Infection probed in gene therapy death
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A virus used in a gene therapy experiment likely didn't cause the death of an Illinois woman suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, although it can't be completely ruled out, government health advisers said Monday.
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Waiting for subjects to die is a somber part of the oncology clinical trial process.
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CHINO, Calif. A 76-year-old Chino woman has died days after being diagnosed with the West Nile virus -- but officials aren&#39;t sure whether the mosquito-borne illness caused her death.
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NEW YORK  - A small pilot study shows that gene therapy might help men with erectile dysfunction.
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A central Minnesota man in his 50s, with an underlying chronic disease, has died after being infected with the West Nile virus. His death is the first related to West Nile virus to be reported in Minnesota in 2004.
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Researchers have identified more genetic mutations that appear to be linked with cot death.
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Injection of a new gene therapy into breast tumors, in combination with chemotherapy, shows impressive therapeutic effects in locally advanced breast cancers, according
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Researchers have hit on what may be an inexpensive way to prevent death from infections in children with HIV until anti-retroviral drugs become affordable in the developing world.
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A pregnant woman enrolled in government-run clinical trials died last year when doctors continued to give her an experimental AIDS regimen despite signs of liver failure, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
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Two studies published on Thursday  offer new hope for Parkinson&#39;s disease -- one using gene  therapy to treat the symptoms and another investigating a drug  that might stop the incurable disease in its tracks.
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Officials at Kings County Hospital Center said that they were âclosely examiningâ why doctors there failed to detect a drug-resistant staph infection in a boy who died this month.
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Postmortem tests on an Illinois woman who died mysteriously in July after getting an experimental gene treatment show no evidence that she was killed directly by the genetically altered viruses she was given, a committee of experts was told yesterday.
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The warning was issued after two patients taking the cancer drug Rituxan as a treatment for the autoimmune disorder lupus died from a rare brain infection.
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Scientists say a system is needed to monitor the spread of a potentially fatal form of drug-resistant E.coli.
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The first attempt at gene therapy against Parkinson&#39;s disease has yielded promising results and is safe, according to early data from this ground-breaking experiment.
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Patients with cystic fibrosis could one day be treated using their own stem cells which have been given a shot of gene therapy to fix a faulty gene, suggests a new study.
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U.S. scientists have determined immune cells recruited to sites of infection can use more than one type of molecule to exit the bloodstream.