Showing posts with label therapy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label therapy. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

NIH Network Study Reveals: Anti-HIV Therapy Appears To Protect Children’s Hearts

Baylor College, Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, and 6 other institutes collaborated with Steven E. Lipshultz, M.D from University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Dr. Hazra from NHLBI in Bethesda in a Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study under National Institutes of Health (NIH). The research study indicated that the combination anti-viral therapy employed to treat HIV infection in infected children is protective against heart damage.

http://bionews-tx.com/news/2013/04/24/nih-network-study-reveals-anti-hiv-therapy-appears-to-protect-childrens-hearts/

MD Anderson-Involved Research Consortium To Develop MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy System For Cancer Care

Swedish global human care company Elekta and Holland’s Royal Philips Electronics have announced that The Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL) has signed an agreement to join a research group working to advance development of cutting-edge image-guided treatment technology for cancer care. The research consortium already includes leading radiation oncology centers and clinicians at Holland’s University Medical Center Utrecht and Houston’s University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center who are seeking to merge radiation therapy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies into a single system.

http://bionews-tx.com/news/2013/04/24/md-anderson-involved-research-consortium-to-develop-mri-guided-radiation-therapy-system-for-cancer-care/