"Super Aspirin" Holds Long-Term Benefits For Some Patients Who Undergo Balloon Angioplasty
...lopment of oral agents similar to ReoPro™ promises to further expand the use of these agents to a broader spectrum of patients with ischemic heart disease," he said. Michael P. Savage, M.D., associate professor of medicine, division of cardiology, Jefferson Medical College, and dir...Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
...logy community. "This remarkable agreement promises to significantly accelerate theprogress of new cancer treatments from laboratory to clinic," said RalphSnyderman, M.D., Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University Medical Center."Such collaborations between an industrial partner committed to rapi...Scientists Create Extremely Sensitive Test For Detecting Radiation Damage
... and cancer-causingchemicals. The new test promises to be extremely useful because it is some 10,000to 100,000 times more sensitive than other assays, the scientists say.Experiments with the technique also suggest doctors soon may be able to boostthe body's ability to repair genetic injuries. ...Three INEEL Inventions Win International Recognition
...esigned and patented spraygun. This new technology promises to reduce the cost and lead time for producingtooling by a factor of five to 10, substantially shortening the time it takesindustry to get products to market. Unlike other alternative tooling approaches,RSP Tooling Technology makes it possible to cre...Neurotransmission Machinery Visualized For The First Time
...0 billion neurons. So understanding vesicle fusion promises to shedlight on processes like learning and memory, and may lead to improved treatmentsfor brain disorders. "It's sort of like merging two soap bubbles into one, but hardly that simple,"explained R. Bryan Sutton, an HHMI associate in Brunger's labora...Radically New Type Of Surgery Tested On First Patient
...f manipulating surgical tools withinthe brain that promises to be minimally invasive," says Ralph Dacey, M.D. "Andit should be a safer way of doing brain surgery because it allows us to use acurved pathway to reach a target. Therefore we can go around sensitivestructures, such as those that control speech or ...Breakthrough? Study Finds Dopamine Cannot Be Source Of Pleasure In Brain
...atedly pressed the lever,too. The new work promises better explanations of how such abused chemicalsas nicotine, alcohol, cocaine and amphetamines act in the brain, Wightman said.It also might help identify less toxic substances that could ease withdrawal andmake it more successful. "Because n...New outpatient surgery is helping women with stress incontinence
...sses that longer-term studies are needed. "But TVT promises a simple andsafe answer to a difficult problem," says Klutke, who now is experimenting witha TVT sling for men....7,000 Pharmaceutical scientists to share latest drug developments and discoveries
...ences into the next century. "The plenary session promises to provide a glimpse into the future of drugtherapy and health care and a recap of the most significant advances made in thepharmaceutical sciences over the past century," said AAPS Annual Meeting ProgramChair Jay Sisco, Ph.D. The meeting will offe...NIAID spearheads collaborative network for clinical research on immune tolerance
...hile keeping protective ones intact. The strategy promises toimprove the success of transplants and treatments for autoimmune diseases thatdestroy the body's own cells. The research could lead to better management oftype 1 diabetes, lupus, arthritis and other immune system disorders. The project, known as t...Preventive detention for people with personality disorder is wrong
...nt's proposals, Professor Mullen says: "With their promises of new money and research funding they hope to bribe doctors into complicity in the indefinite detention of certain selected offenders." He adds "There is a crying need for mental health services for severely personality disordered individuals...The ...Government needs to support 'e-medicine' to improve medical care
...lth-care providers. Equally important, e-medicine promises to improve access to health-delivery services in rural areas with chronic shortages of doctors and hospitals, writes Jakobsen, a graduate of the law college. Licensing, patient consent and other issues will have to be resolved before telemedicine b...Supplements that target fat loss … metals that protect themselves …
...an Chemical Society A popular dietary supplement promises to help people lose fat and keep it off. A different approach to making drugs yields a kinder, gentler aspirin. A new gasoline additive packs the punch of MTBE without the environmental threat. These are but a few of the findings that will be present...New discovery may revolutionize treatment for pain related to surgery, illness and injury
...port a revolutionary advance in pain medicine that promises to deliver painkillers directly to the affected area of the body, in smaller doses and with fewer side effects. The researchers report the first clinically suitable method using nerves as a means of safely delivering high doses of painkillers to ac...New technique uses imaging technology to speed drug discovery
...s four to 12 times faster than current methods and promises to simplify and speed the drug discovery process. "This method has several advantages over current methods and may be a boon for pharmaceutical industries that spend billions of dollars and thousands of man-hours working to develop new drugs," says H...SNM reaction to OMB position on nuclear byproduct materials
.... Dillehay, M.D. also noted that "Despite repeated promises to us and to the Congress that it would do so, the NRC continues to impose an unnecessary and excessively expensive regulatory scheme on diagnostic nuclear medicine." Dillehay also noted that ACNP and SNM believe that proposed regulations by the NRC ...Submicrometer-scale metallic barcodes described by Penn State and Surromed
...ing. The particles are easy to synthesize in what promises to be an incredible variety of distinguishable patterns. This strategy could be a significant improvement over previous approaches, which have relied on combinations of fluorescent dyes for particle identification. In fact, for metallic barcodes i...Faster detection of bacteria in water, food
...to water, food and medical uses, Dr. Kashis method promises to give biologists a better understanding of microorganisms. By tracking differences that accumulated slowly in bacterial genomes over time, the study of the patterns of variation among strains can lead to greater insight into bacterial evolution. "T...Zebrafish: Drug discovery of a different stripe holds promise in COX research
...hese systems have their limitations. The zebrafish promises to play a complementary role in which both biology and the role of drugs can be investigated." Traditionally zebrafish have been useful in searching for gene mutations induced by exposure to toxic chemicals, which coincide with abnormalities of deve...Cancer revealed: New $10M grant establishes cancer imaging center
...decade have been astounding, but combining the two promises to increase our power to understand and defeat cancer," says Brian Ross, Ph.D., professor of radiology at the U-M Medical School and principal investigator of the new center, which also involves VARI director and noted cancer researcher George Vande ...