MRI proves useful in assessment of suspected breast cancer patients
...cer returns in previously thought to be adequately treated breast cancer patients. One of the reasons could be that many of the cancers may be missed initially with only a conventional work up with mammography and ultrasound. The addition of MRI will improve the accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis," Dr. Wie...Mayo Clinic study sets threshold for valve repair surgery
... a regurgitant orifice larger than 40 mm2 who were treated only with medication were more than five times more likely to die than those with the same severity of regurgitation who underwent valve repair surgery. Dr. Sarano says the quantitative data from this study, combined with advances in surgical techni...Immersion in virtual world alleviates pain from injury
...ty games can help alleviate pain in children being treated for severe injuries, according to research published today in the Open Access, peer reviewed journal BMC Pediatrics. Immersion in a virtual world of monsters and aliens helps children feel less pain during the treatment of severe injuries such as bu...Chemicals in apples could reduce the risk of breast cancer, Cornell study in rats suggests
...lead author of the study. The Cornell researchers treated a group of rats with a known mammary carcinogen and then fed them either whole apple extracts or control extracts. Liu, who says this is the first study of the effects of apples on cancer prevention in animals, also found that the number of tumors wa...Infectious microorganism linked to kidney stones and other diseases
...enefit to the nearly one million Americans who are treated for kidney stones each year....Columbia study finds hemophilia therapy dramatically improves outcomes for bleeding stroke
... in neurological and clinical outcomes in patients treated with rFVIIa compared to placebo. ICH is the deadli...compared to placebo. The proportion of patients treated with the 160 g/kg dose of rFVIIa with no disability was 24%, compared to 8% in placebo. Also after...CK2 protein sustains colon cancer cells by sabotaging ability to commit suicide
...ock CK2 in samples of tumors removed from children treated at St. Jude." "This is a translational research laboratory," Houghton said. "Our aim is to translate discoveries made here into better treatments for children with solid tumors." Houghton currently collaborates on colorectal cancer treatment studies...Marijuana ingredient may stall decline from Alzheimer's
...ve days to find a platform hidden underwater. Rats treated with the control protein with or without cannabinoids and those treated with the amyloid protein and cannabinoid were able to find the platform. Rats treated with amyloid p...Potential drug target for treating cocaine abuse found
...eport the results of experiments showing that mice treated with a substance similar to the drug benztropine did not show any of the typical hyperactive behavior when later injected with cocaine. This effect wore off after a day. Cocaine produces intense feelings of euphoria by increasing the amount of dopami...Study examines three-day antibiotic regimens for treating bladder infection in women
...h UTI was observed in 93 (58 percent) of 160 women treated with amoxicillin-clavulanate compared with 124 (77 percent) of 162 women treated with ciprofloxacin. Amoxicillin-clavulanate was not as effective as ciprofloxacin even among women i...Investigational transplant drug effectively preserves kidneys while avoiding toxic side effects
...r the past 20 years, transplant patients have been treated with cyclosporine-like medications that effectively suppressed the immune system to prevent the body from rejecting the new organ," said Christian Larsen, MD, DPhil, director of the Emory Transplant Center. "The problem is, the medication not only sh......lung cancer samples from patients who had not been treated with either drug. Additional cell culture studies supported the notion that the secondary mutation causes resistance to gefitinib or erlotinib. It is clear, though, that this is only one of several resistance mechanisms, because in the three other ca...Heart attack treatment gap may be closing for women
... of Cardiology recommend that patients with ACS be treated with aspirin, beta-blockers and lipid-lowering medications. Previous studies have shown distinct gender differences, with men receiving more therapies than women. However, only limited studies specifically addressed the practice of this clinical gu...Component of green tea protects injured livers in mice
...s in fatty livers, decreased significantly in EGCG treated mice. Further tests revealed an increase in hepatic energy stores (one of the liver's functions is to store energy in the form of glycogen) in EGCG mice and showed that EGCG was acting as an antioxidant, thereby protecting fatty livers from I/R injur...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...ance for CML approximately 95 percent of patients treated with Gleevec achieve remission there clearly is a need for therapies that produce longer remissions, are active against advanced disease, and can be used when Gleevec loses effectiveness," says Dana-Farber's James Griffin, MD, senior author of the s...Female sex hormones play a vital role in defense against sexually transmitted diseases
... and were more susceptible to the virus. The mice treated with a combination of the two hormones, estradiol ...ond study, just like in the first study, mice were treated with hormones but, before being exposed to the real herpes virus, they received a vaccine Surprising...Vaccine may complement conventional treatment for chronic leukaemia
...rant growth and division. Patients with CML can be treated with a drug called imatinib or interferon alfa. Tr...gest that the addition of this vaccine to patients treated with conventional treatment might favour further reduction of the residual disease and increase the ...Viagra used in stroke recovery study
...se basis. One patient, Rene Jarinski, 43, has been treated with Viagra since suffering a stroke in July 2003....he first patient in the United States who has been treated with Viagra specifically for stroke recovery," says Dr. Silver. After being given doses of 50 and 10...Radiologists offer non-surgical treatment for early-stage liver cancer
...nd that 74 percent of the tumors were successfully treated by ablation. The procedure proved more successful with smaller tumors than with larger tumors, with a success rate of 83 percent when treating tumors 3 centimeters or smaller. According to Dr. Lu, not all tumors are amenable to such treatments. "It ...PENN begins clinical trial of newest technology to treat thoracic aortic aneurysms
.... STARZ-TX2 will compare the outcomes of patients treated with open surgery to patients treated with the Zenith TX2 Thoracic TAA Endovascular Graft, manufactured by Cook Incorporated. Specifical...