Novartis receives European marketing authorization for Emselex(R)
...1) Emselex has been shown to reduce the number of weekly incontinence episodes by up to 77% (2) versus placebo. Additional clinical trials have shown that Emselex works without impairing cognitive function (3) and without cardiovascular safety concerns (2) . To date, 97 clinical trials with Emselex have...Rice biologists elected AAAS Fellows
... largest general scientific society, publishes the weekly journal Science, which has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed scientific journal in the world. Few AAAS members are elevated to the rank of Fellow. Fellows are selected because of their efforts to advance science or scientific appl...New gene therapy promising for treating Fabry disease
...ase is a very costly course of treatment requiring weekly or bi-weekly recombinant enzyme infusions done in a hospital. Corrective gene therapy, if approved for human use, would possibly translate to a one-time treatment....Ground-level ozone linked to increased mortality
... that an increase of 10 parts per billion (ppb) in weekly ozone levels was associated with a 0.52 percent da...ncreased 0.64 percent with each 10 ppb increase of weekly ozone. The average daily ozone level for the cities surveyed was 26 ppb. The EPA's maximum for groun...University of South Florida designated Center of Excellence by Huntington's Disease Society
...heast. The USF College of Medicine offers a weekly Huntington's Disease Clinic and a full spectrum of services, including genetic testing and counseling, psychiatry, physical and occupational therapy, caregiver and patient support, education programs and community outreach. USF researchers conduct a...Hold the stuffing: Low-glycemic diet may help keep weight off
...eight, 18 to 35 years old, and motivated to attend weekly sessions for four months. People interested in enrolling should contact Erica Garcia-Lago at 617-355-2500....Researchers discover new gene in colon cancer
...sends a signal that allows the colon to shed cells weekly as a way of helping to block development of colon cancers. In 1995, Markowitz discovered colon cancers have mutations that inactivate the TGF-beta pathway. "If there is no TGF-beta signal, there is no 15-PGDH. That means the opponent to COX-2 is go...Potent anticancer drug increases function of axons in mouse model of neurodegeneration
...and Lee's laboratory, gave the tau transgenic mice weekly injections of Paxceed at a high and low dose for 12 weeks. At both doses, more protein traveled down the spinal axon and the density of microtubules was greater in the Paxceed-treated mice. The drugs also reduced motor impairment in the tau transgeni...Inexpensive, mass-produced genes at core of synthetic biology advances at UH
...ps," appearing in the current issue of Nature, the weekly scientific journal for biological and physical sciences research. "Synthetic genes are like a box of Lego building blocks," Gao said. "Their organization is very complex, even in simple organisms. By making programmed synthesis of genes economica...Protein in urine may warn of preeclampsia risk in pregnant women
...ns currently available to identify preeclampsia is weekly monitoring of women's blood pressure and testing for proteinuria [abnormal levels of protein in the urine] during the third trimester of pregnancy," explains the study's senior author Ananth Karumanchi, MD, a nephrologist in the Department of Medicin...US Oncology, Inc. plays role in newly approved ABRAXANE for metastatic breast cancer
...nt-based paclitaxel therapy". "In our trials with weekly ABRAXANE, we saw fewer side effects than observed with solvent-based paclitaxel, and, even more encouraging, we saw a significant response to ABRAXANE in some women whose cancer had progressed through treatment with taxanes. Women taking ABRAXANE al...The simple truth: Animal development not as complicated as it seems
...es," appearing in the current issue of Nature, the weekly scientific journal for biological and physical sciences research. "The significance of my findings is that these cell lineages are not as complicated as many scientists have thus far believed," Azevedo said. "Our hope is that our approach of treat...Fine-tuning calf nutrition could reduce nitrogen pollution
...nt needs, of young dairy calves change on almost a weekly basis," Lambert said. The indicator amino acid oxidation process is much quicker and more accurate, but also more expensive to set up and conduct. Lambert has heretofore been conducting preliminary studies with limited funding. He has applied for a ...'Grubby' research promises environmental/economic benefits
...he results as "inconclusive," Tomberlin said. "The weekly counts were just all over the place, probably because of measuring problems," he said. Because he was more interested in manure reduction over time, Tomberlin couldn't screen the entire contents of any given tray for house fly larvae. Instead, he res...Leslie Roberts of Science wins ASM Public Communications Award
...e 2000, Roberts has been deputy news editor at the weekly magazine Science, where she works with a team of reporters covering infectious diseases, both old foes like polio and emerging threats like avian influenza. She also coordinates the magazine's coverage of biomedicine and environment/ecology. In a pre...Muscle-targeted gene therapy reverses rare muscular dystrophy in mice
...spond well to enzyme infusions, treatment requires weekly injection of a large amount of the enzyme. "Gene therapy has the potential to reverse the course of the disease with a single treatment," Koeberl said. The researchers delivered the glycogen-degrading enzyme with an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vecto...Science, AAAS select two for new minority internship
...d journals in the world. Under the guidance of the weekly journal's award-winning staff of writers and editors, Tran and Ornelas will help reporters gather information for news stories; attend scientific meetings, congressional hearings and press briefings; and work on their own stories for the journal or f...Satellites monitoring dust storms linked to health risk
...during the last dry season, ESA has been supplying weekly dust maps of the Sahel as part of an early warning system. The maps are based on daily images from the Meteosat Visible and InfraRed Imager (MVIRI) aboard the ESA-built Meteosat-7 geostationary weather satellite. "The dust maps have been very useful...Data confirm panitumumab single-agent antitumor activity in patients with mCRC
...oth. Patients received 2.5 mg/kg of panitumumab by weekly one-hour intravenous infusion without premedication. Tumor responses were confirmed no less than four weeks after the initial response was observed. In this Phase 2 study, the most common side effect was skin toxicity (95 percent, 7 percent grade 3)....Non-dieters more successful at boosting health than dieters, study finds
... spanned two years, with each group meeting for 24 weekly treatment sessions and, after that, for six monthly optional support group meetings. They also attended five testing sessions: at the beginning of the study, halfway through the treatment at 12 weeks, following treatment at 26 weeks, after the suppor...