Immunotherapy Weekly articles from May 2002

Immunotherapy Weekly archives from May 2002

Cyclosporin A may be effective adjunct to antiretroviral therapy.
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Europe say that cyclosporin A (CsA) can improve the effectiveness of antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV infection. "Primary HIV-1...

Infliximab highly effective therapy.(for ankylosing spondylitis)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- For the first time, there is a therapy that can significantly reduce disease activity for the majority of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease that often...

Study shows Foradil Aerolizer more effective than slow-release theophylline.(for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Long-term treatment with Foradil Aerolizer (formoterol fumarate inhalation powder) is more effective and better tolerated than treatment with oral slow-release theophylline in patients with symptomatic...

Vaccine and drug combination eliminate viral DNA in some patients with HBV.(hepatitis B vaccine and lamivudine for the treatment of hepatitis B virus)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Boosting immune system response with hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine may offer an advantage to some patients who are infected with the virus and receiving...

Researchers find key factor influencing neuromuscular disease.(myasthenia gravis)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in Texas have identified a critical element in the molecular process responsible for the neuromuscular disease myasthenia gravis. The discovery could lead to a possible cure for the...

Cartilage made from stem cells tested in animals.(fat cells converted into stem cells)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The research lab that made headlines last year for turning fat cells into cartilage has taken the work a step further by successfully implanting the altered cells in mice. This demonstrates the...

Test identifies patients at risk for severe organ rejection.(enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A simple blood test takes much of the guesswork out of predicting who is at risk for severe organ rejection, according to results of two University of Pittsburgh studies presented at the 22nd annual...

Allergy-free gardening can reduce eye irritation.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Avid gardeners who seek tranquility by turning their landscapes green in the spring but end up with red, itchy eyes may find relief through a combination of eye drops and sowing allergy-free gardens....

Common drug saves patients money, trips to hospital.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The most effective and intensive medication for asthma isn't the drug most commonly prescribed for that disease, a new study has found. After analyzing 18 months' worth of insurance claims data for...

Genomic study breathes new life into research.
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Research published in the April 2002 Genome Biology has identified 149 genes that may be involved in the development of asthma. This research, the first of its kind, is exciting, as 52 of these genes...

Bextra now widely available to treat arthritis and menstrual pain.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The newest COX 2-specific inhibitor - Bextra (valdecoxib tablets) - is now available nationwide for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis (OA), adult rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and...

Initial long-term survival findings reported from head and neck cancer study of Multikine.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CEL-SCI Corp. (CVM) announced that all eight head and neck cancer patients in a phase II clinical trial who were treated by one investigator in Hungary with CEL-SCI's immunotherapy drug, Multikine, in...

Oncophage yields promising immunological results in melanoma and colorectal cancer trials.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antigenics, Inc., (AGEN) announced interim results from phase II trials evaluating Oncophage (HSPPC-96), the company's personalized cancer vaccine, in the treatment of both advanced melanoma and...

CellFactors launches of immortalized human neural cell lines.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The launch of a library of immortalized human neural cell lines derived from the brain and spinal cord could transform the efficiency with which potential new drugs are discovered by the pharmaceutical...

IgE shows activity on animal mast-cell sensitization.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Lindsay Edmunds, PhD, ELS, senior medical writer - Experiments with a rat immunization model indicated unchanging levels, but increasing avidity and greater relative proportions, of antigen-specific...

Agricultural fungicide could cause irreversible immune system damage.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Natural killer cells are like the Marines of our immune system; they have the capability to defend us against many different threats. But researchers have uncovered a potential counter-threat to this...

University of Pittsburgh presents study on dendritic cells.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Dendritic cells, as the pacemakers of the immune system, play a critical role in the primary immune response. They are the first cells to recognize antigens and to assist in the production of an immune...

FDA advisory committee to review Amevive.(Food and Drug Administration)(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Biogen, Inc., (BGEN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will convene a Dermatologic and Opthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee on May 23, 2002 to review the registrational filing of...

Corgenix withdraws application for RA test, will emphasize liver disease program.(rheumatoid arthritis)(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Corgenix Medical Corp. (CONX) announced that after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) it has decided to withdraw its application to obtain market clearance of a diagnostic test...

Multiple MHC-mismatched cord blood infusions hasten engraftment.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Multiple cord blood infusions from MHC-disparate donors may improve outcomes for hematopoietic stem cell recipients, researchers in North Carolina report. ...

Hyperhemolysis not effected by RBC antigen matching.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Lindsay Edmunds, PhD, ELS, senior medical writer - A U.S. study of pediatric and adult sickle cell patients who received transfusions indicated that the most important adverse effect was...

Certican demonstrates reduced risk of graft vasculopathy.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Certican (everolimus) data presented at the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) in Washington, DC, offer the first-ever clinical evidence of an immunosuppressant drug with...

Intensive study on donor organ preservation launched.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... 2002 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HyperBaric Systems, Inc., (HYRB) a California biomedical company, announced that it has begun an intensive and comprehensive study on technologies and methodologies that will potentially extend the...

Inhaled steroids produce variable benefits in the treatment of asthma.
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study sheds light on the differences in the way asthma patients respond to inhaled steroid therapy. This study, conducted by the U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Asthma Clinical...

High levels of antibody detected in HCV patients with oral eruptions.(hepatitis C virus)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Antibodies noted for associating with cardiovascular and autoimmune disease have also been implicated in hepatitis B virus (HCV)-infected patients who develop...

Common cold no more frequent in people with asthma but symptoms more severe.
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- People with asthma are not at an increased risk of having a common cold, but are more likely to develop more severe respiratory symptoms if infected with the cold virus, conclude authors of a U.K....

New x-ray technique images cartilage, may lead to earlier diagnosis.(diffraction enhanced imaging for the diagnosis of osteoarthritis)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An innovative x-ray technique called diffraction enhanced imaging (DEI), which produces images with about 27 times greater contrast than regular x-ray images, could be an extremely valuable tool to...

Researchers identify key gene that regulates immune response.(IRAK-4 gene)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital's Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI) and Amgen Research Institute have discovered that controlling a specific gene could prevent the body's immune system from...

Visilizumab may be useful for graft-versus-host treatment.
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - A novel drug may help physicians treat severe complications after stem cell transplantation, researchers in the United States report. "Visilizumab is a...

Trinity Medical Group USA announces study to broaden use of Remune.(Brief Article)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Trinity Medical Group USA, Inc., (TMGU) announced that the Thai National Ethical Committee, Ministry of Public Health, has approved an advanced study of Remune, an immune-based therapy to treat...

CCR5 is safe target for therapeutic agents.(HIV infection treatment)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Denmark say that the CCR5 receptor needed for HIV cell entry can be safely targeted by potential antiviral treatments. "The CC chemokine...

Allergen exposure puts inner city children at risk for asthma.
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Reducing exposure to cockroach, dust mite, and cat allergen alleviates asthma in the inner city, researchers reported at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) Annual Meeting....

Allergens and viruses act together to worsen asthma.(Brief Article)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Common allergens (such as dust mite and grass pollen) and viruses may act together to exacerbate asthma, concludes a study in the British Medical Journal. Sixty patients (ages 17 to 50) admitted to...

Minimally invasive surgical procedure for arthritis may delay knee replacement surgery.(UniSpacer Knee System from Sulzer Orthopedics Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A promising new treatment for people suffering from early stage osteoarthritis of the knee is now available in the United States. The UniSpacer Knee System, manufactured by Sulzer Orthopedics, Inc., a...

Study highlights new ways to cut inner-city kids' asthma severity.
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Preliminary results of a long-term study show two new ways to reduce asthma severity in inner-city children. Researchers presented these results at the annual meeting of the American Academy of...

New study confirms Cold-Eeze reduces antibiotic use.(Brief Article)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Quigley Corp. (QGLY), the maker of Cold-Eeze, announced preliminary results of a retrospective clinical study confirming reduction in the use of antibiotics by patients who use Cold-Eeze as...

Mechanism for long-term survival discovered.(survival of patients with Epstein-Barr virus-associated cancers)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects almost every person worldwide at some point in life. Once infection occurs, the virus usually survives in the host forever, lying dormant and causing no symptoms....

ZymoGenetics files patent lawsuit against Immunex.(Immunex drug, Enbrel, is manufactured in same manner as Zymogenetics protein fusing patent)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Biotech company ZymoGenetics has sued local rival Immunex, saying Immunex infringed upon its patent for making a rheumatoid arthritis drug. Immunex denies the charge. The lawsuit, filed March...

Regent Group, Inc. receives HCPCS for Resurgex.(Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services coding)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Millennium Biotechnologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Regent Group, Inc. (RGII) has received from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) a HCPCS coding for their nutritional...

Study highlights efficacy of Tracleer in life-threatening lung condition.(treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (2002;346(12)896-903) highlights the importance of Tracleer (bosentan) tablets for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). ...

Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute and Biopolymer Engineering join forces.(WGP Glucan for the treatment of radiation injuries)(Brief Article)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) and Biopolymer Engineering, Inc., announced a joint agreement to research the radiation-protective characteristics of one of the company's...

Nabi Changes Name to Nabi Biopharmaceuticals.(Brief Article)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nabi (NABI) announced that it has changed its name to Nabi Biopharmaceuticals. This change recognizes the completion of the company's strategic transition to become a vertically integrated...

Drug used to treat RA may prolong life, study says.(methotrexate for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New research suggests that methotrexate, a key drug for rheumatoid arthritis, could help people with the crippling disease live longer. Methotrexate, originally a cancer drug, has been used to...

Viragen International to trade under new symbol.(Brief Article)
May 15, 2002... 2002 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Viragen, Inc., (VRA) announced that its majority-owned subsidiary, Viragen International, Inc. will now trade under the new stock symbol "VGNI". Viragen International, Inc., formerly named Viragen...

Hepatitis A virus infection cripples monocyte to macrophage maturation.(Brief Article)
May 22, 2002... 2002 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection appears to limit the way immune system cells can grow and mature in culture. The new finding by Sabina Wunschmann and...

AstraZeneca and T Cell Sciences withdraw opposition to patent.(Brief Article)
May 22, 2002... 2002 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Immune Response Corp. (IMNR) announced that it received notification from the European Patent Office confirming that the appeal proceedings relating to its T cell receptor peptide technology are...

Researchers have high hopes of building an artificial liver.(Brief Article)
May 22, 2002... 2002 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The man who grew a human ear on the back of a mouse has made a breakthrough that brings the prospect of an artificial liver much closer. He believes he has solved the problem of growing the complex...

Green tea extract could help alleviate shortage of livers available for transplant.(Brief Article)
May 22, 2002... 2002 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Consumers of Japanese green tea have for centuries believed the ancient Chinese proverb, "Better to be deprived of food for 3 days, than tea for one," believing that the drink has been effective in...

Stanford researcher dusts off old drug; uncovers new antirejection properties.(sirolimus)(Brief Article)
May 22, 2002... 2002 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Thirty years ago, researchers scooped some dirt on Easter Island and discovered bacteria that led to a potential antifungal drug. Little did they know that the drug - which languished on shelves after...

New treatment for difficult-to-treat inflammatory disease.(Hypereosinophilic syndrome )(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) is an occasional disorder in which eosinophils, a type of inflammation-causing white blood cell, increase to excessive levels in the blood. The cells accumulate...

Filtering patient's blood before kidney transplant allows transplant from any donor.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- By filtering kidney patients' blood of antibodies that normally would reject a donor kidney, transplant surgeons at Johns Hopkins have been 93% successful in transplanting the organs between any two...

Standard immunotherapy influences oncoprotein and growth factor differently.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Scientists in the U.S. have determined an immunotherapy commonly used for treating minimally invasive bladder cancer causes differential expression of a key...

Granulomatous lesions in murine model could be used to study new treatments.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Researchers believe a novel murine model of chronic granulomatous disease could be used for testing promising new gene therapies designed for treating patients...

Infliximab could offer long-term benefits.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sustained use of the drug infliximab could offer substantial clinical benefit to people with Crohn disease, conclude authors of a study in the May 4, 2002, issue of the Lancet. Crohn disease is a...

Drug cocktail prevents recurrence after liver transplant.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aiming to prevent recurrence of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) in patients following liver transplantation, University of California Los Angeles researchers retrospectively reviewed survival rates of...

Exercise program aimed at reducing fatigue also may boost immune function.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- While many people with multiple sclerosis (MS) struggle to perform normal daily activities, an exercise program appears to have a positive effect on MS by bolstering the immune system and reducing...

Durect Corp. files IND for the long-term treatment of asthma.(investigational new drug )(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Durect Corp. (DRRX) announced that it has filed an investigational new drug (IND) application to investigate the delivery of cromolyn sodium for the treatment of asthma. This IND was filed as part...

E.U. approves desloratadine syrup and rapidly disintegrating tablets.(European Union )(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Schering-Plough Corp. (SGP) announced that the European Commission of the European Union (E.U.) has granted marketing authorization for a syrup formulation of the nonsedating antihistamine...

Researchers address growing need for prevention of VRE infections.(vancomycin-resistant enteroccoci )(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Biosearch Italia SpA (BIO) announced that researchers at the 12th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ECCMID) highlighted the limited therapeutic and preventative options...

Latest results show continued promise for new oxazolidinone.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- AstraZeneca's new oxazolidinone (AZD2563) has potency advantages in vitro over linezolid, a currently used oxazolidinone, and is active against increasingly resistant bacteria, according to data...

Nabi receives patent for technology to enhance effectiveness of antimicrobial antibodies.(Nabi Biopharmaceuticals Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (NABI) announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company a patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,355,625) covering the composition of beta-glucans and...

Earthrise Nutritionals: Studies confirm spirulina's role as an anticancer agent.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists at the Osaka Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases have confirmed in humans that taking an extract of spirulina can have positive effects on the production of cancer fighting immune...

FDA committee endorses Claritin as OTC treatment for chronic idiopathic urticaria.(Food and Drug Administration)(over-the-counter)(chronic hives)(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Schering-Plough Corp. (SGP) said it was pleased with recommendations of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee, which supported over-the-counter treatment for Claritin (loratadine) in chronic...

Agent renders hepatitis B vaccine more effective in hemodialysis patients.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - The authors of a new study have concluded AM3 (Inmunoferon) enhances the ability of kidney disease patients on hemodialysis to develop long-term protective...

Respironics announces record third quarter revenues and net income.(Respironics Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Respironics, Inc., (RESP) announced record financial results for the 3 months and 9 months ended March 31, 2002. Net sales for the fiscal year's third quarter totaled a record $126.7 million, a...

Protalex files patent on for rheumatoid arthritis therapy.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Protalex, Inc., (PRTX) recently filed a broad patent application covering its approach to the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other immune disorders. Capping 2 years of animal studies and...

Extra cytokines can improve idiotype vaccination efficacy.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Germany say that they have found a way to improve the benefits of idiotype vaccination for multiple myeloma patients. "Idiotype (Id)...

MelTec GmbH characterizes protein networks involved in T-cell invasion.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- MelTec GmbH, a functional proteomics company, has announced the publication of two scientific studies in the April 2002 Journal of Theoretical Medicine, describing the protein networks involved in...

Aventis Pharma, Vertex Pharmaceuticals to expand development of Pralnacasan.(Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.)(oral cytokine inhibitor development)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aventis Pharma (AVE) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (VRTX) are expanding clinical development of the interleukin-1(beta) converting enzyme inhibitor pralnacasan, based on clinical proof-of-mechanism...

Merckle and EuroAlliance make key announcements at British Society of Rheumatology meeting.(Merckle GmbH)(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Merckle and EuroAlliance announced licofelone as the proposed new generic name for their osteoarthritis treatment currently in phase III development. The molecule had previously been known as...

Immune regulatory cells can help prevent graft-versus-host reactions.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States say that they may have found a novel method for preventing complications after stem cell transplantation. "Immune...

Autoimmune disease more likely to kill women, CDC reports.(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention )(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women are five times as likely as men to die from lupus, an immune system disease that causes crippling joint pain, scientists said May 2, 2002. A 20-year study also found that blacks are three...

Rheumatoid arthritis biosimulation technology to measure effectiveness of treatment.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Entelos, Inc., and its development partner Organon announced the completion of the first ever, large-scale computer model of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that simulates patient response to treatment....

Drugs preserve organs for transplantation.(hormonal resuscitation drugs)(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than 2300 additional organs could be available for transplantation each year without recruiting new donors, using a trio of drugs administered to brain-dead patients to help preserve the organs,...

HIV patients have no progression of HIV after liver transplantation, Pitt study reports.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... 2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who underwent liver transplantation for hepatitis C virus (HCV) did not have further progression of their HIV after transplantation despite their...