Engineered blood vessels may be an option in cardiac bypass
...h as trying to identify patients several months in advance to allow time to harvest tissue and grow new vessels. "The possibilities are far-reaching -- from building vessels to heart valves to planar (flat) tissue for other vascular repair," McAllister said. "There is also an exciting potential application ...Forensic Science: The Nexus of Science and the Law
...e. Reporters who wish to attend should register in advance at www.nas.edu/sackler/forensic ....Scientists use stem cells to grow cartilage
...show it may be as little as five years before this advance can be used to directly benefit patients for a huge variety of illnesses and injuries." The team included Professor Dame Julia Polak, Head of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Centre, Imperial College London, as well as Mr Neil Tolley,...Mailman School of Public Health receives grant for homelessness prevention studies
...ne, but often in combination. "There is a need to advance the knowledge base on the factors underlying chronic homelessness, accelerate the development of evidence-based preventive interventions, and disseminate effective interventions, treatments, and service models to benefit the mentally ill at greatest ...New gene silencing therapy for cervical cancer
... "Development of treatments for humans would be an advance over the current treatments, radiation and chemotherapy, which kill not only cancer cells but also normal cells that leads to hair loss and nausea. "We envisage such treatment will be used for all forms of cervical cancer including the premalignant ...Magnetic probe successfully tracks implanted cells in cancer patients
...magnetodendrimers could be followed by MRI. But to advance to clinical trials, the research team switched from the experimental magnetic tags to formulations of iron oxide already approved for clinical use in Europe (as Endorem) and the United States (as Feridex). Because immature dendritic cells naturally t...Penn research permits first-ever visualization of psychological stress in the human brain
...dds Wang. "Our findings should help significantly advance our understanding of this process." To date, most fMRI studies have indirectly measured changes in cerebral blood-flow and metabolism induced by neural activation, using a technique that is sensitive to the oxygenation levels in blood. "The fMRI t...Immunological karma: T cells reactive to old flu infections make unrelated viral infections worse
...g IM. Their results appear onlineon November 23 in advance of print publication in the December issue of theJournal of Clinical Investigation. The authors found that, in patients with IM, memory CD8+ T cells specific toan epitope of the influenza virus encountered in a previous infection, alsorecognized and ...Killing regulatory T cells boosts effectiveness of cancer vaccine
... In their study appearing online on November 23 in advance of print publication in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Johannes Vieweg and colleagues show that the immunotoxin DAB389IL-2 selectively eliminates CD25-expressing regulatory T cells in cancer patients, without any toxic e...... held ethical values. People need to subscribe in advance to the rationale behind such choices as: the prior...eed to provide this kind of particular guidance in advance of an infectious disease outbreak crisis." Governments and hospitals also need to provide for the he...First human tests of antidepressant bupropion as methamphetamine addiction treatment hold promise
...g methamphetamine addicts. Appearing Nov. 23 as an advance online publication of the peer-reviewed journal Neuropsychopharmacology, the study finds bupropion blunts the methamphetamine "high" and reduces cravings prompted by visual cues such as ambient drug use. The research team hypothesizes that bupropion ...UCLA imaging study of children with autism finds broken mirror neuron system
New imaging research at UCLA detailed Dec. 4 as an advance online publication of the journal Nature Neuroscience shows children with autism have virtually no activity in a key part of the brain's mirror neuron system while imitating and observing emotions. Mirror neurons fire when a person performs a goal-di...Threat of avian influenza pandemic grows, but people can take precautions
...riptions for these drugs to individual patients in advance of a pandemic may divert the limited supplies of these medications from people who need them. Many health care centers, including Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., have pre-emptively restricted prescribing oseltamivir, limiting it to patients with cle...Chemotherapy after surgery extends survival for patients with advanced endometrial cancer
... not yet available. "This study represents a major advance in the treatment of advanced endometrial cancer," noted Gini F. Fleming, MD, Director of the Medical Oncology Gynecologic and Breast Cancer Programs at the University of Chicago, and author of an accompanying editorial. "Future trials need to address...A leap forward in understanding cholera
...(of the University of Maryland) now report a major advance in cholera modelling in the international open-access medical journal PLoS Medicine. In 2002, Andrew Camilli and colleagues reported that cholera bacteria isolated from the stools of sick patients were much more infectious than those found in conta...'Doctor Franklin's Medicine' explores founding father's vast medical legacy
...sed his printing presses and social connections to advance good causes, such as building the first major charity hospital in the colonies and the first American medical school. He also informed people about dangerous epidemics, worthy new cures and medical quackery. "Religious dogma, grandiose formulations a...JCI table of contents: December 8, 2005
... Their results will appear online on December 8 in advance of print publication in the January 2006 issue of ...oids. In a study appearing online on December 8 in advance of print publication in the January 2006 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Catherine H...Alzheimer's disease prevention may be easier than cure
... Their results will appear online on December 8 in advance of print publication in the January 2006 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The authors use transgenic mice genetically predisposed to accumulate amyloid deposits in their brain to show that an immunization strategy targeting Abeta42, o...Drug-eluting stents may cause allergic reactions
...f Medicine. "Drug-eluting stents are a life-saving advance used by hundreds of thousands of people that have greatly reduced the risk of restenosis. We are in no way recommending they be used less, but we do think that health professionals should be vigilant in watching for this problem." Another concern, s...Cedars-Sinai researchers demonstrate a new way to switch therapeutic genes 'on' and 'off'
...pression has important implications for efforts to advance gene and stem cell therapy strategies that may ultimately be used to treat life-threatening neurodegenerative diseases in the clinical setting. The study, which involved laboratory rats, focused on the area of the brain that has already been the targ...