Minimally invasive breast cancer treatment shows promise
...rtain all cancer has been destroyed. "This is an experimental study, and additional long-term trials will be needed before RF ablation becomes available as an alternative to surgery in the treatment for early breast cancer," Dr. Fornage said....Existing therapies applied to new use in broader spectrum of cancer care
...can Association for Cancer Research. Inhibition of experimental colon cancer metastasis by the GABA-receptor agoni...ous system also works to suppress metastasis in an experimental model of colon cancer, according to researchers from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Tex. ...Sedative may offer new direction in colon cancer treatment
...rsity of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Their experimental model of colon cancer -- work done in cell culture...colon and some ovarian cancers. "This is the first experimental evidence that Nembutal is a potent inhibitor of colon cancer metastasis," says the study's first aut...Doolittle Award honors UH professor for outstanding research in polymers
...with his co-authors, who were involved more in the experimental part and materials contribution, his contribution was key in the win with the award criteria primarily being based on presentation and development and analysis of scientific content, which was his role in the project. "The award has been give...Researchers say criterion for diagnosing child abuse based on faulty evidence
...s not based on scientifically valid comparative or experimental studies."Lantz and colleagues researched the issue after being involved in the case of a 14-month-old-child who died with perimacular retinal folds and other injuries. The child's father reported that a television set had toppled over, landing on the...The human brain and comparative judgments
...physical size, numerical size, and luminance. This experimental paradigm allowed the researchers to examine interference evoked by the other two irrelevant dimensions as well as specific regions of brain activity. The authors observed that, during comparative judgments, the relative continuous quantities of numb...Mouse model mimics real-world plague infection
An experimental plague vaccine proved 100 percent effective when t...n fed on 15 mice that had been inoculated with the experimental vaccine containing an adjuvant (an immune booster). For comparison, the researchers let infected fle...Human studies show feasibility of brain-machine interfaces
...y applied for federal approval to begin implanting experimental electrode arrays long-term in quadriplegic patients. Such tests, conducted over the next three to five years would involve implanting the arrays in specific regions, asking the patients to perform specific tasks and then exploring which tasks are opt...Scientists identify crucial gene for blood development
...t of tissues and organs during embryonic life. The experimental results being published in the March 16 issue of Developmental Cell demonstrate that MLL is necessary for the development of the "master" stem cells that generate all the mature blood cells. The team led by Patricia Ernst, PhD, and Stanley Korsmeyer...Random drug testing in schools is unworkable
...rate self harm may be very different from a single experimental use at home with adults during a family party, he says. "In three years' of experience of school health provision for alcohol and drug problems and their related referral networks, I do not know of one school that could satisfy these criteria, espec...2004 Research in Periodontal Disease Award to Soskolne
... became known as apoptosis of osteocytes. Based on experimental models used during collaboration with Drs. Nuki and Raisz, Dr. Soskolne developed an organ-culture model, for the study of bone remodeling, which has been used extensively to study bone physiology and the modulation of bone modeling by sex hormones f...2004 Salivary Research Award to Ekstrom
...e involved studies on reflex activity in conscious experimental animals. His ideas usually emerge from in vivo studies on a variety of laboratory animals, and this has often created the need for subsequent in vitro assessments by a variety of cell biological procedures to support (or counteract) new hypotheses. ...Effectiveness of safer smallpox vaccine demonstrated against monkeypox
A mild, experimental smallpox vaccine known as modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) is nearly as effective as the standard smallpox vaccine in protecting monkeys against monkeypox, a study by researchers of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one...Brain Science Institute at Columbia University established by Kavli Foundation gift
... University will focus on the development of novel experimental and computational strategies for analyzing and deciphering how signaling in neural circuits controls behavior. According to Dr. Kandel, "Our work will be directed toward developing more powerful tools to enable us to move from the study of individual...Bite-marks giving false impression
... subjective and has never been held up to rigorous experimental validation. Christopher Plourd, the San Diego att...the marks left skin broken, red or bruised and the experimental "victim" did not struggle. "Evidence is never of that good quality," says Plourd. In real cases, f...Ovarian tissue storage and later transplant shows promise for women infertile from cancer therapy
..., the whole procedure should still be presented as experimental to patients. Only a small part of the ovarian graft can be screened with sensitive techniques for the detection of hosted cancer cells. For some cancers: those that colonise the ovary or that can metastasize into ovary, it will be always difficult t...Thursday, March 4, 2004 news tips
...s in weight and blood cholesterol levels during an experimental program for 18 youths ages 9 to 16. They enrolled in six- or 13-day interventions that included a low-fat diet of 15-20 percent of calories from fat, more than 40 grams of fiber and less than 1600 milligrams of sodium. They also engaged in 2 to 2 ...NIH researchers test promising new therapy for blinding eye disease
...d by T helper cells, showed promise in treating an experimental model of uveitis. Previously approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in preventing organ rejection in patients receiving kidney transplants, daclizumab's safety profile is already well characterized. These factors paved the way fo...Antibiotic provides promise in treatment of spinal cord injuries
... and co-lead author of the study, notes that other experimental agents can prevent later-stage tissue loss, but must be given immediately after or even before SCI to be effective. "The field has badly needed to develop a drug that could be used in a practical manner," said Teng. According to the National Spinal...Experimental drug used to treat recurrent ovarian cancer shows promising results
...ith recurrent ovarian cancer using phenoxodiol, an experimental anti-cancer drug that could kill cancer cells and increase effectiveness of standard chemotherapy. The data were presented by David O'Malley, M.D., instructor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, at the 35th Annual Meeti...