Heart and lung transplantation clinical trial results to be announced at ISHLT meeting
...sist devices (VADs) as destination therapy (as an alternative to transplantation) and their financial implications New ways of using genetic information to avoid invasive procedures in children with heart transplant rejection NOTABLE EVENTS The meeting will feature a joint symposium of ISHLT and the Americ...Astrazeneca announces EU marketing approval for Faslodex(TM)
...ome women, and for the first time offers a monthly alternative to the once-daily tablet....Scientists call for less destructive remediation at DOE sites
...he new disposal location. Instead, DOE considered alternative remediation strategies and refilled the reservoir at a cost of about $12 million, less than 1% of the original plan. The financial gain was not the only benefit. Refilling the reservoir isolated the low-level contamination and preserved a healthy, ...Experimental smallpox vaccine protects against monkeypox in nonhuman primates
...s represent an important step in the search for an alternative vaccine to Dryvax, which contains a live virus called Vaccinia that carries a high risk of adverse complications for people with suppressed immune systems. Smallpox, a devastating disease caused by the Variola virus, was eradicated in 1979 through t...Breaking the rules on artifical blood
...s announced that a blood substitute based on their alternative theories is looking promising in an early trial. Developing a suitable blood substitute for people has been a major effort for decades. An artificial blood would relieve shortages and prevent patients being infected by contaminated supplies. Ideally...Breast self examination increases women's concerns but has no effect on mortality
...-examination (BSE) should not be seen as a cheaper alternative to mammography, and people who still advocate it a...t is worrying that BSE is still being touted as an alternative to mammographic screening." "Many people are guilty of continuing to promote this practice", he says...Research suggests new way to repair cartilage damage
...eoarthritis treatment, said Setton. Focusing on an alternative approach that provides for rapid and easy defect repair, Setton and her Duke University Medical Center colleague, T. Parker Vail of Orthopaedic Surgery, are developing a treatment to encourage natural cartilage tissue repair using the locally present...Topical vaccine protects against inhaled ricin
...unization (TCI) formulation. TCI is a needle-free alternative for vaccination in which the antigen is mixed with... immunization with RTA 1-33/44-198 offers a viable alternative delivery route for this promising recombinant ricin vaccine candidate," says Matyas. ...Researchers discover 1.2 million new genes in Sargasso Sea microbes
...lopment of new methods for carbon sequestration or alternative energy production. This will offer a direct and early test of one of the central tenets of DOE's Genomics: GTL program that microbes can be used to develop innovative solutions to address national energy needs." DOE's Office of Science has awarded...Power plants, other industry could offer contracts to farmers in helping reduce carbon emissions
...it back into the soil, and this could be a cheaper alternative than causing cutbacks or technology change in the ...mers to retire land or alter practices. The second alternative would allow private buyers to contract with private sellers. But there is one big hurdle, according...Aquatic scientists divided on role of sea lice from salmon farms in decline of native salmon in B.C.
...have to be separated from the wild fish. There are alternative technologies that allow farmers to grow fish in facilities that provide a barrier to the marine environment." A barrier would prevent transfer of disease and parasites between the farmed and wild fish. Because of concerns about possible effects of se...Scientists urge caution when releasing engineered organisms into environment
...very same virus. Genetic engineering is a powerful alternative to classic breeding the ages-old method used to give organisms new, desirable traits because specific genes from any source, be it microbe, plant, animal or even synthetic, can be integrated directly into an organism's genome. "Transgenes make it p...New imaging technique developed to identify breast cancer
... cancer, but may prove to be a viable, noninvasive alternative to biopsy in cases with positive mammography or clinical breast exam results, says Michael A. Jacobs, Ph.D., the lead researcher for the Hopkins study. "What MRSI does provide is information about the molecular environment of breast tumors, which als...New 'Understanding Evolution' Web site provides one-stop-shop for nation's science teachers
...Nevertheless, the site is clear that "There are no alternative scientific theories to account for the observation...ators. For Scott, the evolution Web site offers an alternative to fighting the constant anti-evolution flare-ups around the country - in seven states, at last coun...World's first databank for all living systems
...structure for libraries of other regions richer in alternative life forms and more challenging to handle." The complex nature of the data, he says, will require the development of new software and new database systems. "We will need to handle new information at an unprecedented scale as well as to integrate many...UCSB discovery may accelerate new treatment for global health problem
...um channel blockers may prove to be an inexpensive alternative for controlling schistosome infection, a serious global health problem that afflicts more than 200 million people annually in developing nations. An estimated 200,000 people, many of them older children, die every year from schistosomiasis. Many mo...UC Santa Barbara donates discovery to OneWorld Health that may speed disease treatment
...um channel blockers may prove to be an inexpensive alternative for controlling schistosome infection, a serious global health problem that afflicts more than 200 million people annually in developing nations. An estimated 200,000 people, many of them older children, die every year from schistosomiasis. Many mo...Antibiotics may not be necessary when treating children with a simple skin abscess
... of the study, researchers were simply looking for alternative drugs and treatments for the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Abscesses caused by these bacteria have become extremely common in children. "I think it's good news for physicians. It addresses the dilemma of how to treat these kids," said ...Final media advisory for the 4th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-4)
...ner: Rigorous testing needed for complementary and alternative therapies (CAMs) which CAMs are safe and which need further investigation? 2. Professor Dennis Holmes: New findings on DCIS and survival comparing conservation treatment and mastectomy To find full details of the programme Visit the EBCC-4 web site...The Rosetta space probe's long trek to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
..., Mars, the Earth and the Earth again. There is no alternative to this detour, for even Ariane 5, the most powerful launcher on the market today, lacks the power to hurl the probe on a direct route to the comet. To get the required momentum, it will rely on swing-by manuvres, using the gravitation pull of Mars (...