Neurobiologists Show How The Brain Processes Signals From Pheromones
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...the study were taking forParkinson's disease. The next steps will be to determine whether the benefitslast over time, whether other therapies are more beneficial, and whether theremight be different forms of Parkinson's disease depending on the age of thepatient. More analysis of the results from this t...New Three Year Follow-up Data Of Novantrone In Multiple Sclerosis
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...y of sleep, the children don't function aswell the next day. And parents may suffer when they lose sleep to care for theirsick children." Diette and his colleagues surveyed 400 parents whose children sufferedasthma and were treated by doctors at managed care clinics. During the monthleading up to ....... In the adult study, which will continue for the next several years, neitherclinical staff nor patient k... and she would need hemodialysisto stay alive. The next three years were spent battling infections, undergoingadditional surgery for the removal of a sectio...New Approach To Attacking Alzheimer's Disease Studied
...w York, New York. Theresearchers hope, within the next 18-24 months, to develop a lead compound thatcan be tested in patients with Alzheimer's disease....Immunex Advances CD40 Ligand To Phase II Clinical Trial In People With Metastatic Kidney Cancer
...on the anti-tumoreffect of CD40L will be presented next week at the 35th Annual Meeting of theAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). In these studies, conducted inboth mice and fresh human tumor samples, CD40L inhibited tumor growth inmultiple solid tumor types, such as breast, lung, ovarian and c...Jefferson Scientists Show Tumor Characteristics May Help Explain Tumor Biology And Prognosis
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...gave the patients differentdoses of IL-12 over the next five days to boost the immune response. Thetreatment cycle was repeated three times. "Using total white blood cells instead of cultured dendritic cells was somewhatheretical," explains Thomas Gajewski, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor ofpathology and...Evidence Shows Drug-Psychotherapy Combo Effective For Chronic Depression
...racter or personality disorders. "The next step is to translate the acute phase findings into appropriatetreatment guidelines for initial management of chronic depression," Keller said. "The data that willemerge from the continuation and maintenance phases will be extremely helpfu...Ordinary Touches Multiply Into Severe Pain For Fibromyalgia Patients
...rth nearly $800,000 to continue hisstudies for the next four years. Donald Price, a UF professor of oral andmaxillofacial surgery, and Charles Vierck, a UF professor of neuroscience,are collaborating on the research. Their goal is to develop a betterunderstanding of the condition, with an eye toward impro...Cellular Implants Explored For Brain Trauma
...ving rats' performanceon these trials, the group's next steps will be to carry out parallel studieswith stem cells, inject hNT cells into more than one spot around an injury, andinfuse growth factors along with the transplanted cells....Family Support A Factor In Cardiovascular Responses To Stress
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