Bare-metal stents are better for some heart patients
... surgery." This prescription for the potentially deadly problem begins when a person, often a senior citiz...ped before the surgery. To avoid the potentially deadly scenario, the Jefferson Medical College researchers developed a clinical protocol to enable patients...Dealing deadly cancers a knockout punch
...t have metastasized to the lung. For patients with deadly soft tissue sarcoma, the lungs are the most common site of metastatic disease. To date, surgery has been the only effective therapy for metastatic sarcoma. The multi-center, Phase II study follows successful completion of systemic administration tr...Research reveals way to speed up treatment of deadly malignant hyperthermia
...nts for anesthesia patients afflicted by the often deadly condition known as malignant hyperthermia (MH). According to research published in the April AANA Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, the intravenous administration of life-saving dantrolene sodium (DS) can occur significantly...Animal study identifies promising new target for brain tumor therapy
...fective treatments for people diagnosed with these deadly brain tumors."...UQ research heralds vaccine technology breakthrough
...t illness that has beenlinked to asthma and can be deadly but may be curable by the development of this newvaccine technology by the Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Centre and The Universityof Queensland's Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences. Research centre director Professor Robert Tindle said...Stanford researchers identify immune dysfunction in melanoma patients
...the immune cells in a majority of people with this deadly skin cancer fail to respond properly to a molecule... than other forms of cancer in part because of the deadly nature of the disease, which will kill about one in six of the 47,700 people it is expected to strik...Eye muscles -- those go-getters of the anatomical world
...allows these muscles to escape the effects of this deadly disease while other skeletal muscles are so profoundly affected? At the same time, the eye muscles fall prey to diseases that do not affect other skeletal muscles. Why? These are some of the intriguing questions that four eye muscle experts will ex...New animal study may explain why alcohol consumption increases breast cancer risk
... which are associated with the progression of this deadly disease....Why GNEP can't jump to the future
...ut plausible disposition paths. The potentially deadly flaws documented in Alvarezs study include: The amount of long-lived radioactivity disposed of into the environment at a reprocessing site could be thousands of times greater than from nuclear weapons production. Much smaller concentrations of...Diet and lifestyle -- In the cancer fight, eating well is the best revenge
...style factors that might help protect against this deadly cancer," she says. As part of a larger research project known as The Multiethnic Cohort Study, Kolonel and Nthlings followed the participants for an average of eight years after they filled out a comprehensive food questionnaire. Although Nthlin...Rapid response was crucial to containing the 1918 flu pandemic
One of the persistent riddles of the deadly 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic is why it struck different cities with varying severity. Why were some municipalities such as St. Louis spared the fate of the hard-hit cities like Philadelphia when both implemented similar public health measures? Wha...Follow-up endoscopic surveillance in colorectal cancer patients improves survival
...history of the disease should be screened for this deadly disease," according to Charles Mel Wilcox, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology , and professor of medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham. "This study provides further proof of the value of screenings and the lives that...Genetic pathways to curable and incurable forms of pancreatic cancer identified
...ame basic genetic mutations as the more common and deadly type of ductal pancreatic cancer, has long been a ...a, the combination of Kras and p53 led to the more deadly form of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Earlier studies by researchers in Boston also found the sa...Molecular differences between early and advanced melanomas could provide new drug targets
... growing vertically beneath the skin and turn into deadly invasive cancers, scientists have found. Understanding this key molecular difference between radial melanomas that spread on the surface of the skin and melanomas that grow vertically and invasively could provide new targets for the development of d...Cancer drug can extend survival in patients with deadly brain tumors
...supply, can slow the growth of the most common and deadly form of brain cancer, a pilot study conducted at D...es each year, making them the most common and most deadly malignant tumors of the central nervous system. Gliomas are difficult to treat because they grow qui...Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
...ion (WHO) announced Sept. 1, 2006 that yet another deadly new strain of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) had been detected in Tugela Ferry, a rural town in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, epicenter of South Africa 's HIV / AIDS epidemic. Eight days later, the WHO urged a response to the outbr...New angiogenesis inhibitor has promise for treating deadly brain tumor
...nhibitor, can significantly reduce the size of the deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas and has the potential of improving the effectiveness of other therapeutic techniques. The Phase 2 clinical trial also finds that AZD2171 treatment can alleviate brain swelling (edema), a debilitating symptom in many...European scientists receive funding from EU to develop novel therapy for cancer
... European scientists and oncologists to fight this deadly disease. We are confident that in the near future, we will be able to progress the best of our developed strategies into clinical practice for the benefit of cancer sufferers."...Anthrax attack posed greater potential threat than thought
... Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes the deadly disease anthrax, was opened in Daschle's office at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. Those in or near Daschle's office, judged likely to have been exposed to the spores, received antibiotics or a vaccine, as did others within or outs...NIAID DNA vaccine for H5N1 avian influenza enters human trial
...the H5N1 strain and the H1N1 virus that caused the deadly 1918 pandemic. The DNA vaccine used in this study is similar to other investigational vaccines evaluated by the VRC that hold promise for controlling other viruses, such as HIV, Ebola, SARS and West Nile. "An effective H5N1 influenza vaccine would...