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'Suicide Response' Gives Colorado State Researchers Important Clues On Preventing Bacterial Invasion In Crops Worldwide

... that spawns millions of dollars in prevention and treatment costs onAmerican farms each year. A single plant with symptoms of ring rot infection ina field of potatoes can cost a farmer as much as $80,000 in lost revenue.Because ring rot spreads so quickly and potato plants have zero tolerance forthe disease, ...

Mystery Of Vital Cell Protein Solved After 30 Years

...bb), was shown in clinicaltests to be an effective treatment for a number of cancers including ovarian,breast, and lung. Cancer occurs when cell division runs amok. By binding to tubulin and causing the protein to lose its flexibility, taxolprevents a cell from dividing. With better knowledge of tubulin str...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Researchers Report Three-Dimensional Structure Of Hepatitis C Helicase Enzyme; Report In Structure

...ailable to prevent hepatitis Cinfection. Current treatment options for hepatitis C are widely acknowledged to besuboptimal. The only drug approved for the treatment of hepatitis C, interferonalpha, provides long-term therapeutic benefit to only about 25 percent ofp...

Maillinckrodt Medical Licenses Invention For Concentration Of Rhenium Radioisotopes

...f the coronary arteries after angioplasty. Rhenium treatment following balloon angioplasty cuts the rate of res...approved trials in collaboration with ORNL for the treatment of bone pain from skeletal metastases of cancers of the breast, lung and prostate. The clinical appl...

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Investigators

...apy," mayhave broad implications for improving the treatment of other types of cancerthat arise as a result of ... who led the study. "Wewere able to show that this treatment was effective in mice, and we are planningto evaluate it soon in patients." Specifically, Dr...

Gene Therapy Enables Transplantation Without Immunosuppressive Drugs

...idney damage.In our study, a one-time gene therapy treatment of only the donor liver made therecipient's immune...fted organ, and we were able to do so with asingle treatment that obviated the need for follow-up drug therapy. Takentogether, these are exciting initial results...

Virginia Tech Engineers Help Mother Nature Clean Up

...ccessfulin using the trees as part of a wastewater treatment process.A last step was added to the process that took the wastewaterand used the liquid as a irrigation source for the trees. "Thetrees sucked up the nitrogen, and the plant was left with cleanerwastewater," Grace says. Widdowson's main role in t...

Calcium Potentiates The Effect Of Estrogen And Calcitonin And Bone Mass

...atleast 1200 mg calcium daily, rather than either treatment alone....

Fauci: New Findings Help Explain "Rebound" Of HIV In Patients Who Discontinue Triple-Drug Therapy

...ed answer an important question in the treatment of HIV-infected individuals: why, in patients ... stress the importance of developing comprehensive treatment strategies which not only block HIV replication but also modulate the host factors that ...

Extensive Phase II Data Of Amprenavir (141W94/VX-478) To Be Presented

.../amprenavir therapy in the contextof other 1592/PI treatment possibilities. Available four week data confirms therapid and potent antiviral effect of 1592 and amprenavir. Longer term data thatdemonstrates amprenavir's potency compared with other 1592/PI regimens will bethe subject of an oral presentation give...

Scientists Identify Protein Essential For Iron Absorption, Boost Understanding Of Iron-Deficiency Anemia

... recessively inheriteddisease, for which the usual treatment is the periodic bleeding of patients. Other UB co-authors are Laura M. Garrick, Ph.D., clinical assistantprofessor of biochemistry, and Michelle A. Romano, research technician.Children's Hospital co-authors are Nancy C. Andrews, M.D.,...

Novel AIDS-Directed Technology: Approach Permits Optimization Of Existing Drug Therapies And Targeted, Patient-Specific Treatment

...tickinetics to diagnose, monitor and assist in the treatment of serious diseases. Initial disease targets for this technology include AIDS, cancer, cardiovasculardisease and osteoporosis. The second program, developed in part from researchefforts conducted at the United States Department of Energy -- AmesLabor...

Reagent Strips Not Sufficient In Detecting Bacteriuria In Early Pregnancy

...ening should identify all cases to ensure adequate treatment is administered. In their study, the authors found that reagent strips for testing urine do not perform to a sufficient standard and therefore they advocate that all patients should have at least one urine specimen formally cultured in early pregnan...

Three-Day Treatment Cures Decades-Old Case Of Malaria

...Following a diagnosis of lymphoma, the woman began treatment with theanti-cancer drug methotrexate. But she developed severe headaches and a cyclical fever called a quartan fever that occurred every 72 hours. After doctors took her off methotrexate, she recovered from her symptoms but still had an enlarged spl...

Low B Vitamin Levels Common In Many People Linked To Increased Heart Disease, Stroke Risk

...e now needed to test the long-term effects of such treatment on theprevention of cardiovascular disease. According to Ronald Krauss, M.D., chairman of the AHA Nutrition Committee, individuals should achieve desired vitamin intake via a healthy balanced diet. Vitamin supplements should be used "only when diet i...

Short-Course TB Prophylaxis Effective In HIV-Infected Individuals

...umber of TB cases was the same in each treatment group. Fewer deaths occurred among patients in the... Importantly, however, compliance with treatment was significantly better in the two-drug arm -- 80 percent of individuals in the RIF/PZA...

Washington University Licenses Its New Antibacterial Technology

...that SIGA will develop effective new drugs for the treatment ofGram-negative bacterial infections using this technology." The technology was developed by Scott J. Hultgren, Ph.D., associateprofessor of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine. Over the pastdecade, Hultgren's group has determine...

Duke Researchers Develop First Treatment For Rare Muscle Disease

...alled Pompedisease. The injectable enzyme treatment was developed by Duke pediatric medicalgeneticist ...ne is our long-term efforts to develop aneffective treatment for this devastating fatal disease," Chen said. The scientists reported their findings in the...

Researchers Take Major Step Toward Cracking Ebola Code

...s. Nabel says investigators can look for potential treatment strategies that wouldactivate the inflammatory defense system (to counteract the secretedglycoprotein) or protect endothelium cells---which line small blood vessels---toprevent bleeding and circulatory collapse. The new findings may have far-reaching...

Cancer Cells Self-Destruct When "Sweet Tooth" Is Thwarted

... the biggest obstacles to using a sugar-starvation treatment incancer patients, according to Dang, is that central nervous system cells can't function properlywithout glucose. "The brain is the only important organ that depends on glucose, so we needa drug that cuts off tumor cells' ability to get glucose...

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(Date:12/1/2008)...ective against plantar fasciitis, researchers say ... Italian researchers say they,ve developed a fast,... foot condition known as plantar fasciitis. , U...njections guided by ultrasound, the researchers sa...e in tackling a condition that afflicts about one ...
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