People affected by cancer in Switzerland and northern Italy have an opportunity during the ESMO Congress Lugano to talk about the latest in cancer research and share their knowledge and personal experiences, at the 6th ESMO Patient Seminar.
It infiltrates hospitals as microscopic spores. Its defenses are so strong it can resist most antibiotics. And it kills three times as many people every year as MRSA. But scientists at the University of Nottingham are amassing an arsenal of weapons in preparation for counter offensive against the most deadly of hospital superbugs.
Researchers from the Stem Cell Transplant Program and the Amyloid Treatment and Research Program at Boston University Medical Center (BUMC) have found that tandem cycles of high-dose chemotherapy and blood stem cell transplantation can help treat patients with immunoglobulin-light chain (AL) Amyloidosis who did not respond to initial treatment with this method.
A promising new therapy for protecting the fertility of women with cancer and auto-immune diseases such as lupus was revealed at the 23rd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (Tuesday, July 3 2007).
Artificially replicating the male genome could help men with very low sperm counts become fathers, a scientist told the 23rd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (Tuesday 3 July). Professor Takumi Takeuchi, of Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, USA, said that mouse experiments by his team, led by Professor Gianpiero D. Palermo, had shown that offspring born as a result of such replication had shown a level of abnormalities consistent with that shown in cloned animals.
Possible new directions for the treatment of endometriosis, a painful condition associated with infertility that affects up to 15 percent of women of reproductive age, will be outlined in the presentation of two experimental studies at the 23rd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
Differences in immune systems have been found in African Americans with multiple sclerosis (MS) compared to Caucasians, possibly offering a clue why African Americans experience more disability with MS than Caucasians, according to a study published in the July 3, 2007, issue of Neurology?, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Teenagers from low income households with no family history of migraine are more likely to suffer migraine than children from upper income families, according to a study published in the July 3, 2007, issue of Neurology?, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
In the July 2 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Jodie Babitt and colleagues from Harvard Medical School show that administration of a recombinant form of the protein hemojuvelin (HJV) to mice was able to mobilize iron stored in the spleen to the blood, thereby increasing serum iron levels. This protein or other compounds that modulate this signaling pathway may be useful in treating anemia.
In the normal heart, the cycling of intracellular calcium in cardiac muscle cells is critical to the heart?s mechanical contraction and relaxation. Mutations in calcium-handling proteins in the heart have been linked to exercise-induced sudden cardiac death.