ENBREL is first therapy approved for psoriatic arthritis
...n College of Rheumatology preliminary criteria for improvement (ACR 20), which includes tender and swollen joint ... subset of clinical study patients was measured by improvement in the psoriasis area and severity index (PASI). PASI measures improvement in both the amount of ps...Animal study finds embryonic stem cells can repair heart muscle
...ith ES cells. The ES group also showed significant improvement in left ventricular function, or pumping ability. ...en performed in human patients, I would expect the improvement would be such that they would move from one class to another." One of the advantages of using ES cel...Magnetic tag lets scientists track stem cells in living rat
...own as magnetic dendrimers, represent an important improvement over other magnetic tags, Bulte says. And even though the amount of iron used to label the cells is tiny compared to the total amount of iron in the body, the labeled cells stand out from other cells, magnetically speaking. "During scanning, these ...Low doses of radiation in nature may pose more risk
...cell is hit and by what dose of radiation, a major improvement over previous studies. Although the findings raise concern, Drs. Hei and Liber say they shouldn't cause alarm. The findings dont show that a huge new population of people is at risk. Rather, they show the cancer risk at low doses may be significa...New global survey demonstrates an increasing demand for new treatments for non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
...common form of cancer, said there is a significant improvement in their patients' quality of life. The survey found that physicians are increasingly prescribing MabThera for the treatment of NHL. Of those who have prescribed MabThera, 92% said their usage increased over the last three years and, of these, over ...More chance of a cure for patients with common and aggressive form of blood cancer
... drug combination in more than 20 years to show an improvement in overall survival for patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), a rapidly fatal form of the cancer. This is a real breakthrough for NHL sufferers around the world." The MabThera plus CHOP combination is also effective in treating ano...Seroquel Adjunctive therapy offers significant benefits over mood stabilisation monothrapy
...er cent of the quetiapine combination group showed improvement in CGI scores, compared to 53 per cent in the divalproex monotherapy group. The quetiapine combination patient group did not experience any EPS, QTc prolongation or weight gain. Since Seroquel is already an efficacious and well-tolerated treatment f...Israeli scientists block the progression of Type I diabetes
...searchers were able to trace the mechanism of this improvement to changes in the patients immune lymphocytes called T-cells. In contrast, patients receiving the placebo showed a significant decline in their natural insulin production and a persistent rise in the need for insulin injections. No significant side e...Hopkins' emergency extended care unit reduces overcrowding
..." An added bonus, he says, has been a significant improvement in patient satisfaction scores: "Surveys have shown us that when patients are on this unit, they don't even realize they're in an ED." The ED also added a seven-bed urgent care center for treatment of less serious ailments in April 2000. The main ...Abstinence may make the brain grow stronger
...rs and relapsers are examined to assess postulated improvement with successful abstinence and postulated status quo or further deterioration with relapse." Although more data have yet to be collected and analyzed, said Meyerhoff, "it appears that even after many years of heavy drinking, the brain has the capaci...Female vulnerability to drugs tied to estrogen, U-M researcher reports
...e effects attributed to it, including mood swings, improvement in verbal abilities, decreases in spatial abilities, and enhanced sensory and motor functions, including lower thresholds for visual, olfactory and tactile stimuli and more rapid complex motor sequence abilities. Recently, Becker and others have bee...New study shows vagus nerve stimulation effective for treatment of children with refractory epilepsy
...crease in seizure frequency but also in a striking improvement in various aspects of quality of life. After three and six months, improvements were reported in alertness, verbal communication, school performance, clustering of seizures and postictal (post-seizure) periods. These improvements occurred not only ...New Phase 2 study shows ankylosing spondylitis patients respond to ENBREL (etanercept)
...g ENBREL reached the primary composite endpoint of improvement compared to 30 percent of 20 patients receiving pl...linical response was prespecified as a ?20 percent improvement in three of five outcome measures (duration of morning stiffness, nocturnal spinal pain, a functiona...Phase 3 psoriatic arthritis data for ENBREL (etanercept) announced at a national scientific meeting
...n College of Rheumatology preliminary criteria for improvement (ACR20), which includes duration of morning stiffn...iatic Arthritis Response Criteria (PsARC) measures improvement in tender and swollen joint score, along with a series of global assessments; and 2) a subset of cl...Efficient fertilizer use could benefit river without hurting crop yields
...in the Mississippi River." Although there has been improvement in efficiency since 1988, he said, data collected as recently as last year show that some Illinois corn growers could still reduce nitrogen use without reducing their crop yields. "In a survey conducted in 2000, about 30 percent of Illinois farmers i...Cells from human umbilical cord blood help rats recover from stroke faster, new study finds
...duced to have symptoms of stroke. The rats showed improvement in movement, balance and reflex responses even when treatment with cord blood cells was begun a week after the onset of the stroke. However, the greatest recovery of function occurred when the cells were administered within 24 hours after a stroke. ...'Smart bandage' diagnoses danger before infection takes hold
... Gram-negative. The sensor, the first substantial improvement in identifying Gram-positive and negative bacteria since Hans Christian Joachim Gram developed the original staining technique in 1884, is reported in the upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The accomplishment is evidence...NSF awards University of Georgia $8.7 million for crop genetics research
...ops by gene transfer, it could revolutionize plant improvement and seed production. There is huge significance in use of apomixis in agriculture, Ozias-Akins said. For example, a lot of self-pollinating crops such as peanuts must be selfed for several generations before a new variety can be released on the mar...Univ. of Fla. professor: Air cleaning system destroys Anthrax, other pathogens
...ve against bacillus subtilis. The technology is an improvement over traditional filter-based systems in part beca...trate the bacteria, he said. The system is also an improvement over systems that use ultraviolet light, which do not consistently kill all the bacteria, he said. ......l stem cells in laboratory experiments, a ten-fold improvement over previous attempts. "These results indicate that there is no intrinsic barrier to the genetic engineering of spermatogonial stem cells using retroviruses, and that once inserted, the foreign genes will continue to be transmitted and expressed f...