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Therapy (in Greek: θεραπεία), or treatment, is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis. In the medical field, it is synonymous with the word "treatment".

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Multiple sclerosis successfully reversed in animals

Multiple sclerosis successfully reversed in animals

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (60) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) completely reverses the devastating autoimmune disorder in mice, and might work exactly the same way in humans, say researchers at ...


1 shot of gene therapy and children with congenital blindness can now see

One shot of gene therapy and children with congenital blindness can now see

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 1

Born with a retinal disease that made him legally blind, and would eventually leave him totally sightless, the nine-year-old boy used to sit in the back of the classroom, relying on the large print on an electronic ...


Study finds way to protect healthy cells from radiation damage

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, may be hot on the heels of a Holy Grail of cancer therapy: They have found ...


New experiment could reveal make-up of the universe

New experiment could reveal make-up of the Universe

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool are constructing highly sensitive detectors as part of an international project to understand the elements that make up the universe.


Orgasms, sexual health and attitudes about female genitals

Orgasms, sexual health and attitudes about female genitals

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (12) | comments 6

An Indiana University study published in the September issue of the International Journal of Sexual Health found that women who feel more positively about women's genitals find it easier to orgasm and are mo ...


Upending textbook science on Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Alzheimer's disease is caused by the build-up of a brain peptide called amyloid-beta. That's why eliminating the protein has been the focus of almost all drug research pursuing a cure for the devastating neurodegenerative ...


Tumor-attacking virus strikes with 'one-two punch'

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Ohio State University cancer researchers have developed a tumor-attacking virus that both kills brain-tumor cells and blocks the growth of new tumor blood vessels.


Vision researchers see unexpected gain a year into blindness trial

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists have discovered that even in adults born with extremely impaired sight, the brain can rewire itself to recognize sections of the retina that have been restored by gene therapy.


Living longer and happier

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

A new study from the University of Missouri may shed light on how to increase the level and quality of activity in the elderly. In the study, published in this week's edition of Public Library of Science - ONE, MU resear ...


Gene therapy repairs injured human donor lungs for the first time

Gene therapy repairs injured human donor lungs for the first time

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

For the first time, scientists in the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University Health Network have successfully used gene therapy to repair injured human donor lungs, making them potentially suitable ...


UT Southwestern researchers use drug-radiation combo to eradicate lung cancer

Researchers use drug-radiation combo to eradicate lung cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have eliminated non-small cell lung (NSCL) cancer in mice by using an investigative drug called BEZ235 in combination with low-dose radiation.


Nanoparticles for gene therapy improve

Nanoparticles for gene therapy improve

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- About five years ago, Professor Janet Sawicki at the Lankenau Institute in Pennsylvania read an article about nanoparticles developed by MIT's Robert Langer for gene therapy, the insertion ...


Discovery may lead to powerful new therapy for asthma

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have found that a single enzyme is apparently critical to most allergen-provoked asthma attacks — and that activity of the enzyme, known as aldose reductase, can ...


Drug that increases good cholesterol reduces clogging of arteries

Drug that increases good cholesterol reduces clogging of arteries

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A drug that raises levels of 'good' cholesterol, when taken in addition to standard statin therapy to lower 'bad' cholesterol, can reduce the furring up of arteries in patients with established ...


Junk DNA may prove invaluable in quest for gene therapies

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Scientists have identified how a protein enables sections of so-called junk DNA to be cut and pasted within genetic code - a finding which could speed development of gene therapies.