Jan/Feb 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...probability that a patient has influenza and which antiviral drug will be used for treatment. Religion, Spirituality, and Health Status in Geriatric Outpatients by Timothy P. Daaleman, D.O., et al Older adults who describe themselves as "spiritual" but not "religious" are more likely to appraise the...Targeted antiviral prophylaxis of flu case contacts could successfully contain pandemic influenza
...th, many thousands of deaths could be prevented if antiviral agents were given to the close contacts of those w...ting in a death rate of 0.58 per 1,000 people. If antiviral prophylaxis was given to close contacts of 80% of suspected influenza cases, however, in a strategy ...Mouse antibodies thwart SARS virus
...e time it takes to develop an effective vaccine or antiviral drugs for SARS. In collaboration with colleagues a...r, will be very useful for evaluating vaccines and antiviral drugs, Dr. Subbarao says. The SARS virus infected 8,098 people and killed 774 worldwide between Nov....Adaptive regulatory T cells suppress killing of persistently infected cells
... open up exciting new avenues for design of future antiviral therapeutics. Many human viruses are able to evade...he time, proliferation of the virus is balanced by antiviral immunity and the host experiences little to no damage. However, persistent infections with viruses s...Advances in prevention and treatment research hold promise for 'pipeline'
...viruses show promise as carriers for new low-cost, antiviral vaccinations against human papillomaviruses (HPV) that cause benign and malignant tumors, according to research presented today. A consortium of researchers from Large Scale Biology Corporation (LSBC), Vacaville, Calif., and the Department of Micro...Northwestern Memorial launches trial to determine most effective treatment for hepatitis C
...ha and ribavirin. Pegylated interferon alpha is an antiviral drug used to boost the immune system and combat the virus. Ribavirin, also an antiviral medication, enhances the effectiveness of pegylated interferon alpha. "We've learned from earlier s...Study finds certain compounds in beer, wine effective in slowing breast cancer cell growth
... on the cardiovascular system and have anticancer, antiviral and antiallergic properties. Flavonoids are low molecular weight compounds composed of a three-ring structure with various substitutions, which appear to be responsible for the antioxidant and antiproliferative properties. It is well known that cons......k in BMC Medicine. Prednisolone, taken without any antiviral therapy, postponed the loss of T-cells that leads to AIDS in 50% of HIV sufferers by between 2 and 10 years. HIV leads to a complex disorder that combines an initial chronic activation of the immune system with a progressive decrease in the number of...Risk factors identified for persistent post-shingles pain
...ho participated in separate clinical trials of the antiviral agent famciclovir. Data from 965 patients were col... were significantly associated with PHN. While the antiviral therapy administered in both studies inhibited the spread of the virus and reduced the duration of p...Advances emerging in hepatitis management
...t a novel hepatitis therapy, NM283, has consistent antiviral activity and is well tolerated in HCV-1 infected chronic hepatitis C patients. The phase I/II dose escalation trial is investigating NM283, a novel candidate HCV RNA polymerase inhibitor, which has shown anti-flavivirus activity in vitro, and has ...Ganciclovir (Valcyte/Cymevene) reduces risk of cancer in kidney transplant patients
...TC) annual meeting show that the gold standard CMV antiviral ganciclovir (Valcyte/Cymevene) has been proven to ...dney transplant patients. Ganciclovir, the active antiviral agent in Roches Valcyte and Cymevene drugs, is used to prevent cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease, a pote...Study finds once-daily Valcyte prevents serious viral infection after kidney transplant
... months of therapy with a single daily dose of the antiviral medication Valcyte (valganciclovir HCl tablets) safely and effectively prevents cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common infection in kidney transplant patients taking highly potent immunosuppressive therapy. The results were presented today at the American ...Researchers explore gene treatment to obliterate HIV before it does damage
...r HIV rather than indefinite treatment with costly antiviral drugs that consistently lead to drug resistance and long-term toxicities." Martin Delaney, founding director of Project Inform, said he applauds the researchers for their persistence and continued interest in developing new treatments for HIV/AIDS, b...African-Americans respond poorly to hepatitis C treatment
...nterferon alfa-2b every week. Ribavirin is an oral antiviral drug; patients took the drug every day in pill form. Muir has received an American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases/Schering-Plough Advanced Hepatology Fellowship. He has also received grant support from Schering-Plough and has served as a...Drug to fight virus in transplant patients moves forward in trials
...the potential effectiveness and safety of the oral antiviral drug for transplant patients in the phase 2 trial. The study will be conducted at up to 15 transplant centers across the United States. Drach, a biochemist and virologist who is a professor in the schools of dentistry and pharmacy, and Townsend, emer...Stanford scientists help bring study of smallpox virus into 'molecular age'
...h live virus be pursued for the primary purpose of antiviral drug development. The following year, the World Health Assembly agreed to this plan, postponing the destruction of the virus. Today, with fears that terrorists could develop the virus, researchers are using the surviving samples of virus to learn mor...Texas Children's Hospital specialists say proactive approach best defense against flu season
...e," Demmler said. "If the flu is diagnosed early, antiviral therapy can be given to shorten the course and severity of the illness."...IDSA recommends ways to strengthen HHS's pandemic influenza plan
...nce of a pandemic--priority groups for vaccine and antiviral use, as well as containment methods and strategies...fically, IDSA recommends strengthening vaccine and antiviral distribution networks; investing in research to advance what we know about influenza and how best to...Studies demonstrate positive data in treatment of hepatitis C
...be results from a Phase II clinical trial of a new antiviral agent, NM283, being tested in humans for the first...s]."NM283 was shown to have direct and significant antiviral activity against HCV as a single agent in both Phase I and Phase II clinical trials. Combining NM283...Longterm immune memory cells cells do not develop during chronic viral infections
...s in developing better therapeutic combinations of antiviral therapies and therapeutic vaccines. The research ...ability for memory T-cell proliferation. However, antiviral therapy or cancer chemotherapy may provide rest from antigen stimulation and allow partial recovery ...