses, health officials worry that it could continue to mutate and return in a more virulent form for next winter's flu season. The CDC...

As Swine Flu Cases Mount, CDC Says U.S. Hasn't 'Dodged a Bullet'

...005. These viral strains were so-called "triple-reassortant" viruses, meaning that -- like the current H1N1 strain -- they contained genes from bird, pig and human viruses. The findings suggest that "all human infections with influenza viruses of animal origin, even those that appear to be clinically...

Scientists Still Baffled About Origins of Swine Flu

...e 2005. These viral strains were so-called "triple-reassortant" viruses, mean that -- like the current H1N1 strain -- they contained genes from bird, pig and human viruses. A companion paper, also from CDC researchers, determined that the virus -- first infecting people in 2005 -- appears to be a new...

Person-to-Person Transmission Now Common Route for Swine Flu in U.S.

...005. These viral strains were so-called "triple-reassortant" viruses, meaning that -- like the current H1N1 strain -- they contained genes from bird, pig and human viruses. All but two of the cases involved people who had direct or indirect contact with pigs, but "in another patient, human-to-human t...

U.S. Swine Flu Count Nears 1,900; Person-to-Person Transmission Now Common

...005. These viral strains were so-called "triple-reassortant" viruses, meaning that -- like the current H1N1 strain -- they contained genes from bird, pig and human viruses. All but two of the cases involved people who had direct or indirect contact with pigs, but "in another patient, human-to-human t...

The Viral Spiral - How A Meme About the Virus May Be More Contagious Than the Virus Itself

...fficials across the country stepped up efforts to look for cases, especially among people who had travelled to Mexico. In Egypt last week, the entire pig population was being slaughtered, because of the irrational fear that swine flu was actually transmitted by contact with pigs. The fear of swine...

1976 Swine Flu Outbreak Offers Echoes, Lessons Today

... it's unclear how easily that happened in 1976. Isolated cases of swine flu in humans are not uncommon, Lamb noted. "Every year, you will find some pig farmer somewhere who gets swine flu," he said. "But it usually doesn't transmit to his family." In fact, John Quarles, head of microbial and molecu...

NEWSWEEK Cover: Fear & The Flu

...2005 a teenage boy helped his brother-in-law butcher 31 pigs at a local Wisconsin slaughterhouse, and a week later the 17-year-old pinned down another pig while it was gutted. In the lead-up to the holidays the boy's family bought a chicken and kept the animal in their home, out of the harsh Sheboygan au...

Swine Flu: A Primer

... acquire the ability to attack humans," Ericsson explained. Formally named swine influenza A H1N1, this strain "appears to have components from human, pig and bird viruses," he said. How easy it is to become infected? That's not yet entirely clear. "We know it's passed on through the 'droplet rou...

Swine Flu Epidemic Reported on by Doctors on SIRIUS XM's Doctor Radio Channel

... Is Swine Flu? It's a new strain of Influenza A, coming from a pig. The pig has contracted one human strain, two pig strains, and one bird strain of the flu. These all combined to make a new s...

K-State Researcher Finds That the 1918 Spanish Flu Virus Can Infect Swine and Resulted in Current Lineage of H1N1 Swine Influenza Viruses

...lu were the same. Richt said the virus was able to infect and replicate in swine and cause mild respiratory disease. The 1918 virus spread through the pig population, adapted to the swine and resulted in the current lineage of the H1N1 swine influenza viruses. The researchers' study is published in the M...

Smithfield Foods Sends Letter to Employees

... had found no evidence of the presence of the influenza virus in any of our pig herds or our employees at any of our worldwide operations, including those ...entioned above, let me remind you of our policy regarding the health of our pig herds and employees. All of our herds at all of our operations, including ...

Center to Expose and Close Animal Factories to Hold Media Teleconference Tomorrow to Discuss Smithfield Operations, Connection to Swine Flu, Health and Enviro Impacts

...will be Smithfield Foods at the center of the swine flu outbreak in Veracruz, Mexico. Officials in Mexico are looking at "manure lagoons" and a local pig farm as a possible epicenter of this world-wide health crisis. CECAF, the effort of two crusading lawyers who have turned 10 years of litigation ...

National Pork Board Provides Facts About the Origin of the Flu Outbreak

... Prevention (CDC) has said, "At this time, there is no evidence that this influenza subtype is present in pigs in the United States or anywhere in the pig herd in the world." The CDC has also said it has found no evidence to indicate that any of the human illnesses resulted from contact with pig...

Harvard Medical School Releases Special Health Report on Swine Flu

...t declared a public health emergency as a result of an increasing number of cases of swine flu, a new type of influenza virus that contains genes from pig (swine), bird and human influenza viruses. Although the effect of the disease in the United States has been mild thus far, swine flu has killed many p...

Pork Industry Electronic Statements and Interviews Available

... Furthermore, the World Organization for Animal Health said today the flu virus spreading around the world should not be called "swine flu" since no pig was found ill and the virus also contains avian and human components. ...

Retirement Living TV Reveals: Sex Is The Real Fountain of Youth

...people who have successfully used alternative medicine such as a nurse with stage 2 ovarian cancer who forewent traditional methods to be treated with pig enzymes. The buzz on bee sting therapy and why some doctors are beginning to use bee venom in their practice. ...