Infants with rare genetic disease saved by cord blood stem cells
...t Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). The study is the first to demonstrate a life-saving treatment for newborns with Krabbe Disease, in which children are missing an enzyme critical to forming the myelin sheath that protects developing brain cells from damage. Moreover, the findings add to the growing body of evidence showi...Low back pain relief, causes, measurement & prosthetic fit, production, comfort
...nes whether individuals with chronic low back pain demonstrate exercise-induced pain reduction. Eight patients wi...significantly decreased after exercise. Study data demonstrate that pain perception can be reduced for over 30 minutes following aerobic exercise among persons wit...New partnership launched to accelerate and evaluate national malaria control program in Africa
...9, 2005)-A major partnership was launched today to demonstrate the enormous potential to save lives with existing...ighting malaria. The Gates Foundation's goal is to demonstrate what can be achieved with existing malaria tools." The Zambian Ministry of Health will coordinate ...Allergies increase risk for corneal transplant rejection, UT Southwestern study shows
... transplants were still rejected. "These findings demonstrate that the presence of eye allergies can have a profound effect on the immune system that reaches beyond the local site of an allergic response, in this case, the eye," Dr. Niederkorn said. "The results offer hope for improving the success of corneal t...Study finds benefits, less organ rejection using immunosuppressive combination for heart transplants
...eart Transplant Program. "We now have results that demonstrate benefits in treating non-cellular and humoral rejection and this is significant step forward for heart transplant patients." The study results, presented at the 6th American Transplant Congress in Seattle, involved more than 340 heart transplant r...Risks outweigh benefits of shark cartilage as anti-cancer treatment
...ge. The authors conclude, "shark cartilage did not demonstrate any efficacy in patients with advanced breast or colorectal cancers."...New Seroquel data support benefits in bipolar disorder
...chiatry Association (APA) meeting in Atlanta, USA, demonstrate that the atypical antipsychotic SEROQUEL (Quetiapi...he first time we've seen an atypical antipsychotic demonstrate this level of efficacy in reducing suicidal thinking in bipolar disorder. Reducing the thought proce...International adoptees have fewer behavior problems than domestic adoptees
...l Center, Boston, writes "the authors convincingly demonstrate that international adoptees have more behavioral problems than nonadopted controls, although the effect sizes were small. On the other hand, when compared with domestic adoptees, international adoptees had fewer total, externalizing, and internalizi...Bones don't pay a price when fat is lost through exercise
...researchers believe that more intense exercise may demonstrate significantly increased bone mass. "Older people are very concerned about how best to reduce their body fat as a means of preventing other health problems, such as heart disease and diabetes," says lead study investigator and exercise physiologist K...Emory study finds health care use, work productivity linked to health levels
...ompletely healthy adults. The results of the study demonstrate that health care providers and public health officials need to focus on the promotion of wellness to improve quality of life and increase productivity, and not just on the prevention and treatment of illness and injury, says Keyes, an associate profe...Enhancing innate immunity improves Crohn's disease symptoms
...Crohn's disease. Endoscopic evidence also seems to demonstrate the drug helps with underlying inflammation." Cr...The investigators believe if research continues to demonstrate the drug is effective and safe for most patients, using GM-CSF earlier in the course of Crohn's dise...The link between passive and active smoking and breast cancer
...luid of smokers than in the plasma. Animal studies demonstrate that mammary tumours in rats, mice and/or hamsters can be induced by a number of tobacco smoke carcinogens. For women who had smoked, the breast cancer risk estimate was increased by 46 percent when compared to women with neither active nor regular ...New insights into role of tumor necrosis factor on sex hormone production in rheumatoid arthritis
... "This is the first study to demonstrate that the conversion of DHEAS to DHEA is decreased ...dler. "In the present study, we were fortunate to demonstrate that TNF is also a strong inhibitor of the conversion of DHEAS to DHEA in synovial cells from patien...'Real life' study clarifies risk of recurrence for high-risk breast cancer patients
...cancer in the first 2 years. Longer follow-up will demonstrate if also the second peak changes or not," Dr. Cazzaniga said. Commenting on the report, Dr. Ahmad Awada from Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium, said, "At this time we do not know which patients would benefit most from upfront therapy with arom...3D atlas will help navigate the spinal cord
...levant comparisons with the human spinal cord and demonstrate the anatomical principles or generalizations of its organization, and (c) provide the 3D stereotaxic space designed to become the knowledge management environment for experimental and, eventually, clinical observations. Though not itself directed a...Tercica presents two pharmacokinetic studies in an oral session at Endocrine Society Meeting
...nnual Meeting of the Endocrine Society.The studies demonstrate that following a dose of recombinant humaninsulin-like growth factor-1 (rhIGF-1), there is a prompt increase in seruminsulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3). Preliminaryobservations of this effect were included in the company's New Dr...Report describes details of four transplant recipients who contracted rabies from donor
...s than 1:1,000,000,000,000." "However, these cases demonstrate that the risk for transmission of rabies infection through solid organ transplantation exists, and the diagnosis should be considered in any rapidly progressing neurological disease," the authors conclude. (Arch Neurol. 2005; 62:873-882. Available p...Canadian study demonstrates new approach to achieving diabetes control
...nced June 13 at an international diabetes congress demonstrate that patients with type 2 diabetes can safely achieve target blood sugar (glycemic) levels faster and more frequently when insulin glargine (a basal, long-acting insulin) is added to therapy, versus using oral agents alone. In addition to achieving ...Fish oil does not lower risk of heart problems for patients with implantable defibrillators
...supplementation. The fact that we were not able to demonstrate an antiarrhythmic effect of fish oil does not call into question the potential benefits of fish oil or dietary fish intake in patients who have had a myocardial infarction. Instead, our results suggest that the mechanism of benefit, if due to antiarr......ive in living animals. "This is the first study to demonstrate a nanoparticle-targeted drug actually leaving the bloodstream, being concentrated in cancer cells, and having a biological effect on the animal's tumor," says James R. Baker Jr., M.D., the Ruth Dow Doan Professor of Biologic Nanotechnology at the Uni...