AIDS Treatments Seek To Eradicate Virus, Restore Immunity
...bitor that received FDA approvalearlier this year, kills HIV by crippling an enzyme crucial to its survival,a mechanism different from other anti-viral compounds. The three drugs are expected to reduce the "viral load" or theamount of HIV in patients' bodies, by 99 percent, said Dr. John Bartlett,who hea...New Ultrasound Technique Is Alternative To Cerebral Angiography
.... Stroke, sometimes called "brain attack," kills about 150,000 people inthe United States each year and is the third leading cause of death in theUnited States after heart disease and cancer. When not fatal, stroke can leavebrain functions impaired. About 500,000 people suffer strokes each year. ......rtant way of treating breast cancer. Chemotherapy kills dividing cells,particularly cancer cells and immune system cells. To avoid killing immunecells, physicians remove the bone marrow that produces them before beginningtreatment. After the course of chemotherapy is completed, the bone marrow...Chemical Society's Highest Award Goes To Ronald Breslow
...toxic compound -- that is, achemotherapy drug that kills cancer cells without killing normal cells," hesaid. This is true largely because cancer comes not from foreign cells, "butfrom normal ones that are misbehaving. They've lost their balance, and we try torestore it." Two such chemotherapy agen...Scientists Create Extremely Sensitive Test For Detecting Radiation Damage
... University of Alberta. Ionizing radiation kills cells by breaking or otherwise disruptingsegments of genetic material known as DNA, Leadon said. But currently usedmethods of measuring such damage are not sensitive enough to assessenvironmental radiation effects. Sometimes testing techniques themse......it is the number one killer by cancer and in fact, kills morepeople than colon, prostate and breast cancer combined. At this time, over halfof the lung cancer cases in the United States are in men, but the number ofwomen diagnosed each year is increasing and will surpass that in men. As one of 31...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
...lotkin. "Maternal smoking during pregnancy kills between tens of thousands andpossibly over a hundr... admissions to intensivecare units after birth and kills or brain-damages more during the birth process.Smoking is also responsible for one-third to two-thir...Many Gay Men Infected With HIV Are Opting To Delay Treatment, Despite Availability Of Drugs
...ion because the virusenters these immune cells and kills them--were a very good predictor of whowould be on combination therapy, according to Stall. Findings showed 80 percentof persons with CD4 T cell counts of less than 200 were following combinationtherapy, while only 40 percent of those with counts of......lnerable to heart attacks eventhough heart disease kills more women than any other disease," he says. Women'srisk for heart attacks was one of the six themes emphasized in the 18-monthcampaign. The other themes were general awareness of heart attack symptoms;heart attack survival plan; symptom recognitio...WFU And IntraVec To Develop Innovative Cancer And HIV Treatments
...ce and secrete a toxin,or poison, that attacks and kills cancer cells but does not harm the carriercell or other normal cells. Scientists see this treatment as a major advantage over traditionalapproaches in which a drug is injected into the bloodstream but only a smallamount of it finds its way to......ekeeping while patients undergochemotherapy, which kills both healthy and cancerous cells. The stem cells canthen be transplanted back into the patients, providing a fresh supply of healthyblood cells and restoring bone marrow function. Traditionally, another growth factor, G-CSF, has been relied upon to s...USC Researcher Lights Up The Immune System To Help Heart Transplant Recipients
... light, it binds to the T-cells and eventually kills the cells. Each patient then received an injection of their own inactivated cells were then re-injected into the patient. Photopheresis "changes the way the body views its own cells, so that the immune system will recognize the very cells ...Forecasting Killer Heat: UD Systems Predict Deadly Weather Worldwide
... comfort. Such "acclimatization" explains why heat kills fewerpeople in warmer U.S. cities, Kalkstein says. In Philadelphia, for example, the total number of "excess" deaths for a givensummer, over and above the city's average, is 129 -- compared to zero for Miami,Kalkstein says, thanks to acclimatization....Neutron Research To Help In Treatment Of Cancer Patients
...e treatment, called boron neutron capture therapy, kills cancer tumorsby breaking them up with neutrons, un...ts, surgery isn't always viableand radiation often kills healthy tissue along with the cancerous tumor. Researchers believe boron neutron capture the...Antibiotics Reduce Inflammation In Heart Disease But Effect On Heart Attacks Remains Unproven
...majorbreakthrough treatment against a disease that kills more Americans each yearthan any other disease. "We once thought peptic ulcers were unrelated to bacterial infection,but we know today that they can be effectively treated with antibiotics. Weneed to find out if the same could prove true of...Laser Pointer Helps Parkinson's Patients Take Next Step
...t 500,000 adults in the United States. The disease kills braincells in a vital region of the brain known as the substantia nigra. Thispea-sized part of the brain produces dopamine, a neurotransmitter that's key tothe control of movement. The disease results in uncontrollable tremors andshaky, stiff, and sl...Marker Found For The Most Malignant Brain Tumors
...that a powerfulcytotoxin attaches to the IL 13 and kills the brain tumor in at least 40 percentof the cases and is often even more effective than that. The cytotoxin does notharm normal brain cells. "We have been extremely encouraged with these results. We can use themost powerful agents to fight t...Biological Markers Found That Correlate To Esophageal Cancer Treatment Success
...-pi, whichconfers radiation resistance. Radiation kills cells by forming oxygen radicals-- highly reactive oxygen atoms that damage DNA. GST-pi reduces these oxygenatoms so that they are no longer reactive. The 84 patients with GST-pi survivedan average of 21 months, while those without it survived 47 m...Unexpected target may unlock the door to fighting sepsis
...terial infection of the blood or body tissues that kills half ofthe hundreds of thousands of people who get the disease each year in the UnitedStates. Investigators found that when they blocked C5a, a protein product that isnormally activated by the immune system, they were able to provide a significantdeg......search has shown that, in the test tube, verotoxin kills certain braintumor cells very efficiently. We wanted to determine if this was also the casein a living animal." As part of her doctoral studies in Dr. Lingwood's laboratory, Dr. Sara Arab (nowa clinical fellow in Medical Genetics at HSC) injected ver...