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Tailor-made HIV/AIDS treatment closer to reality

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An innovative treatment for HIV patients developed by McGill University Health Centre researchers has passed its first clinical trial with flying colours. The new approach is an immunotherapy customized for each individual ...


Immune system activated in schizophrenia

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered that patients with recent-onset schizophrenia have higher levels of inflammatory substances in their brains. Their findings offer hope of ...


Sublingual immunotherapy for inhalant allergies deserves deeper consideration

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sublingual immunotherapy for the treatment of allergy symptoms caused by a wide variety of environmental inhalants has been effectively used in Europe. It should be employed to further treatment of allergies in the United ...


Scientists discover how to improve immune response to cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A team of scientists at The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research (CFIBCR) at Princess Margaret Hospital and international collaborators have discovered how to trigger an improved immune response to cancer ...


Genetic variants predict recurrence of bladder cancer, patient survival

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have discovered genetic variations in the inflammation pathway that reduce the likelihood of recurrence and increase survival of patients with non-muscle ...


Device aims to decrease wait period for patients needing immunotherapy

Device aims to decrease wait period for patients needing immunotherapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the Children's Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have created a device that significantly decreases the time needed to produce genetically manipulated ...