Angiogenesis factor may help tumors prepare the way for spread to lymph nodes
... actively promote further lymphatic development, a newly discovered phenomenon the researchers called lymph...ther nodes and the organs." Detmar notes that this newly identified process could be a promising target for therapies designed to prevent the further spread ...Risk of HIV transmission highest in early stage of infection
..., to 2.8 per 1000 coital acts. Among partners with newly acquired HIV infection, more than 40 percent transmitted to their partners within approximately 5 months. These results reflect transmission rates for heterosexual vaginal intercourse only, the authors noted, and cannot be applied to HIV transmissio...Painless test using teardrops may speed diagnosis of Sjgren's syndrome
...rdrop would then be analyzed in the laboratory for newly discovered protein biomarkers and results can be obtained in as little as one hour, Tomosugi says. The test, which is being refined, could be available to consumers in two to three years, he estimates. The development of an accurate and noninvasive d...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...eart and see whether blood was flowing through the newly created vessels. "The new technology now is just fantastic," Dyels said. He went home five days after his surgery, which was performed by Robert Robbins, MD, professor and chair of cardiothoracic surgery at the Stanford University School of Medici...Public leadership in neurology award honors Leeza Gibbons for Alzheimer's awareness efforts
...ffer comfort, education, and care freely to people newly diagnosed with memory disorders and their caregivers. Leeza's Place centers are designed to develop continuums of care within communities. Three centers are open now, and many others are in various stages of development. The Memory Foundation's goal ...Medical journal editors condemn ghostwriting
... brought the issue to the editors' attention and a newly developed policy statement on ghostwriting by the World Association of Medical Editors. "This is an issue which involved an egregious case of unethical behavior by an author, a pharmaceutical manufacturer and a medical education company that has cau...Gene expression pattern predicts multiple drug resistance, treatment failure in pediatric leukemia
...from the bone marrow or the blood of patients with newly diagnosed disease who were being treated at St. Jude, the Dutch Childhood Oncology Group at the Sophia Children's Hospital in the Netherlands or the German Cooperative Study Group for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at the Children's Universit...Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
...ied out in-depth interviews with the parents of 20 newly diagnosed children at a large Welsh teaching hospital, ranging from a few days after diagnosis through to 12 months. Half of the parents took part in a series of three interviews and the remainder were interviewed once. "The intensity of their emotio...Electroshock therapy speeds improvement in schizophrenia patients
...l, still has a place in schizophrenia treatment, a newly updated research review shows. Although the data confirmed that antipsychotic drugs are still the first choice for schizophrenia treatment, they also showed that electroconvulsive, or shock, therapy clearly works, and combining both treatments can ac...Nanoparticles offer new hope for detection and treatment
...nk only to complementary "loops" found on cells in newly forming blood vessels. When the nanoparticles hooked the "loops" on the new vessels' cells, they revealed the location of the tumors. Nanoparticles are particularly useful because of their adaptability, according to Lanza, who sees patients at Barnes...Monoclonal antibody cures West Nile virus-infected mice
St. Louis, April 24, 2005 -- A newly developed monoclonal antibody can cure mice infected with the West Nile virus, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report. If further studies confirm the effectiveness and safety of the antibody, it could become one of...Promising new West Nile therapy cures disease in mice
...ve vaccine or therapy. None currently exist, but a newly published paper by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis points to a promising treatment. This research, published today online by Nature Medicine, was funded in part by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), p...Genetic screening for iron blood disorder feasible in the workplace
...als who had one copy of the mutation. 46 of the 47 newly identified carriers took steps to prevent or treat iron accumulation. Almost all the participants were pleased they had the test and there was no increase in anxiety in the individuals who had two copies of the gene. All individuals who had the gene ...Revised Bethesda guidelines effective at identifying patients at risk of colorectal cancer
...detect MSH2 or MLH1 gene carriers in patients with newly diagnosed colorectal cancers. The study included 1,222 patients from 20 hospitals in Spain with newly diagnosed colorectal cancer between November 1, 2000 and October 31, 2001. Patients underwent micro...New prostate cancer studies look at hormone and protein connection
...r, Medicine, has received $120,000 to research the newly identified protein PTEN, to see how important it is in preventing prostate cancer progression. In its early stage, prostate cancer requires the hormone androgen to grow, until it progresses to a point where androgen is no longer needed. Clinical obs...Excess oxygen worsens lung inflammation in mice
...r. Sitkovsky is now continuing his research at the newly established New England Inflammation and Tissue Protection Institute, a consortium at Northeastern University in Boston. NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIAID s...Mailman School shares new virus identification technologies
...y Mailman School of Public Health will share their newly developed technology platforms, which significantl...work in groups with Columbia faculty members using newly developed technologies that allow rapid identification of known and unknown pathogens. "We feel th...Molecular change occurring during brain tumor progression also evident in breast cancer
.... "1 chain of laminin-2, -8 and -10 is detected in newly formed tumor vessels and might be important predictors for patient outcome."...Stroke drug still meets resistance from doctors wary of its risks
...icians said they'd use it. The findings are from a newly published survey of 1,105 emergency physicians conducted by University of Michigan Stroke Program researchers and published early online in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. The authors say it shows there's still controversy over the use of tPA, or t...... New fat is the fat that is consumed in food or is newly made in the liver as glucose is converted to fat by fatty acid synthase, the enzyme missing in the FASKOL mice. When the system takes in high amounts of glucose, fatty acid synthase in the liver makes it into new fat. In addition to fatty livers, th...