Contributing membership in the biomarkers consortium surges to 30 companies and nonprofits
...omarkers Consortium embraces government, industry, patient advocacy and other non-profit private sector organizations. In addition to the Foundation for NIH, founding members include: the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of Ame...House backs taxpayer-funded research access
...as a result of the vision and collective effort of patient groups, scientists, researchers, publishers, students, and consumers who registered their support. A similar measure has been approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee and will be considered by the full Senate later this summer....Molecular detectors may refine cancer treatment
...o detect subtle differences in leukemia cells from patient samples, an achievement that could lead to more ef...oping a clinical diagnostic tool involves matching patient data with these molecular profiles. The research team working with W. Stratford May, M.D., Ph.D., d...Gene identified for Crohn's disease in children
...e. A separate test that analyzed trios (a Crohns patient and both parents) also found an association between the ATG16L1 gene variant and disease symptoms. This finding strengthened the results of the pediatric case-control study. The genome-wide association study, which used highly automated analytic eq...Tumor painting revolutionizes fight against cancer
...ions of this method contribute to cancer growth or patient mortality that is potentially preventable. The tumor painting technique combines a visual guide for the surgeon with the potential for significant improvement in accuracy and safety. Tumor painting has been successfully tested in mice and the pi...Serica scientists win AOSSM Award for ACL (knee) tissue regeneration in preclinical study
...ltimate goal is for the SeriACL Graft to serve the patient over his or her lifetime, Altman added. Prior to ...re a vision to advance medical science and improve patient care, said John C. Richmond, MD, Chair, Department of Orthopedics, New England Baptist Hospital, Bos...Nodal status is best predictor of outcome after neoadjuvant therapy for esophageal cancer
...formance status. Several tissue samples from each patient were extracted during surgery and were subsequently examined for extent of residual cancer, depth of invasion, and lymph node metastasis. The patients were also assigned a tumour stage according to the TNM staging system. All patients were followed u......e harmful side effects and significant cost to the patient of antiretroviral therapy. This tradeoff has led to the development of various drug-sparing HIV-1 treatment strategies, which often results in the emergence of resistant viruses and overall treatment failure. This has prompted an interest in inductio...Biodesign Institute leads innovative project to prevent cancer
...ancer and other tumors, the research team will use patient and normal samples from extensive tissue banks at the Mayo Clinic. The team will develop new techniques to identify small protein fragments, or peptides, found in breast cancer cell lines and primary tumors. The key is that these peptides have to tri...Global community listens to TAU genetic researcher at EU Conference on Hearing Loss
...ed hundreds of academic representatives as well as patient groups, who are instrumental in helping scientists understand hearing loss. The goal of the conference was to bring researchers and clinicianswho work with both the deaf and blindtogether to discuss each others strides made in their respective fiel...UF scientists work to develop simple bladder cancer test
...sus something more serious, that would relieve the patient from pain and worry and (cut health-care costs). The final aim would be to make a test cheap and convenient enough that you can start to think of screening people who dont have any symptoms. Bladder cancer ranks among the five most common malignanc...Germany's embryo protection law is 'killing embryos rather than protecting them'
...hat the 1991 law prevents optimal treatment of the patient and does not protect the embryo either. The law needs to be changed urgently to reflect the current state of the art. It is far worse to kill embryos after they have implanted in a womans womb, than it is to take embryos before implantation, when t...New medical implants should react with the body, not seek to be inert
...ast longer, encourage healing and provide enhanced patient satisfaction, says Ratner....From clinical cancer research: rethinking therapeutic cancer vaccine trials
...heir real therapeutic value in terms of prolonging patient survival. Clinical data are providing evidence t...idence to explain why a vaccine may lead to better patient sur-vival, Schlom believes the evidence suggests that vaccines are, in fact, priming the immune sys-...Waging war on the deadliest superbug
...s of this research will be judged by both improved patient outcomes and savings to the NHS in the costs of treating infections. CHAI was officially launched in December last year as a national research centre to lead the way in the fight against killer super bugs. Its patron is Actress and TV personality L...Faulty cell membrane repair causes heart disease
...describing late-onset cardiomyopathy in a Japanese patient with a dysferlin deficiency prompted the UI team to look at the mice as they aged. They found that the mice started to develop cardiomyopathy at about one year of age (middle aged for a mouse). The team also found that exercise exaggerated the stre...New research holds promise for protecting cancer patients against infertility
...nd therefore cause shutdown for the whole time the patient is in chemo. This means that patients get unpleasant side effects related to having low oestrogen levels, such as hot flushes, and can also lead to loss of bone mass. The side effects associated with the cyclical use of GnRH antagonists were minim...Antibody linked to MS significantly higher in spinal fluid of blacks
...nds yet why inflammation levels differ from one MS patient to the next." The new study measured cerebrospina...d greater IgG to more aggressive MS in the general patient population. But that same link could not be reestablished in the new study, which assessed disease s...Europe struggles to meet the challenges posed by PGD patients travelling abroad
...cs then approach the Irish clinic for the relevant patient information. In situations where patients are left to identify clinics themselves, they are deprived of the benefit of medical advice, counselling and support at a vulnerable time. Secondly, the prohibition of PGD in their own country may complicat......also now working with EMS staff to change hospital patient acceptance protocols in Washington State. Current protocol requires radiation victims to be decontaminated before entering the hospital. The team is designing recommended procedures that would allow contaminated victims to be admitted immediately wh...