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Systems medicine paves way for improved treatment for leukemia patients
A new individualized systems medicine strategy enables a selection of potentially effective cancer therapies for individual patients. These are promising results achieved by applying this strategy to chemoresistant adult acute...
Dietary amino acids improve sleep problems in mice with traumatic brain injury
Scientists have discovered how to fix sleep disturbances in mice with traumatic brain injuries -- a discovery that could lead to help for hundreds of thousands of people who have...
Basic measures 'can reduce virus spread in Bangladesh'
Basic preventative methods can help limit the transmission of Nipah virus, say Bangladesh scientists.
Breakthrough in treating leukemia, lymphoma with umbilical cord blood stem cells
Donated umbilical cord blood contains stem cells that can save the lives of patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cancers.
Novel drug regimen can improve stem cell transplantation outcomes
Adding bortezomib (Velcade) to standard preventive therapy for graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) results in improved outcomes for patients receiving stem-cell transplants from mismatched and unrelated donors, according to researchers.
Innovative contact lens delivers glaucoma medication continuously for a month
For nearly half a century, contact lenses have been proposed as a means of ocular drug delivery that may someday replace eye drops, but achieving controlled drug release has been...
2nd-gen brain implant tames Parkinson’s, records brain data
Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have successfully implanted and recorded data from a device that not only generates electrical impulses to tame symptoms of Parkinson’s...
The Best Heart Rate Monitor Watches for Exercise
Exercising within your target heart rate zone has benefits, and wearable heart rate monitors make doing so easier. Here are some of the best heart rate monitor watches on the...
Well: Snacking Your Way to Better Health
Evidence for the health benefits of nuts has been accumulating since the early 1990s, and frequent consumption has been linked to a reduced risk of chronic diseases.
Amid the Uproar Over the Health Law, Voices of Quiet Optimism and Relief
Despite its flaws, the insurance market has given hope to many who could not afford coverage or were denied it because of existing medical conditions.
I have PSP. The neurologist said: 'I can't do anything for you'
Keith Swankie has a rare and fatal neurological disease. Now, he is trying to raise the profile of progressive supranuclear palsy, a condition even most GPs would fail to recogniseIt was his...
John Paul obituary
Bioengineer whose meticulous experimental work improved the reliability and strength of hip replacement jointsThe biomedical engineer John Paul, who has died aged 86, played a crucial role in the development of reliable total...
Review: Pandora's Promise doesn't live up to the hype | Alice Bell
Alice Bell: New pro-nuclear film aims to build a pro-nuclear green movement. It needs to stop obfuscating with science, but use it to invite deeper engagement instead. Alice Bell
Ice-cold methods decode bacterial infection systems
When attacking body cells, bacteria, such as salmonellae or Yersinia (plague pathogens), inject specific bacterial proteins through hollow, syringe-like structures – called injectisomes – into the host cells. These substances...
Dr. C | I'm cheating on my cancer doctor
Dr. Nikhil Joshi has been trying to be a model cancer patient, he writes, but he's finding it difficult to follow all the rules.
MSF criticises Lancet undernutrition series
The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières has accused a Lancet series on undernutrition of "undermining" efforts to combat malnutrition.
Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 10–24 January 2008
A round up of news from or about Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 10–24 January 2008.
South Asia News in brief: 16–30 January 2008
Resumen de noticias sobre el sur de Asia para el período del 16 al 30 de enero.
Malaria vaccine enters second stage
A malaria vaccine has been successful in a small clinical trial of adults in Mali, and testing will now be expanded to children.
Ebola strain 'safe to study in normal conditions'
A strain of the Ebola virus has been disarmed so that it is safe to study in ordinary laboratory conditions.
Flipping a gene switch reactivates fetal hemoglobin, may reverse sickle cell disease
Hematology researchers have manipulated key biological events in adult blood cells to produce a form of hemoglobin normally absent after the newborn period. Because fetal hemoglobin is unaffected by the...
International gene therapy trial for 'bubble boy' disease shows promising early results
Researchers reported promising outcomes data for the first group of boys with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome, a fatal genetic immunodeficiency also known as “bubble boy” disease, who were treated...
Better diagnoses may help vets with anxiety get treatment
Veterans who suffer from anxiety may not get appropriate treatment for want of a specific diagnosis, finds a new study.
Angioplasty may not be better than drug therapy in stable disease
For patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) who are not experiencing a heart attack and an abnormal stress test, treatment of their narrowed arteries by the common procedure of...
Pesticide risks need more research and regulation
Much more must be done in developing countries to regulate pesticides and train farmers in their safe use, experts say.
Farmers' rights 'at stake in Chile's Monsanto law bill'
Campaigners believe the proposed bill on plant rights will harm farmers, but its backers say it will aid exports.
Health Care Law Providing Relief and Frustration
The anxiety and the promise of revamping the health insurance system have left thousands of people in North Carolina struggling to sort out their options.
Enrollment Errors Put Medical Coverage at Risk
The Obama administration said Friday that the enrollment records for roughly a quarter of all the people who signed up for health insurance on its website in October and November...