Shark-Liver Substance May Slow Growth Of Brain Tumors
...tudies with malignant gliomas, the most common and deadly brain tumor, may begin in 1997, according to Michael A. Zasloff, M.D., Ph.D., executive vice president of Magainin. Brain cancer causes a substance known as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) to bind to cells lining brain blood vessels. VEGF c...Stress: It's Not Just All In Your Head; Scientists Map The Wear And Tear Of Daily Life
...s, it also shows up in our bodies - andit can have deadly consequences. In a paper published in the January 15 issue of the New England Journalof Medicine , Bruce S. McEwen, PhD, of Rockefeller University, identifieseight physical indicators in the body - from blood pressure to cortisollevels to abdomina...Survey Finds Increasing Popularity Of Acute Stroke Teams In U.S. Hospitals
...ar teams tohelp patients suffering from an equally deadly problem -- stroke -- is only anemerging phenomenon. It is also a trend that should have started years earlier, according toa Duke University Medical Center neurologist. "It only makes sense for a team to respond just as quickly to a b...Anti-Clotting Drug May Cause Potentially Fatal Platelet Disorder
...ofcardiac stents, can cause a rare but potentially deadly disease. The disorder,thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), generally develops within four weeksof starting ticlopidine therapy. Symptoms of TTP include mass destruction of blood platelets, anemia,neurologic changes, progressive renal ...Unsticking The "Glue" In Blood Cells Could Save Lives
...at help a cut finger stop bleeding, can alsotake a deadly turn asthey course through veins and arteries. When platelets in the bloodstream clumptogether as aclot, they can trigger a heart attack or a stroke. When platelets stick to amoving cancer cell, theymay hide it from the body's natural defenses. ...DNA-Based Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise To Successfully Treat Melanoma In Mice
...a new DNA-based vaccine can successfully treat the deadly skin cancer,melanoma, in mice. The investigators, who report their findings in theSeptember 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, used a "needlelesssyringe" called a gene gun to drive tiny particles of human DNA at high speedinto the mi...6,000 Pharmaceutical Scientists Convene November 15-19 In San Francisco
...e daily insulin injections to avoid serious, often deadly complications. But there's hope: A leading Canadian scientist has developed and patented an oral insulin medication that's now set for human trials with the Health Protection Branch (the Canadian equivalent o...Study Shows Three-Drug "Cocktail" Needed To Keep AIDS Virus Curbed
...reater risk of losing theirability to suppress the deadly particles. Indinavir, a protease inhibitor, works by preventing protease enzymes from cutting upproteins needed to form viruses, Eron said. Zidovudine and lamivudine work by blocking theenzyme that copies the genetic blueprints for the virus. "The...World's Premier Pharmaceutical Scientists Share Latest R&D Findings
...e daily insulin injections to avoid serious, often deadly complications. But there's hope: A leading Canadian scientist has developed and patented an oral insulin medication that's now set for human trials with the Health Protection Branch (the Canadian equivalent of the FDA). Next step -- approval in th...Forecasting Killer Heat: UD Systems Predict Deadly Weather Worldwide
...h officials up to 60 hours' advancewarning of such deadly weather, which could prove particularly important in the21st century, if global warming predictions come to pass. UD climate expert Laurence S. Kalkstein -- sponsored by the United NationsEnvironment Programme (UNEP) -- will meet Feb. 1-2 in Rome to ...... virtually untreatable,as well as those with other deadly brain disorders such as aneurysms andstrokes. WITH ALLERGY SEASON APPROACHING, NEW MEDICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE Too many people suffer needlessly with allergies, according to Zab Mohsenifar,M.D., director of the Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Med...Novel Biological Interaction Found To Explain Blood Vessel Growth To Tumors
...come back quickly and spread,seeding the body with deadly fast-growing tumors. A decade ago, Folkman proposed that tumors themselves regulate the growth ofblood vessels. One notion was that tumors could produce proteins that wouldtravel through the bloodstream, preventing vessels from growing to any newcan...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
... andtreat epidemic smallpox in children -- just as deadly and widespread in China asit was in early modern Europe. Drawing upon folk traditions about the pollutionof menstrual blood and the blood of childbirth, physicians suggested thatsmallpox was the result of "fetal poison" -- filth induced by sexual pas...1930s Fascism Spawned Public Health Initiatives
... officials developed safeguards againstexposure to deadly chemical toxins at the same time the efforts were alsounderway to use some of those very same toxins to kill millions of Jews andGypsies," says the faculty member in the College of the Liberal Arts. The Nazi effort against cancer took many fo...Report: tuberculosis control programs inadequate in developing countries
... signs of AIDS. Moreover,tuberculosis in much more deadly in people with HIV and is the leading cause ofdeath in that population. Specific recommendations from the report: All identified HIV-positive patients (except those with symptomatictuberculosis) should be treated with the tuberculosis-...Researchers develop better means to diagnose adrenal gland tumors
A newly developed blood test to detect potentially deadly tumors that form inthe adrenal glands has been shown to be significantly more sensitive thantraditional diagnostic tests. The new test provides earlier and more accuratediagnoses of these tumors in patients with an inherited predisposition todevelop...Researchers discover the driving force behind cancer cells in Hodgkin's disease
...e Reed-Sternberg cells themselves that produce the deadly growthfactor. "Now that we know IL-13 plays a major role in the growth of at least someHodgkin's tumours, we can begin to look at new treatments for the disease usingIL-13 neutralizing antibodies or by blocking IL-13 production altogether withinReed......k for acquiring hepatitis Band another potentially deadly virus called hepatitis C. Few if any sterilization regulations exist within these industries, and theviruses can be spread though a very small amount of infected blood. Therefore,even getting ears pierced in a store that does not properly clean or d...UI researchers identify prostate tumor suppressor
...y provide another weapon in thebattle against this deadly disease," added Lubaroff, the associate director forresearch infrastructure for the UI Cancer Center. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and is the second leadingcause of cancer death in American men. Although most of the time the......AIDS as a manageable chronic disease rather than a deadly epidemic. "Gay men might think it's not that bad to become infected with HIV these days,but in spite of treatment advances, it's still a big deal," said Ekstrand. "Many of these young men have a lot to lose by getting infected." New combination the...