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How Are Stem Cells Matched?

A stem cell transplant may involve using tissue from the patient’s own body or tissue from a donor. When the transplant involves stem cells taken from the patient’s own body, the transplant is termed autologous.

14 Feb 2014

How Are Stem Cells Collected?

The stem cells used in a transplant are collected from the blood or sometimes the bone marrow. The first step in preparation for collection is to move the stem cells into the blood from the bone marrow using a process called mobilization.

14 Feb 2014

Multiple Sclerosis Management

Multiple sclerosis is a lifelong, incurable illness that is rapidly progressing and severely debilitating.

14 Feb 2014

Multiple Sclerosis Epidemiology

Multiple sclerosis is a progressive disease that worsens over time and eventually leads to death.

14 Feb 2014

What Causes Multiple Sclerosis?

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease caused by damage to the myelin sheaths of the nerve fibers in the central nervous system.

14 Feb 2014

The Quest for an Acute Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States, contributing to as many as a third of injury-related deaths. When a patient presents to the emergency department with a TBI in isolation or as part of multi-system injury, he or she is stabilized, evaluated and a treatment plan is determined.

27 Jan 2014

What is a Phase 4 Clinical Trial?

phase 4 clinical trial begins after a drug has been approved for use in the general population following phase 1, 2 and 3 trials to rigorously test its efficacy and safety.

24 Jan 2014

What is a Phase 3 Clinical Trial?

Phase 3 clinical trials follow phase 1 and 2 clinical trials. In a phase 1 clinical trial, the tolerability and safety of the new drug is studied, usually in a small number of healthy volunteers. Phase 2 is aimed at determining the drug's efficacy and optimal dosing regimen. After phase 2, the drug is entered into the next phase of testing in a phase 3 trial.

24 Jan 2014

What is a Phase 2 Clinical Trial?

A phase 2 clinical trial is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of a new drug or drug combination for a particular indication.

24 Jan 2014

What is a Phase 1 Clinical Trial?

A clinical trial of a drug is conducted in order to test whether it is viable for use in humans, based mainly on its effectiveness and safety profile.

24 Jan 2014

What is a Phase 0 Clinical Trial?

When a drug is developed for use in a particular disease condition, it undergoes several stages of testing in animal models before being tested on select human volunteers. A phase 0 trial is the first trial where a proposed drug is used on a very small number of human volunteers.

24 Jan 2014

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

Anxiety is a feeling of worry, fear or uneasiness that can range in severity from mildly disconcerting to having a severe impact on daily living.

24 Jan 2014

Multiple sclerosis and beta interferon

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a long-term neurodegenerative disorder that affects the central nervous system, causing disturbances in movement, balance and vision. MS is an autoimmune condition and is caused by the body’s immune system mistaking the protective covering of nerve fibres for a foreign body and mounting an attack against it. This protective covering is called myelin and diseases that cause damage to the myelin are referred to as demyelinating diseases.

22 Jan 2014

Diagnosis of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) is one of the most common conditions affecting older men. Diagnosis is usually made based on symptoms, a physical examination and some imaging studies.

22 Jan 2014

Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BHP)

Treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) depends on how enlarged the prostate gland has become and the extent of any symptoms the enlarged prostate may be causing.

22 Jan 2014

Palliative treatment and end of life care for prostate cancer

When treatment has failed to cure prostate cancer patients and the disease has become advanced, they are usually offered palliative treatment, which focuses on relieving their suffering. Patients who have reached this stage have advanced-stage cancer and are terminally ill.

22 Jan 2014

Prostate cancer alternative and complementary therapies

Complementary therapy for prostate cancer is therapy that is used alongside standard medical care, while alternative therapy refers to medical approaches adopted in place of standard care.

22 Jan 2014

Hormonal therapy for prostate cancer

The growth of prostate cancer is stimulated by the presence of male hormones or androgens in the body. Hormone therapy is aimed at reducing the amount of androgen present in the blood to prevent the growth and further spread of prostate cancer. The therapy is also called androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) or androgen suppression therapy.

22 Jan 2014

Precancerous conditions of the prostate

Precancerous conditions of the prostate are those that have the potential to cause cancer. Precancerous tissues contain cells with abnormalities that have arisen from DNA mutation. Sometimes, these abnormal cells proliferate and cancer develops.

22 Jan 2014