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Protein offers way to stop microscopic parasites in their tracks

Scientists may have found a way to throw a wrench in the transmissions of several speed demons of the parasite world. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard University have identified a protein that could help them develop drugs to stop or slow cell invasion by malaria and other parasites known as apicomplexans. Results of the study will appear in...

World-first Living Donor Islet Cell Transplant A Success; Procedure Offers Promise For Diabetics

A University of Alberta and Capital Health surgeon, well known for his pioneering work in developing the Edmonton Protocol treatment for diabetes, has taken another important step in the fight against diabetes. On January 19, at Kyoto University Hospital, Dr. Koichi Tanaka and Dr. James Shapiro, along with a team of Japanese surgeons, removed part of a 56-year-old woman's pancreas. Dr. Sh...

Gene silencing technique offers new strategy for treating, curing disease

A new technique aimed at directly controlling the expression of genes by turning them on or off at the DNA level could lead to drugs for the treatment or cure of many diseases, say researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center. "Virtually every disease starts at the level of malfunctioning gene expression, or viral or bacterial gene expression," said Dr. David Corey, professor of pharmacol...

Mosaic mouse technique offers a powerful new tool to study diseases and genetics

A powerful laboratory technique used by fruit fly geneticists for more than a decade is now available to scientists studying genes and diseases in mice. Writing in the May 6 edition of the journal Cell, researchers from Stanford University describe a streamlined method for creating a "genetic mosaic mouse"--a rodent whose body is genetically engineered to produce small clusters of cells w...

Drug Offers Alternative to Surgical Treatment After Miscarriage

A drug first used to reduce the risk of stomach ulcers in people taking certain types of painkillers offers an alternative to surgery after miscarriage, according to a study by researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health and other research institutions. The study appears in the August 18, 2005, New England Journal of Med...

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Versatile Transfection Reagent Offers Low Toxicity and Consistent Performance

Stratagene transfection reagent offersimproved, consistent transfections for both adherent cells and cells growing insuspension. In this article, we summarize the results of several experimentsthat characterize the eff...

Ambion Offers Gene Expression Profiling Service

Ambion now offers a complete Gene Expression Profiling Service* for Affymetrix GeneChip Arrays. From basic data analysis to our Full Service offering, no project is too large or too small. The Full Service offering includes consultation with Ambion's team of experienced array and informatics scientists and comprehensive data analysis. Ambion's l...

CIO Leadership Series: Snap-On's Moreno offers lessons in IT transformation

Moreno certainly isn't the first chief information officer to join a large, global business organization and find herself in ch...

Ethics Board site offers welcome contrast to state IT mistakes

There's probably no need to hit the Control Z keys to undo all...

Visions: Preizler offers insurer's perspective on healthcare IT

, views the benefits in much the same way and he explains why in Part...

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Pancreatitis: Minimially Invasive Procedure Offers Long-Term Pain Relief

Many more patients with chronic pancreatitis can safely turn to a minimally invasive operation for long-term pain relief, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins University physicians. Endoscopic therapy is an effective alternative to more invasive surgery or drugs, says Anthony N. Kalloo, MD, director of GI endoscopy at Hopkins and lead author of the study that appeared in the July...

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

Diflucan Partnership seems to be the latest mantra of Pfizer. The pharmaceutical giant has announced that it will supply free antifungal drug to 50 countries hardest hit by the AIDS virus. The decision by the Pfizer comes close on the heels of the South African Government winning a landmark case against pharmaceutical companies. In an announcement on Wednesday Pfizer said AIDS related a...

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

Diflucan Partnership seems to be the latest mantra of Pfizer. The pharmaceutical giant has announced that it will supply free antifungal drug to 50 countries hardest hit by the AIDS virus. The decision by the Pfizer comes close on the heels of the South African Government winning a landmark case against pharmaceutical companies. In an announcement on Wednesday Pfizer said AIDS related a...

Magnesium sulfate offers no help in migraine treatment

Addition of intravenous magnesium sulfate to standard emergency department migraine therapy with metoclopramide, appears to reduce rather than enhance the effectiveness of treatment.// Dr. Jill Corbo, and colleagues from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, note that there is evidence that magnesium may be helpful in the treatment of migraine headache and that s...

Drug Offers Hope for Alzheimer's disease

An experimental treatment for Alzheimer's may allow treatment at a later stage than other medications. The drug, known as Memantine, has been on the market for a decade in Germany// and was recently recommended for approval by the European Union's equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration. Memantine works through a different mechanism than other, currently approved Alzheimer's d...

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Ties Between Physicians and Drug Companies Still Too Strong: the Prescription Project Offers Solutions to Prevent Conflicts of Interest

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 26, 2007 - A new study published todayin the New England Journal of Medicine ("A National Survey ofPhysician-Industry Relationships") on the extent of doctor andpharmaceutical company relationships, highlights the need forprofession-wide and public policy reforms promoted by ThePrescription Project. The article concludes that the existing,voluntary PhRMA (Pharma...

MUSC Research Offers Hope for Those Resistant to Depression Treatment

CHARLESTON, S.C., March 23, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers atthe Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have announced theresults of a two-year study, which tested the long-termantidepressant response to VNS (Vagus Nerve Stimulation)Therapy(TM) in patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD).The study, of which Mark S. George, M.D., MUSC DistinguishedProfessor of Psychiatry,...