New Colorectal Cancer Treatment Available
...w, we have had no effective second line therapy to offer these patients, so we are very excited to have a more effective treatment option," said Dr. Saltz. Researchers are planning to enroll approximately 660 patients over the next year who have newly diagnosed metastatic disease and have not been treated ...Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
...researchers believe that the polymer implant could offer an alternative to external drug delivery systems u..." Grossman says physicians in India seem eager to offer patients the polymer, which can be easily implanted before patients return to their villages. Villa...Alzheimer's disease center seeks patients for new drug studies
...ed at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas may offer hope for the millions of Americans affected by Alzheimer's disease. UT Southwestern is one of 30 medical centers across the nation -- and the only one in North Texas -- testing propentofylline, an oral drug for Alzheimer's that also may be effective...A Surgical Semiconductor Laser With More Precision And Power
...d in this research, says that semiconductor lasers offer several advantages over thegas lasers more widely used in surgery. They're more durable and more user-friendly, he says, since they have no gastanks to replace or mirrors to care for. Semiconductor lasers are also more efficient than gas lasers: A ga...NIAID Stops AIDS Study Prematurely Because Drug 'Cocktail' Boosts Survival
...rting to know that this approach to treatment will offer patients clinical benefits. These very exciting results renew our enthusiasm for this approach, which now clearly is the best treatment we have available." Others involved at UNC-CH include Dr. Charles van der Horst, associate professor of medicine...Guidelines Offer Ways To Curb Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
...ructor at the medical school. “The guidelines offer practices designed to reduce transmission between patients.” Recently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published rigorous “Isolation-Precaution” guidelines for hospitals, Hoffmann said, but the new N.C. stat...Duke Obtains FDA Designation For Pompe Disease Therapy
...r Pompe disease asone of the advanced therapies we offer in our new outpatient children'sfacility in the near future."...Cancer Protection Compound Abundant In Broccoli Sprouts
... compounds found in mature broccoli heads, and may offer asimple, dietarymeans of chemically reducing cancer risk," says Paul Talalay, M.D., J.J. AbelDistinguishedService Professor of Pharmacology. Talalay's research team fed extracts of the sprouts to groups of 20 femalerats for fivedays, and exposed...Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory collaborates with USDA in development of pasteurization process
...lly effective means for pasteurization. RF waves offer advantages over the traditional pasteurization method of directly heating raw liquid foods. The direct method often heats foods unevenly, possibly resulting in incomplete pasteurization in lower temperature regions and in denaturing foods in overheat...Cattle: Latest Weapon In The War On Cancer?
...obtaining them,but we believe that domestic cattle offer a very promising alternative,"he says. The goal of the research is to make GAGs a valuable coproduct of thebeef industry. Overseas, shark cartilage extract sells for $250-500 a kilo,but here bovine cartilage mainly goes into blood-and-bone fertilis...Natural Estrogens May Help Protect Women From Brain Damage During Stroke
Natural estrogens may offer some protection to premenopausal womenthreatened with severe braindamage during stroke, according to a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkinsand the NationalInstitutes of Health. Results of the study are published in the January issue of the ...Chemist Turns To Self-Assembly To Create New Drugs
...ology can be expanded for industrial use, it would offer afaster way for chemists to create and screen potential newdrugs. "The approach shows great promise because it's fundamentallymore efficient," says Paul Wender, professor of chemistry atStanford University and an expert in the synthesis of bioch...Snipping Inflammation In The Bud; New Agents May Provide Relief
...ave forged a new class of synthetic molecules that offer a newstrategy for treating pain, swelling and the other hallmarks of injury orillness. Writing this week (March 5) in the scientific journal Nature, University ofWisconsin-Madison chemist Laura L. Kiessling describes a new family of compoundsthat pac...X-ray Microscope Designed To Study Jet Engine Components Now Probes Tooth Dentin
...e the bonding process, the UCSFresearchers now can offer a better explanation of the reasons bonds succeed andfail. When dentists prepare a tooth for bonding a filling, they use an acid todemineralize the surface of the cavity. This process removes the mineralmaterial from the dentin, leaving a fram...... of medicine(endocrinology), results of this study offer new treatment options for ourpatients with type 2 diabetes. Besides Drs. Inzucchi and Shulman, co-authors are David G. Maggs, M.D.;Geralyn R. Spollett, A.P.R.N.; Stephanie L. Page, R.N.; Frances S. Rife, R.N.;and Veronika Walton, B.A.. ......he United States, especially inrural areas, do not offer angioplasties as an option. On a nationwidebasis, the use of the intra-aortic balloon pump in combination withclot-busting drugs at these hospitals has the potential to save thousandsof lives each year." The pump treatment, called intra-aort...International Study Raises Hopes For Heart Transplant Patients
...nal Study of the organ rejection drug, Neoral, may offer significant benefits to heart transplant recipients. Clinical results obtained from 24 research centers in five countries were reported today at the International Society For Heart and Lung Transplantation Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. According t..."TRAMAH" Model Seeks To Improve Emergency Response Paper Uses Maryland As Test Region
...rs and helicopters. Trauma systems are designed to offer much-needed medical treatment to severelyinjured p...arly 100%. Consideration of such simulations could offer life-saving traumacare to hundreds more severely injured people every year. More Ways To Improve A...Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
...NCEP), endorsed by the American Heart Association, offer the most reliable basis for physicians' decisions regardless of the optimal lower limit for LDL cholesterol," says Grundy. A new statin trial, the Treating to New Target (TNT) study, should provide the answers concerning lower limit of benefit, but ...UF Psychiatrists Use Antidepressants To Treat Smoking Addiction
...s survival-enhancing behaviors. UF physicians also offer patients strategies for attaining and maintaining abstinence from tobacco. "Of course, smoking cigarettes is not survival enhancing, but the brain doesn't know that," Eaton said. "We in the addiction field have known that smoking is ...