10 years before malaria vaccine is ready for widespread use
...TS, S/AS02 vaccine gave 30% protection against the first clinical episode of malaria and 58% protection against severe malaria. (See Lancet 2004; 364: 1411-20) Other promising candidates are undergoing clinical trials. Professor Greenwood states: "Malaria vaccine research has progressed rapidly over the pa...Anti-malaria drug combination could help address treatment crisis in Africa
...tty food intake and in patients who only had their first dose supervised and were given nutritional advice. The trial involved around 960 patients, of all ages, with uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Mbarara, Uganda. Dr Piola concludes: "We believe that the six-dose regimen of artemether-lumefantrine is...Adolescents not receiving health counseling, Stanford study shows
... the Journal of Adolescent Health , come from the first national review of trends in an array of teen heal...improvements over time are at best modest." In the first four years after the AMA recommendations, 1993 to 1996, teens showing up for a health exam left with...Rare surgery performed to remove pancreas, prevent diabetes
... The procedure has been done previously; the first case was 16 years ago at the University of Minnesota, and the patient still survives. Only a few other cases were attempted, and results were not uniformly good, so the procedure fell out of favor until recently, when new advances in cadaveric islet ...Lessons to be learnt from life at the very limit
...to scale the world's tallest mountain and take the first ever measurements of arterial blood oxygen at the ...otsteps of Reinhold Messener and Peter Habler, the first men to summit on Everest without supplemental oxygen, have proved them wrong. Confronted with physio...Monoclonal antibody cures West Nile virus-infected mice
...safety of the antibody, it could become one of the first monoclonal antibodies used as a treatment for an i...her. "To our knowledge, these experiments are the first successful demonstration of the use of a humanized antibody as a post-exposure therapy against a vir...Day care in infancy protects against childhood leukaemia
... attend day care centres on a regular basis in the first few months of life are less likely to develop leuk... that reduced exposure to common infections in the first year of life increases the risk of developing acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). The study involve...Promising new West Nile therapy cures disease in mice
West Nile virus alarmed Americans when it made its first U.S. appearance in New York City in 1999. It has since spread from coast to coast, sickened more than 16,000 Americans and killed more than 600. As the virus spread, medical investigators hastened research to develop an effective vaccine or therapy. ...NIH awards funding to biotech firm for heart disease
Arteriocyte, the first spin-out company from the Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, has received the first installment of its combined Phase I/II "fast track" Small Business Technology Transfer Award grant f...Breast cancer detector that uses electricity instead of X-rays under study
... self-exams, get yearly physician exams, get their first screening mammograms between ages 35-40 and begin yearly exams at age 40. Generally, the breast cancer risk increases with age. Although he's not convinced the new impedance scanning called HEDA for Homologous Electrical Difference Analysis will e...New grants to Georgetown to help build national cancer biomedical informatics grid
... Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center team was the first proposed caBIG site to be visited by NCI leadership planning the network. caBIG now involves over 50 funded cancer centers across the nation. Of the $20 million slated for caBIG development in year one, Georgetown researchers have received more than ...54 per cent of air passengers experience significant reduction in oxygen levels
...l Deyermond, Consultant Anaesthetist. "This is the first study to quantify the reduction of percentage oxygen saturation at high altitude during commercial air travel. It demonstrates that there is a significant fall in levels in all age groups during both short and long haul flights."...High risk of second cancers in survivors of childhood soft tissue sarcomas
...iagnosis. The relative risk was highest within the first five years of post-treatment follow-up. Females had slightly higher risks of second cancers than males; however, when gender-specific cancers of the breast and genital tract were excluded, the risks were identical. Cohen et al. also found that second...American Academy of Neurology sums up scientific highlights from 57th annual meeting
..., with about half of all patients dying within the first year, and less than 20 percent surviving 10 years or more. Comparing figures from 1998 to those from 1998 to 2003, researchers found no difference in overall mortality or the risk per year after the hemorrhage. These data point out the lack of effect...Orqis Medical receives unconditional FDA approval for pivotal trial of percutaneous CHF therapy
...s therapeutic potential." The Cancion CRS is the first therapy for congestive heart failure based on continuous aortic blood flow augmentation to the descending aorta. The MOMENTUM (Multicenter Trial of the Orqis Medical CRS for the Enhanced Treatment of CHF, Unresponsive to Medical Therapy) trial will ...Second consecutive UH win puts national spotlight on pharmacy student
...the University of Houston College of Pharmacy took first place in the National Patient Counseling Competiti...of participants in this year's challenge. For the first time in the history of the 21-year competition, a student competed from every APhA Academy of Studen...Exercise slows development of Alzheimer's-like brain changes in mice, new study finds
...hanism underlying this difference began within the first month of exercise. "These results suggest that exercise--a simple behavioral strategy--in these mice may bring about a change in the way that amyloid precursor protein is metabolized," says D. Stephen Snyder, Ph.D., director of the etiology of Alzhei...New portable device developed by Georgia Tech and Emory checks for concussions on the sidelines
...it attempts to perform the tests. For example, the first shows the wearer a series of shapes with different colors and textures and gives voice instructions. The wearer uses a simple controller (similar to a video game controller) to respond to the commands. The device then measures the wearer's response t...UT Southwestern lead site for study of a new multiple sclerosis drug
...sical and neurological exam prior to receiving the first dose of the drug. Patients who can participate in this placebo-controlled study are given infusion treatments that take a full day. Dr. Hawker said positive outcomes for patients during the study would mark a breakthrough for treatment of primary pro......estigious lecture of The Royal Society and for the first time it is being held in Scotland. The UK has one of the highest rates of death from heart disease in the world - one British adult dies from the disease every three minutes - and stroke is the country's third biggest killer, claiming 70,000 lives e...