New approach supercharges immunotherapy
...stem cells back to repopulate the marrow. Fourteen days later, the patientsreceive their expanded, co-stimulated T cells. So far the team has enrolled nearly 20 patients. Some are still receivingtherapy. Because of advanced disease, rapid progression of the cancer duringtherapy, or the difficulties of har...Promising New Drug Uses Antibody Targeted Chemotherapy To Fight Leukemia
...s. It is administered in two IV infusionsfourteen days apart, and many patients received it on an outpatient basis. Similar studies of the new treatment are underway throughout Europe and Canada....Science Is On The Trail Of Sexual Predators That Dope Women
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... fortwo days. One group received radiation for two days followed by angiostatinon days 2-14. One group both radiation and angiostatin for the first twodays, followed by angiostatin on day...UCSF Study Shows Drug Reduces Risk Of Spine And Hip Fractures By Half In Women With Osteoporosis
... hospital admissions, more than 44 million patient days innursing homes, and $13.8 billion in health care expenditures among women and men in the U.S. FIT is a collaborative effort of the University of California San Francisco and11 other academic centers. The first arm of the study (Vertebral Fracture...New Chest Pain Evaluation Method Saves Lives, Prevents Costly HospitalizationFor Some Patients
...e usually admitted to thehospital for two to three days at an individual cost averaging more than $4,000and a total annual cost of $10 billion. More importantly -- because the cause ofchest pain is difficult to diagnose -- an estimated six to 10,000 Americans dieafter inadvertently being sent home from th...New Surgery At Cedars-Sinai Provides Hope For Epilepsy Patient Who Has Had A Lifetime Of Seizures
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... side effects. In the trial, T-20 was given for 28 days either by continuous subcutaneousinfusion or simply by injecting it subcutaneously (much like insulin isadministered in diabetes). T-20 was also given either as part of ananti-retroviral drug "cocktail" or as the sole drug. Eron says the new results ...Growing Younger By Keeping Up Regular Physical Activity
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...ifferences either by age or sex or inthe number of days volunteers reported any kind of abdominal symptoms, he said.One of the few differences was that people in the olestra group reported anaverage of one more day during the six weeks of more frequent bowel movements. Olestra-eaters in the top 10...Women Who Have Invasive Cervical Cancer Benefit From Addition Of Chemotherapy To Radiation Treatment
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... study has shown that doctors and nurses losefewer days from work because of the flu when they are vaccina...s associated with workers having an additional 1.5 days of febrile respiratoryillness and missing 0.5 more days of work. Subjects who had received t...T-Cell Memory Finding May Provide Key To Cancer, AIDS Vaccines
...tantly with high levels of antigenfor four-to-five days -- a far more intense and prolonged confrontation ...h mice with normal immune systems take two orthree days to mount an immune response, these memory T cells respondedimmediately." The finding is particularly...New Drug For Recurrent Brain Tumors In Tests At UNC
...tially, patients will get a doseevery day for four days and then once a week for up to a year. Patients with agood response can continue on the medicine beyond that, as long as they're doingwell, Ewend says. Adverse effects from the drug include headache, confusion andsleepiness. Some test subjects have d...Should Doctors Urge Patients To Take Breaks From Their Drugs?
...pt it atundetectable levels in their blood for 145 days after several stop-start tripletherapy treatments. However, anecdotal reports and animal experiments aren't enough tooverturn the AIDS orthodoxy. "We now need randomised controlled trials," saysLori. Bruce Walker of Harvard Medical S...