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Total Laparoscopic Aortic Surgery Is Feasible, Shows Satisfactory Results
Recently the use of laparoscopy for vascular procedures has been limited by difficulties in aortic exposure and anastomosis techniques, as well as the concurrent competitive progress of endovascular surgery. For aortic repair, best results (in terms of long-term patency) have been obtained by conventional surgery which has been associated short-term morbidity and mortality. More »
Tuberculosis Vaccine Effectiveness Study
In a study funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, Saint Louis University’s Center for Vaccine Development is investigating whether the standard vaccine used in foreign countries against tuberculosis offers better protection as a shot, drink or combination of both. More »
Nurse Researchers Help Fight Spread of Infectious Disease
Fighting infectious disease, the very heart of public health and the genesis of contemporary nursing, is about more than hand washing and immunizations. It’s about screening and early detection, identifying risk and protective factors, and educating clinicians, facilities and the public. But it all begins with research More »
Research May Lead to Improved Immune System in Newborn Babies
Newborn babies have immature immune systems, making them highly vulnerable to severe infections and unable to mount an effective immune response to most vaccines, thereby frustrating efforts to protect them. More »
Adults Should Consider Re-Vaccination for Whooping Cough
“Vaccines are not just for children any more.”
That is the important, and potentially life-saving message, that Geisinger Health System pediatric gastroenterologist William Cochran, M.D., vice chairman of the Janet Weis Children's Hospital, wants to deliver. And this is a message that comes from personal experience.
“I am a physician, and I didn’t realize that adults needed to be revaccinated for what are considered childhood diseases such as pertussis (whooping cough),” said Dr. Cochran. “And I found that out the hard way – by contracting that very disease.” More »
Chronic Infection Tied to Immune-System Protein
The reason deadly infections like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C never go away is because these viruses disarm the body’s defense system. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered that a key immunity protein must be present for this defense system to have a chance against chronic infection. More »
New Treatment Offers Hope to Patients Debilitated by Stroke
Researchers in the Neuroimaging and Stroke Recovery Laboratory at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School are using a novel treatment for chronic stroke patients.
The non-invasive technique of dual-hemisphere transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) uses electrical stimulation to modulate brain activity while simultaneous engaging the paretic arm/hand in sensorimotor activities. They studied chronic stroke patients who had movement problems after a stroke in a randomized clinical trial. More »
Scientists' Research May Help ID Eary Markers for Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s disease patients show a relentless decline in memory over the course of the disease, which is accompanied by both brain atrophy and by characteristic deposits in the brain tissue called amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. More »
FDA Approves Caldolor - Injectable Form of Ibuprofen
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Caldolor, the first injectable dosage form of the common pain medication ibuprofen, to treat pain and fever. More »
Discovery May Lead to Better Treatment for Mad Cow Disease and Prion Diseases
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have gained a major insight into how the rogue protein responsible for mad cow disease and related neurological illnesses destroys healthy brain tissue.
"This advance sets the stage for future efforts to develop potential treatments for prion diseases or perhaps to prevent them from occurring." said Duane Alexander, M.D., Director of NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), where the study was conducted. More »
