Combating

Breakthrough in combating the side effects of quinine

Discovered back in the 1600s quinine was the first effective treatment in the fight against malaria and it continues to be a commonly used treatment against this devastating disease. But the drug is associated with a long list of side effects which can range from sickness and headaches to blindne...

OHSU scientists partner with others to form center aimed at combating infectious diseases

PORTLAND, Ore. Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Washington, along with a number of partner institutions across the Northwest, have received federal funding to form a regional research center aimed at combating emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases that pose a serious...

Rep. Slaughter Reintroduces Bill to Help Fight Antibiotic Resistance Crisis by Combating Misuse of Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture

WASHINGTON, March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW) -- a national coalition of health, consumer, agricultural, environmental, humane, and other advocacy groups with more than ten million supporters -- today welcomed the reintroduction of a bill that would help combat t...

Upcoming World Kidney Day Underscores Role of Low-Cost Lab Tests in Combating High-Cost Kidney Disease

WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Inexpensive, well-established lab tests may hold the key to combating the epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD), which is the focus of World Kidney Day, March 12. Kidney disease costs about $60 billion annually and often results in kidney fai...

Wounded Warrior Project's Project Odyssey Aims to Teach Coping Skills for Combating Post-Traumatic Stress in Wounded Warriors

-Together with the Wildcatter Ranch, warriors to utilize natural surroundings to find peace, rediscover trust and start their personal journey to heal- JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Wounded Warrior Project and the Wildcatter Ranch announced today that they will host 16 wounded w...

AOA-Led Group Urges Obama to Increase Health Care Access, Affordability by Combating Provider Discrimination

Broad Coalition to Back New Provider Non-Discrimination Safeguards to Ensure Patient Access and Choice WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Optometric Association (AOA), the voice of more than 36,000 frontline providers of eye and vision care in America, and eleven o...

Leading Scientists From Around the World Headed to Kansas for Symposium on Combating Deadly Infectious Diseases

OLATHE, Kan., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In yet another sign of Kansas' leadership in addressing global challenges in the animal and human health sectors, an estimated 150 scientists from around the globe are coming together this week at Kansas State University for an international sym...

Early treatment is key to combating hepatitis C virus

This release is available in French . Montreal, August 8, 2008 - Canadian researchers have shown that patients who receive early treatment for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) within the first months following an infection, develop a rapid poly-functional immune response against HCV similar to when...

Common cooking spice shows promise in combating diabetes and obesity

SAN FRANCISCO (June 20, 2008) Turmeric, an Asian spice found in many curries, has a long history of use in reducing inflammation, healing wounds and relieving pain, but can it prevent diabetes? Since inflammation plays a big role in many diseases and is believed to be involved in onset of both ob...

COAG Must Make Combating Severe Allergies A National Priority

AMA President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, has written to the Prime Minister, Premiers and Chief Ministers urging the Council of Australian Governments// (COAG) to ensure all teachers and childcare workers are trained in recognizing and handling anaphylactic reactions. Dr Haikerwal said that COAG a...

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Combating in Medical Technology

PharmAthene Submits Proposal to BARDA in Response to Broad Agency Announcement for Advanced Research and Development for Valortim(R)

... as was seen with serum obtained from subjects who had been vaccinated with anthrax vaccine. Anti-toxins such as Valortim(R) are a key element in combating and treating anthrax infection, in addition to vaccines and antibiotics, and are an essential requirement for the Strategic National Stockpile. PharmA...

Heart Disease Treatment Breakthrough

...wswire/ -- A leading GP has welcomed the launch of a potentially revolutionary heart disease treatment that offers people around the world the hope of combating the killer disease. GP Dr Rob Hicks said the launch of Ateronon, the natural supplement developed by Cambridge scientists, was a huge breakthro...

CVS Caremark Data Confirms Improved Outcomes for Women with Osteoporosis Who are Adherent to Therapy

...rennan, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, CVS Caremark. "Our research suggests that the medications available today to treat osteoporosis are effective in combating the disease and those women who take and remain adherent to therapy are better able to maintain their mobility and quality of life while avoiding cost...

Video: ev3 Inc. Announces First Patient Enrollments in DEFINITIVE LE Post-Market Study

...ting optimal treatments for their patients, facilitate broader procedure adoption and establish SilverHawk plaque excision as an indispensable tool in combating PAD, a relentlessly progressive disease." The DEFINITIVE Clinical Study Program The DEFINITIVE LE study represents the second study in the...

Novel Valortim(R) Mechanism of Action Data Presented at the Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology

... as was seen with serum obtained from subjects who had been vaccinated with anthrax vaccine. Anti-toxins such as Valortim(R) are a key element in combating and treating anthrax infection, in addition to vaccines and antibiotics. The Department of Health and Human Services has issued a requirement for up t...

Major deCODE-led Study Underscores Role of the Brain in Obesity

...s is that most of these new risk factors are near genes that regulate processes in the brain. This suggests that as we work to develop better means of combating obesity, including using these discoveries as the first step in developing new drugs, we need to focus on the regulation of appetite at least as much ...

Research Explores the Effects of Stem Cell Source and Patient Age on Stem Cell Transplantation Outcomes

...ator will be available for interviews after the press conference or by telephone. Additional press briefings will take place throughout the meeting on combating blood clots, therapeutic strategies for platelet disorders, treatment advances in leukemia and lymphoma, and advances in screening and treatment for s...

Late-Breaking Data Highlighting Research Advances in Several Blood Disorders to Be Presented At the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting

...ator will be available for interviews after the press conference or by telephone. Additional press briefings will take place throughout the meeting on combating blood clots, therapeutic strategies for platelet disorders, and improvements in stem cell therapies. The American Society of Hematology ( www...

Studies Examine Quality of Care for Hospitalized Sickle Cell Disease Patients and Effective Methods for Detecting Risk of Stroke in Children With This Disorder

...ator will be available for interviews after the press conference or by telephone. Additional press briefings will take place throughout the meeting on combating blood clots, therapeutic strategies for platelet disorders, treatment advances in leukemia and lymphoma, and improvements in stem cell therapies. ...

Novel Therapeutic Approaches May Transform Treatment and Improve Patient Outcomes in Several Platelet Disorders

...ator will be available for interviews after the press conference or by telephone. Additional press briefings will take place throughout the meeting on combating blood clots, treatment advances in leukemia and lymphoma, improvements in stem cell therapies, and advances in screening and treatment for sickle cell...

Combating in Medical Dictionary

Resistance

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Proliferation

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Food

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Eosinophil

... Eosinophil granulocytes, usually called eosinophils, are white blood cells that are one of the immune system components responsible for combating infection and parasites in vertebrates. Along with mast cells, they also... provides an easy to understand definition for the medical term, e...

Drug Resistance

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Antibiotic

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Demonstration Features Commercial Technology for Combating Terrorism

WASHINGTON, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Military and civilian personnel from the U.S. Armed Forces, as well as federal, state and local homeland security, law enforcement and other first-responder personnel from throughout the United States, and defense media have been encouraged to register and attend ...

Demonstration Features Commercial Technology for Combating Terrorism

WASHINGTON, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Military and civilian personnel from the U.S. Armed Forces, as well as federal, state and local homeland security, law enforcement and other first-responder personnel from throughout the United States, and defense media have been encouraged to register and attend ...

Hebrew University study opening new route for combating viruses

A unique technique for analyzing the function of microRNAs developed by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem doctoral student has led to the discovery of a new mechanism by which viruses evade the human immune system. This discovery has important implications for human intervention in the battle betwe...

New formula for combating the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide

This release is available in German . Halle/S. The cost of treating wastewater contaminated with nitrogen could be lowered in future. Soil scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have developed a new mathematical model which can help determine the optimum c...

Understanding, combating foodborne pathogens E. coli 0157 and salmonella

MANHATTAN, KAN. -- Understanding the ecology of two dangerous foodborne pathogens and devising ways to combat them is a big job. That's why Kansas State University has a team of seven researchers and six collaborators taking on E. coli 0157 and salmonella. "It's becoming more and more difficult...

UNCCD recognizes importance of satellites for combating desertification

Desertification is a worldwide problem that poses a severe challenge to more than 1.2 billion people in more than 100 countries. Delegates from 191 signatories to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification gathered in Madrid, Spain, from 3 to 14 September to address this problem that ...

Retinol for combating leukemia cells

Some ten years ago the Department of Cell Biology and Histology at the University of the Basque Country initiated research into how cell death was boosted by means of retinoids. It was thought that this potential could be used in the fight against cancer cells. Vitamin A, also known as retinol,...

Asleep in the deep: Model helps assess ocean-injection strategy for combating greenhouse effect

In searching for ways to counteract the greenhouse effect, some scientists have proposed capturing the culprit---carbon dioxide---as it is emitted from power plants, then liquefying the gas and injecting it into the ocean. But there are pitfalls in that plan. The carbon dioxide can rise toward t...

Researcher at UGA College of Veterinary Medicine identifies new way of combating viral diseases

Four seemingly unrelated viral diseases may some day be defeated by a single treatment, according to a recent collaborative study involving researchers at the University of Georgia's College of Veterinary Medicine. Their study focuses on viruses responsible for HIV, measles, Ebola and Marburg and...

Researchers team up to provide new hope for childhood hunger

...He explores the basic mechanisms by which malnutrition compromises human health, gaining new scientific insights to improve and refine his approach to combating malnutrition. Understanding that even a successful food-based approach to treating malnutrition will never prevent it, in 2004 he began to collaborat...

Combating in Biological Technology

Viral Genetics Creates Subsidiary to Develop Cancer Therapy

...enetics. "The results are consistently supportive that metabolic disruption, in combination with conventional therapies, is very promising for combating drug resistant tumors," said Dr. Newell. Prior to joining MetaCytoLytics, Inc., Dr. Trauger was the senior director for infectious disease and ...

Video: Axel Ullrich Named Winner of 2009 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research

... of this stature and to be recognized among so many outstanding scientists," said Ullrich. "Dr. Paul is a legend whose work had a tremendous impact on combating some of the world's most serious diseases. Four of the more than 80 medicines he developed are on the World Health Organization's list of essential me...

BD Announces Live Webcast of Third Fiscal Quarter Earnings Conference Call

...ng infectious diseases and cancers, and advancing research, discovery and production of new drugs and vaccines. BD's capabilities are instrumental in combating many of the world's most pressing diseases. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, BD employs approximately 28,000 people i...

The Lustgarten Foundation Awards Six Research Centers With Pancreatic Cancer Research Funding

...llows scientists to identify potential DNA biomarkers present in pancreatic cancer patients. If successful, it would represent a major step forward in combating a disease where early treatment is the best hope for survival. The first 2009 Lustgarten Foundation grants went to Nita Ahuja, Johns Hopkins U...

BD and FIND Achieve Milestone in Global Battle Against MDR-TB

...ing infectious diseases and cancers, and advancing research, discovery and production of new drugs and vaccines. BD's capabilities are instrumental in combating many of the world's most pressing diseases. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, BD employs approximately 28,000 people in...

American Biotech Labs(R) Garners 2009 Utah Best of State Award

...ve SilverSol Technology, which has garnered multiple patents in the U.S. and countries throughout the world, including a broad-spectrum use patent for combating many of the world's most destructive pathogens, including malaria, tuberculosis, MRSA and HIV. ABL has performed extensive anti-microbial studies ag...

BD to Present at Investor Healthcare Conferences

...ing infectious diseases and cancers, and advancing research, discovery and production of new drugs and vaccines. BD's capabilities are instrumental in combating many of the world's most pressing diseases. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, BD employs approximately 28,000 people in...

Pharma and Biotech Companies Plug into Singapore's Integrated Research Network

...ilities in Asia; Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) partnered European biotechs - Humalys SAS and Cytos Biotechnology Ltd - to develop antibodies for combating and managing viruses prevalent in Asia including hand, foot and mouth disease. Massachusetts-based biotech, FORMA Therapeutics, has also set up...

NeoStem Obtains Exclusive License to Innovative Stem Cell Procedure Treating Musculoskeletal Diseases

...m's established in-office stem cell collection procedures and expands our expertise into a new area. Restoring joints, bone, muscle and cartilage and combating orthopedic diseases complements our growth in the anti-aging and regenerative medicine arena. Recently, we announced acquisition of an exclusive worl...

BD and Fujirebio Diagnostics Sign Worldwide Agreement to Develop Biomarker Assays to Improve Cancer Detection and Management

...ing infectious diseases and cancers, and advancing research, discovery and production of new drugs and vaccines. BD's capabilities are instrumental in combating many of the world's most pressing diseases. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, BD employs approximately 28,000 people in...

Combating in Biological Definition

Cloning

...produced human clones. None of these claims has been independently confirmed. Meanwhile therapeutic cloning appears to be a promising technology for combating many deadly diseases. It should be noted that natural clones occur - identical twins . Cloning extinct species Cloning, or more precisely, the...

Louis Pasteur

...had not actually caused the disease. In the 1870s he applied this immunization method to anthrax , which affected cattle , and aroused interest in combating other diseases. The notion of a weak form of a disease causing immunity to the virulent version was not new: this had been known for a long time fo...

Combating in Biological Dictionary

Eosinophils

... Eosinophil granulocytes, usually called eosinophils , are white blood cells that are one of the immune system components responsible for combating infection and parasites in vertebrates. Along with mast cells, they also... Eosinophils are a type of white blood cell (corpuscle) and take u...