AIDS Treatments Seek To Eradicate Virus, Restore Immunity
...esearch Center. The thymus tissue swatches will be implanted into the patients'arm or leg muscles and their progress in restoring a working immune systemwill be closely monitored for two years. "The thymus makes and educates a wide range of immune cells to fightspecific infections," Markert said. "As ...Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
...to offer patients the polymer, which can be easily implanted before patients return to their villages. Villagers, many of whom cannot read or write and do not own clocks, will not need to store medicines or remember when and how to take them. The new drug delivery system is also appealing to Indian physician...KUMC Researchers Announce Breakthrough Method For Predicting Epileptic Seizures
... that causes a seizures. Another possibility is an implanted drug pump that would send anti-convulsant medication into the brain when seizure component levels begin to rise. "This is very exciting because it opens up new avenues for treatment," said Steven Wilkinson, MD, neurosurgeon. "It's theoretical...Tighter Chemical Binding = Better Meds
... for diabetics ina gene therapy approach involving implanted cells. Vast Increases in Computer Speed Vast increases in computer speed in recent years make it possibleto perform complex computations of chemical processes in minutes insteadof days, said Jorgensen, who has created a supercomputer in his Yalelab...X-Rays: How Big A Risk To Kids? UF Researchers Seek Answers
...d for pediatric patients at Shands. Tiny detectors implanted atplaces marked with felt-tip marker labels such as "liver," "bladder" or"stomach" measure doses to organs or tissues. While the results are useful, they paint only part of the picturebecausethe detectors measure the doses only at specific l...Anti-Clotting Drug May Cause Potentially Fatal Platelet Disorder
...nswho undergo angioplasty and have a cardiac stent implanted during the procedure.Fifteen cases of ticlopidine-associated TTP were found in these patients, almostalways presenting with acute onset of stroke-like symptoms, which facilitatedthe recognition of this life-threatening complication. Nonetheless, abou...World's First Producer To Repair Brain Damage From Stroke
... lost nearly all her ability to speak. The implanted neurons are provided by Layton Bioscience, Inc., locatedin Atherton, Cal. LBS-neurons originate from a human teratocarcinoma found in a22-year-old cancer patient. Teratocarcinomas are tumors of the reproductiveorgans that are composed of embryonic-...Repairing Cranio-Facial Deformities From The Inside Out
...ngenital disorders have had to wear a metal device implanted intothe jaw from the outside of the face in order ...ng the first to offer patients adistraction device implanted completely inside the mouth that helps to regrowdestroyed bone, essentially growing a new jaw for th...Tiny Pellets Could Deliver Alzheimer's Drugs
...0 percent greater than rat brain cells without the implanted pellet, Saltzman reports. However, the researcher says, the NGF molecules penetrated only about 1 to 2 millimeters in the rat brains, a large area in a rat but very small in the volume of a human brain. "We have to find a way of delivering locally l...Magnetic Hearing Aid Could Open New "Window" For Hearing Impaired
...e would capture sounds with a miniature microphone implanted inthe ear. After passing through a small processi...nges in the settings would be relayed to the fully implanted hearingdevice remotely. Further development depends on future funding, said Spindel. Another advant...MIT Microchip Releases Chemicals On Demand
...r mood, and"pharmacies" that could be swallowed or implanted under the skin and programmedfor the delivery of p...ld potentially be incorporated into a chip that is implanted under the skinand programmed to release the contents of specific reservoirs at specific times. "The ......r portion of the thigh bone and a plasticsocket is implanted into the pelvis, replacing the damaged socket. Approximately50 to 60 percent of total hip replacements use cement to anchor the ball andsocket into the bone, according to Ries. One possible complication of a total hip replacement, he said, is the met...Breakthrough? Study Finds Dopamine Cannot Be Source Of Pleasure In Brain
...uman hair and coating it with glass. "When implanted in rat brains, this micro-sensor allows us for the...leasurable shock to theirbrain through deep probes implanted there. "We discovered that when we applied the electric shock to untrainedrats, we clearly s...Routine Use Of Coronary Stents Found To Yield Better Outcomes, Be More Cost-Effective
...ermine whether coronary stents should be routinely implanted as the firstform of treatment or only when necessary following imperfect balloon angioplastyoutcomes. Results of the trial were presented at the American College of Cardiologyscientific sessions in New Orleans by W. Douglas Weaver, M.D., co-director ...Help On The Way For Victims Of Paralysis
...er and his research team. These sensory cuffs are implanted around nerves under the skin, where theyrecover signals generated by skin pressure and other sensory receptors. Theythen send electrical impulses to a control unit that stimulates other cuffsimplanted around the motor nerves to the muscles. This allo...Stent Procedures May Be Unnecessary In Some Heart Cases
... heart attack In a typical procedure, the stent is implanted in the artery after theballoon has opened it up. However, it is becoming increasing common forcardiologists to automatically implant the stent before seeing if the balloonachieved the desired effect, according to Duke cardiologist Dr. Magnus Ohman,t......er cytotoxicdrugs in human cancer cell lines or in implanted tumors in animals. Taxane and platinum drugs are administered in the treatment of a variety ofcommon cancers including breast, lung, ovarian and many other tumors. Some ofthe most widely used taxane and platinum agents are the drugs paclitaxel (Taxo...Updated Results On Heart Assist Device Presented At International Transplant Meeting
...LVAS, anelectromagnetically driven pump surgically implanted in the abdomen thatconnects to the heart's main pu...able controller and batteries are connected to the implanted pump by asmall tube containing several wires through the patient's skin. The system isself-regulati...Sniffing Out The Promise Of Anti-Angiogenesis Therapy
...er they found that the bloodvessel count in tumors implanted in mice was reduced when the tumor was treatedwith IM862. Its main effect, says Gill, appears to be in reducing production of vascularendothelial growth factors, or VEGFs, and blocking the function of BFGF whichGill says are "major mediators of angio...... studies in which Penn researchers arestudying how implanted hNT cells might improve brain function in an injured rat. "We found that cells implanted directly adjacent to the injured site 24 hoursafter the initial trauma survive, appear healthy, and ...