Yale cancer center to test cervical cancer prevention drug: NCI grant funds research
...quantity of HPV present influences the response of lesions to the treatment,"she said. More than 10 million American women are infected with high-risk HPVs, and anestimated 15,000 American women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year. While routine Pap screening has significantly reduced the rate of ce...Photodynamic therapy reduces risk of vision loss in some macular degeneration patients
...reatments during the follow-upexams if theabnormal lesions suggested further growth or vision loss. The study was sponsored by QLT PhotoTherapeutics Inc., Vancouver, BritishColumbia; and CIBA Vision Corp., Duluth, Ga., co-developers of photodyamictherapy. Bressler is a paidconsultant to QLT PhotoThera...Study examines STDs among women-to-women sex partners
...cer. Some of the women withthe worst pre-cancerous lesions were women who'd never had sex with men,Marrazzo says. "The bottom line is that no matter what your sexual history is, you needto get a Pap smear," Marrazzo says. The study has also found that women having sex with other women have ah...New therapy raises good cholesterol results in regression of heart disease in mice
...cantregression of the pre-existing atherosclerotic lesions as well as a moderateincrease in their levels of HDL cholesterol. By comparison, the controlanimals' atherosclerosis progressed during the four weeks. Previous studies in animals have shown that apoA-1 can slow progression ofatherosclerosis. Howeve...UF study shows contemporary method accurately predicts cancer risk
...ied FNAB specimens taken from patients with breast lesions who were examined between 1990 and 1997, categoriz.... The patients did not have breast cancer, and the lesions ranged from normal to highly atypical. Masood then tracked the patients' medical histories over time......rt tissue, creating a small, elongated lesion. The lesions and subsequent scar tissue, which do not conduct e...ons are essential to the surgery's success; if the lesions have gaps, are too thin or are misaligned, the problematic electrical impulses could eventually rero...... also be able to develop innovative ways to repair lesions using these pathways to deliver therapies directly to the diseased part of the brain. Human defects in neural migration leading to structural defects in the brain have been linked to many disorders, such as epilepsy and schizophrenia. One devastat...Aspirin and other non-specific COX inhibitors may slow atherosclerosis
... study, the researchers found that atherosclerotic lesions were reduced by 55 percent in mice exposed to the non-specific COX inhibitor, compared to lesions in the untreated mice. Mice exposed to the COX-2 inhibitor showed the same progression of atheroscle...Double-drug therapy may benefit some multiple sclerosis patients
...o develop brain plaques or scarring from MS. These lesions are from damage to myelin, the sheath that protect...fibers. The patients developed a mean of three new lesions a month. Mitoxantrone (sold under the brand name Novantrone) was then added to the patients' ther...UCLA-led study first to show green tea helps prevent chronic gastritis
...mmon inflammatory disease that causes precancerous lesions of the stomach. The progression from chronic gastritis to stomach cancer is slow. Green tea contains antioxidants that researchers believe may inhibit the development of chronic gastritis and halt the progression of stomach cancer. "This is the fir...Brain trauma may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease
...issue showed an increased level of traumatic brain lesions in Alzheimer's brain samples when compared to normal brain tissue. The researchers conclude that brain injury increases an individual's risk of developing Alzheimer's. This study also looked at ApoE4, a gene implicated in the development of Alzheimer...Early promise of non-invasive test for colorectal cancer
...t previous studies have focused on the more common lesions of the distal colon and rectum. The new study, by Giovanni Traverso, Kenneth Kinzler, and Bert Vogelstein from Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Baltimore, USA, and colleagues focused on patients with proximal cancers-tumours that should be the most diff...Imaging tool helps locate recurrent prostate cancer
..." However, the capromab pendetide scan can detect lesions as small as 5 millimeters and has been shown in earlier studies to detect metastatic prostate disease in men with high PSA levels. However, no prior study had examined its capabilities in evaluating men with mildly elevated PSA levels often indicatin...UM researchers use 'artificial intelligence' for first time to diagnose colon tumors
... they can be trained to recognize specific disease lesions or subtle differences within disease categories. Ultimately, we hope that ANNs will greatly aid in the diagnosis and classification of human disease states. Dr. Meltzer says the study is one of the first to use this type of "artificial int...Research links level of spina bifida defect and need for shunt after newborn surgery
...rgery performed on newborns with open spina bifida lesions requires closing tissue over the defect to protect...ses, children were more likely to have shunts when lesions were identified by bony level rather than by functional level. In addition to helping design a futur...Second patient with multiple sclerosis undergoes groundbreaking surgery at Yale
...level of disability because of the location of the lesions in the brain, but he is otherwise healthy." There ...fibers in the spinal cord and brain. The resulting lesions make it difficult for the nerves to transmit messages. In the first procedure on March 6, ...Hormone therapy may be most protective in women with healthiest blood vessels
...herosclerosis. The researchers then measured fatty lesions in the animals blood vessels and designated the an... three years, the researchers again measured fatty lesions in the animals vessels. The measurements showed that animals treated with estrogen had less atherosc...Over a quarter of interval cancers could have been detected during screening
... period. Results from the study showed that 50% of lesions were not selected by any of the radiologists, 23% ...ults, it is reasonable to conclude that 27% of the lesions could have been detected during screening....NIAID study results support diluting smallpox vaccine stockpile to stretch supply
...ever, headache, muscle aches, chills and satellite lesions near the primary lesion. The undiluted vaccine caused greater inflammation at the site of injection and more swollen lymph glands, whereas the diluted vaccines more often caused satellite lesions. Many clinicians may not realize that smallpox vacc......are deeper and smaller than the 1-centimeter-sized lesions that physicians can detect by feel, said the lead ...on technique physicians use to characterize breast lesions with their fingers. But ARFI "is a new radiation force-based imaging method that provides informati...