Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE), and Nautilus Biotech in Evry, France, today announced the signing of a research collaboration and license agreement to discover and develop novel recombinant Factor IX proteins for the treatment of hemophilia B.
In an era when lung cancer remains the most lethal cancer, accounting for more deaths than colon, breast and prostate cancer combined — and surgery, when possible, is the most effective treatment — Mayo Clinic surgeons have proposed a system of lung surgery quality indicators for surgeons and the public as a method to demonstrate best practices for obtaining positive patient outcomes.
Exclusively ambulatory techniques and equipment were as successful at identifying and treating sleep apnea as the current method of polysomnography, which requires several supervised overnight stays in a sleep laboratory.
Because of the high cost and limited applicability of currently available treatments, the newly identified compounds have the potential to fill the existing therapy gap and to provide protection against a bioterrorism attack using the toxin.
Wielding a palette of chromosome paints, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have taken a step closer to understanding the relationship between aging and cancer by visualizing chromosomes of cells from patients with a heritable premature aging disease known as Werner Syndrome.
Mayo Clinic surgeons have proposed a system of lung surgery quality indicators for surgeons and the public as a method to demonstrate best practices for obtaining positive patient outcomes.
Demetrios Spanos was shocked when his doctor discovered a potentially life-threatening weakening affecting his body?s largest blood vessel, the aorta, during a routine physical examination.
It?s hard to imagine your body being attacked by foreign blood cells while your own immune system is unable to defend you.
A new supplemental therapy that teaches pain coping and biofeedback skills can reduce pain, the potential for chronic pain and health-care costs for millions of Americans suffering from a common jaw disorder, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.
The US National Institutes of Health has started an international study of the use of oral insulin to prevent or delay type 1 diabetes.