New compound holds promise for lupus and related diseases
...d run amok instead of dying on cue. The abnormally surviving immune system cells produce antibodies, which attack the body's healthy cells and tissues. The result is harmful and sometimes fatal inflammation in various tissues and organs, particularly the kidneys. According to the Centers for Disease Control a...Family focus is hallmark of new South African grant
... cover burial costs. Also, with family money gone, surviving members, including children, are often forced into crime or sex work, which perpetuates the epidemic." This CIPRA award is a collaborative effort with the Universities of Witwatersrand, Cape Town and Stellenbosch, the South African National Health La...Radio-frequency ablation for treatment of cancer pain in bone
...ollow-up patients and have found that many of the surviving patients continue to have reduced pain one year after the initial RF ablation procedure. The RF ablation procedure takes about 30 to 60 minutes to perform. The patient is given a light general anesthetic, and a thin needle is inserted through the...Endovascular coils beat neurosurgery for treating brain haemorrhage
... aneurysm[1] have a significantly better chance of surviving without disability if they are treated through the blood vessels than if the aneurysm is clipped by surgery. The findings are published today (Friday 25 October) in the Lancet[2]. Inserting special platinum coils via an artery and blocking off the an...Bacterial protein kills tumors
...l death. Normally, the p53 protein is short-lived, surviving just a few minutes in the cell before degrading. But azurin winds its way into the nucleus of the tumor cell, where it binds to the p53 protein and protects it from degradation, thus raising its level within the cell. According to Dr. Tapas Das Gupta...Positive mental attitude does not affect cancer survival
...on's mental attitude affects his or her chances of surviving cancer, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers reviewed 26 studies on the effect of psychological coping styles (including fighting spirit, helplessness/hopelessness, denial, and avoidance) and survival from or recurrence of cancer. They found...Increased parental mortality after death of a child
... associated with an increased mortality rate among surviving parents. Jrn Olsen and colleagues from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, used data from Danish death registries from 1980-96 to assess whether child death was linked to an increased risk of parental death compared with parents who had not experience...Thymus transplant might save babies born without immune systems
...1, and none survive past 3 years of age. The seven surviving Duke patients are all well and living at home two ... in the body." One year after transplantation, the surviving seven patients had T cell counts ranging from 479 per cubic millimeter of blood to 1,580 per cubic m...Bladder cancer survival rate jumps
...der and may die of other causes, but the chance of surviving was higher in the neoadjuvant group," he says. Patients who did best of all were those who had no cancer left in the bladder at the time of surgery, the researchers concluded. At the time of surgery, significantly more patients (38 percent) had no ev...University of Pittsburgh intestine transplant results reported at international meeting
...e University of Pittsburgh are the world's longest surviving recipients of a liver-intestine transplant. "The improvements we have seen in survival rates are clearly related to changes we've made with respect to immunosuppression. As we have better come to understand the rejection process and the unique charac...First steps towards a vaccine for pancreatic cancer
...tic cancer. So the finding of even a few patients surviving two years or more is promising regarding the usefulness of this vaccine after removal of the cancer. However, and this is a big however, we may be biased in who we selected for the study. Only people who could have an operation were eligible; we sc...Sandia nanolaser may help extend life-spans by rapidly analyzing possible neuroprotectant drugs
...iting a nursing home has seen the horror of humans surviving beyond their brains' ability to make sense of their surroundings. That loss of discrimination is caused by neurons killed by malfunctions in mitochondria - the submicron-sized power packs found in every animal cell. These malfunctions are the most im...More children survive cancer but the after-effects present a challenge to doctors
... and bad news," she said. "The number of patients surviving beyond five years has increased substantially from the 1960s to the 1990s, but the majority of patients have some form of side effect from their treatment and/or their illness, which requires medical intervention. For example, the majority of childre...Fetal surgery for spina bifida shows early benefits in leg function, fewer shunts
...rth. Twenty-four of the infants (57 percent of the surviving 47) had better neurologic leg function than predicted, based on the level of the spina bifida lesion. Hindbrain herniation occurs when a portion of the brain protrudes through the base of the skull into the spinal column. If the tissue blocks the flo...M. D. Anderson expands peer counseling program for African-American breast cancer survivors
...fort to improve their sexual quality of life after surviving breast cancer. With the Sisters Peer Counseling in Reproductive Health after Treatment (SPIRIT) program carried out in partnership with Sisters Network® Inc., one of the nation's largest African-American women's breast cancer advocacy organiza...Gene expression profiling may lead to customized treatments for pediatric leukemia patients
...tients currently have a 70 to 80 percent chance of surviving the disease, but the odds of survival decrease following a relapse. ALL subtypes are used to assign patients to risk groups. Risk group assignment is an important element of cancer care because it allows physicians to avoid overtreating patients who...Nursing home residents, minorities under-treated for recurrent stroke
...nts, many of whom are admitted to recuperate after surviving an initial stroke. Past research suggests that blacks are less likely than whites to receive drug treatment for stroke, and that race often distinguishes who is healthy and who has access to and uses health services, said Jennifer Christian, Pharm.D....Study of deadliest form of stroke demostrates much lower mortality rates at high caseload hospitals
...spital mortality provides compelling evidence that surviving a SAH is more likely if a patient is admitted to a high volume hospital and suggests that there may be significant benefits to centralizing SAH care for these catastrophic strokes. "The 40% reduction in relative risk seen at high-volume SAH centers...Automatic CPR device dramatically improves cardiac arrest survival in Stanford animal study
...l, portable device greatly increases the chance of surviving sudden cardiac death by restoring blood pressure b... than the survival rate was that 88 percent of the surviving animals had normal brain function," said Mehrdad Rezaee, MD, PhD, clinical science research associat......ers say they've also shown that "the likelihood of surviving a cardiac arrest in facilities with an AED program is considerably higher than the success rate reported for most out-of-hospital witnessed cardiac arrests." Their findings support AHA recommendations to implement AED programs in preventive exercise...