Common Anti-Viral Medication Prevents Severe Eye Herpes
...ndthat acyclovir, a common anti-viral drug used to treat and prevent genitalherpes, can also prevent the re...indingdisease by a simple clinical examination and treat these high risk patients withlong-term preventive dose of acyclovir, Dawson said. The results of the...Studies Suggest Cold Can Protect Valuable Papers
...s are the herbicideRoundup, ACE inhibitors used to treat heart patients and protease inhibitorsused to control the virus that causes AIDS. "These new results suggest that, as effective as these inhibitors are,the prospects for their improvement are brighter than we suspected," Wolfendensaid....DNA Vaccine 100 Percent Effective Against Rabies In Monkeys
...uctsand supports research to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as HIVdisease and other sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, malaria, asthmaand allergies. NIH and CDC are agencies of the U.S. Department of Health andHuman Services....Antisense Therapy Prevents Burkitt's Lymphoma In Mice
...some genes or correcting others, wemay be able to treat each disease at its point of origin." In earlier work, Dr. Wickstrom and his colleagues prevented tumorformation in mice predisposed to Burkitt's lymphoma. In the longest test ofantisense DNA therapy in animals to date, three-week-old mice wit......rotease inhibitors can be safely used inanimals to treat a parasitic infection, the researchers said. The study, published in the August 17 issue of the Journal of ExperimentalMedicine, reports on the treatment of 21 mice infected with lethal doses of T.cruzi. All of the treated mice were rescued from the...Scientists Discover How Influenza Virus Becomes More Deadly
...uctsand supports research to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as HIVdisease and other sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, malaria, asthmaand allergies. NIH is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and HumanServices. References: H Goto and Y Kawaoka. A novel mechanism for the acq......and surgical procedures have been commonly used to treat thecondition with variable success. Now that we seem to have pinpointed a majordefect, we think we'll soon be able to develop better methods for treating dryeye resulting from over-evaporation, (a problem that potentially affects 50percent of all pat...New Polymer Implants Can Rescue Dying Brain Cells, Researchers Say
...her diseases: It has been deliveredby eye-wash to treat retinal ulcers, and by injection into the bloodstream totreat diabetic neuropathy, a peripheral nerve disease that causes loss offeeling in the extremities. Dr. Saltzman will present his paper, BIOT 19, on Sunday, Aug. 23, from 2:30 p.m. -2:55 p.m. a...Snake Venom Slows Tumor Growth
...caled back or stopped. Clinical trials using CN to treat breast cancer in women could start in "the nottoo far distant future," Markland says. Dr. Markland will present his paper, AGFD 162, on Wed., Aug. 26, from 2:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. atMarriott Copley Place, Salon J/K, 4th Floor For Further Information ...Scientists Discover How Bacteria Protect Themselves Against Immune System
...in oral polio vaccine and Survanta, a drug used to treat respiratory distresssyndrome that is estimated to save the lives of at least 2,000 infants each yearin the United States. Cincinnati Children's vision is "to be the leader inimproving child health."...Research Team Finds Gene Causing Two Types Of Muscular Dystrophy
...d the protein's function and develop strategies to treat these muscledisorders. The research team also included scientists from Hospital Sant Pau in Barcelona,Spain; Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y.; Hopital da la Salpetrierein Paris; University of Padova in Italy; La Rabta in Tunis, Tunisi...International Conference Addresses Drug-Resistant TB Epidemic Ravaging Russia
...apy used successfully around the world to contain, treat andcure TB patients. Already, one in 10 of the 1.5 million prisoners in the penalsystem has active TB and at least 12 percent have MDR-TB. In some prisons suchas Colony No. 33 in Mariinsk of the Kemerovo region, the MDR-TB rate has reached40 percent...Debilitating Pancreatic Disorder Linked To Cystic Fibrosis Gene
...reatitis develops and it will change howphysicians treat patients with this condition." The researc...se findings should also helpdoctors understand and treat patients with this condition, the researchers said. One such patient is Frances Crouse, a 39-...Loss Of Tumor Suppressor Gene Triggers Colon Cancer
... discovery also offers hope of finding new ways to treat coloncancer. Knowing that the c- MYC oncogene is one final link in the coloncancer chain "brings up an obvious and potentially powerful way todisrupt that interaction," Vogelstein says. Vogelstein's team plans tobegin screening compounds that can bl......ase, says Bigger. He also urges greater effort to treat andprevent the disorder. Because AF often occurs along with other cardiovasculardisorders, including heart attacks and stroke, physicians have debated whetherit increases a person's risk of death or if it merely reflects the presence ......a flurry of research aimed at harnessing leptin to treat obesity inhumans. The subsequent discovery that obese people actually had more leptin than normal-weight people led researchers to speculate that the problemlies instead in inefficient leptin receptors -- a problem that might not respondto mor...Your sweet tooth may get a treat that is literally "out of this world," thanks to experiments aboard the Space Shuttle. A team comprising French and American scientists reports they have crystallized one of the most interesting families of intensely sweet proteins, a natural molec...Gene Therapy Animal Study Offers Hope For Some Neurodegenerative Diseases
...ly, the approach could potentially also be used to treat other diseasesresulting from a destructive protein, including some forms of glaucoma,Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Warfan's syndrome,according to the senior author of the study, Matthew M. LaVail, PhD, a professorof an...Tightly Controlled Protein Destruction Drives The Cell Cycle
... form thebasis for the development of new drugs to treat these and other diseases....Stroke Risk Increased In Patients With High Oxygen Use In Brain
...aking it difficult todetermine how aggressively to treat these patients. But Powers and Grubb believethe levels of risk in patients with hemodynamic failure warrant areconsideration of the EC-IC bypass technique. "Because of the negative findings in the past, we expect we will have tod...