News tagged with invasive disease


Experimental molecular therapy crosses blood-brain barrier to treat neurological disease

Researchers have overcome a major challenge to treating brain diseases by engineering an experimental molecular therapy that crosses the blood-brain barrier to reverse neurological lysosomal storage disease in mice.

Medical research created Feb 04, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New discovery in fight against deadly meningococcal disease

Professor Michael Jennings, Deputy Director of the Institute for Glycomics at Griffith University, was part of an international team that discovered the previously unknown pathway of how the bacterium colonizes people.

Medical research created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find potential therapeutic target for Cushing's disease

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a protein that drives the formation of pituitary tumors in Cushing's disease, a development that may give clinicians a therapeutic target to treat this ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers use new molecular inhibitors to successfully hit difficult cancer target

Early laboratory tests are the first to successfully use an experimental molecular therapy to block a hard-to-target part of a protein complex linked to several types of invasive cancer.

Cancer created Feb 05, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MRI can screen patients for Alzheimer's disease or frontotemporal lobar degeneration

When trying to determine the root cause of a person's dementia, using an MRI can effectively and non-invasively screen patients for Alzheimer's disease or Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD), according to a new study ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Dec 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Targeted micro-bubbles detect artery inflammation, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—Heart disease is a leading cause of death throughout the world. Doctors say that it is important to detect heart disease early before it becomes too serious. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri ...

Cardiology created Dec 12, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study evaluates noninvasive technology to determine heart disease

A study published in the most recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) presented encouraging news regarding physicians' ability to determine blood flow and associated coronary artery diseas ...

Cardiology created Aug 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Diagnostic test shows potential to noninvasively identify significant coronary artery disease

Among patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease, use of a method that applies computational fluid dynamics to derive certain data from computed tomographic (CT) angiography demonstrated improved diagnostic ...

Cardiology created Aug 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pre-op eltrombopag reduces need for platelet transfusions

(HealthDay)—For patients with chronic liver disease who require an invasive procedure as part of their routine care, the oral thrombopoietin-receptor agonist eltrombopag reduces the need for platelet transfusions, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Infection warning system in cells contains targets for antiviral and vaccine strategies

Two new targets have been discovered for antiviral therapies and vaccines strategies that could enhance the body's defenses against such infectious diseases as West Nile and hepatitis C. The targets are within the infection ...

Immunology created Jul 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study suggests laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery appears to be safer than open procedure

A study that examined national outcome differences between laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and open Roux-en-Y gastric bypass suggests that the minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure was associated with greater safety ...

Surgery created Jun 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Moveable magnets used to forge gastric bypass in pigs

(HealthDay) -- In a scenario reminiscent of the film Fantastic Voyage, researchers have found a way to perform nearly surgery-free gastric bypass procedures in pigs using only a local anesthetic.

Surgery created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Comprehensive report documents impact of urologic diseases on American public

Urologic conditions like urinary tract infections, kidney stones, and prostate cancer are a major economic burden on Americans, resulting in health care costs of close to $40 billion annually, according to a newly released ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Klebsiella pneumoniae 'superbug' is being studied

University at Buffalo researchers are expressing concern about a new, under-recognized, much more potent variant of a common bacterium that has surfaced in the U.S.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene linked to pancreatic cancer growth, study finds

A mutant protein found in nearly all pancreatic cancers plays a role not only in the cancer's development but in its continued growth, according to a new study from University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer ...

Cancer created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast