11/23/2008
Delaying The Evolution Of Drug Resistance (Medical News Today)
Keeping germs from cooperating can delay the evolution of drug resistance more effectively than killing germs one by one with traditional drugs such as antibiotics, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson. John W. Pepper proposes a new strategy in the arms race between humans and germs -- targeting the teamwork within gangs of germs.
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11/22/2008
Surgeons Inject Concentrated Stem Cells Directly Into Patient's Heart In New Clinical Trial (Medical News Today)
Surgeons at The Methodist Hospital in Houston were the first in the nation Thursday to inject highly-concentrated stem cells directly into a patient's heart, providing an intense, direct hit on damaged heart tissue.
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11/22/2008
Mechanisms Of Cardiovascular Disease And Cancer Give Clues To New Therapies (Medical News Today)
Cardiovascular conditions leading to heart attacks and strokes are treated quite separately from common cancers of the prostate, breast or lung, but now turn out to involve some of the same critical mechanisms at the molecular level.
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11/22/2008
Widely Used Cancer Drug Associated With Significantly Increased Risk Of Blood Clots (Science Daily)
The use of the cancer drug bevacizumab is associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (blood clots in the deep veins of the legs or in the lungs), according to a new article.
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11/21/2008
New approach to stopping germs (News-Medical-Net)
Keeping germs from cooperating can delay the evolution of drug resistance more effectively than killing germs one by one with traditional drugs such as antibiotics, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.
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11/21/2008
Mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and cancer give clues to new therapies (PhysOrg)
Cardiovascular conditions leading to heart attacks and strokes are treated quite separately from common cancers of the prostate, breast or lung, but now turn out to involve some of the same critical mechanisms at the molecular level. This in turn provides clues to more effective therapies for both cancer and cardiovascular diseases, but requires researchers in these distinct fields to come ...
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11/21/2008
Horny Goat Weed (ThirdAge)
Horny goat weed is an ornamental plant that also has a long history of traditional use in Asian herbal medicine. Its whimsical name is said to derive from folk observations that goats who grazed on the herb became unusually sexually active.
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11/21/2008
Amgen, Takeda And Millennium Provide Update On Phase 3 Trial Of Motesanib In Patients With Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (Medical News Today)
Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN) and Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, a subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4052), announced that enrollment in the Phase 3 MONET1 trial evaluating motesanib (AMG 706) in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin for the first-line treatment of adva
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11/21/2008
Concentrated stem cells directly injected into patient's heart in new clinical trial (New Kerala)
Washington, Nov 21 : For the first time, surgeons at the Methodist Hospital in Houston have injected highly-concentrated stem cells directly into a patient's heart, providing an intense, direct hit on damaged heart tissue.
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11/21/2008
Aeolus Pharmaceuticals Initiates Pivotal Animal Study of AEOL 10150 as a Countermeasure to Radiation Exposure (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.----Aeolus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it has initiated the first of two expected pivotal studies of AEOL 10150 as a countermeasure to nuclear and radiological exposure.
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