Scripps Research awarded $17 million for adult stem cell use to treat eye diseases
...We want to learn how these cells do what they do," says Friedlander. "By understanding the molecular event...hom were not previously working in the eye field," says Friedlander. "Together, we make a strong and highly complementary team. Im determined we will bring ...Once-fatal metabolic disorders treatable, says Stanford/Packard researcher
... and death can be successfully treated with drugs, says a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. The researchers found in their unprecedented 25-year study that prompt diagnosis coupled with a rapid start of intravenous drug therapy significantly...Limiting stroke damage is focus of study
...eath wave coming through; neurons are dying here," says Medical College of Georgia Neuroscientist Sergei K... and synapses are probably lost at the same time," says Dr. Kirov describing rapidly deteriorating communication points for neurons. "This is not recoverabl...Dr. Eli Peli of Schepens Eye Research Institute elected SPIE fellow
...or their service to the general optics community," says Brian Culshaw, SPIE President. Eli Peli Schepens Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, USA, for specific achievements in image understanding and perception, visual psychophysics, and physiological optics for ...OFT's value-based pricing scheme is well-founded, but could increase overall NHS drug spend
...S (due to the additional cost of the technology)," says Professor Claxton, who works in the Department of ...nd industry that there will not be dramatic cuts," says Claxton. "The OFT report provides a clear and coherent rationale for a move to VBP The OFT has put...Human antibodies protect mice from avian flu
...f serious concern to the global health community," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "If the succ...bs conferred robust protection. Most surprisingly, says Dr. Subbarao, the survival rate was excellent even when treatment was delayed for three days. Spu...New perspective on brain function now possible
...g an understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders," says Professor Lars Farde at Karolinska Institutet and AstraZeneca. "All anti-psychotic medicines currently available on the market work via the dopamine system, for example. However, it may well turn out that glutamate receptors are even better drug targ...HIV and malaria combine to adversely affect pregnant women and their infants
...thers and their children particularly vulnerable," says Professor Kevin Kain, an infectious disease specialist and lead author of the study. "We set out to understand how women acquire protection against malaria during pregnancy and how HIV infection impairs that protection. By understanding how they lost...Steps needed to reduce smoking in the US
...vers at around 21 percent of the adult population, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. But to achieve faster, more certain reductions, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should be given broad regulatory authority over tobacco marketing, packaging, and distribution, and other revisi...Withdrawn MS drug returns to market
...zumab ushers in a new era in the treatment of MS," says Dr. Olaf Stve , author of the study, noting, however, that while the short-term risk-benefit ratio appears positive, the long-term risks remain unknown. "As therapy with natalizumab resumes worldwide, the neurologic community will garner more informa...Possible new breast cancer gene
...-causing mutated forms of BRCA1 cannot recognize," says co-senior author Roger Greenberg MD, PhD, Assistan...t have a history of breast and/or ovarian cancer," says Greenberg. "In collaboration with other researchers we are currently looking to see if families that...Poorer countries could struggle to implement new International Health Regulations
... Regulations (IHR) about to be brought into force, says an Editorial in this weeks edition of The Lancet. The aim of IHR, which goes live on June 15, is to prevent national public health emergencies from spreading internationally. Countries are obliged to nominate a national focal point to communicat...New reforms could cut the number of unexplained infant deaths
...eaths and a positive legacy emerging from tragedy, says a feature in this weeks BMJ. Sally Clark was arr...in March this year. The consequences of the case, says Jonathan Gornall, have been devastating for her family and far reaching for the medical and other pr...New device for stroke patients improves walking
...es and achieve greater mobility and independence," says Dr. Michael O'Dell, acting chief of rehabilitation medicine and medical director of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Medicine Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell. He is professor of clinical rehabilitation medicine at Weill Cornell Medical...WFU to host international conference of physicists
... "It's not your grandfather's radiation detector," says Richard T. Williams, Wake Forest's Reynolds Professor of Physics and chairman of the conference organizing committee. Whereas the original Geiger counter, developed by Hans Geiger in 1908, could indicate only the presence of radiation by emitting s...Disadvantaged TB patients urgently need social support to make medical treatment more effective
...s in the last 10 years and London is no exception" says lead researcher Dr Gill Craig from The City Universitys Institute of Health Sciences. "Increased migration, poverty, HIV, poor quality and overcrowded housing, homelessness, the failure of TB control in institutionalised populations and lifestyle f...COX inhibitors may weaken protective qualities of estrogen hormone therapy
...that is suppression of COX-2 derived prostacyclin" says lead author Garret FitzGerald, MD, Director of the...ot be regarded as a basis for clinical decisions," says FitzGerald. "However, they are mechanistically plausible and should stimulate further research"....Rosiglitazone -- Seeking a balanced approach to avoid panic among patients
... needed to avoid unnecessary panic among patients, says an Editorial published early Online today and in a...lts could certainly be a matter of concern; but it says that patients, physicians and the US Food and Drug Administration can reasonably await the results o...Same-day coronary angiography and surgery safe for many patients
...ography on the same day as their elective surgery, says David Holmes Jr., M.D., a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic and one of the study authors. For patients, we are providing quality care and saving them the time and money it takes to make two trips to the hospital for the test and then surgery. The impact ......we stamped a birth date on new adult nerve cells," says Hongjun Song, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins' Institute for Cell Engineering. "The brief heightened activity we saw may help explain how adults continue to adapt to new experiences even though adult brains are more hardwired...