Mayo Clinic Researchers Create 'Obedient Virus'; First Step To Use Measles Virus Against Cancer
An international team of Mayo Clinic-led researchers is first to devise a system that consistently converts the measles virus into a therapeutic killer that hunts down and destroys cancer cells -- and cancer cells only. Their research findings appear as an advanced electronic article of Nature Biotechnology. The researchers harnessed the viral trait for attacking and commandeering cells,...Roche clinical trial registry and results database launched
Within only three months after deciding to create an electronic database, Roche is launching a public clinical trial registry and results database using an independent host, CenterWatch. On www.roche-trials.com information on Roche’s clinical trials can be accessed by anyone, anywhere, with no password restrictions. This site is designed to give patients and healthcare providers ready access to i...NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine
A small trial testing the safety of an experimental vaccine targeting West Nile virus (WNV) opened today at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. The vaccine, which will be tested first in 15 healthy adult volunteers, was developed for human clinical studies by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' (NIAID) Vaccine Research C...Chronic Sinus Infection Thought To Be Tissue Issue, Mayo Clinic Scientists Show It's Snot
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that the cause of chronic sinus infections lies in the nasal mucus -- the snot -- not in the nasal and sinus tissue targeted by standard treatment. The findings will be published in the August issue of Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and "This strikingly teaches against...Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month
One of the most devastating diseases in sub-Saharan Africa almost disappeared in the late 1950s. That disease, African sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis, largely succumbed to heroic public health efforts -- including relocating entire villages. But in the past several decades, because of post-colonial turmoil, the catastrophic illness has come back to ravage parts of Angola, the Democratic Re...Black Cliniplate 384 from Thermo Scientific
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The BioRobot MDx is the latest addition to the range of BioRobot workstations and is designed to meet the needs of scientists requiring standardized protocols in environments such as clinical testing laboratories....Carl Christensen says Marshfield Clinic's history gives it an IT edge
In the last decade, technology applied to medical records and other information has become hot enough to raise a new term, "medical informatics," to more common usage. At the <a href="http:...What patients want: A story of choice, clinical trials & evidence-based medicine
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The product, known as Evercore, will be deployed to integrate all of Marshfield's clinical data, includin...ZyStor seeks to raise $15M for clinical trials
ZyStor, which also presented at the 2006 forum, would like to raise an additional $...Scientists plan human cloning clinic in the United States
An international group of reproductive scientists plan to launch a human cloning clinic, which will provide cloning services to infertile couples within 18 months, according to a US infertility specialist, Dr. Panayiotis Zavos. Dr. Zavos, a biologist at the Univeristy of Kentucky, is not medically qualified but holds a doctorate in reproductive physiology and is an owner and director of...How do patients benefit of clinical trials
Many patients undergoing trials of new cancer treatments do not realise that future patients are more likely to benefit than themselves.There can be no progress in treating cancer - or any other disease - unless there are clinical trials. Henceforth what do patients expect from a trial. Doctors in California gathered views from more than 200 patients involved in trials of new cancer treatments....Magnetic resonance angiography in clinical medicine
Cardiovascular, eurovascular and other vascular diseases are the leading causes of death. Imaging of blood vessels thus important in depiction of stenotic, occlusive, aneurismal, inflammatory or vascular malformations.Conventional x-ray angiography and digital subtraction angiography (DSA) are used to depict vascular lesions with high accuracy via intravascular administration of contrast (dye) ma...Clinical trials need to be more frank
Doctors should keep their patients informed about being paid to enrol them in a clinical trial. Post-marketing surveillance or phase 4 clinical trials - are a signicnificant part of medical research. It involves giving patients a new drug// and the family doctor reporting any problems that might arise. The post-marketing phase will involve many more patients than those who can take part in previ...OLA2500 Clinical Lab Automation System
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Like many other diagnostic regimes that were previously restricted to large specialty laboratories, genetic analysis is entering the clinical mainstream. Smaller, simpler analyzer systems are now suitable and affordable for hospital or large physicians group labs, while some genetic test kits are becoming available for primary point of care locations such as clinics and physician offices.<...Sygnis Pharma AG announces date for presentation of clinical results
HEIDELBERG, Germany, 11 July 2007 – On 23 July SYGNIS PharmaAG will present the results of the clinical phase IIa study forAX200 (AXIS-study). AX200, a compound for the treatment of stroke, is the mostadvanced drug candidate in SYGNIS’ product pipeline. Theprimary aim of the study is to show safety and tolerability ofAX200 in acute stroke patients. The results of the AXIS-stud...