Breakthrough in medical research: New chemotherapy gives hope to brain tumour patients
...oratory-based science. The EORTC also assembled a laboratory research team that succeeded in identifying a mole... collaboration between the hospital based research laboratory and the leading clinicians, this interdisciplinary success would never have been possible. I hope th...Northwestern Memorial Hospital honored with one of the nation's top awards for quality
...ogy for specimen processing. Nearly three million laboratory tests are processed annually at Northwestern Memorial, and use of this technology has reduced result turnaround time by 32 percent, while also increasing accuracy and reducing costs. "There is no one silver bullet for quality improvement in healthcar...End AIDS drug waiting lists, HIV care providers tell policymakers
...ician visits, medically necessary medications, and laboratory tests. An additional 25 percent should be earmarked for basic medical services like mental health, substance abuse, and prevention counseling. To end wide state-to-state variations in access to anti-AIDS drugs, HIVMA and AAHIVM are also strongly re...Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
...c journal. The two conducted their research in the laboratory of Gordon F. Tomaselli, professor of medicine and vice chair for research in the Department of Medicine. "By the time most patients are diagnosed with heart failure, it's too late to really improve their condition," Akar said. "By defining the early...University of Manchester awarded 826k for brain science and mental health research
..., to develop novel and exciting research ideas for laboratory and population-based studies, and 'Trial Platforms...ts by speeding up the translation of research from laboratory to the clinic."...NJIT chemistry professor edits text outlining best laboratory practices
...ook, along with chemical professionals involved in laboratory work....Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
...rs and clinicians to expedite discoveries from the laboratory to the bedside. "This a remarkable time in the fi...euron research. Working collaboratively with each laboratory and contributing to the translational research process, the new center will facilitate transfer of s...Influenza vaccination programmes for children in USA and Canada based on little evidence
... studies that evaluated the efficacy (reduction in laboratory confirmed case) and effectiveness (reduction in symptomatic cases) on influenza vaccines in healthy children aged 16 years or younger. Vaccines of live viruses with weakened infectivity had 79% efficacy and 38% effectiveness in children older than t...Plant derivative attacks the roots of leukemia
...am, which aims to move experimental drugs from the laboratory to human clinical trials as quickly as possible. "...ic myelogenous leukemia cells and normal cells. In laboratory experiments, they also compared how human leukemia stem cells reacted to parthenolide, versus a comm...CK2 protein sustains colon cancer cells by sabotaging ability to commit suicide
...the cancer cell to continue growing. "The work my laboratory has done using our cell lines of colorectal cancer...y support and expand those published by Houghton's laboratory last October in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. In that study, the team reported similar findi...Protein that promotes survival of stem cells might be key to poor leukemia prognosis
...this project while a member of Stanley Korsmeyer's laboratory at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston). Mcl-1 belongs to the Bcl-2 family of proteins. Some of these family members promote apoptosis, while others prevent it. "Other researchers have previously shown that members of the Bcl-2 family that bloc...Schepens scientists regenerate optic nerve for the first time
... to the brain. This achievement, which occurred in laboratory mice and is described in the March 1, 2005 issue o...ch, Dr. Kin-Sang Cho, research associate in Chen's laboratory and the first author of the paper, tested two keys to unlock regeneration. The first key involved th...Lack of specific collagen type leads to osteoarthritis
...itute of Technology, conducted the research in the laboratory of Farshid Guilak, Ph.D., director of orthopedic research and senior member of the Duke team. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health. The researchers focused their attention on the narrow region of tissue that surrounds the cartila...Hard choices: Pitt researcher presents findings on when to accept organ transplants
...r. "We are actually tracking the levels of various laboratory values in the patient's blood." Their next step is to make the model better represent both the biology and the quality of life of organ recipients. In addition to their work on organ transplantation, Schaefer, Roberts, and several Pitt graduate stud...Biochemical marker aids prognosis in liver transplant patients
...ne, is an objective, quantitative and reproducible laboratory test, and is therefore a good candidate for inclusion in the mathematical formula of the MELD score. While serum sodium can be decreased with the use of diuretics and can therefore be manipulated, this disadvantage also applies to serum creatinine. T...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
BOSTON--A laboratory study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Ins...unds to measure their effectiveness against CML in laboratory cell cultures and mice with the disease. Data from the study published in Cancer Cell showed that i...Stem-cell research hints at better looking cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
...eded scaffolds were placed under the skin in eight laboratory mice. After four weeks, the implants were removed and examined. The researchers found that the stem cells had differentiated into fat generating cells and the implant had retained both its original size and shape. Conventional implants begin to lose ...Miniaturized lab permits saliva screening on the go
...s DNA or bacteria, that you would otherwise need a laboratory to do." Research has shown that fluids in the mou...olleagues are striving to, in essence, reproduce a laboratory in a small device that could be used in any setting and that would produce results in less than an h...Viagra used in stroke recovery study
...s been researching stroke recovery using Viagra in laboratory animals with good outcomes. In this case what had been learned in the lab would be transferred to the bedside. "What we found is that we can use certain drugs like Viagra to create new brain cells," says Michael Chopp, Ph.D., scientific director of t...International gathering of experts to share retinoblastoma breakthroughs
...lar basis of this potentially fatal cancer and new laboratory models to test novel therapies prior to clinical t..., the recent development of mouse models by Dyer's laboratory and several other laboratories allows St. Jude researchers to test potential new drugs that might be...