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Tiny capsules can deliver drugs to targeted cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is now possible to engineer tiny containers the size of a virus to deliver drugs and other materials with almost 100 percent efficiency to targeted cells in the bloodstream.
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Tuberculosis not the only risk from new immunological drugs
May 20, 2008 |
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A new survey cautions physicians that drugs commonly prescribed for patients suffering from immunological disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease may carry risks of serious infections other than ...
Gene blamed for immunological disorders shown to protect against breast cancer development
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) are voicing alarm that drugs to treat a wide variety of allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases now in human clinical trials may errantly spur development of breast ...
Researchers uncover more about how poxviruses evade the immune system
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Scientists at Saint Louis University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham have uncovered important new information about a key protein that allows viruses such as smallpox to replicate and wreak havoc on the immune ...
Forget all about it: Traumatic memories can be erased
Nov 09, 2009 |
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It is well known that fear memories are permanent. However, a recent paper in Science, evaluated by three Faculty Members for F1000, reports an extraordinary finding that supports the use of a drug to control recollections of tra ...
Monitoring immune responses in disease
Sep 03, 2008 |
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A recent study (doi:10.1016/j.clim.2008.06.009) published in Clinical Immunology, the official journal of the Clinical Immunology Society (CIS), describes a new method enabling the detection of multiple parameters of sin ...
National survey tracks rates of common mental disorders among American youth
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Only about half of American children and teenagers who have certain mental disorders receive professional services, according to a nationally representative survey funded in part by the National Institute of Mental Health ...
First immunological clue to why some H1N1 patients get very ill or die
Dec 15, 2009 |
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An international team of Canadian and Spanish scientists have found the first potential immunological clue of why some people develop severe pneumonia when infected by the pandemic H1N1 virus.
Scientists identify genetic cause of previously undefined primary immune deficiency disease
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have identified a genetic mutation that accounts for a perplexing condition found in people with an inherited immunodeficiency. The disorder, called combined immunodeficiency, ...
Researchers Discover Mutations in Two Genes that Cause Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team including researchers with the National Institutes of Health has discovered that mutations in either of two related genes cause a severe and rare form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) ...
Research identifies first method for testing, assessing drug treatments for Chagas' disease
Apr 20, 2008 |
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Chagas’ disease is a tropical parasitic sickness that currently affects more than 16 million people, with a staggering 100 million at risk, largely in the tropical areas of South and Central America. And yet the main drug ...
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