Radioactive scorpion venom for fighting cancer
..., which involve higher doses of radiation than the earliest trials. "The health physicist has the duty to ensure to ensure that these therapies are conducted both legally and safely," Jackson says. "Obviously, a key objective is to bring these patients home and to ensure that their loved ones and the envir...Memory loss affects more of the brain than previously thought
...lone have shown evidence that brain atrophy in the earliest stages of AD tends to be restricted to the tempora...ment of both the frontal and temporal lobes in the earliest stages of AD suggests the possibility of a breakdown in the communication pathway between these two ...Scientists learn how the brain 'boots up' to process information from the senses
...x brain operations by enhancing information at the earliest processing steps," said Godwin. Sensory information from the eyes, skin or ears goes first to the thalamus, which acts like a gateway and either allows the information to flow on to the cortex, the thinking part of the brain, or stops it. Scientis...Digital cameras and Internet ease the pain of oral disease
... and author of the study. "By catching ECC at its earliest stage, we will effectively save the patient and parent toothache and heartache, decrease use of emergency room services, and increase the usage of dentists by this underserved population." Typically found in children aged five and under, the practi...Antioxidants may protect against tick-borne illness
...e difficult for physicians to diagnose because the earliest signs mimic less-serious viral illnesses. Limiting exposure to ticks is the best way to prevent the disease. If it does develop, in most cases doctors can treat it with antibiotics. Typhus is another rickettsial disease spread by lice or fleas. Altho...Rush researchers explore nanotechnology as diagnostic and treatment tool
...light up on ultrasound and may be able to show the earliest vascular changes associated with ovarian malignancy. If this is successful, further research will be conducted to study targeted imaging as well as targeted therapy. Ovarian cancer is the fifth-most common cancer among American women and claims th...Carnegie Mellon receives NIMH/NSF grant to examine mechanisms that underlie neuronal synchronization
...is system could one day help clinicians detect the earliest development of schizophrenia and develop more targeted interventions. Urban and Ermentrout are focusing on the mouse's olfactory bulb, which they call an elegant system in which to explore the relationship between circuit properties and synchronous...Tibotec Therapeutics announces start of largest US study on HIV treatment in women
...ded very small numbers of women, especially in the earliest studies of new antiretroviral agents. We know that there are gender-specific complications associated with HIV disease. However, we do not know a great deal about how gender impacts the efficacy and side effects of HIV medications," said Judith Cur...Optics tests for early Alzheimer's diagnosis make significant advances
...ment raises hopes for detecting the disease at its earliest stages and slowing the progression of the disease ...ists, the tests may also help to differentiate the earliest stages of Alzheimer's from other neurodegenerative diseases and normal changes in cognition associat...USC researchers discover breast cancer stem cells in bone marrow
...s from women whose breast cancer was caught in its earliest stages, but in whom tumor cells were detected in t...st cancer patients whose disease was caught in the earliest stages. "We know that the presence of disseminated tumor cells in the bone marrow is a bad feature...UVA researchers to develop office-based cancer screening test
...sicians admit they need better tests to detect the earliest cancers. While certain tests can indicate the possibility of prostate cancer or cervical cancer, a simple office-based test to monitor patients for cancer currently is not available to doctors and their patients. Researchers at the University of Vi...DNA computing targets West Nile Virus, other deadly diseases
...nificance of the advance to the development of the earliest silicon chips. "The study shows that large-scale DNA computers are possible." "These DNA computers won't compete with silicon computing in terms of speed, but their advantage is that they can be used in fluids, such as a sample of blood or in the bo......tients with COPD. Patients were followed until the earliest CVE, death, or five years after the start of the study. Results showed that patients using LABAs had a similar risk of experiencing a CVE compared with patients who never used LABAs. Furthermore, when researchers adjusted for cumulative use of LABAs,...Fresh use of targeted therapy advances treatment of early HER2-positive breast cancer
...ognoses, the benefit it could offer women with the earliest stages of invasive, HER2-positive breast cancer might be dramatic. What they found was almost the proverbial magic bullet. In one of four major national studies that examined early use of trastuzumab, they discovered that the drug could change the ...Researchers make progress against lung disease attacking women in childbearing years
...ns to know how to diagnose LAM and treat it in its earliest stages before the damage to the lung is done and a transplant is needed. A biopsy and a high resolution CT scan, not just an X-ray, are needed to detect LAM." Sue Byrnes - who founded The LAM Foundation, an international non-profit organization focu...Older men treated for early prostate cancer live longer than those who are not
...ow-developing nature of prostate cancer during its earliest stages makes treatment options, such as a radical prostatectomy (surgical removal of the prostate) and radiation therapy, controversial with unpredictable outcomes. Often, recently diagnosed men of this group were advised to just "watch and wait" to ...High levels of blindness in southern Sudan following years of war
...om 2000 were children aged less than 15 years. The earliest stages of infection were very common indeed, particularly in children aged 19, over half of whom had some sign of infection. In adults, one in five had trichiasis caused by trachoma. Trachoma can be passed from one person to another through contact...New imaging compound might 'see' Alzheimer's earlier
...gently need techniques to see brain changes in the earliest stages of cognitive decline so that we can identify people at risk and test drugs to stop or slow the progression of Alzheimer's," says NIA Director Richard J. Hodes, M.D. In this study, Gary Small, M.D., of UCLA, led a research team that compared P...New angiogenesis inhibitor has promise for treating deadly brain tumor
...on as potential cancer-fighting agents. While the earliest clinical trials did not meet expectations that these drugs would 'starve' tumors, the agents did improve patient survival when combined with traditional anticancer therapies. Three such drugs have received FDA approval for the treatment of certain t...