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An Aid to Tailoring Prostate Cancer Treatment

Study identifies factors to help decide how aggressive therapy should be FRIDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers claim to have found a way to better customize the treatment of prostate cancer. Four risk factors that can help predict how long men could survive with metastatic...

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Receives Grant to Study Tailoring Pediatric Preventive Care to Individual Needs

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will receive a $247,000 grant from The Commonwealth Fund to support research to test a new method of identifying children at risk for developmental delays and to recommend new programs for preventive care....

Eating Habits in the Obese May Echo Drug Addicts' Patterns

...le, an assistant professor in exercise and nutrition science at the University at Buffalo, in New York. Such information could one day be useful in tailoring dieting strategies for different people. According to background information in the study, only 10 percent of people who lose weight through dietin...

MUHC researcher awarded $500,000 to study pathogenesis of infectious disease

... identifying various molecules involved in our body's defense, Dr. Saleh and her team hope to widen the therapeutic targets in humans. "We could start tailoring experiments where we design, then use drugs to modulate the action of the molecules we identify," says Dr. Saleh. "We currently have one family of suc...

Immune-Based Lymphoma Treatment Shows Promise

...cine" presented Sunday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, in Orlando, Fla. The approach aims to hit cancer hard by tailoring treatments to the patient's own genetics or disease, among other factors. The lymphoma study differs from other vaccine trials in that the tool was...

Universal CRT Replacement Gives New Life to Medical Equipment with Analog Video

...splay. A wide range of signal inputs as well as EIZO's special "Force Mode" function (adapts the display to specific video signals) permits tailoring the display to even the most specialized application requirement. A multifunctional stand permits fully adjusting the display in height, tilt, swivel...

Acupuncture, Real or Fake, Eases Back Pain

...e was that acupuncture was effective even when the treatment didn't break the skin. "It's not necessary to penetrate the skin. There's no advantage to tailoring and no advantage to using a needle. Why?" Cherkin said. "It throws open the question of how does this work." There are no answers to that question ...

Frost & Sullivan Acknowledges Sypris for High-Quality Calibration Solutions

... needs and has continually focused on long and short-term customer profitability goals. In addition, the recipient company demonstrated flexibility in tailoring its product offerings to suit customer businesses. Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and ...

Video: Turning Hope Into Reality - Genomics Research at the VA

...ys Joel Kupersmith, M.D., VA's Chief Research and Development Officer. Genomics is the key, Kupersmith elaborates, to personalizing medicine--that is, tailoring disease screening, treatment, and monitoring according to an individual patient's genetic makeup. Genomics-based approaches currently in use at t...

Survey research looks at attitudes, obstacles to walking and biking to work

...ollowed by another survey of 400 Manhattan area residents. The researchers say the results lay the groundwork for future policy discussions and for tailoring public health messages. Just 30 minutes of moderate physical activity a day is enough for health benefits, and small bouts of exercise throughout the ...

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Encouraging First Data on New Targeted Treatment for Patients With Melanoma - the Deadliest Form of Skin Cancer

... and treating malignant melanoma, but also represent a significant advance in the use of biomarkers and diagnostic tools and the potential benefits of tailoring cancer treatment to individual patients. About Plexxikon Plexxikon is a leader in the structure-guided discovery and development of novel sm...

Three Independent Studies Include the ImmuKnow(R) Assay to Manage and Optimize Immunosuppression Therapy in Transplant Patients

...oss or clinical symptoms." He concluded by saying, "Viral surveillance together with ImmuKnow can be useful to prevent infection or organ rejection by tailoring immunosuppressive therapy." For each patient, viral studies and ImmuKnow results were routinely obtained and immunosuppressive drug dosing was adjuste...

Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R) Makes Unprecedented Research and Local Program Grants

...cer," said Hala Moddelmog, president and chief executive officer of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. "These grants are geared to results -- finding cures, tailoring treatments and resolving the issues that have stymied the search for a breast cancer cure." Of the $450,000 grant awarded to Dr. Boerner, Komen Detr...

Discovering How Video Games Can Motivate Healthy Behaviors: More than $2 Million Awarded to 12 Research Teams Across U.S.

...food choices, the study will explore effects of two game design strategies: tailoring and tethering. tailoring involves customizing a game to meet an individual player's preferences and ...

Biomarkers May Reduce the Need for Biopsies and Offer Personalized Care for Heart and Lung Transplant Patients

...he meeting will run through Saturday at the Boston Marriott Copley Place and Hynes Convention Center. Personalized care is an integrative process of tailoring care to an individual patient's characteristics or preferences, based on each individual's unique biology, behavior and environment. At this year's me...

Tailored Clopidogrel Dosing Improves PCI Outcomes

... necessary to ensure the effectiveness of clopidogrel, a medication that prevents platelets from clumping together to form blood clots. The payoff for tailoring the clopidogrel dose: a significant reduction one month after PCI in the combined rates of heart attack, death, and need for repeat procedures to open...

US Oncology Research Network Presents Clinical Studies at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

...d Dr. Frankie Ann Holmes, lead investigator for the trial. "The future of breast cancer is identification of the molecular mistakes in the tumor, then tailoring treatment to attack those mistakes. In the past, this could only be done at academic medical centers. Our trial showed that this can be done in a loca...

Groundbreaking Study Proves Personalized Diet Based on Genetics Leads to Significant Advances in Long Term Weight Management and Blood Glucose Levels

...ote longevity. Just like fingerprints, no two individuals are the same and so we are now able to personalize your health based on your DNA." Summary: tailoring a weight loss program to individuals' unique genetic profiles, even in a group with a history of prior weight loss failures, resulted in significant i...

Clinical Trial Excellence: Shaping Markets Through Early Communication of Clinical Trial Data

...necessary for government or private payers and cost-benefit- ratios for the drug. -- Communicating to Consumers: One executive identified tailoring messages to community and patient advocacy groups by therapeutic area as the most innovative public relations activity. For example, t...

New Pfizer Oncology Data Across Numerous Cancer Types to be Presented at ASCO

... Chicago. "Each person with cancer responds differently to treatment, so it's critical that physicians have the flexibility of trying new options and tailoring regimens to patients' individual needs," said Joe Feczko, MD, chief medical officer at Pfizer. "Pfizer is focused on exploring additional uses for app...

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Aestiva/5 7100

Description:...dditional feature of the Aestiva/5 7100 is its configurability. Customers are given the opportunity to select specific ventilation control parameters, tailoring the 7100 Ventilator to meet the need of the individual hospital This helps make the Aestiva/5 7100 both a functional and flexible anesthesia delivery ...
Company:Datex-Ohmeda, Inc.

GORE-TEX Stretch Vascular Grafts-Ringed

Description:...7 cm offset sections enables tight loop configurations and crossing the cubitus. A 4-7 mm tapered graft with 10 or 15 cm of removable rings allows for tailoring or exact placement of the ringed section....
Company:W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

GORE-TEX Stretch Vascular Grafts

Description:...7 cm offset sections enables tight loop configurations and crossing the cubitus. A 4-7 mm tapered graft with 10 or 15 cm of removable rings allows for tailoring or exact placement of the ringed section. Two other offerings in Gore's vascular graft line GORE-TEX Stretch Vascular Graft and GORE-TEX INTERING Vas...
Company:W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

GORE-TEX Vascular Grafts configured for Pediatric Shunts

Features:... Longitudinal extensibility allowing easier tailoring and sizing Thin wall providing better tissue approximation Kink resistance improved handling, soft and supple while enhancing kink resistance ...
Company:W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

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Personalized medicine

...sh full genome sequences and medical records of volunteers in order to enable research into personalized medicine. Not only is personalized medicine tailoring the right drug, for the right person, at the right time but it also includes evaluating predisposition to disease sometimes decades in advance of ...

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Microarray technology for tailoring breast cancer therapy

Microarray technology could be used to tailor therapy according to the individual, and prevent breast cancer patients from having to undergo painful unsuccessful therapies. In a study published in the journal Breast Cancer Research, researchers analysed tumour tissue samples and identified a group ...

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 2009

...This is because the height of the tiny glass spikes that perform the cutting are customized to match the thickness of the patient's eye membrane, thus tailoring the instrument to the patient's unique pathology. The other tools are the Corneal NanoPunch, used to enhance the healing of abrasions and erosions, an...

Laughing hyenas, wailing levees, the sound of cheese and blaring bagpipes

...er travel at different speeds in water. The resulting explosion of steam it creates can generate a 210 decibel pulse of sound. Currently, Jones is tailoring two different kinds of visible and infrared lasers to produce these pulses, which could eventually be used to encode information. The NRL group has cr...

First tri-continuous mesoporous Silica complex structure developed in Singapore

...utive Director of IBN, which is part of Singapore's A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research). There has been tremendous interest about tailoring mesoporous materials with unique pore structures and pore sizes. The most complex of these were the bi-continuous structures, which contain two unconn...

Evolution in action: Our antibodies take 'evolutionary leaps' to fight microbes

...us or bacterium, it immediately begins to find a way to neutralize it by means of cellular or antibody-mediated defenses. Part of the process involves tailoring the genes that code for antibodies to specific viruses or bacteria. Researchers have known that this involves two types of genetic manipulation. One t...

RNA molecules, delivery system improve vaccine responses, effectiveness

... University of Texas at Austin. The findings use specific ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules to significantly bolster a vaccine's effectiveness while tailoring it based on the type of immune response that is most desirable for a particular disease, says Krishnendu Roy, associate professor of biomedical engine...

New electrostatic-based DNA microarray technique could revolutionize medical diagnostics

...er interventions is unique to your genetic makeup. Under a personalized medicine plan, treatment effectiveness is maximized and risks are minimized by tailoring disease treatments specifically to you. This requires the precise diagnostic tests and targeted therapies that can stem from assays using a DNA microa...

Gypsy moth management made more efficient, cost-effective

...ssociate professor of biology and the team's leader. "Most managers currently use the same strategy in all situations, but our model suggests that by tailoring their approach to a particular situation, managers can be more effective in slowing the spread of invasive species." Saving time and money is o...

Better protection for biomedial devices could result from Rutgers-Camden research

...h of the vapor and the laser is then tuned to a specific vibrational mode of the polymer. The Rutgers-Camden physics team has improved this process by tailoring specially blended solvents to particular polymers prior to the vaporization process and implementing an infrared laser on tested wavelengths that eith...

Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research

...nding how personal decisions are linked to cancer and identifying high-risk populations; developing pre-clinical drug-testing models; and tailoring prevention strategies to genetic profiles. Highlights: New drugs and treatments to prevent cancer Special fruit juice cocktail and prost...

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SENOMYX AND FIRMENICH TO COLLABORATE ON DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT AND WORLDWIDE COMMERCIALIZATION OF NOVEL SWEET ENHANCERS

...ies," Snyder noted. "Their strong full-service capabilities include product development, proprietary formulation systems and manufacturing, as well as tailoring flavor solutions to their clients' products and brands. Importantly, Firmenich has recognized expertise in providing sweet flavor solutions for a var...

Leading for Growth in the New Economic Reality Includes Vision and Innovation

...es and Applied BioSciences businesses; new market-driven technologies for Kevlar® and Nomex® high performance materials; and a strong focus on tailoring innovations to meet specific needs in emerging economies, like China and India. “In the new economic reality, DuPont continues to deliver ...

Novavax CMO to Present at Phacilitate Vaccine Forum Washington 2009

... www.novavax.com . There are several reasons for utilizing virus-like particle technology as a vaccine platform. Recombinant technology permits tailoring of vaccines to contain only those proteins that are immunologically important for protection and structurally important for optimizing expression and ...

Major Independent Study Underscores Utility of deCODE MI(TM) for Better Predicting Risk of Heart Attack, Informing Statin Therapy

...uture cardiac events. This provides physicians with a more accurate basis upon which to target cholesterol levels for individual patients and thus for tailoring statin use, in addition to addressing other risk factors such as obesity, smoking and hypertension. The study is all the more important because deCODE...

OSU to Host National Personalized Health Care Conference

...d health care utilizes gene-based information to understand each person's individual requirements for maintaining their health, preventing disease and tailoring therapies. It is predictive and preventive, while also incorporating knowledge of an individual's environment, health-related behaviors, culture and v...

TVM Capital, Signet Healthcare Partners and Paul Capital Healthcare Enter into euro 26 Million Financing of SpePharm

...ies. The Fund's investments in SpePharm will help the Company achieve its strategic objectives and underscores Paul Capital Healthcare's commitment to tailoring financial vehicles that meet the unique needs of individual healthcare companies throughout the world." James Gale, a founding partner and Managing ...

Response Genetics' CEO to Discuss Advances in Optimizing Therapy through Pharmacogenomics as Part of a Series of Presentations at AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference

...ay announced that Kathleen Danenberg, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, will give a presentation on the role of pharmacogenomics in tailoring medicine at the 2007 AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, which will be held October 22-26, 2007 at t...

Sheet of carbon atoms acts like a billiard table, physicists find

... is suited for creating components for semiconductor circuits and computers. Its planar geometry allows the fabrication of electronic devices and the tailoring of a variety of electrical properties. Because it is only one-atom thick, it can potentially be used to make ultra-small devices and further miniaturi...

Sheet of carbon atoms acts like a billiard table, physicists find

... is suited for creating components for semiconductor circuits and computers. Its planar geometry allows the fabrication of electronic devices and the tailoring of a variety of electrical properties. Because it is only one-atom thick, it can potentially be used to make ultra-small devices and further miniaturi...

GenVault Partnership with Genome Quebec Brings $3.3 Million Sale of Dynamic Archive Product

...c studies. P(3)G will enable the international research community to deliver more effective health care strategies aimed at disease prevention, and at tailoring medicines and other treatment regimens to individuals, families and communities. CARTaGENE seeks to create a resource for the advancement of genetic ...