Best Hair Loss Treatment Solutions For Healthy Hair
May 13, 2010 by biotechconnection.com · Leave a Comment
The adult scalp contains about 100,000 hair follicles. Everyday the scalp loses about 100 hairs and they will grow back in 5-6 weeks. Starting at age 40, the levels of by-product prolactin of testosterone of men increases, stimulating the production of the enzyme 5-alpha reductase that causes the conversion of testosterone to gihydro-testosterones DHT causing [...]
Smarter use of existing treatment helps dramatically boost survival of young AML patients
May 12, 2010 by biotechconnection.com · Leave a Comment
Smarter use of existing treatment helps dramatically boost survival of young AML patients
More individualized therapy and better supportive care helped push the survival for children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) to 71 percent three years after diagnosis, according to new research led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators and reported in the medical journal [...]
Alopecia Areata Treatment
May 11, 2010 by biotechconnection.com · Leave a Comment
There are two main forms of this condition which vary by the extent of hair loss and require different types of alopecia areata treatment. The mild form is where less than 50% of the hair is lost from thinning patches on the scalp and the more severe condition where more than 50% up to 100% [...]
Osiris Therapeutics Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation For Stem Cell Treatment For Type 1 Diabetes
May 7, 2010 by biotechconnection.com · Leave a Comment
Osiris Therapeutics Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation For Stem Cell Treatment For Type 1 Diabetes
Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIR) today announced that it has been granted Orphan Drug designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Prochymal as a treatment for type 1 diabetes mellitus. The FDA instituted the Orphan Drug Act to [...]
Mesothelioma Treatment Dosage Levels Researched by Physicians
May 6, 2010 by biotechconnection.com · Leave a Comment
The dosage levels of medicinal treatments for mesothelioma patients are being studied by physicians and researchers in Boston in order to acquire more suitable treatments for patients suffering from the fatal lung cancer.
Researchers are using two methods of treatment known as intraoperative intracavitary hyperthermic cisplatin perfusion along with amifostine, to assist in preventing cisplatin toxicity, [...]
