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Ancient Worm Disease Could Be Eradicated Within Two Years, UN Agency Reports

Guinea worm, an ancient parasitic disease causing tennis-ball-size ulcers so painful that victims feel as if they are on fire, could in less than two years// become the second illness after smallpox to be pushed into oblivion, thanks to water treatment and other preventive methods, the United Natio...

TB can Be Eradicated in the U.S With Modified Guidelines: Study

To eradicate tuberculosis effectively in the US the present guidelines should be modified affirms a recent work published in the American Journal of Respiratory and// Critical Care Medicine. This will need all foreign immigrants to be classified as "high-risk,” when they have originally come from h...

Polio can be eradicated in India: Health Experts

Experts from Imperial College London UK opine that new measures have to be considered to battle Polio in India now. //Even after mammoth efforts for comprehensive immunization from the health officials in India, almost one-third of polio cases reported globally happen to be from India. Accordi...

Miles To End Malaria Program Gets an Extra Burst of Speed From American Le Mans Series Founder Don Panoz

...ia was still a major problem in the U.S. Fortunately, the disease has been eradicated here, but it is still a major issue in Africa," Dr. Panoz said. "I... transmitted from person to person by certain types of mosquitoes. Although eradicated in the United States more than 50 years ago, the disease kills almost one m...

Donor Stem-Cell Transplant Best For Acute Myeloid Leukemia

...ts of this latest review could lead to a new standard of care. "First complete remission does not mean you are cured. It doesn't mean that you have eradicated every last cancer cell; in fact, we know you haven't," said review author John Koreth of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. "If we stop thera...

Lilly Chairman & CEO Lechleiter Says Innovation Is Vital-But-Missing Plank in Health Reform Debate

...ancy and quality-of-life gains possible included the invention of: Antibiotics to cure infections Vaccines that have nearly eradicated several conditions, such as polio Effective treatments for a growing number of cancers, and Medications that have lessened the toll of...

Scientists discover how smallpox may derail human immune system

...for an estimated 300 million deaths in the 20th century alone, and outbreaks have occurred almost continuously for thousands of years. The disease was eradicated by a worldwide vaccination campaign, and the last case of smallpox in the United States was in 1949, according to the CDC. The last naturally occurrin...

Dendritic cells ensure immune tolerance

... left untreated, could lead to destruction of organs or even death. So-called autoreactive T cells, which recognize the body's own structures, must be eradicated or pacified to avoid that they can cause harm. A T cell screening process therefore takes place in the thymus, the bilobular organ in the upper thorax...

Freezing Kidney Cancers Shows Promise

... Study found noninvasive technique eradicated smaller tumors FRIDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- Most kidney cancer tumors can be eradicated using a noninvasive freezing technique that eliminates the need for surgery...

Englewood Hospital Marks 15 Years of Leadership in Improving Patient Outcomes Through Bloodless Medicine and Surgery

...nt: Transfusion-associated risks are many. Although concerns about transfusion-transmitted AIDS and hepatitis have been all but eradicated thanks to more extensive and sophisticated testing, many negative outcomes are still associated with blood transfusion, including viral, bacterial, an...

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BioVex to Report Phase I/II Clinical Trial Results for the Front Line Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer With OncoVEX GM-CSF at the 2009 American Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting

...these results which echo results in other studies using OncoVEX GM-CSF as a stand alone therapy where it remains the case that no tumor previously eradicated through OncoVEX GM-CSF therapy has been known to recur. The study reported here has demonstrated that combining OncoVEX GM-CSF with standard c...

Blue Light Destroys Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Infection - Results Reported in Photomedicine and Laser Surgery Journal

...EW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Two common strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as MRSA, were virtually eradicated in the laboratory by exposing them to a wavelength of blue light, in a process called photo-irradiation that is described in a paper published online ...

New Cancer Treatment Shrinks Pancreatic Tumor

... and even take a ten-day trip to Europe with my brother." The cholesterol drug Lovastatin is a key part of this treatment that has arrested or eradicated tumors in 78% of initial patients. The first person treated with the investigative protocol in 2000 had stage 4 melanoma; he remains disease-free toda...

Early Esophageal Cancer and Pre-Cancer Eliminated With Non-Surgical Treatment Combination

... A related study presented last year in May 2007 at an international gastroenterology meeting reported that ablative therapy, as used in this trial, eradicated all the associated genetic abnormalities of the early cancer and dysplasia in treated patients. A current standard of treatment for advanced dysplas...

Researchers Train the Immune System to Deliver Virus That Destroys Cancer in Lab Models

... in tumor cells were observed. -- In mice with lung cancer metastasis, cancer cells were significantly reduced in one-third of mice and completely eradicated in two-thirds of mice. Efforts to clear metastases from colorectal tumors were similarly effective. -- Lung and colorectal tumor cells were purged...

New Drug Combination is Able to Eradicate Breast Metastases in Mice

...he time that the drugs were administered. The drug combination completely eradicated the original tumors, although bevacizumab alone had no effect, and nab-pacl...s, after which the tumors grew back. The drug combination also completely eradicated metastases in the treated animals. Bevacizumab alone and nab-paclitaxel alo...

Oritavancin Demonstrates Superior In Vitro Activity to Vancomycin and Metronidazole Against C. Difficile Bacteria

...most significant of which are uncomplicated diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis, or severe infection of the colon. Often, after normal gut flora are eradicated by the use of antibiotics, it is postulated that C. difficile spores refractory to current antimicrobial therapies persist, causing recurrent infectio...

Inimex Product Candidate is First Immune Defense Regulator to Cure Infections Without Causing Harmful Inflammation

...s, which caused prolonged enhancement of the host immune system's response to these antibiotic-resistant pathogens. A key finding was that the product eradicated the infections without increasing the levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines that are typically present during the first stage of immunity. "The bo...

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Smallpox

...tely ... The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared smallpox eradicated in 1980. ... You're probably wondering what smallpox is and why peopl...ention of this devastating disease. ... Naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated ... Smallpox — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, caus...

Malaria

.... Malaria — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment, prevention of this infectious disease. ... Malaria has been virtually eradicated in ... Yet malaria is entirely preventable and treatable. ... Malaria .com harnesses the power of the Internet for advocacy, education and fund...

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Congenital rubella syndrome nearly eradicated in the US

Congenital rubella syndrome, a birth defect caused by the rubella virus (also known as German measles), has practically been eliminated in the U.S., according to a statement published in the April 2006 issue of Birth Defects Research Part A, the official journal of The Teratology Society. The journ...

Breast tumors in mice eradicated using cancer vaccine

Findings could lead to new immune therapy for breast cancer A team from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has shown that by using a cancer vaccine based on the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, they can cure mice with established breast tumors. Cancer vaccines, which are more pro...

Ethiopian government celebrates rinderpest eradication

...y 21, 2009 - A menace to the African cattle population for more than a century, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has declared rinderpest eradicated in Ethiopia. Ethiopia, which grappled with the cattle-killing disease that threatened its food supply and its economy for decades, is celebrating the ...

TB -- hiding in plain sight

... at the local site of infection. Compartmentalization of the immune response in human TB could be part of the reason why infection is never completely eradicated but instead develops into a chronic disease." In future studies, Dr. Grundstrom Brighenti and colleagues plan to "pursue new strategies developed to e...

Spring fishing season arrives... and with it, amphibian diseases

...n animals and changes to an entire ecosystem. The import of Japanese chestnuts to the U.S. led to the introduction of chestnut blight, which nearly eradicated American chestnuts. An international trade in and transport of infected timber spread Dutch elm disease throughout North America, Europe and Sout...

MIT student develops new innovations to selectively kill cancer cells

...gest-circulating and most efficiently heated to date," states Dr. Bhatia. "Pre-clinical trials reveal that a single intravenous nanoparticle injection eradicated 100 percent of tumors in mice using a near-infrared light. The results of these trials are very promising, meaning that the impact of this technology ...

Portable kit may 1 day detect plant disease before disastrous outbreak

...plants are not able to defend themselves. If farmers knew about the presence of such a disease early enough, the infected portion of the crop could be eradicated to prevent disease from spreading to the remaining fields. "One thing about plant diseases is that there are so many," Shim explained. "There are b...

Blue light destroys antibiotic-resistant staph infection

... New Rochelle, NY, January 29, 2009Two common strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus , commonly known as MRSA, were virtually eradicated in the laboratory by exposing them to a wavelength of blue light, in a process called photo-irradiation that is described in a paper published online ...

New study indicates smallpox vaccination effective for decades

... New York, December 1, 2008 Although naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated in 1977, there is concern that bioterrorists might obtain smallpox from a laboratory and release it into the population. Under such circumstances, the...

URI researchers help score knockout punch on birch tree pest

..., the University of Rhode Island has scored a knockout. The birch leafminer, an insect pest that regularly disfigures birch trees, has been virtually eradicated in the Northeast. And the credit goes to entomologists from URI and other institutions who successfully introduced a biological control agent. "Birc...

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BioNeutral's Ygiene(TM) Hospital Grade Achieves World Class Independent Test Results in Killing Life Threatening Spores/Organisms

...icide/sterilant test include CaviCide(R), Medica DC 10(TM), Wavicide 06 Plus(TM) and Myacide(R) GA 25. While these antimicrobials may eliminate easily eradicated bacteria and some viruses, they have no effect on spores and therefore cannot provide truly disinfected and sterile environments in the health care ar...

New study indicates smallpox vaccination effective for decades

... New York, December 1, 2008 Although naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated in 1977, there is concern that bioterrorists might obtain smallpox from a laboratory and release it into the population. Under such circumstances, the...

New study indicates smallpox vaccination effective for decades

... New York, December 1, 2008 Although naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated in 1977, there is concern that bioterrorists might obtain smallpox from a laboratory and release it into the population. Under such circumstances, the...

Delaware Valley Innovation Network Awards First Innovation Investment Grant to the Wistar Institute

...ld the prestigious Cancer Center designation from the National Cancer Institute. Discoveries at Wistar led to the creation of the rubella vaccine that eradicated the disease in the United States, human rabies vaccines used worldwide, and a rotavirus vaccine approved in 2006. Today, Wistar is home to preeminent ...

Putting stem cell research on the fast track

... saving. New research is showing that some stem cells could be the precursor for cancer and the reason that cancer reappears after having been totally eradicated by chemotherapy,? he said. With this platform we may be able to rapidly screen new drug candidates that target and kill these stem cells. Instead of ...

Patent ruling doesn't tarnish Wisconsin's stem cell leadership

...eir own narrow agenda rather than the good of science. Jonas E. Salk, the discoverer of the landmark vaccine that bears his name and that virtually eradicated one of this nation's most devastating diseases, was asked about patenting his discovery. He said, "Who owns my polio vaccine? The people! Could you pa...

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Antibody

...re of many minor skin diseases (such as cold sores ); any given outbreak is quickly suppressed by the immune system, but the infection is never truly eradicated because some cells retain viruses that will resume it later. Medical applications Detection of particular antibodies is a very common form of m...

Outbreak

...al epidemic). Major human epidemic viruses include influenza , Human Immunodeficiancy Virus ( HIV ), measles , and rubella . Smallpox has been eradicated as a major epidemic virus, however emerging viruses and engineered viruses pose a significant challenge for the future. HIV is no longer considered a...

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Vaccine

... A vaccine is an injection of a specialized protein designed to create an ... When doctors began using a vaccine to fight polio, it practically eradicated the ... Vaccination is the administration of a vaccine to stimulate a protective immune ... of time that varies with the vaccine , the number of...