Modern radiation therapy ups lung cancer survival
...on wanted to see if conventional radiation therapy worked as well as the newer three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (also called 3D-CRT) at curing patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer. 3D-CRT was created to improve upon older types of radiation therapy by allowing doctors to aim sev...Quick diagnosis of flu strains possible with new microchip test
...DC shared its technical expertise on influenza and worked alongside University of Colorado staff in CDC laboratories to process the influenza samples, test the FluChip technology and analyze the results. Combined results after two rounds of tests showed that the FluChip allowed users to obtain correct infor...New lab technique churns out fungus' potential cancer fighter
..." he says. "Now, after five years of effort, we've worked out a process that lets researchers finally produce enough rasfonin to really start investigating how it functions, and how we might harness it to fight cancer." In 2000, researchers from Chiba University in Japan and the University of Tokyo simultan...Emeritus Director leading the way at Prince Henry's
...n reproductive endocrinology, Professor Burger has worked in the field for more than 30 years. He has received countless accolades for his research into the management of the peri and postmenopause, female and male infertility, hirsutism and the role of the gonadal hormone, inhibin, in ovarian cancer. ...Scripps research team reverses Friedreich's ataxia defect in cell culture
...dily available for research. So, the group instead worked with white blood cells, or lymphyocytes, which are easily obtained from blood samples and can be prevented from dividing, making them a suitable proxy. Experiments revealed that one HDAC inhibitor, called BML-210, did in fact reverse the heterochro...Survey shows many teens injured on the job
...mployed. The survey found that the number of hours worked each week varied from just five hours to more than 40 hours a week (about 3 percent of the sample). The survey showed that 159 teens about 4 percent reported working after 11 p.m. on school nights. And 579 teens in the sample 16 percent reported ...Molecular switch may turn off immune cells that target HIV
...s place in HIV infection, the US-based researchers worked closely with collaborators from Durban, South Africa, an area where more than 30 percent of the population is HIV-infected. They first examined HIV-specific CD8 cells from 71 infected individuals who had not yet begun antiviral therapy and found tha...Idursulfase is effective treatment for Hunter syndrome, clinical trial concludes
...g to deteriorate," she said. The treatment has worked so well for him that Christopher, who still lives in New York, was able to earn a college degree and will begin graduate school in the fall at Hofstra University, his mother said. Muenzer's article reports that 96 Hunter syndrome patients between ...SWAN system to help blind and firefighters navigate environment
.... The project progressed slowly as the researchers worked on it as time allowed and sought funding. Early support came through a seed grant from the Graphics, Visualization and Usability (GVU) Center at Georgia Tech, and recently Walker and Dellaert received a $600,000 grant from the National Science Founda...Penn researchers find many commercial drivers have impaired performance due to lack of sleep
... Short Sleep Duration." Other Penn researchers who worked on the study were: Greg Maislin; Bethany Staley; Frances Pack and David Dinges. William Rogers, formerly of the Trucking Research Institute, American Trucking Associations as well as Charles F. P. George of the University of Western Ontario were also...Boosting key protein in brain could improve seizure treatment, Stanford study finds
...ral scholar in Stanford's neurology department who worked on the study. VPA has long been a mainstay in tr...sher was not involved in this study, though he has worked with Huguenard on other research. "All of our seizure medications are controlled poisons, all with...Hearing loss and high-speed dental tools
... hearing loss, he believes the high-speed tools he worked with eight hours a day for so many years may have played a role in his hearing troubles. "I think if you listen to any high-pitched noise for any length of time, it will get to you eventually," said Kreutzer, an assistant professor in operative denti...... the globe. To trace this source, the UCL team worked with geneticists and computer experts in Chicago and compared the DNA in the tumours to that in specific dog breeds. They found that the cancer most likely first arose in either a wolf or an 'old' Asian dog breed such as a Husky or Shih Tzu. The nu...Mayo Clinic: New recommendations for use of bisphosphonates in treatment of multiple myeloma
...ltidisciplinary effort, in which the myeloma group worked closely with periodontists and oral/maxillofacial surgeons to assess risks and benefits. Besides Drs. Lacy and Rajkumar, the team included researchers from Mayo Clinic's three campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota, including: Lief Bergsagel, M....New treatment model for bipolar disorder shows promise
...s and handled medications. Nurse care coordinators worked with veterans during group education sessions. During the weekly group sessions, nurses discussed topics such as medication side effects and early warning signs for symptoms, which in bipolar disorder range from racing speech, bursts of optimism an...Two UCSF faculty named fellows of the American Academy of Nursing
...an Journal of Nursing award in 1984, Humphreys has worked to influence nursing practice, education and research on intimate partner violence. She has worked with national commissions on violence and on nursing education, helped the nation of Columbia to est...Making heart surgery intervention safer
...of biochemical activity. The German Institute also worked closely with Dr Krisciukaitis' group in Kaunas to ...rt for the participation of a small company, which worked hard and did great things," states Dr Krisciukaitis. ...New hope in cancer vaccines emerges as novel therapies are developed and tested
...ned in early 2006, after Hwu and his research team worked for two years with the NIH and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the protocol. In this phase I/II study, 50 patients will all receive a short course of chemotherapy while their cells are being grown in the lab. Half then will receive an expand...Keep the baby, toss the bathwater: How kidneys retain proteins, discard waste
...essor of medicine and cell biology and physiology, worked with mice lacking the gene for laminin beta 2, a protein that is part of the GBM. Two years ago, scientists linked a human mutation in the gene for laminin beta 2 to an inherited disorder that causes kidney disease and abnormalities in the eye and th...Stanford snake venom study shows that certain cells may eliminate poison
...ated sarafotoxin 6b with mast cells from mice. "It worked as we thought it would," said Metz. The mast cells...not just the isolated toxin. Some of the mice they worked with were genetically deficient in mast cells, while others, called wild-type mice, had normal mast ...