Cornell researcher helping develop quick, cheap HIV/AIDS test
...heir life span can be increased by many years. CD4 counts assist in the decisions on when to initiate and when to stop the treatment, which makes this test so important. "While such testing is routine in Western countries -- and used repeatedly over the course of treatment to see if interventions are effect...Rush researchers participate in worldwide AIDS initiative led by Imperial College London
... Rush, said current technologies for measuring CD4 counts are expensive to buy and maintain, and require a level of infrastructure and training that is often not available in many developing countries. "In remote villages where there are likely to be no laboratory facilities, health care workers need a s...Research reveals way to speed up treatment of deadly malignant hyperthermia
PARK RIDGE, Ill. Every second counts for anesthesia patients afflicted by the often dea...erating rooms around the country. "Every second counts when treating a patient with malignant hyperthermia," said Donna Landriscina, CRNA, MSNA. "This res...GI screening: Racing time or wasting time?
...od. The researchers compared the white blood cell counts taken from patients both upon arrival to the emergency room and at the operating room. Of the 410 patients showing signs of acute appendicitis, more than half (62%) had a CT scan before the removal of their appendix. Patients who were ordered a ...Advances in screening and markers improve early detection of colorectal cancer
...ctivity, alcohol intake, smoking, white blood cell counts and abdominal obesity. Results demonstrated that plasma CRP levels were significantly higher in patients in whom colorectal tumors were forming when compared to patients without tumor development. The presence of tumors forming at the same time, k...Hepatitis C negatively impacts HIV
...nt (199) were also co-infected with HCV. CD4 cell counts and HIV RNA levels were assessed at baseline and t...n between co-infection with HCV and lower CD4 cell counts among patients taking antiretroviral therapy. "Determining whether HCV co-infection affects HIV d......ommon side effect is a temporary lowering of blood counts several weeks after the treatment. There is no hair loss and nausea is rare. Kaminski and his colleague Richard Wahl (formerly at U-M and now at Johns Hopkins University) developed the Bexxar regimen, which received approval from the U.S. Food and ...