Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Stem Cell Study to Target Crohn's disease



Crohn's sufferers are genetically predisposed to the disease, which is first triggered in their body when they come into contact with a particular environmental stimulus. Once this happens, the immune system responds — leading to symptoms that blight the lives of sufferers.

Stem cells hold a potential solution to this problem. As the body's 'master' cells, which can be directed to form any type of tissue, they will be extracted from patients and then re-established in their bone marrow to 're-boot' the immune system, taking it back to a state before Crohn's symptoms were triggered.

Professor Hawkey and his team intend to recruit 48 volunteers who are suffering with the most serious symptoms, from the UK, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and the Czech Republic and Canada. The study is called ASTIC – which stands for Autologous Stem cell Transplant International Crohn's Disease trial.



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Nanotechnology Propels Advances In Regenerative Medicine Research

Nanotubes help adult stem cells morph into neurons in brain-damaged rats.


Nanostructures promote formation of blood vessels, bolster cardiovascular function after heart attack


Are the two major advances discussed at a conference recently. No hint of how the nanotubes did this was supplied.



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Monday, October 15, 2007

Cancer Death Rates Dropping Fast




This rate of improvement in cancer treatement is evidence of medical transformation.  While a 2pct improvement may not sound like much the cumulative effect is transforming.


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Thursday, October 04, 2007

Virtual Colonoscopy






AFP

- Oct 04, 2007

- 1 hour ago

Virtual colonoscopy requires some injection of air. The removal of any polyps found requires a separate procedure. The study found almost the same number of ...












CNNMoney.com

- Oct 03, 2007

- Oct 03, 2007

The results are expected to lead to wider adoption of CT colonography (also known as virtual colonoscopy) as routine screening for colorectal cancer. ...












Cancer Consultants (press release)

, USA

- Oct 04, 2007

- 5 hours ago

According to an article recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, virtual colonoscopy, also referred to as computed tomographic ...












San Jose Mercury News

, USA

- Oct 04, 2007

- 12 hours ago

Virtual colonoscopy also is less invasive, has fewer complications and doesn't require sedation, said the lead author, David Kim. stripping 4 million ...







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This is another example of the advances made in imaging.  More to follow...




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