Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
...nd Targon and to rapid development of commercially viable products for the oncology 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 Me...Increased Public Access To Defibrillation Could Prove Potentially Cost-Effective And Life-Saving
...wer cost per patient, PAD is still an economically viable solution and itseffects are likely to be additive to the results of a standard EMS system. Implementation of PAD by members of the public cost $44,000 per additionalquality-adjusted life year and implementation by police cost $27,000 compared toa sta...Researchers Synthesize Compounds For New Class Of Antibiotics
...rting the rawmaterials of myxopyronin A and B into viable antibiotics. "This is a significant breakthrough from a chemistry point of view, butit's the first step in the process, " said Michael G. Palfreyman, VicePresident of Research and Development at Scriptgen. "Now we need to takemyxopyronin and...Nitrosamines Play Important Role In Cancer Linked To Smoking
...obacco smoke--called chemoprevention--remains as a viable way to preventcancer death in addicted smokers and ex-smokers, Hecht adds. Many agents havebeen tested in mice, and phase I clinical trials for the leading candidate, anisothiocyanate called PEITC, are being initiated. # # # # Researcher contac...World's First Producer To Repair Brain Damage From Stroke
...eLBS-neurons to ensure there are 2 million or more viable cells to transplant. After the manufactured neurons are transferred to a long-needledsyringe, a surgeon uses CT to guide their injection at three sites. The surgeoninjects these cells through an opening of the skull smaller than a pea. Afte......articipating clinics."For a new technology to be a viable option in a health care system," Winikoffet al. say, "both patients and providers need to want to use it and to ask forit. For this reason, understanding how women and medical personnel perceive andvalue a new technology is important. In the case o...Researchers Splice Severed Spinal Cords
...o years away. The isolated spinal cords remain viable for about 36 hours after removal.Borgens says the results of studies in live animals will shed more light on howpermanent the new technique might be. Borgens and Shi applied polyethylene glycol, or PEG -- a nontoxic,water-soluble polymer used in ...New Drug Boosts The Power Of Traditional Cancer Therapies, UF Animal Studies Show
...o the cancer's blood vessels was so extensive that viable tumor cells were seen only at the outside edges of the tumors. Siemann believes these tumor cells survived because at its periphery, a tumor is sustained by the body's normal blood vessels rather than those that have developed specifically to support...Infrared Thermometers A Good Alternative For Use On Newborns
...n infrared thermometer is a viable option for a newborn in a crib,using these devices on older infants may not yield accurateresults. "They would need to be tested in the older age group,"Seguin said. "Researchers i...Trial Begins For First Artificial Liver Device Using Human Cells
...aiting for a liver transplant and fewer than 4,500 viable livers donated eachyear, there is no guarantee that a suitable organ will become available in time.In 1997, 1,131 patients died while waiting for a liver transplant. The artificial liver may also be used to support a patient aftertransplantation unti...Transplant Pioneer Thomas E. Starzl Most Cited Researcher In Clinical Medicine Over Past 17 Years
...on's transition from an experimentalprocedure to a viable treatment for patients with end-stage organ failure. There is no doubt that his early work is still widely recognized, and hiscurrent contributions are no less important. This ranking proves that he haslaid the foundation for new discoveries in the ...Biological Markers Found That Correlate To Esophageal Cancer Treatment Success
...etely to the chemotherapy and radiation and had no viable tumorleft at surgery had an average survival longer than five years. In analyzing the relationship between markers and patients= response to therapy,Harpole found the three protein markers whose presence or absence significantlyimpacted patient survi...Treatment-Resistant Depression: Results of Latest Electromagnetic Stimulation Study Show Promise
...etitive transcranial magneticstimulation) may be a viable option for patients with treatment-resistantdepression," the authors say. Prior to receiving rTMS, "There were an average of seven antidepressantfailures per patient and eight patients had failed electroconvulsive therapy(ECT)," they say. ...NYU researchers uncover the neurobiology of decision-making
...ion-makingdeveloped by social scientists present a viable biological alternative to theCartesian reflex. It has revealed that neurons in parietal cortex carry signalscorrelated with both the probability that a particular eye movement responsewill yield a fruit juice reward and the amount of reward that can ...Double transplant frees patient from need for immunosuppressive drugs
...alin needing both applications and having no other viable option. Her myelomacaused her kidneys to fail, and she did very poorly on dialysis. Her cancermade her ineligible for a regular kidney transplant, and her kidney failure madeher unable to tolerate the toxicity of standard bone marrow transplantprep...UF researchers show magnetic stimulation may be a safe alternative to shock therapy
...tion to treatsevere depression could prove to be a viable option for patients who otherwisewould resort to electric shock therapy, University of Florida researchersreport. In the past decade, magnets have attracted the interest of many health consumersand have carved out a sizeable niche in the alternative ...New DNA chip method could improve cancer diagnosis
...tched effectively,suggesting that this was a fast, viable and highly promising method for cancerdiagnosis. "Although DNA arrays have been used in expression profiling of healthy anddiseased cells, this is the first time that the technology has been applied toclassify cancer types," says Dr. Golub. The s...To build a better artificial hip, UD prof says, mimic Mother Nature
...niques were being investigated in the 18thcentury, viable prosthetics weren't available until the late 1950s...echanical tests using bone from acadaver suggest a viable new technology, Santare says, and the team is seekingpatent support. They also hope to complete anim......in whom even highly sensitive tests could detectno viable HIV, the virus quickly rebounded to substantial le...ies on the twopatients and still could not isolate viable HIV. "In these patients, we observed both a reduction of plasma virus to less than 50copies per mill...Time-released capsule delivers 'growth factor' to improve coronary bypass surgery
...growthfactor therapy could be done safely and is a viable strategy for treating heartdisease." Simons says a larger study of the growth factor therapy involving 120 patientsis currently underway. Co-authors are Roger J. Laharn, M.D.; Frank W. Selke, M.D.; Elazer R. Edelman,M.D., Ph.D.; Justin D. Pearlman, ...