Major overhaul needed in end-of life care for patients with dementia
...ients and suggest ways to get past them. The first hurdle is the unwillingness of physicians and families to think of dementia as a terminal illness. Patients with dementia decline slowly, with long periods of stability punctuated by sudden declines and partial recovery. The proximate cause of death is us...Promise of stem cells amplified
... "Older, scarred spinal cord injuries pose another hurdle that we have yet to conquer," he says. "Future studies may find a way around this barrier." The broader accomplishment of this work, says Keirstead, is the generation of a highly pure population of oligodendrocytes from human embryonic stem cells. P...Major overhaul needed in end-of life care for patients with dementia
... and suggest ways to get past them. The first hurdle is the unwillingness of physicians and families to think of dementia as a terminal illness. Patients with dementia decline slowly, with long periods of stability punctuated by sudden declines and partial recovery. The proximate cause of death is us...Switch of a gene turns cancer cells healthy in mice, Stanford scientists find
...s fate rather than killing it outright. The hurdle now is finding drugs that deactivate the Myc gene in humans. Felsher's experiments worked because the group could create a modified Myc gene that responds to doxycycline. To work that same trick in human cancers, researchers need a drug that binds to...Cancer gene therapy news backgrounder: New ideas fuel next generation gene therapy research
... adenovirus-based cancer gene therapies, the major hurdle any such therapy faces is treating cancer that has spread. "The obstacle in dealing with malignancy is facing the dissemination of disease - its spread," says Gary Clayman, M.D., another gene therapy researcher at M. D. Anderson. "Therefore, a clear ...Study: New neurons can get out of spinal cord
...uccessfully overcome what is thought to be a basic hurdle in restoring function to severely damaged central ...s to travel properly through the cord is the major hurdle to try to restore muscle control," says Douglas Kerr, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of neurolo...High cost of life-saving childrens vaccine may be keeping some doctors from giving it
...vis says, the high cost of Prevnar appears to be a hurdle for some states in the current budget crunch, and they have left it off their lists of subsidized vaccines. This "patchwork" system of vaccine coverage was the subject of a recent Institute of Medicine report that called for more uniform coverage, p...Novel anti-coagulant clears hurdle
...tion process than other agents has cleared another hurdle in becoming a potential new treatment for patients with coronary artery disease. The new agent, code-named DX-9065a, inhibits the action of Factor Xa (as in Roman numeral X), a pivotal clotting factor of the dozen known factors involved in the comple...Transplanted human neural stem cells improve memory in rats
... said. The researchers crossed a major technical hurdle in their transplantation work. "Previous studies have failed to produce working brain cells from transplants of stem cells," said Sugaya. "In our case, the stem cells were clearly incorporated into the wiring of the host brain."...High-tech scan for blocked arteries matches conventional tests in finding root of symptoms
...new diagnostic technologies have to clear a higher hurdle to be accepted, now that established tests are often based on solid evidence of their accuracy. But they hope their study will give others the data they need to evaluate EBCT's use for symptomatic patients at their own centers, and to examine its use...Government needs to support 'e-medicine' to improve medical care
...ivery, according to Jakobsen. But an even greater hurdle is the federal Medicare system, which has so far resisted efforts to broaden reimbursements to include many telemedicine procedures. "Because many elderly rely on Medicare to pay for their health-care expenses," Jakobsen wrote, "telemedicine will...Making kidney transplants last longer: Large UM study finds newer drug is better
...g for a transplant, the ordeal of surgery, and the hurdle of avoiding acute rejection, the threat of chronic rejection and loss of the kidney within a few years still looms," says Kaplan. "Our results suggest that therapy that includes MMF may offer longer kidney and patient survival than AZA by reducing th......of identical, non-human primate models has posed a hurdle to researchers - until now. "This research is an encouraging step that could accelerate the work of thousands of scientists looking for cures to hundreds of diseases," said Schatten. "While many researchers agree that mice will continue to prove ......em does nothave to be an endorsement." One hurdle in integrating alternative therapies into mainstream medicine isthat mainstream and alternative practitioners have different ideas aboutwhat causes health problems, Burg said. "In traditional Chinese medicine, which includes acupuncture and herbalth...