Wisconsin leads in stem cell science, but trails in producing companies
That question arose during a recent presentation by UW-Madison Professor Gabriela Cezar on the state of stem cell science in the United States and around the world. The answers say something about Wiscons...Clinical Renal Trails Do Not Have Sufficient Women Participants
New findings that are being presented during the American Society of Nephrology’s 38th Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, say that women are not being adequately represented during medical trials // more specifically renal trials. Through analyses of the recently conducted renal trials showed this shortcoming. It is theorized that this may be the r...Phase II trails of new HIV vaccine to be held in South Africa
In a step further to combat the AIDS epidemic, South Africa's first Phase II HIV vaccine trials were launched by charitable group the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and U.S.-based Targeted Genetics Corporation. // The trials will test the safety of "tgAAC09" is a preventive HIV vaccine candidate that is based on HIV subtype C, the subtype of the virus most prevalent in s...Beware of stroke that trails heart attack
A study conducted and headed by Veronique Roger, M.D., M.P.H., at the Mayo Cardiologist Clinic showed that following heart attack there is a high risk of these patients suffering from stroke//. The results were reported that the stroke risk was 44 times more during the 30 day period after the attack in these patients when compared to the normal person. The study is very importa...Trails to detect effective breast cancer drugs that reduces recurrences
A quest for new drug has started to determine and help patients to have a recurrence free survival after breast cancer surgery. The chemotherapy drugs docetaxel (Taxotere) and vinorelbine (Navelbine) are tested to analyze the outcomes.// It was previously reported by the Finnish researchers that patients who received infusions of trastuzumab (Herceptin) were less likely to get recurrenc...Clinicians Participating In the Pharmaceutical-Sponsored Trails Tend To Prescribe Their Drugs
According to a Danish study conducted by Dr. Morten Andersen of the University of Southern Denmark-Odense and colleagues it was found that doctors //who took part in pharmaceutical-sponsored clinical trials tend to prescribe the sponsor’s drugs. The study results appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The research team said that this is due to the fact that the doctor knows th...