News tagged with white blood cells

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Improved diagnostic test benefits children with acute myeloid leukemia

Early treatment response is a powerful predictor of long-term outcome for young patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The information can help physicians decide whether a more intensive approach is needed. Research ...

Cancer created Sep 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New genetic mechanism for controlling blood cell development and blood vessel integrity found

The protein GATA2 is known as a "master regulator" of blood cell development. When a mutation occurs in the gene that makes GATA2, serious blood diseases such as acute myeloid leukemia can result.

Genetics created Sep 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover surprising new roles for a key regulatory enzyme of blood pressure

At the 1st ECRC "Franz-Volhard" Symposium on September 7, 2012 at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin-Buch, Professor Ken Bernstein reported that in mice an excess of ACE led to a much stronger ...

Medical research created Sep 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biopsies may overlook esophagus disease—Study reveals limitations in detecting allergic disorder

University of Utah engineers mapped white blood cells called eonsinophils and showed an existing diagnostic method may overlook an elusive digestive disorder that causes swelling in the esophagus and painful ...

Immunology created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Presence of common infection—cytomegalovirus—helps to explain increased other virus susceptibility in aging adults

(Medical Xpress)—The first experimental proof that long-term infection with cytomegalovirus, or CMV, may impair the aging immune system's response to unrelated viruses – such as West Nile or the flu – ...

Immunology created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

More white blood cells in cardiac patients with depression

(Medical Xpress)—Cardiac patients suffering from depression are at greater risk for new cardiac events or cardiac death than patients without depression. It is still unclear which underlying mechanisms play a role in this ...

Cardiology created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FDA approves Pfizer drug for rare blood cancer

Pfizer Inc. says the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved its new drug to treat a rare form of blood and bone marrow cancer.

Medications created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cellphones AIDS tests studied in S.Africa, S.Korea

South African and South Korean researchers are working on making a smartphone capable of doing AIDS tests in rural parts of Africa that are the worst hit by the disease, a researcher said Friday.

HIV & AIDS created Aug 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

New drug approved for lack of certain white blood cells

(HealthDay)—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug tbo-filgrastim to treat certain cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy who have a condition called severe neutropenia, the FDA said in a news release.

Medications created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Early activation of immune response could lead to better vaccines

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a new "first response" mechanism that the immune system uses to respond to infection. The findings challenge the current understanding ...

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

Immunodeficient patients with secondary lung disease benefit from combined chemotherapy

A team of researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute defined a new treatment for a potentially fatal lung disease in patients with a primary immunodeficiency known ...

Immunology created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study gives new insight on inflammation

Scientists' discovery of an important step in the body's process for healing wounds may lead to a new way of treating inflammation.

Inflammatory disorders created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New genetic risk factor for inflammation identified in African American women

African Americans have higher blood levels of a protein associated with increased heart-disease risk than European Americans, despite higher "good" HDL cholesterol and lower "bad" triglyceride levels. This contradictory observation ...

Genetics created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team creates a unique mouse model for the study of aplastic anaemia

Aplastic anaemia is characterised by a reduction in the number of the bone marrow cells that go on to form the different cell types present in blood (essentially red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets). In most ...

Medical research created Aug 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treatment of heart attacks with APOSEC: further mechanism unravelled

The protein concentrate APOSEC, obtained from white blood cells, when given intravenously 40 minutes after an acute myocardial infarction, largely prevents scarring of the cardiac muscle. These were the findings ...

Cardiology created Aug 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0