Solid tumors represent 85 percent of all cancers, creating a huge clinical need for localized, site-specific cancer treatment. Inovio Medical Corporation of San Diego is developing DNA-based vaccines that harness the body’s immune system to prevent and treat chronic diseases such as cancer and HIV.
Center have created a test that could help doctors identify which breast cancer patients need aggressive therapy. The study, published in the online version of Clinical Cancer Research, could prevent many women from undergoing unnecessary chemotherapy or radiation treatment.
After 40-plus years since the biotechnology industry began, it finally turned a profit in 2008. Yet this “good news” story has been overshadowed by the […]
A common prostate-cancer screening test may be largely ineffective, according to two new studies. Scientists in the U.S. and Europe found that the PSA blood test saves few lives and leads to unnecessary treatments for large numbers of men.
Identifying a cardiac arrhythmia is an important first step in diagnosing a potentially life-threatening heart condition. Texas-based eCardio Diagnostics, a leading provider of digital holter monitors, seeks to improve the speed and accuracy of this process.
Many patients are concerned about the external scars that form following surgical procedures, but a much greater risk can come from internal scarring. Adhesions are a type of post-surgical scar tissue that forms between two internal organs or surfaces that are normally separated.
Tuberculosis, or TB, is one of the world’s most widespread lethal diseases, killing someone every 20 seconds. An estimated one-third of the world’s population is infected with tuberculosis. Current medications for TB must be taken for six months, but many patients stop before they’ve completed the full course, which has caused drug-resistant strains of TB to develop in recent years. However, two new studies are showing promise in treating this highly infectious disease.
According to Science Daily, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University found that a combination of two FDA-approved antibiotics showed potential for treating drug-resistant TB. One of the drugs, clavulanate, inhibits a bacterial enzyme that normally protects TB bacteria from the other antibiotic (meropenem). Clinical trials of the combined treatment are scheduled to take place later this year in South Africa and South Korea.
Israel-based Biopad has developed a device to monitor a baby’s kicking inside the womb, reports Israel21c. The product was developed to help prevent stillbirths, which […]
Few people outside the medical profession have even heard of Sepsis, the third most common cause of death for hospitalized patients in the developed world, […]
Until recently, the healthcare industry has been slow to adopt information technology. But with an aging Baby Boomer population, and healthcare spending expected to reach […]
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