Smart virus eliminates brain cancer in animal experiments
...vel "viral smart bomb" therapy that can completely eradicate brain tumors in mice, while leaving normal brain tissue alone. The therapy, known as Delta-24-RGD, is thought to be the first treatment for malignant glioma, the deadliest form of brain cancer. It is a new-generation "replication-competent oncolyt...Generalized anxiety disorder linked to peptic ulcer disease
...ase, "perhaps in combination with medications that eradicate Helicobacter pylori," according to the study....GlaxoSmithKline Drug Discovery and Development Award 2002
...0 for his research. "Existing drug therapy cannot eradicate the virus, and drug-resistant variants are emerging at an alarming rate, making it imperative for new classes of drugs to be discovered to supplement or partially replace existing regimens," said Dr. Lu, associate professor of biochemistry at Weill M...Chlorine dioxide gas kills dangerous biological contaminants
...robiology, demonstrated that the vapor was able to eradicate all of the contaminant on the fruit's skin and significantly reduce the bacteria in the stem cavity and the calyx, said Richard Linton, director of Purdue's Center for Food Safety Engineering and senior author. The calyx is the apple's bottom, direct...New procedure kills liver tumors without surgery
...mors that secrete noxious hormones, rather than to eradicate all of the cancer," said Nelson. Indeed, Emerson has a slow-growing malignancy in her bones, but she sees no reason to tolerate new tumors elsewhere if they can be destroyed. "I approach it from a common-sense perspective," she said. "If they're not...Antibiotics help heart patients
... drugs used in combination with the antibiotics to eradicate H. pylori. At the start of the study, tests revealed that 157 of 310 patients (51 percent) had antibodies to H. pylori and 132 of 325 patients (41 percent) had antibodies to C. pneumoniae. Blood tests for antibodies detect the dormant bacteria. C....All Hajj pilgrims should get meningitis jab
...efore their return to their countries of origin to eradicate carriage and protect household contacts," they conclude....UCLA AIDS Institute scientists show antiretroviral drugs can eradicate AIDS epidemic
...ncisco? "Our model suggests that it is possible to eradicate HIV in San Francisco," Blower said. "But given the...r and her colleagues offer four recommendations to eradicate the HIV epidemic worldwide: Treat more HIV-infected people to reduce the epidemic's severity. Deve...Know your risk for hepatitis C virus
...ly, combination treatment for HCV has been able to eradicate the virus in approximately half of all cases, grea...pe of treatment used. The goal of treatment is to eradicate HCV RNA from the body, which correlates with the absence of HCV RNA in the blood after treatment has...More frequent ivermectin treatment could reduce symptoms of disease responsible for river blindness
...ivermectin, when applied correctly, may be able to eradicate the ancient scourge of onchocerciasis from many parts of the world....Relaxation techniques ease side effects for cancer patients in treatment
...the patient was undergoing aggressive treatment to eradicate or slow the cancer, says lead study author Karin Luebbert of the University Hospital Hamburg. Teaching relaxation techniques involves very little of a professionals time -- usually less than two hours -- making the intervention inexpensive, according...Five-week antibiotic treatment may improve cardiovascular function
...researchers tried to find an antibiotic that could eradicate it, says Juan Carlos Kaski, M.D., a co-author of t...ght not be a direct result of the drugs ability to eradicate the pathogen, because their study showed that patients who had very high levels of C. pneumoniae ant...Team studies use of Sandia technology to ensure 'farm-to-fork' safety of the nation's food supply
...ulation known for its ability to kill anthrax to eradicate E. coli, salmonella, and spoilage organisms that may exist on food processing equipment. When used as a foam, the formulation which is nontoxic, noncorrosive, and looks like shaving cream may also have the potential for sanitizing meat cutters equi...High-dose radiation treatment effective at fighting some cancers in children
...single dose of high-dose radiation isn't enough to eradicate the disease," Nag said. But applying the one-time high dose of radiation right at the site of the tumor reduces the dose of radiation to healthy tissues. Conventional external beam radiation...Fresh hopes for treatment of malaria in Africa
...is still malaria, especially in Africa. Efforts to eradicate the carrier of malaria, a mosquito, have been only partly successful. The standard treatment for malaria has, for many years, been chloroquine, a fairly safe, effective, and cheap drug. Over the 40 years, from the 1940s to 80s, malaria parasites in A...Drug war strategy: First fund enforcement then switch to treatment, says O.R. paper
...erating its growth or more aggressively attempt to eradicate the use of the new drug. Eradication carries a heavy political burden, they write. For it to succeed, policy makers must have the political capital needed to obtain massive funding - even if the specific drug problem is still relatively small - and ...Baltimore researchers receive $40 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
...ccine for younger infants will save lives and help eradicate measles worldwide by dramatically decreasing the size of the susceptible population," says Diane E. Griffin, M.D., Ph.D., chair of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and co-principal investigator on the......ey call for better detection and improved drugs to eradicate the virus The best AIDS drugs are still ...ART, highly active antiretroviral therapy, did not eradicate the AIDS virus, despite the fact that the virus could not be detected by conventional means in the p...New model suggests that AIDS drugs may not abolish HIV infection
Current AIDS drugs may never eradicate HIV from infected individuals, accordingto a new m...d to estimate how long it would take to completely eradicate HIV-infectedcells from a person's body. Dr. Paul, Zvi Grossman, Ph.D., of the National Institutes of...... DC, (PAHO) May 3, 1999- A collaborative effort to eradicate measlesfrom the Americas was approved Friday in a ...oration with PAHO in all areas, andspecifically to eradicate measled by the end of 2000. This initiative is goodfor the U.S. and CDC, good for all the countries...