Medical Edge: Do dietary supplements help or hurt MS therapy?
Post-Bulletin - Rochester,MN,USA
She is now taking Novantrone, a chemotherapy drug and immune suppressor, after having an allergic reaction to Tysabri. If the chemotherapy is administered ...
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MediciNova Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
Primenewswire (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Shortly after the end of the quarter, MediciNova reported results from the completed two-year Phase II clinical trial of MN-166 for the treatment of ...
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Shortly after the end of the quarter, MediciNova reported results
    from the completed two-year Phase II clinical trial of MN-166 for
    the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS).  Importantly, MN-166
    slowed sustained disability progression.  Sustained disability
    progression was measured as a greater than or equal to 1.0 point
    increase from baseline in the Expanded Disability Status Scale
    (EDSS) score for four consecutive months.  Significant effects
    were also observed by MRI, including a significant reduction in
    brain volume loss and a significant reduction in the relative risk
    for conversion of new inflammatory lesions identified at month two
    to persistent black holes at month ten, which indicate MN-166 is
    neuroprotective.

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Spinal Cord Research Heads New $10M Funding In London, Ontario
A researcher striving to help patients recover from spinal cord injuries headlines an announcement of more than $10.5 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) at The University of Western Ontario and Lawson Health Research Institute.

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LineaGen Selects Affymetrix Technology to Discover Genes ...
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
LineaGen's current discovery programs focus on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Autism, Multiple Sclerosis and Osteoporosis. ...
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Parliament to debate limits of embryo research
Reuters UK - UK
Scientists say embryo research using hybrids will give them the large numbers of embryos they need to make stem cells to help find cures for diseases. ...
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Moving mountains for better health with Montel
CalorieLab Calorie Counter News - Las Vegas,NV,USA
It’s no secret that talk show host Montel Williams has been living with multiple sclerosis for years. It’s also no secret that he’s in really great shape, ...
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Donna Fargo releases new single first in Mount Airy
Mount Airy News - Mount Airy,NC,USA
Diagnosed with a non-progressive form of Multiple Sclerosis, a disease that attacks the body's central nervous system in 1979, Fargo faced some setbacks, ...
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Biology / Biochemistry News

Vertebrate Cardiac Conduction System Illuminates New Therapies And Screens For Sudden Cardiac Death
New conduction patterns have been identified in the vertebrate cardiacconduction system which may lead to novel therapies for sudden cardiacarrest, according to an article released on May 12, 2008 in theopen-access journal PLoS Biology, a part of thePublic Library of Science family of journals.
12 May 2008

New Discovery On Role Of Vital Protein That Fights Meningitus
A University of Leicester researcher has discovered how a protein in the blood linked to defence against meningitis plays a more vital role than previously understood in the body's immune defence system.
12 May 2008

How Body Size Is Regulated: International Study Discovers Ten New Genes Related To Human Growth
Scientists are beginning to unravel the question why people distinctly vary in size. In cooperation with scientists of the HelmholtzZentrum München, an international genome-wide study has discovered ten new genes that influence body height and thus provides new insights into biological pathways that are important for human growth.
12 May 2008

Fruit Fly Avoidance Mechanism Could Lead To New Ways To Control Pain In Humans
At first, fruit flies eat like horses. Hatching inside over-ripe fruit where they were laid, they feed wildly in the sugar-rich environment until nature sends them an offer they can't refuse.
12 May 2008

Evidence Discovered For Suspected Cause Of Type 1 Diabetes
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis working with diabetic mice have examined in unprecedented detail the immune cells long thought to be responsible for type 1 diabetes.
12 May 2008

International Study Discovers 10 New Genes Related To Human Growth
This meta-analysis, published in the latest issue of Nature Genetics, is based on data from more than 26,000 study participants. It verifies two already known genes, but also discovered ten new genes.
12 May 2008

Studying Regulation Of Genes To Understand The Underpinnings Of Most Human Diseases
A team of scientists has provided, for the first time, a detailed map of how the building blocks of chromosomes, the cellular structures that contain genes, are organized in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
12 May 2008

OCAST Funds OSU Projects With Commercial Viability
Three OSU researchers received grants totaling more than $240,000 last week from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology under its Oklahoma Applied Research Support program.