The News Review:
- Movie review: ‘Medicine for Melancholy’
- Cancer threat removed from stem cells scientists say
- Bloodless Transplant: Balancing Religion and Medicine — Research …
- TB Breakthrough Could Lead to Stronger Vaccine
- Drugs From Vegetables May Target Melanoma Tumors
Movie review: ‘Medicine for Melancholy’
San Francisco Chronicle
We don’t just know what the characters are feeling. We know what the filmmaker is feeling and what he’s trying to communicate with every shot. Under the subdued dignified surface this movie – about the 24 hours after a one-night stand – churns with a filmmaker’s fascination and wonder sadness and longing. Beautiful use is made of the film’s San Francisco location.
Cancer threat removed from stem cells scientists say
Los Angeles Times
An iPS cell is key to regenerative medicine. By Karen Kaplan March 6 2009Borrowing a biological cut-and-paste trick from bacteria scientists have created the first personalized stem cells for patients that are free of the cancer-causing viruses and genes needed to make them according to a study published today in the journal Cell. The stem cells derived from skin samples provided by five patients with Parkinson’s disease were first transformed back to the undecided state of cells in an early embryo. Then they were used to make the dopamine-manufacturing neurons that are lost to disease. The technique removes a key barrier to using a special class of stem cells called an induced pluripotent stem cell or iPS cell to create replacement parts for patients that could be transplanted without risk of rejection — the ultimate goal of regenerative medicine.
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Bloodless Transplant: Balancing Religion and Medicine — Research …
Ivanhoe
People need blood transfusions for many different reasons but many of them need one because of blood loss during surgery. In fact about one-third of all heart surgery patients need a blood transfusion. ther reasons patients need additional blood include serious injuries from car wrecks war or natural disasters. Still others require blood transfusions because of illnesses that deplete the body’s blood supply. Severe infections liver disease kidney disease anemia cancer and bleeding disorders are some of those illnesses. During a transfusion a small IV line delivers healthy donated blood into the patient’s blood vessels. The blood is transfused either as whole blood or in parts.
TB Breakthrough Could Lead to Stronger Vaccine
HealthNewsDigest.com
com) – HUSTN ? A breakthrough strategy to improve the effectiveness of the only tuberculosis vaccine approved for humans provided superior protection against the deadly disease in a pre-clinical test report scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in Nature Medicine’s Advance nline Publication March 1. Their findings resulted from more than 6 years of research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) provides only partial protection against tuberculosis (TB) in children and is ineffective in adults. As a result tuberculosis still kills almost 2 million people a year world wide. ?An improved vaccine is widely seen as the best potential method of controlling the disease and is an urgent public health priority? said Chinnaswamy Jagannath Ph.
Drugs From Vegetables May Target Melanoma Tumors
U.S. News & World Report
“There are currently no drugs to target the proteins that trigger melanoma. We have developed drugs from naturally occurring compounds that can inhibit the growth of tumors in mice by 50 to 60 percent with a very low dose” Gavin Robertson an associate professor of pharmacology pathology and dermatology said in a Penn State news release.
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