News tagged with remission
Some leukemia patients may be able to safely stop treatment
(PhysOrg.com) -- New medical trials suggest some chronic leukemia patients who are in complete remission may be cured by the standard drug used to treat the condition and can safely discontinue its use.
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Doubling chemo dose helped leukemia patients
(AP) -- Adults with a common form of leukemia had a better chance of remission if they got a double dose of a long-used cancer drug, two new studies found.
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Trial shows promise for arthritis drug
A clinical trial of masitinib, a drug in development for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, has shown it to be well tolerated and effective. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Arthritis Research an ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 27, 2009 |
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Arsenic early in treatment improves survival for leukemia patients
Arsenic, a toxic compound with a reputation as a good tool for committing homicide, has a significant positive effect on the survival of patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), when administered after standard initial ...
Nov 11, 2010 |
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Why do certain diseases go into remission during pregnancy?
During pregnancy, many women experience remission of autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and uveitis. Now, scientists have described a biological mechanism responsible for changes in the immune system that helps to ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 17, 2010 |
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Study confirms favorable long-term prognosis of epilepsy
A study conducted by researchers in The Netherlands confirmed that children with idiopathic new-onset epilepsy have a significantly higher rate of remission than those with remote symptomatic epilepsy. Results of this study ...
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Jun 14, 2010 |
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Anti-cancer Rituxan cuts lymphoma recurrence in half: study
Long-term treatment with anti-cancer medication Rituxan, produced by Swiss laboratory Roche, can cut the recurrence of follicular lymphoma in some patients by half, a new study said.
May 21, 2010 |
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Trialing major weight loss for type 2 diabetes in the overweight
In the first trial of its kind in the world, researchers at Monash University's Centre for Obesity Research and Education (CORE) will examine the benefits of a gastric banding procedure on overweight people with Type 2 diabetes.
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Jury convicts Mass. mom who withheld cancer meds
(AP) -- A Massachusetts woman who withheld at-home chemotherapy medications from her autistic, cancer-stricken son was convicted of attempted murder Tuesday by jurors who dismissed her claim that she thought ...
Apr 12, 2011 |
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Rheumatoid arthritis researchers redefine remission
The American College of Rheumatology today announced the release of two new provisional definitions of rheumatoid arthritis remission, which are to be applied to future RA clinical trials.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 03, 2011 |
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Alternative treatment for preventing relapse of certain type of vasculitis appears less effective
In a comparison of treatments for maintaining remission of a certain type of vasculitis (inflammation of blood vessels), the immunosuppressant mycophenolate mofetil, regarded as an alternative to the drug often used to prevent ...
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Nov 08, 2010 |
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New clinical test to predict lupus flares moves closer to the market
A discovery made by Lupus Research Institute-funded investigator Emily Baechler Gillespie, PhD, at the University of Minnesota has been licensed to a major clinical laboratory for development and could soon result in a test ...
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Oct 28, 2010 |
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Studies offer encouraging data on preventing Crohn's disease recurrence
Biological agents may play an important role in maintaining remission in Crohn's disease, according to two new studies in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Associ ...
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Aug 05, 2010 |
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Targeting disease remission has socio-economic benefits over low disease activity
Achieving disease remission in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) provides superior outcomes across measures of socio-economic importance including work productivity and quality of life according to results presented ...
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Jun 19, 2010 |
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Multiple patient samples of an analyte improve detection of changes in clinical status
Clinicians rely on laboratory tests to monitor the progression or remission of disease, or to identify pathologic alterations in physiology that may precede clinical events. Monitoring quantitative laboratory results represents ...
Jan 06, 2010 |
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