News tagged with treatment response
Researchers use light to measure cancer cells' response to treatment
Many cancer therapies target specific proteins that proliferate on the outside of some cancer cells, but the therapies are imperfect and the cancer does not always respond. Since it is beneficial for doctors to know as soon ...
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Mechanism behind compound's effects on skin inflammation and cancer progression
Charles J. Dimitroff, MS, PhD and colleagues in the Dimitroff Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital, have developed a fluorinated analog of glucosamine, which, in a recent study, has been shown to block the synthesis of key ...
May 23, 2011 |
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Standard retreatment regimen for TB is inadequate
The standard retreatment regimen for tuberculosis has low treatment response rates and is associated with poor long term outcomes in certain subgroups of patients, particularly those infected with both HIV and multi-drug ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 15, 2011 |
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New findings show vitamin D accelerates recovery from tuberculosis
New research findings which show that vitamin D can speed up antibiotic treatment of tuberculosis (TB) have been revealed by scientists at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. The study - which gives fresh ...
Jan 06, 2011 |
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Scientists Quantify Nanoparticle-Protein Interactions
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has quantified the interaction of gold nanoparticles with important proteins found in human blood, an approach that should ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 13, 2010 |
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Patients say 'no thanks' to risky medical treatments
A recent study suggests that increasing patient responsibility for making medical decisions may decrease their willingness to accept risky treatment options. Details of this proof-of-concept study appear in the December issue ...
Nov 30, 2009 |
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