Thanks to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, a unique method for delivering compounds that could positively impact the global battle against HIV and AIDS may now be possible. A semi-soft vaginal suppository made from the seaweed-derived food ingredient carrageenan and loaded with the antiviral drug Tenofovir provides a woman-initiated, drug-delivery vehicle that can protect against the spread of sexually transmitted infections during ...
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Manchester scientists are working out how to safely increase the radiotherapy dose given to lung cancer patients - potentially offering improved local control and survival for the patients. Standard treatment for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer is a combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Traditionally this is planned in a one-size-fits-all manner but the radiation dose may not always be enough to stop tumour growth. The potential ...
The most commonly diagnosed learning disability in US, dyslexia, is a neurological reading disability that occurs when the regions of the brain that process written language don't function normally. The use of non-invasive functional neuroimaging tools has helped characterize how brain activity is disrupted in dyslexia. However, most prior work has focused on only a small number of brain regions, leaving a gap in our understanding of how multiple brain regions ...
People aged 70 or more who identify themselves as 'old' feel worse about their own health in societies where they perceive they have lower value than younger people. New research from psychologists at the University of Kent, titled 'Being old and ill' across different countries: social status, age identification and older people's subjective health, used data from the European Social Survey. Respondents, who were all aged 70 and over, were asked to self-rate their ...
A subset of patients with stage III colon cancer when treated with irinotecan-based therapy had improved survival rates. This is according to a new study in emGastroenterology/emsup1/sup, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. When added to the standard chemotherapy treatment - fluorouracil and leucovorin - adjuvant irinotecan therapy improved overall survival rates for patients with the CpG island methylator phenotype ...
