New cause of tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer cells discovered at Lombardi
...he tumors access to estrogen, causing the tumor to stabilize and sometimes even shrink. However according to Clarke, many cancers become insensitive to these treatments over time more than half of all recurring breast cancers lose sensitivity because they have found a way to keep growing in the absence of es...Scripps Research awarded $17 million for adult stem cell use to treat eye diseases
...rporate into the forming blood vessels and help to stabilize the growing vasculature, making it function more normally; the vessel-associated cells, or microglia, can exert a "paracrine" (helper) effect and facilitate normalization of leaking vessels. One tantalizing twist to these results was the unexpecte...Commercializing university research -- Hopping robots, liquid shoes, electricity from heat
...or vertical mode) and inertial reaction wheels (to stabilize the vehicle when these wheels are not in contact w...ity and efficiency, relying on feedback control to stabilize the vehicle. This project is designed to help the Coordinated Robotics Lab bridge the gap from the...Free weight training gets workers with rotator cuff injuries back on the job
...ff injuries involve those muscles and tendons that stabilize the shoulder and can be caused by pulling the arm out of place, by falls and other accidents. All 42 of the employees had been through surgery to repair their torn muscles or ligaments. All had already gone through weeks of traditional rehabilitatio...Outcomes for patients with hepatitis B who need liver transplants
...h safe and effective therapies that can improve or stabilize liver disease in those with decompensated cirrhosis are not available" the authors conclude. In an accompanying editorial, Myron Schwartz and colleagues from the Mount Sinai Liver Cancer Program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York sa...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 31, 2007
...absorbers and brakes to damping technology to help stabilize buildings against earthquakes. ER and MR fluids change instantly and reversibly from a free-flowing liquid to a semi-solid with controllable strength in response to an electric or magnetic field, respectively. PR fluids are designed to accomplis...Comprehensive reforms to move toward patient-centered care released by ACP
...s flawed sustainable growth rate formula that will stabilize payments and create powerful incentives for physician participation in programs that will result in quality improvements and cost savings. ACP also released a legislative roadmap for implementing the College's recommendations, which will be the bas...Treatment for homeless youth pays off in long run, study finds
... the streets, Slesnick said. The first goal was to stabilize their situation, and help them address the basic needs of food, shelter and safety. The sessions then focused on goals that the youth themselves saw as most important in their lives. The counselor helped them address coping, skills development, an...Congressional action strengthens internal medicine ACP says
...yment "will avert a 5 percent payment cut in 2007, stabilize Medicare payments, bring down the cost of a long term fix, and mandate a pilot test of the patient centered medical home." The statement also said that ACP looks forward to working with the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) on the new ...Jefferson Orthopaedic surgeons leading international study of timing of spinal surgery
...t long-term results. Perhaps it's better to simply stabilize the injured patient, attend to any additional injuries, allow the inflammatory reactions to run their courses and put a little more planning into the surgery. But others, including Dr. Vaccaro, see the timing as critical. Immediate treatment to re...Early statin therapy for patients with acute coronary syndromes reduces death, cardiovascular events
... In addition to reducing cholesterol, statins may stabilize the amount of plaque build-up in arteries, reduce inflammation, prevent blood clotting, reduce blood pressure and improve the functioning of blood vessels, all of which could improve outcomes for patients with acute coronary syndrome. Eddie Hulten,...Newly discovered behavior in cancer cells signals dangerous metastasis
...when they reached a new destination, so they could stabilize to populate a new tumor site. "Our findings validate that tumors are highly complex in their behavior and don't necessarily need a gene mutation to alter their behavior," said Sebastian Oltean, M.D., Ph.D., research associate and first author of the...Media availability: Long-term survival of heart attack patients with shock
...rcent of those receiving intensive medical care to stabilize their condition. The same study had previously shown that emergency angioplasty or bypass surgery for heart attack patients with shock improves 6-month survival; the new analysis found that this life-saving benefit was sustained over time in some ca...Early results find activity in drug that turns on tumor 'death' receptors
... tumors in one patient with sarcoma, and seemed to stabilize cancer growth in about 56 percent of the 58 patients, but added that it is too early to adequately assess the benefit of Apo2L, especially since the maximum dose that can treat patients and still be well tolerated has not yet been reached. "This is a...Young adults are fastest growing group of uninsured
...lic programs and continued parental coverage would stabilize insurance among young adults and ease their transition to adulthood." Young adults who are not in school full-time are more likely to go without coverage. Forty percent of part-time and non-students ages 19 to 23 were uninsured compared with 20 pe...Studies unclear whether spinal cement procedure improves back pain
...o the vertebrae. "The aim of vertebroplasty is to stabilize the fractured vertebral body, while the goals of kyphoplasty are to stabilize the vertebral body and to restore its height to as near its prefracture level as possible," said Gla...SCAI Founders' Lecture traces impressive progress in interventional cardiology
...sts could re-establish blood flow to the heart and stabilize patients in case of a sudden arterial blockage. Bare metal stents and new anti-clotting medications reduced the chances of sudden arterial closure. However, stents proved vulnerable to clogging with scar tissue and other debris months after implanta...New technique offers relief for patients with spinal tumors
...ine with vertebroplasty a procedure to cement and stabilize damaged vertebrae. He used a technology that util...plasty two procedures that utilize bone cement to stabilize the fractured vertebrae are also risky when a tumor is present, because the procedures can cause ca...Ozone recovering, but unlikely to stabilize at pre-1980 levels, says study
...urring in a changing atmosphere and is unlikely to stabilize at pre-1980 levels, says a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. The recovery is a result of the 1987 Montreal Protocol banning chlorine pollutants from the atmosphere, said Betsy Weatherhead, a researcher with the Cooperative Institute for R...Studies show improving pacemaker reliability, increased implantable defibrillator failure rates
...ine at Harvard Medical School. The devices work to stabilize abnormal heart rhythms, pacemakers by treating hearts that beat too slowly and ICDs by treating heart rhythms that have become dangerously fast. In the first study, which Maisel performed with colleagues at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA...