News tagged with transplant therapy
New test spots early signs of mucopolysaccharidoses -- inherited metabolic disorders
A team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Zacharon Pharmaceuticals, have developed a simple, reliable test for identifying biomarkers for mucopolysaccharidoses ...
Jan 08, 2012 |
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Lack of health insurance limits hepatitis C patients' access to latest antiviral therapy
New research has determined that patients in the U.S. with hepatitis C virus (HCV) are twice as likely to not have health insurance coverage compared with those without the disease. In fact researchers found only a third ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 24, 2011 |
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Stem cell discovery could lead to improved bone marrow transplants
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have identified a key molecule for establishing blood stem cells in their niche within the bone marrow. The findings, reported in the January issue of Cell Stem Ce ...
Jan 06, 2011 |
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Regenerative stem cell therapy offers new hope for treating cardiovascular disease
Northwestern Medicine physician researchers are revolutionizing treatment of cardiovascular disease by utilizing patients' own stem cells to regenerate heart and vascular tissue. Northwestern Medicine is the lead site for ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Elasticity found to stretch stem cell growth to higher levels
One of the major challenges in stem cell transplants is how to obtain sufficient numbers of these remarkably rare cells to put into patients. To help overcome this issue, research from the Centenary Institute, ...
Oct 03, 2010 |
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Researcher discovers way to overcome radiation resistance in leukemia
A team of researchers lead by Fatih M. Uckun, MD, PhD, of The Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles has determined that radiation resistance in leukemia can be overcome by selectively ...
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Hodgkin's lymphoma: Benefit of stem cell transplantation with an unrelated donor unclear
It remains an unresolved question whether adult patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a certain type of lymph node cancer, benefit from allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) with an unrelated donor.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 29, 2010 |
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Inhibiting cell signaling pathway may improve bone marrow transplant success rate
Identification of a molecular communications pathway that influences the mobilization of hematopoietic (blood) stem cells could lead to targeted therapies for improving bone marrow transplant success rates.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 26, 2010 |
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Gene therapy success for anaemia patient
In a rare success for the much-headlined vision of gene therapy, scientists said on Wednesday they had corrected flawed DNA in an 18-year-old man suffering from a debilitating form of anaemia.
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Nature publishes results of gene therapy treatment in phase 1/2 beta-thalassemia study
bluebird bio (formerly Genetix Pharmaceuticals Inc.) today announced publication in the journal Nature of its promising Phase 1/2 data highlighting positive results of LentiGlobin gene therapy treatment in a young adult ...
Sep 15, 2010 |
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HIV patients with lymphoma given new hope
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is widely treated using highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), which patients must continue throughout their lives. Now a new study suggests the patients’ own ...
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Jun 18, 2010 |
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Longer Antiviral Treatment Prevents Lung Transplant Complications
(PhysOrg.com) -- Extending the course of treatment to prevent a common virus after lung transplantation dramatically reduces infection rates and possibly the risk of the body rejecting the new lungs, according to research ...
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Jun 15, 2010 |
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Antiviral therapy during compensated cirrhosis most cost-effective approach
Researchers at the UCLA Medical Center found that antiviral therapy during compensated cirrhosis, when compared with all other strategies, is the most cost-effective approach to treating patients with advanced liver disease ...
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May 27, 2010 |
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New treatment cures baby of often-fatal metabolic disorder
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicians at Packard Children's Hospital believe they are the first to cure an infant of a serious disorder using prenatal infusions followed by liver transplant after his birth.
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Apr 26, 2010 |
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New therapies increase survival rates in post-transplant liver cancer patients
A recent study found that sirolimus-based immunosuppression following liver transplantation in patients with non-resectable hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) significantly increases survival rates for this patient population. ...
Mar 25, 2010 |
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