Revolutionary technique could reduce lifelong drugs for transplant patients
Aug 05, 2008 |
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Researchers have developed a ground-breaking procedure that could avoid the need for transplant patients to spend the rest of their lives taking a cocktail of drugs to stop their system from rejecting their new organ, according ...
Extinction threat growing for mankind's closest relatives
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Mankind's closest relatives – the world's monkeys, apes and other primates – are disappearing from the face of the Earth, with some literally being eaten into extinction.
Bacterial persistence in streams
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A research team from the University of Tennessee (UT) has completed a study on an East Tennessee river to determine the connection between watershed hydrology and fecal bacteria statistical time series analysis. Shesh Koirala ...
Entomologists play matchmakers for cerambycid beetles
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cerambycid beetles, also known as long-horned beetles, can cause severe damage to standing trees, logs and lumber. How then might they be promptly detected and their numbers swiftly controlled? ...
Study Shows Promise for Item-Level Use of RFID in Retail Environment
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas shows further promise for the use of radio-frequency identification tags on individual retail items. Researchers tested three popular ...
Metabolic insight to illuminate causes of iron imbalance
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New insight into key players in iron metabolism has yielded a novel tool for distinguishing among root causes of iron overload or deficiency in humans, the researchers report in the August issue of Cell Metabolism, a publ ...
Back-to-School Means Beware of Asthma for Some
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Asthma is a leading cause of death and disability in children younger than 18 years old, and is one of the leading causes of hospitalization in school-age children. Since children spend up to 30 percent of ...
Stent grafts: a better way to treat blunt trauma injuries
Aug 05, 2008 |
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Endovascular repair—fixing an injury in a blood vessel from inside that vessel—is a better option for individuals who receive highly lethal injuries from high-speed collisions or falls (together referred to as blunt trauma) ...
New decision model seeks to avert flu vaccine mismatch of 2007-2008 season
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Aug 05, 2008 |
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To avoid producing vaccines that treat the wrong strains during flu season, the FDA should consider deferring some of its selections as well as other changes to the vaccine composition, according to a study by two decision ...
Researchers Combine Technologies to Heal Patients, Virtually
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arkansas researchers seeking new ways to make health care more efficient and cost-effective have built a new kind of hospital: one that uses location aware systems, sensors, smart devices, radio-frequency ...
Novel method to create personalized immunotherapy treatments
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 05, 2008 |
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Argos Therapeutics and Université de Montréal today announced the presentation of new information on Argos' process for developing dendritic cell-based immunotherapies for HIV. Results from the study demonstrate that loading ...
New prognostic model for traumatic brain injury
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In a research article published in this week's PLoS Medicine Ewout Steyerberg (of the University Medical Center Rotterdam) and colleagues describe the development and validation of new prognostic models for traumatic brain ...
Key site in iron metabolism aids in diagnosing anemia of chronic disease
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University of Utah School of Medicine researchers have developed a new tool that facilitates diagnosis of anemia related to chronic illness, as well as diseases of iron overload. The results of a study detailing the new tool ...
Rectal gel prevents transmission of AIDS-like virus in macaques
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The HIV drug tenofovir may prevent AIDS transmission when applied rectally as a gel, according to results from a macaque study published in PLoS Medicine.
New study finds HIV drug can persist in mothers' milk, increasing risk to them and their babies
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A drug commonly used in the developing world to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child persists in the breast milk and blood of the mothers, putting them and their babies at risk for developing drug-resistant strains ...
