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Scios Inc. targets drug giants in arthritis war

Scios Inc. , a small California biotechnology company, is racing giant rivals to bring a pill to market that would displace injectable anti-inflammatory drugs and set a new standard in arthritis treatment. Scios' ambitions are much larger than its market capitalization of a little more than $1 billion. That's because the first company to commercialize an oral version of today's dominant i...

Research Targets treatment for dementia and brain injuries

Researchers at Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have now found a process that could lead to development// of repair mechanisms for people suffering from dementia and acquired brain injury. The research focuses on the hippocampus, the part of the brain commonly associated with memory function and where the brain's ability to regenerate nerve cells or neurons is known to degenerate wit...

Cancer Treatments Fall Short Of Targets

A report released by the Scottish Executive says that almost 25 percent of cancer patients in the country are not being treated for their condition within the targeted time of two months. //The current data is centered around the period between April to June 2005. The report said that just about 75 percent of all cancer patients were treated in that period. But the rate fell to 60 percen...

India Targets Eliminating Leprosy

Health Officials in India have revealed that the country is moving further towards eliminating leprosy. The country has set itself a target of less than one leprosy infected person for every 10,000 people. During the early 1980s, when the Multi Drug Therapy (MDT) was yet to be introduced in the country, the figures were at 57.6 cases for every 10,000 people. This rate has now come down to...

Study Would Pave Way for the Development of New Drugs That Targets TB Proteasome

A new study was conducted to understand the biochemistry and structure of a protein-cleaving complex (proteasome) that is essential to the TB bacterium’s survival. The findings were published in the journal Molecular Microbiology. // The study’s main aim was to design effective treatment for the disease tuberculosis (TB). The study was done by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy...

Health Targets To Treat Cancer Patients Unlikely To Be Met

A Scottish Executive target to treat all cancer patients within two months is unlikely to be met by NHS Scotland. Health Minister Andy Kerr has ordered// the appointment of "service improvement managers" to try to tackle the problem. The Executive had aimed to ensure that all cancer patients started treatment within two months of an urgent referral from their GP. New health service fi...

"Super Drug" Targets Disease-Causing Gene

Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia have developed a "super drug" which could one day combat diverse diseases like diabetes//, heart disease, arthritis and cancer. The drug, Dz13, can be used to treat vision loss caused by aging as well, the researchers claimed. Also diseases like heart attacks and inflammation can be contained, they said in a paper published in...

Queensland Government to Meet its Medical Targets

Although the Queensland Government claims to have reached, and exceeded, its medical recruitment targets six months early, mental health officials have stated the need// for an additional $5 billion for mental health services. Last year Queensland Health had planned to employ400 more allied health professionals, 500 more nurses and 300 more doctors, by December this year. Acco...

No Clear Evidence for Ultra-Low Cholesterol Targets?

Americans have been trying to get their cholesterol levels down for decades, ever since studies showed a strong link between high cholesterol and heart disease//. But in recent years, experts have suggested that some people should aim even lower, recently recommending very low levels of the type of cholesterol called low-density lipoprotein for some high-risk people — even if it means the...

Device That Targets Brain Cancer Shows Promising Results

Early data for an investigational device that specifically targets rapidly growing cancer cells with intermediate frequency electrical fields , called Tumor-Treating Fields (TTFields), has found that it more than doubled the median overall survival rates in patients with the most common and aggressive type of malignant brain tumor. The device, called the Novo-TTF, uses electrical fi...

Health Minister Stresses the Importance of Realistic Health Targets

A recent communiqué had reported that nearly three fourth of hospitals in Canada may not be able to achieve// the estimated one-month target of completing radiation therapy to prostate cancer patients. As a reaction to this report, Federal Health Minister Tony Clement came down heavily on so-called benchmarks and targets set to achieve healthcare milestones, which according to him are...

NIDs Targets Immunizations To 22 Million Children In Bangladesh

Many governments have taken the National Polio Eradication Initiatives and now in an effort to eliminate polio re-emergence, 14th National //Immunization Days (NIDs) have planned to immunize 22 million children in Bangladesh under the age group of 0-5. Government of Bangladesh will carry out the initiatives along with the support of UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary Intern...

Researchers Identify New Drug Targets for Cancer

Solving a 100-year-old genetic puzzle, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have determined// that the same genetic mechanism that drives tumor growth can also act as a tumor suppressor. Their findings could lead to new drug targets for cancer therapies. In a study published in the January 1 issue of Cancer Cell, Don Cleveland, Ph.D., UCSD...

VBI Provides Potential Targets to Diabetes Therapeutics

Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) Assistant Professor Biswarup Mukhopadhyay has provided important information for researchers designing drugs for type 2 diabetics in the// December 22, 2006, Journal of Biological Chemistry. The information should in time help researchers to identify potential targets for docking inhibitors that will slow down, but not fully eliminate, the body'...

Colorado Smoking Cessation Program Targets Hispanics

An anti-smoking campaign in Colorado that involves door-to-door counseling in low-income Hispanic neighborhoods has cost hundreds// of thousands of dollars and "is raising questions about whether different strategies are needed" for smoking cessation efforts among minorities, the Denver Rocky Mountain News reports. Colorado in 2005 approved a tobacco tax increase, which so far direct...

Researchers Discover Potential Targets To Reduce Risk Of Stem Cell Transplants

Inhibiting one gene -- even temporarily -- can improve cure rates for blood cancer patients who receive stem cell transplants//. This strategy may also help patients with genetic and autoimmune diseases who are also treated with stem cell transplants. Researchers at H. Lee Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Center in Tampa, led by William Kerr Ph.D., and funded by The Leukemia & Lymphoma So...

Cancer-virus Vaccine Targets Wrong Age Group

Lawmakers looking to force preteen girls to take Gardasil, a new vaccine against a virus that causes cervical cancer, are targeting// the wrong age group, cancer data shows. Middle-school girls inoculated with the breakthrough vaccine will be no older than 18 when they pass Gardasil's five-year window of proven effectiveness -- more than a decade before the typical cancer patient con...

Developing Countries may Fail MDG Sanitation Targets

Developing countries may fail to meet the sanitation target of the UN Millennium Development Goals because they lack civil engineering capacity, warned a civil engineering// professor. Jennifer Davis of Stanford University said international aid projects too often focus on new constructions that are not sustainable. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Ad...

New Protocol Targets Aggressive Brain Cancer

After 20 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, 50-year-old Joseph Wollschlager Jr. felt invincible. Until one day at work when what looked like a seizure// led to the diagnosis of a life-threatening brain tumor. Survival rates for this type of cancer are usually less than a year. But Wollschlager is fighting all the way. Thanks to a new treatment regimen being tested at the University of Mi...

J591- an Antibody Exclusively Targets Tumors

A clinical trial confirms that an antibody called J591 specifically targets an antigen found in high amounts in prostate tumors// and on blood vessels of all solid tumors. Researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center conducted this study. Since the prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) exists only on tumors and not other tissues, J591 a...

Head and Neck Cancer Vaccine Targets Proteins to Create Immune Response

Researchers have developed a vaccine strategy for head and neck cancer that targets multiple peptides (parts of proteins) to activate the immune system// to attack tumors. The researchers created the vaccine to target a tumor suppressor gene called p53, which is mutated in most cancers and associated with poor clinical outcomes. Previous research has determined that mutated p53 also...

National Eye Institute Targets Mexican-Americans for Glaucoma Awareness

NIH's National Eye Institute is seeking to raise glaucoma awareness among Mexican-Americans,// who have a higher risk for the disease than others, the Casa Grande Valley Dispatch reports. Mexican-Americans over age 60, blacks over age 40 and people with a family history of glaucoma all face a higher risk for the disease. Five percent of Hispanics have primary open-angle glaucoma, the...

National Eye Institute Targets Mexican-Americans for Glaucoma Awareness

NIH's National Eye Institute is seeking to raise glaucoma awareness among Mexican-Americans, who have a higher risk for// the disease than others, the Casa Grande Valley Dispatch reports. Mexican-Americans over age 60, blacks over age 40 and people with a family history of glaucoma all face a higher risk for the disease. Five percent of Hispanics have primary open-angle glaucoma, the...

Protein Interactions Targets for Huntington Disease Therapy

The identification of more than 200 new proteins that interact with the mutated protein that causes Huntingtons disease opens the door to developing treatments for the fatal neurodegenerative disorder, said a Baylor College of Medicine researcher who took part in the work that appears online today in the journal Public Library of Science Genetics. BCM scientists actually determined...

National Eye Institute Targets Mexican-Americans for Glaucoma Awareness

NIH's National Eye Institute is seeking to raise glaucoma awareness among Mexican-Americans, who have a higher risk for the disease than others, the Casa Grande Valley Dispatch reports. Mexican-Americans over age 60, blacks over age 40 and people with a family history of glaucoma all face a higher risk for the disease. Five percent of Hispanics have primary open-angle glaucoma, th...

Protein Targets for Carcinogenesis

Misfolded and disused proteins are eliminated by a cellular shredder called the proteasome. The cell labels the proteins it wants to dispose with Ubiquitin (Ub) in order to avoid the unwanted degradation of still needed proteins. Malfunctions in the ubiquitin-proteasome system can be fatal for the organism. In particular cancer and immunological disorders but also developmental defec...

Gene Study Throws Up New Targets for Leishmaniasis

Gene sleuths believe they may have identified potential chinks in the parasite that causes leishmaniasis, a disfiguring and sometimes fatal disease that afflicts some 12 million people around the world . Their comparison of three species of protozoa that cause most cases of leishmaniasis could be a boon for drug engineers, whose budgets for tackling this neglected disease are already slen...

Parkinson's Targets Two Distinct Brain Networks, Finds Study

A new research has found that Parkinson's disease targets two distinct brain networks in humans . The study, carried out by David Eidelberg, MD, head of the Center for Neurosciences at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and his colleagues, found that Parkinson's attacks another brain network that regulates cognitive thought and the ability to perform everyday tasks. <...

Malawi Targets 150,000 People With AIDS Drugs

Malawi has set itself a target of supplying 150,000 HIV sufferers with free anti-retroviral drugs by the end of year, the head of the national AIDS commission (NAC) said on Monday . "We are close to 110,000 people on ARVs and we hope to hit 150,000 by the end of December when we launch a massive scale-up of the drugs" from September, NAC chief Biziwick Mwale told AFP....