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Eurekalert Medical and Health News: 10-26-2004
The American Academy of Neurology and the American Neurological Association, together representing more than 18,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, today announce their support for government funding of adult and embryonic stem cell research.
.A piece of the puzzle of how nerves find their way across the midline of the brain and spinal cord in a developing embryo has been found by Medical College of Georgia researchers.
Picture a honeycomb and each compartment in the honeycomb is coated with living cells from a person's mouth, skin or a piece of bone.
Combination treatment using the monoclonal antibody cetuximab, along with high dose radiotherapy in the treatment of patients with loco-regionally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck results in significant improvements in both loco-regional control and overall survival.
The EU-funded GENEPI project will provide the facility for essential research which will improve and refine radiotherapy for European cancer patients.
Immediate post-operative radiotherapy following surgery to remove the prostate results in improved progression-free survival for prostate cancer patients.
The scenarios where radiotherapy can be used for curative (and palliative) treatment of cancer have steadily increased, and radiotherapy now forms a part of the treatment of more than 50% of all cancer patients. However, in many countries, treatment capacity is exceeded and access to treatment is a major problem.
Women under 35 years of age with breast cancer can have an almost 20% lower risk of their disease recurring if they are treated using a new radiotherapy regime.
Data from two clinical trials presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Annual Meeting in Las Vegas this week support the safety and efficacy of DepoDurTM (morphine sulfate extended-release liposome injection) CII -- an innovative single-dose epidural injection designed to improve postoperative pain control. DepoDurTM will be commercially available in the U.S. by the end of 2004.
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established four new Centers on the Demography of Aging at Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of North Carolina, and Pennsylvania State University. The new programs, which join nine ongoing Centers at institutions around the U.S., will focus on social and behavioral research on health, savings, retirement, and global aging.
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced the establishment of six new Edward R. Roybal Centers for Research on Applied Gerontology at the University of Indiana, Princeton University, Stanford University, RAND, and the Oregon Health and Sciences University. The Centers will explore new ways to use technology to measure and provide health care.
Using nonprescription, or over-the-counter (OTC), medications to treat common upper respiratory infections could save $4.75 billion a year, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Northwestern University.
Children who swallow multiple magnets need immediate medical attention. When two magnets lie in adjacent bowel loops, they may attract each other across the intestinal walls. If left unchecked, multiple magnets in the intestines can cause obstruction, necrosis and perforation of the intestinal walls. If the possibility of magnets in the abdomen exists, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) must be avoided.
Magnetic resonance (MR) guidance improves the treatment of low-flow vascular malformations, which are birthmarks or growths consisting of enlarged veins. MR-guidance allows radiologists to precisely place a needle and inject the proper amount of constricting agent into the veins to ensure that the entire malformation has been treated.
V. Ramanathan, an internationally renowned atmospheric scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, has been appointed by Pope John Paul II to be an academician of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Ramanathan will receive the honor from the pope during the academy's Plenary Session in Rome the week of Nov. 5-8.
In the November 2004 issue of medical/research briefs highlights include an anthrax vaccine tested at LA BioMed, .Dr. Chad K. Oh co-authors "How to Live with a Nut Allergy" and .Dr. Anita L. Nelson co-authors the 18th edition of "Contraceptive Technology".
Scientists at the Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University have taken another step in understanding the potential effects of anti-cholesterol drugs on Alzheimer's disease. They have identified a biochemical pathway that affects the activity of statins, particularly their ability to break down an early form of a protein that forms sticky plaques in the Alzheimer's brain. The results may help provide new targets for anti-Alzheimer's drugs.
Pilot study finds wireless guessing game motivates children with type 1 diabetes to improve blood glucose monitoring. This study demonstrates the ease of introducing new technology to pediatric patients.
Scientists are launching a research study to check the effectiveness of a new type of flu vaccine that is made differently than the conventional vaccine, which is grown in eggs. The experimental vaccine instead relies on a cell line drawn from insects known as silk moths, which are better known for their role as pests attacking crops such as corn, cotton, barley and alfalfa.
"HIV/AIDS Care in the Developing World: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward," a conference featuring some of the world's top HIV experts, is being hosted by Indiana University School of Medicine this weekend (Sunday, Oct. 31).
Three University of Chicago geriatricians just published a study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine calling for creative and wide-reaching solutions to the problem of sub-optimal end-of-life care for patients with dementia.
Findings of a recent study published in Public Health Nursing suggest that if the main barriers preventing high-risk populations from having routine testing for HIV are addressed, the spread of AIDS could be slowed in the US.
Results of a recent study have shown multiple barriers to evidence-based practice, a method of patient care that can improve outcomes by 28%, previous data supports.
A new initiative, "Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes" (KDIGO), has been established to assemble international expertise and resources in addressing the global epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Scientists in the OHSU School of Medicine's departments of Behavioral Neuroscience and Medicine, and the OHSU Cancer Institute, in a study presented this week to the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego, found that verbal memory -- specifically, word retention -- drops sharply after only two minutes among men undergoing testosterone deprivation therapy, a common treatment for prostate cancer that wipes out most male hormones found in the body.
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