Improving child survival in Kenya: Strengthening of district hospitals essential
...basic anti-infective drugs, clinical supplies, and laboratory tests were available in at least 12 hospitals, other essential resources--more sophisticated antibiotics, appropriate treatment for malnutrition, newborn feeds, and measurement of jaundice--were rarely or never available in the majority of hospitals ...Fetal tissue restores lost sight
...erson," says Stephen Minger, head of the stem cell laboratory at King's College London. In the US no such guidelines exist. Some of the other groups trying to develop treatments for degenerative eye diseases are pinning their hopes on stem cells. Various kinds can be turned into retinal cells, and this week it...Animal study suggests safer immunization approach to Alzheimer's
...an tried a modified passive immunization method in laboratory mice that are used as a model for the disease. In a single injection, she delivered the antibody directly into the third ventricle, a narrow cavity located between the two hemispheres of the brain, and then examined the animals' brain tissue at one, ...Six new Roybal Centers for Applied Gerontology established by National Institute on Aging
... and behavioral basic research findings out of the laboratory and into programs, practices and policies that will improve the lives of older people and the capacity of society to adapt to societal aging. Established for 5 years, the Centers will receive a total of $1.8 million in funding in their first year. "...Radiotherapy + cetuximab significantly improve disease control and survival in head and neck cancer
...o years. "This is proof that drugs coming from the laboratory can be used to cure more patients", said Dr. Giralt. Overall toxicity resulting from the combined treatment was dominated by recognised side effects of high dose head and neck irradiation e.g. mucositis (inflammation of the mucous membranes) and skin...Scientists detail latest advances in development of prosthetic devices for paralyzed
...hods yet reduce their downfalls. Scientists in the laboratory of Richard Andersen, PhD, of the California Institute of Technology have developed a method that collects local field potentials (LFPs). Instead of recording from individual neurons, the researchers implanted electrodes that collect information from...Tea could improve memory, study shows
...ove your memory, new research suggests. Results of laboratory tests by a team from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne found that green and black tea inhibit the activity of certain enzymes in the brain which are associated with memory. The findings, which are published in the academic journal, Phytotherapy ...Researchers identify brain protein that halts progression of Alzheimer's
... dying?" Dr. Thor Stein, a researcher in Johnson's laboratory and first author of the study, then analyzed the brains of mice and noticed that the levels of transthyretin had increased dramatically. When Stein treated the mouse brain with an antibody that prevented transthyretin from reacting with the beta-amyl...OHSU study: Testosterone deprivation makes men forget
...iffer," Bussiere said. Janowsky, whose laboratory focuses on how cognition changes with aging, said healthy older men, on average, have about a 40 percent loss in their normal levels of testosterone as they age, from the ages of 20 or 30, to 70, but that some men in their 80s can have normal and hig...New hope for ALS seen with genetic techniques, growth factors
...kebaum and Diether Lambrechts, PhD--working in the laboratory of Peter Carmeliet, MD, PhD, at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium--rescued the motor neurons attacked by ALS by providing them with a key support agent called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). VEGF was first discovered as an agen...New protein associated with aggressiveness in breast and ovarian cancer
...duction, of the Rab25 protein. They then conducted laboratory in vitro cell line studies, and in vivo studies using human breast and ovarian tumor xerographs in mice, and were able to demonstrate that either increasing or decreasing expression of Rab25 altered tumor growth. Finally, using the human tumor sample...Olfactory bulb stem cells and Lou Gehrig's disease
...reating ALS some day. But there is a great deal of laboratory work to do before clinical trials would be appropriate."...Mothers have brains primed for care
...uence behavior and stress hormone output. Welch's laboratory hopes to develop treatments that mimic the actions and interactions of these neuropeptides on the body and brain to reverse behavioral and developmental disorders. This work challenges a widespread assumption that severe behavioral disorders, especia...New understanding of neural circuits may help development of thought-controlled prosthetic devices
...lis. Another new study from the Nicolelis laboratory at Duke also may help simplify the development of computer programs for thought-controlled prosthetic devices. "We found that certain common components seen in the signals from groups of nerve cells better predict a variety of movement directions tha...Lab study defines and blocks mechanism that lets brain tumors sidetrack immune response
...lled gliomas. Blocking the enzyme's expression in laboratory tests interrupted the series of cell-level events and led to the development of cells capable of launching an immune response. This finding supports the suggestion that medications attacking the enzyme may boost the immune system's ability to recogni......tish scientists have developed a tabletop DNA test laboratory that can cut the diagnosis of disease and infection from hours to 30 minutes. This new test laboratory will soon begin trials in UK hospitals. Scientists at the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory...Cedars-Sinai October 2004 medical tipsheet
... a genetically engineered virus into the brains of laboratory rats, presented the progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the brain that cause Parkinson's disease. The study, published in the September issue of the journal, Molecular Therapy, may lead to a new way to treat patients with advanced Parkinson's...Two novel agents work synergistically to treat lung cancer in animal experiment
...th. IGFBP-3 has demonstrated some effectiveness in laboratory studies involving several different kinds of cance...d a team of researchers set up experiments in both laboratory lung cancer cells and in mice that had been implanted with human lung tumors. They found that mild d...Congress of Neuological Surgeons meets in San Francisco
...rosurgical community, and examples of clinical and laboratory advances in neurological surgery....Mayo Clinic research shows stroke rehabilitation best served by physical training
... and researchers from Mayo Clinic. It consisted of laboratory experiments in rats, and appears online in Experim...he confusion by laying a solid foundation of clear laboratory evidence upon which to base best care practices for stroke rehabilitation. In their experiments with...