Success of experimental herpes vaccine builds momentum for human clinical trials
...he said. Straus said that dl5-29 seemed especially promising because it solves a critical problem that is believed to underlie the failure of previous candidate vaccines. The dominant approach to herpes vaccine development over the past 20 years has been the delivery of one or two pure glycoproteins found in t...First US SARS vaccine trial opens at NIH
...own global health threat, and now we are testing a promising vaccine that may help us to counter that threat sh...irus existed. Today, we begin clinical trials of a promising vaccine candidate. We owe the speed of this research to modern molecular genetics. The technology en...Broad-based vaccination of wild mice could help reduce lyme disease risk in humans
...strate that vaccination of wildlife hosts may be a promising ecologically based strategy to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases to humans by vectors such as insects and ticks. "This 'proof-of-principle' study demonstrates that vaccinating a carrier of a vector-borne disease in the wild is a potenti...Research by scientists affiliated with the Earth Institute at Columbia University
... This technique was tested in the laboratory, with promising results. Over ten days, roughly 70 to 80% of the d... iron was removed from solution. The prospects are promising for preventing high arsenic groundwater plumes at this and similarly affected landfill sites. Alison...U of MN researchers set new standard of care for adult cord blood transplant patients
...iversity of Minnesota researchers will present the promising results from adult umbilical cord blood studies fo...dence of serious transplant complications and very promising survival compared to the previous studies. In the second study, a group of 59 patients who were not...Stem cell research: The new medicine of the future
... 14 days and enforces the UK's strict legislation, promising stringent fines and up to 10 years' imprisonment for those convicted of reproductive cloning. In the United States, however, the approach to stem-cell research is quite different. This contrast was evident during the contentious campaign to pass Prop...Peptide vaccine can produce complete remission in myeloid leukemia patients
...evidence of the disease remaining. "These are very promising results in a group of patients who were quite sick, and who normally would live for just months," says the study's lead investigator, Jeffrey Molldrem, M.D., an associate professor in the Department of Blood & Marrow Transplantation. "Not only can w...Novel drugs help solve Gleevec resistance
...y these drugs, BMS-354825 and AMN107, appear to be promising for treatment of relapsed CML and offer an immediate effective option for the minority of patients who do not achieve an optimal response to Gleevec therapy. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, the only institution to have tested both of these novel compou...Stem cells of limited use for cardiac muscle repair
New evidence suggests that a promising investigational treatment for patients with damage... These results are difficult to reconcile with the promising responses seen in mice and humans treated with adult stem cells. "It's clear that the tra...Dairy Council of California program receives high marks from teachers & students
...s participating. The first grade results were very promising with the percentage of first grade students classifying foods into the correct groups improving between pre and post test. In addition, among the first graders who reported eating breakfast the day of the survey, the consumption of each of the five ...Molecular tailoring of chemotherapy with novel imaging techniques
...y in the clinic lead to some benefit." TRAIL looks promising in animal studies but clinical studies that are due to start in the next year or so will determine how toxic TRAIL is and begin to see whether it really works in cancer patients....Methylphenidate improves attention, behavior of children surviving leukemia, brain tumors
...uthor of JCO report. "Our three-week study gave us promising results for children suffering from attention and behavior problems due to their cancer treatments," Mulhern said. "Our future plans include follow-up evaluations of children who continue MPH treatment for three, six and 12 months. In addition to imp...MRI shows liver tumors freezing in real time
...ombination of MR guidance and cryotherapy has very promising results," Dr. Tuncali said. "Not only does it show local success rates and survival numbers that are encouraging, but it also demonstrates the usefulness of monitoring with MRI." ...Brain imaging with MRI could replace lie detector
...d" in the same manner. However, these results are promising in that they suggest a consistency in brain patterns that might be beyond conscious control. "We have just begun to understand the potential of fMRI in studying deceptive behavior," Dr. Faro said. "We plan to investigate the potential of fMRI both as...Brains of people with autism recall letters of the alphabet in brain areas dealing with shapes
... "This finding provides more evidence to support a promising theory of autism," said Duane Alexander, M.D., Director of the NICHD. "If confirmed, this theory suggests that therapies emphasizing problem solving skills and other tasks that activate multiple brain areas at the same time might benefit people with...Rutgers-developed biomaterial drives a technology transfer story toward success
...puter modeling, however, Kohn's group identified a promising polymer composition in an exceptionally short time. Based on both the rapid development from concept to prototype, and the early success of pre-clinical studies, Boston Scientific Corporation (Natick, Mass.), the world's leading stent company, an...Proposed addiction treatment successful, safe in second small trial
...lead to larger, placebo-controlled studies of this promising treatment." Drs. Dewy and Brodie have conducted extensive brain-imaging and behavioral studies on animals showing that GVG attenuates and, in some cases, blocks neurological and behavioral changes associated with drug addiction. Last fall,...Compound in apples may help fight Alzheimer's disease
... difficulty eating the whole fruit, there are some promising alternatives, Lee suggests. Other foods containing high levels of quercetin include onions, which have some of the highest levels of quercetin among vegetables, as well as berries, particularly blueberries and cranberries. Like other antioxidants, qu...Chemoprevention backgrounder: Working for a future of cancer chemoprevention
... agents the National Cancer Institute has said are promising and so are "considered priority substances for stu...c damage from turning into cancer. One of the most promising approaches to lung cancer chemoprevention is the use of a so-called "super aspirin," says Kurie, in ......) and Dartmouth Medical School has shown extremely promising results for a vaccine against the most common causes of cervical cancer. Writing in the lead article of this week's issue of The Lancet, Harper and her fellow authors said the vaccine has the potential to greatly reduce deaths from cervical cancer, o...