New drug takes multiple approach to prevent brain damage from stroke
...function and cognitive problems. It interrupts the flow of blood in the brain, which causes cells to die. Ischemic stroke, which accounts for more than 80 percent of all strokes, is the result of a blood clot in the brain, according to the American Stroke Association. More than 600,000 people have a strok...NIH awards grant to MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals to study novel pain treatments
...rfusion - the latter involving the return of blood flow to an organ following removal of a blockage, such as after a heart attack. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in August 2000 indicated potential new treatments to counter the perplexing and often fatal blood pres......s in Philadelphia, PA. The system is an automated flow immunoassay that can be used to rapidly and simult...earch & development. The paper, titled, A laminar flow fluorescence immunoassay for the detection of tetrahydrocannabinols (THC) in oral fluids" is based o...FDA awards grant to metaphore pharmaceuticals to study septic shock in humans
...erfusion the latter involving the return of blood flow to an organ following removal of a blockage, such as after a heart attack. MetaPhore recently announced that it has received an SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct Phase 1 studies aimed at developing potential new tre...Studies: delay in seeking stroke treatment can lead to death, permanent impairment
...hemic stroke, the kind caused by interrupted blood flow to the brain. The other major stroke type, subarachnoid hemorrhage, involves bleeding inside the skull and could be made much worse with tPA therapy. Morris recommended that hospitals and EMS personnel improve training and establish standard proced...Encouraging one year results in vessel growth factor trial
...prodding new vessel growth will increase the blood flow to the heart in people whose arteries are narrowed by fatty deposits. Such deposits reduce the flow of blood and oxygen to the heart, which can cause chest pain known as angina. The deposits can also...Gum disease higher in heart attack patients
...periodontal disease and have measurements of blood flow through an artery in the forearm recorded before and after treatment. Atherosclerosis begins with damage to the arterial endothelium, the inner protective lining of arteries of the heart. Studies have shown that the condition of the forearm endothe...Preventing radiation damage in popular medical technique
... with special loops which can coil up to block the flow of blood inside the aneurysm. Compared to traditional surgery, the direct intervention approach has many advantages. By positioning a catheter into the area that needs to be treated, doctors can perform interventions inside the body without making a...Researchers image language recovery after stroke
...750,000 Americans suffer a temporary loss of blood flow to the brain, known as an ischemic stroke. Often, patients experience problems with speech and language, particularly after a stroke to the left side of the brain. Remarkably, many recover the majority of their language abilities within six to twelve......uropathy (ION), result from a sudden lack of blood flow to the eye. Eye attacks, which are usually painle...n Glazer, MD and Juan Grunwald MD, a retinal blood flow expert, also with Penns Scheie Eye Institute. This study will attempt to focus on the characteristi...Specifying alcohol-related brain damage in young women
...e as MRI but is more sensitive to changes in blood flow related to changes in cognitive, motor, or sensory tasks performed by individuals while they are being scanned. Typically, fMRI reflects a change in activity between two tasks that differ in only one aspect. The signals obtained from the two differ...Study shows reduction of inflammation helps heal heart
...od vessels, decrease resistance and allow blood to flow to the heart more easily. Patients administered the drug themselves by injection. In comparison with etanercept, traditional heart failure medications can be difficult to give, since they affect blood pressure and require the doctor to continually a...Pharmacologist tip sheet: Migraine patches, nicotine therapies, allergy medication interference...
...ounts of nicotine are sprayed into the nose, blood flow and glucose metabolism in the cerebral cortex and visual cortex are increased. These results are objective measures of the findings of studies looking at the impact of nicotine on behavior. (Poster PI-110) Lidocaine Cream Can Help With Migraine Pai...Study: Ripped aortas kill often, but new knowledge may aid survival
...- the torn lining can continue to rip, block blood flow to the body, cause the heart to fail, or make the aorta swell into an aneurysm or even rip open. In fact, aortic dissections are the leading cause of death among people with Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that weakens the aorta and produces ...New definition may make number of heart attack cases soar
...mptoms consistent with ischemia or decreased blood flow to the heart; changes in an electrocardiogram; and/or elevated enzymes - most commonly, one called CKMB. But the new guidelines, published in 2000, require that elevated enzymes, which can include CKMB or troponin, be one of the criteria in additio...High-tech scan for blocked arteries matches conventional tests in finding root of symptoms
...n half of any given artery - enough to alter blood flow dangerously. They compared how often the test foun...or radioactive tracers to assess a patient's blood flow while he or she is exercising on a treadmill. Similar levels of accuracy, though based on far fewer ...Animal studies indicate new approach for treating end-stage skin and kidney cancers
...n injury the latter involving the return of blood flow following removal of blockade, such as after an ischemic heart attack or stroke....UCSF researchers move in on role of brain's naturally occurring marijuana
...hereby dampening excitatory behavior. This orderly flow of information from pre-synaptic to post-synaptic cell is the classical form of communication in the nervous system. But, of interest to the researchers, when excitatory glutamate neurons are highly charged electrically, they release a molecular s...Engineers use computer simulation to design synthetic blood vessels
... his team continues to develop new ideas for blood flow analysis and optimal blood vessel geometries using virtual prototyping. "We are investigating these questions with the computer, trying to duplicate the real-world physico-biological processes," he said. In addition to a better dialysis graft, other ...Highest known catalytic rate for superoxide dismutation achieved
...n injury the latter involving the return of blood flow following removal of blockade, such as after an ischemic heart attack or stroke....