News tagged with blood treatment
Keeping pets sweet: Treating diabetes in dogs
Diabetes affects not only humans but also animals. As in humans treatment should be based on an understanding of natural fluctuations in blood glucose levels but these are hard to determine. Researchers at the University ...
Sep 23, 2011 |
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Single-molecule imaging reveals how cells prepare to interact with the world
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered that structural elements in the cell play a crucial role in organizing the motion of cell-surface receptors, proteins that enable cells to receive signals from other parts ...
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Nanoparticles disguised as red blood cells deliver cancer-fighting drugs
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a novel method of disguising nanoparticles as red blood cells, which will enable them to evade the body's immune system and deliver cancer-fighting drugs ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 20, 2011 |
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No scalpel: Minimally invasive breakthrough for men’s enlarged prostates improves symptoms
A new interventional radiology treatment that blocks blood supply to men's enlarged prostate glands shows comparable clinical results to transurethral resection of the prostate (or TURP), considered the gold standard (or ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Improving survival from life-threatening infectious disease with diabetes drug
Scientists have identified a diabetes drug which halves the mortality rate of a deadly infectious disease found throughout Southeast Asia and Northern Australia.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 24, 2011 |
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Researchers uncover potential 'cure' for type 1 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes could be converted to an asymptomatic, non-insulin-dependent disorder by eliminating the actions of a specific hormone, new findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggest.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Scientists clear the way to alternative anti-angiogenic cancer therapy
Belgian scientists attached to VIB and K.U.Leuven have succeeded in decoding a potential new anti-cancer mechanism. The researchers discovered that normalizing abnormal tumor blood vessels through HRG (histidine-rich glycoprotein) ...
Jan 07, 2011 |
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Researchers discover key mutation in acute myeloid leukemia
Researchers have discovered mutations in a particular gene that affects the treatment prognosis for some patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive blood cancer that kills 9,000 Americans annually. ...
Nov 11, 2010 |
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Scientists turn skin into blood (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an important breakthrough, scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin.
Nov 07, 2010 |
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Blood group may affect woman's fertility
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in the US have for the first time demonstrated that having type O blood may have a negative effect on fertility through a lower egg count and poor egg quality. Women with type A blood appeared ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 26, 2010 |
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FDA may limit anemia drug use for kidney disease
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is considering new restrictions on widely used anemia drugs that appear to double the risk of stroke in patients with kidney disease.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Study shows local standards of care affect the benefits of switching to new treatement alternatives
An analysis of a trial into how a new drug dabigatran was effective in preventing stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation has shown that local standards of care affect the benefits of switching to new treatments. This ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 29, 2010 |
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Blood transfusions should not go ahead without informed consent
Two legal experts argue on bmj.com today that informed consent should be obtained from competent patients before blood transfusions takes place.
Aug 24, 2010 |
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Experts veto Avastin as a breast cancer treatment
(AP) -- A panel of cancer experts said Tuesday that the government should remove its endorsement of Roche's drug Avastin for breast cancer, after follow-up studies failed to show benefits for patients.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Ingredient in red wine may prevent some blinding diseases
found in red wine, grapes, blueberries, peanuts and other plants — stops out-of-control blood vessel growth in the eye, according to vision researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 25, 2010 |
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