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Greasing interferon's gears may pave way to greater therapeutic benefits, fewer side effects

nterferon -- a critical protein that mediates the body's defense against a wide variety of infectious agents and tumors -- may soon have greater therapeutic value as the result of a new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "Essentially, we found a way to grease the gears that drive the interferon signal," says Michael J. Holtzman, M.D., the Selma...

Autistic brain has fewer neurons for processing emotion

For the first time, research has shown that the autistic brain has fewer neurons in an area related to emotion and social behavior, according to a new study published in the July 19 issue of This study provides quantitative evidence linking autism to an abnormality of the amygdala, especially the lateral nucleus—a major emotion-processing area with con...

Biotech cotton provides same yield with fewer pesticides

Arizona farmers receive the same yield/acre, use fewer chemical insecticides and maintain insect biodiversity when they plant the biotech cotton known as Bt cotton, according to new research. "What w...

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Chemotherapy Pill Has Fewer Side Effects Than IV

A chemotherapy pill is as effective for treating advanced colorectal cancer as intravenous treatment with a similar drug.Patients taking the pill capecitabine survived just as long as those on standard chemotherapy, but the pill caused fewer side effects.// Capecitabine is the oral form of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), the chemotherapy regimen most commonly used to treat advanced colorectal cancer.<br...

Fewer teeth & Increased Ischemic Stroke risk

A study reveals that people who have periodontal disease and lose a lot of teeth are more likely to have a stroke, but researchers aren't sure about the relationship between fewer teeth and higher// risk of stroke. The study which used data on 41,376 men found that men with fewer teeth generally consumed large amounts of alcohol, were physically less active, were older and were more lik...

Heart Patients More At Risk Get Fewer Medicines

Research paper published in the latest issue of JAMA says that heart patients who are more at risk from death may get the fewer of medications. Heart failure affects more than 5 million people // in Canada and the United States and is associated with a high death rate, according to background information in the article. Medications shown to reduce the risk of illness and death from this...

Fewer People Die Due To Cancer

In spite of no apparent change in numbers where cancer diagnoses cases in the UK are concerned since 1995, the death rates due to cancer have fallen by 2.4% each year. The most common cancers are the bowel // , breast, lung, and prostrate cancers, according to a Britain Against Cancer (Bacup) study. People aged between 35 years and 69 years were taken into account by the study. The reas...

Fewer Breast Cancer Patients to Get Chemo

What is the treatment of choice for all breast cancer patients Chemotherapy Wrong. Blasting women with toxic chemicals has so far been considered the best way to save their lives.// The bigger the cancer or the more it’s spread, more the poison pumped into the veins of women to kill it. But this approach has undergone a sea change in 2004. According to guidelines recently a...

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XYOTAX More Cost Effective With Fewer Side Effects Than Gemcitabine or Vinorelbine in Treating Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

ASCO publication highlights health care cost benefit ofbioengineering paclitaxel CHICAGO, June 05, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CellTherapeutics, Inc. (CTI) announced that data published in the 2007Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)abstracts showed reduced medical resource utilization (MRU) andassociated costs with XYOTAX (paclitaxel polyglumex) treatment...