New approach supercharges immunotherapy
...rs to be less aggressive." "We can't claim to have cured anyone," added Liebowitz, "but we seem to havealtered the natural history of the disease, to have significantly slowedprogression in selected patients." The co-stimulation technology, which uses tiny magnetic beads covered withmonoclonal antibodies t...Antibiotics Reduce Inflammation In Heart Disease But Effect On Heart Attacks Remains Unproven
...o raise wild expectations that heartdisease can be cured with a few doses of antibiotics," Muhlestein emphasizes. "Clearly, there are a number of other risk factors involved besides infection,but the established risk factors account for only about half of all cases ofheart disease, so we need to keep looki...Vaccine Against Melanoma Proves Successful For Patients With Disease Spread To Two Lymph Node Areas
...ys, only some 5 to 15 percent of such patients are cured by surgery alone. In 15 patients with melanoma spread to the pelvic lymph nodes, 47percent are estimated to live five-years. The usual surgical cure rate is only 5to 10 percent. "Now we're looking at a group of patients with a partic...Study Shows Dermatologists Are Best At Removing Skin Cancers
...asal cell carcinoma stand a better chance of being cured by seeing adermatologist rather than any other type of physician. That's the conclusion of a pilot study by the Westwood- Squibb Centerfor Dermatology Research at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.The results of the study we...New outpatient surgery is helping women with stress incontinence
...atients who haveundergone the procedure are either cured of stress incontinence or have improveda great deal. "So I am very optimistic that this will be a major advance in incontinencecare," says Klutke, who in September 1998 became one of the first Americansurgeons to use TVT. His study is the largest in ...WHO issues wake up call against microbial threats
...edover 11 million deaths in 1998. "A person can be cured or protected from each one of these diseases for lessthan the cost of a few bottles of aspirin," said Dr Brundtland "In fact, half ofthese killer diseases can be stopped for under 35 US cents, less than the costof this morning's newspaper." VVHO is c...New nasal obstruction procedure offers cheaper, pain-free alternative to surgery
...or his patients has been two. "We say a patient is cured when thesnoring is reduced to a level the patient's bed partner can live with," he said.There are many different treatments for snoring, "which means nothing'sperfect," the physician said. The LAUP - laser-assisted uvulo palatoplasty - ispopular but ......an be detected early, when the cancer can still be cured withlocal therapies such as radical prostatectomy or prostate implant. Peschel's research team at Yale included Zhe Chen, assistant professor of therapeutic radiology; Kenneth Roberts, associate professorof therapeutic radiology; and Ravinder Nath, ...Noveau neurons are better than no neurons at all
...rs essentially created "lobster epilepsy" and then cured it. The Navy would like to emulate biological systems for information processing and control. One approach is to understand biological neural networks. "This demonstration shows that we know enough about the biology of a simple network so that we now...Undercooked meat is chief cause of parasite infection in pregnancy
Eating undercooked, raw or cured meat during pregnancy is the main risk factor for ... The authors found that eating raw, undercooked or cured meat contributed to between 30 percent and 63 percent of infections. Contact with soil contributed ...Nursing profession must be reinvented to ease personnel shortages, according to UCSF report
...er cyclical shortage of nurses that can be rapidly cured by paying nurses higher wages and enrolling more students in nursing schools," said Edward O'Neil, director of the UCSF Center for the Health Professions and principal investigator of the study. "The aging of the nursing work force, the upheaval in ...Gender-specific intervention may be needed to improve diets of african-american youth
...m restricted diet, which eliminated fast foods and cured and processed meats. The participants were encouraged to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and were given some healthy foods. Each child kept a food diary. They also filled out a questionnaire indicating what types of verbal support or negativ......veloped a low-cost composite that combines rapidly cured vinyl ester resin and carbon fibers precoated with a water dispersable sizing solution before being embedded in the resin. The composite is well-suited for aggressive outdoor environments, including civil infrastructure, marine uses, and off-shore oi...West meets East - WHO tuberculosis treatment
...s no statistical difference between the proportion cured or completing treatment (63% for both groups), or in the proportion of patients who died (8% WHO, 11% Russian treatment). In an accompanying Commentary (p 434), Richard Coker from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, states that th...Imaging tool helps locate recurrent prostate cancer
...p the cancer's spread to other organs. If a man is cured with surgery, then his prostate specific antigen (PSA) level should be undetectable. However, according to the American Cancer Society, 40 percent of men have local recurrence of the disease after surgery, and 11 percent are at high-risk of the recur...Testicular cancer - cure rates now so high patients may be more at risk from treatment
...ood pressure."Our study demonstrated that patients cured by cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy were generally well and living a normal social life. Nonetheless, testicular cancer patients should be made aware that they might have a greater risk of developing cardiovascular disease than of suffering a...Document destruction practices obliterate tobacco company defenses in critical Australian decision
...hat, in the circumstances of this case, can now be cured so as to permit the trial to proceed on the question of liability. In my opinion, the only appropriate order is that the defense should be struck out and judgmentbe entered for the plaintiff, with damages to be assessed." In only two other instances...Still no effective treatment for post-lyme disease symptoms
DENVER, CO While Lyme disease is usually cured with antibiotic treatment, some patients experience persistent fatigue and cognitive dysfunction. In a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, researchers share their experience in a study evaluating ceftriaxone, ...First report of stem cell signal of intention to become specific neuron
...d into healthy dopamine neurons. This effectively cured the animals' severe Parkinsonian symptoms. The ability to clone large numbers of stem cells that would become neurons also has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis and numerous other diseases and di...Largest ever study on European cancer prevalence shows large differences between countries
...on. Many long-term survivors will, essentially, be cured of their cancer and may place little additional burden the health services than others of their age," he concluded. A second paper, which examined the methods used to calculate prevalence, reviewed the problems encountered and how they could be overc...