Urine test helps detect 99 percent of recurring bladder cancers
...otein NMP22, an indication of cancer even at early stages of the disease. A doctor or nurse can read the results in 30 to 50 minutes. "You know the answer before the patient is out of your office," Stein says. "If the result is positive, and you didn't see anything from the cystoscopy, you would check to s...One million people in medical gamble
... drug to prevent heart attacks is now in the final stages of a clinical trial, and other trials are under way with new drugs to combat asthma and peripheral artery disease. "These are the firstcompounds to be tested anywhere in the world targeting the product of disease genes isolated in the common diseases...In the mind's eye: How the brain makes a whole out of parts
...," Connor said. "It happens at multiple processing stages in the brain. We study how objects are signaled or...ed by large populations of neurons at higher-level stages in the object-processing part of the brain." The report, based on recordings of nerve cells in the v...Healing from research: A real possibility
...rative partnership is funding research in advanced stages that proves eyes show early signs of heart disease. It is work headed by Associate Professor Tien Wong at the Retinal Vascular Imaging Centre (RetVIC) at the Centre for Eye Research Australia. One day a simple visit to the ophthalmologist or optometr...Low-cost drug gaining favor for use in HIV-infected children in poor countries
...d" for children in all age groups and in different stages of HIV illness, Grimwade said. Every medication has side effects, and the trial did uncover some adverse reactions from cotrimoxazole. Still, Grimwade said the Zambian study shows that the drug is a safe precaution against opportunistic infections in...Anxious fathers make caesarean ops more painful for mothers
...e also assessed for their pain levels at different stages of the procedure and immediately afterwards. The study revealed that those women who had negative birth expectations before the operation had the most fear experiences during the delivery, which in turn was related to greater post-operative pain. It ...Researchers take aim at the causes of heart valve disease
... to support outstanding investigators at the early stages of their careers in academic research. It gives only 20 awards each year and draws applicants from a wide range of health-related disciplines. "By the time these grants run out, we should have a well-tested bioreactor that's capable of recreating the...Mathematics and statistics combat epidemics & bioterror
...tical to identifying an outbreak in the very early stages of development." This project will develop mathematical and statistical models to enable the use of routinely collected computerized medical information for disease outbreak detection and surveillance. The MIDAS research team will determine optimal w...New licensing agreement to maximize AIDS drug development
...bicides covered under the agreement are in various stages of development and work under different mechanisms of action. They include: Savvy, which is currently in Phase III clinical trials in the U.S. and Africa; UC781 which is in expanded Phase II trials in the U.S and Thailand and Cyanovirin-N which is i...'Visible Proofs' exhibition on forensic medicine opens at NIH
...e we so regularly rely on in court today? What can stages of body decomposition and insect infestation tell us about a cadaver? A new exhibition, opening at NIH's National Library of Medicine, traces the history of forensic medicine--the efforts of physicians, surgeons and other specialists to translate vie...Lung cancer survival rates may be linked to access to care
... Historically, studies have shown that, across all stages of the disease, survival for black patients lags behind that of non-blacks. A number of potential explanations have been proposed, including later stage at diagnosis, differences in treatment, and differences in the biologic aggressiveness of the dis...Sydney scientists discover and license breakthrough anti-inflammatory treatment
...stitute and G2 will remain involved in the crucial stages of development, making the deal one of the few true partnerships between academia and industry. Commenting on the deal, Mr Bill Ferris AO, Chairman of the Garvan Institute's Board, says: "This is an exciting example of what is possible when you back...Findings advance use of adult stem cells for replacement bone
...tem cells to progress through a half-dozen or more stages of differentiation on their way to becoming the right tissue and any missed cue will derail the process. In most cases, engineers have little choice but to take a trial-and-error approach to designing a growth-factor regime." In the study, Mikos's t...Basic research leads to a novel cancer therapy
... and testicular cancer. The studies are in various stages of clinical trials (phases I through III), and most of them are being carried out in combination with other therapies. Ullrich is very pleased with the quick approval of SUTENT. He says, "Already before approval, 1,700 patients could be treated with ...Acrux acquires rights to commercialise world's first contraceptive spray
...ne MDTS for decreased libido. Both are in advanced stages of development....Stressed-out women more likely to miscarry early
...ven that previous studies focus on later pregnancy stages did not find an association between elevated corti...be more likely to lead to loss during the earliest stages of pregnancy, while the embryo is just beginning to develop. They caution, however, that more resear...Most effective anthrax treatment: VA-Stanford study finds
...arly symptoms mimic the flu, and even in the later stages there is no quick, definitive test for it. For this reason, he said, "Doctors in the ER need to have a high degree of suspicion. They need to ask questions and notice patterns: Are a lot of patients getting flu symptoms in the summer? Is there a grou...The critical role of the meniscus in osteoarthritis of the knee
...otect the knee from rapid devastation in the early stages of OA, and perhaps even mitigate the need for need replacement surgery. "At present, efforts are being made to preserve a damaged meniscus rather than remove it, and an industry of meniscal replacement is developing," Dr. Hunter notes. "Our study p...Experience backs early heart valve replacement
... patients who were referred for operation in later stages of the disease," said Pilar Tornos, M.D., from the Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona, Spain. Patients with aortic regurgitation may feel only mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. While some patients never need to have their aortic val...There's more than meets the eye in judging the size of an object
...es in our environment is occurring in the earliest stages of the visual system," he said. "Researchers have long believed that the visual system is organized hierarchically, with early visual areas such as the primary visual cortex simply registering the physical input from the eyes and 'higher' visual are...