Breast Cancer Treatment Likely To Be Improved By Progress In Ultrasound-Guided Surgery
10/30/2012
When surgeons operate to remove a tumor, determining exactly where to cut can be tricky. Ideally, the entire tumor should be removed while leaving a continuous layer of healthy tissue, but current techniques for locating the tumors during surgery are imprecise...
Bean Used In Chinese Food Could Protect Against Sepsis
10/30/2012
Researchers at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have discovered that a bean commonly used in Chinese cuisine protects against the life-threatening condition sepsis. These findings are published in the current issue of Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM). It has been found that a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) protein, HMGB1, mediates inflammation...
Genetic Predictors Of Fatigue For Prostate Cancer Patients Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy
10/30/2012
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and the University of South Florida have found that men with prostate cancer who receive androgen deprivation therapy may predictably suffer from fatigue if they have single nucleotide polymorphisms in three pro-inflammatory genes. The discovery highlights the importance of personalized medicine, in which therapies are tailored to a patient's genetic profile...
Prostate Cancer Patients Find It Difficult To Understand Websites
10/30/2012
Ninety million adults in the U.S. do not read at levels higher than high school, therefore, the NIH (National Institutes of Health) is suggesting that patient information material should be written on a 4th-6th grade level, according to a study conducted by researchers at Loyola University Medical Center and published in the Journal of Urology. The researchers have discovered that a mere 4...
Growing Huge T-Cell Armies To Fight Cancers And Other Diseases
10/30/2012
When talking to the key immune system fighters known as T-cells, it helps to speak their language. Now researchers from Columbia University in New York, N.Y., and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have discovered two new conditions for communication that may help scientists one day harness the power of T-cells to fight diseases such as cancer...
Chemists' Innovation May Be A Better Model For Disease Diagnostic Kits
10/30/2012
When someone develops liver cancer, the disease introduces a very subtle difference to their bloodstream, increasing the concentration of a particular molecule by just 10 parts per billion. That small shift is difficult to detect without sophisticated lab equipment - but perhaps not for long...
Breast Cancer Treatment Likely To Be Improved By Progress In Ultrasound-Guided Surgery
10/30/2012
When surgeons operate to remove a tumor, determining exactly where to cut can be tricky. Ideally, the entire tumor should be removed while leaving a continuous layer of healthy tissue, but current techniques for locating the tumors during surgery are imprecise...
Bean Used In Chinese Food Could Protect Against Sepsis
10/30/2012
Researchers at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have discovered that a bean commonly used in Chinese cuisine protects against the life-threatening condition sepsis. These findings are published in the current issue of Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM). It has been found that a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) protein, HMGB1, mediates inflammation...
Antidepressant Doxepin Relieves Pain Associated With Oral Mucositis
10/29/2012
Head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy can significantly relieve their pain associated with oral mucositis with an oral rinse of the drug doxepin, commonly used to treat depression and anxiety. The research, led by Mayo Clinic, was presented in Boston at the American Society for Radiation Oncology annual meeting. Robert Miller, M.D...
Cheap, Ultra-Sensitive Colour Test Spots Early HIV, Cancer
10/29/2012
Researchers in the UK have developed a "naked eye" colour test for virus and disease biomarkers that is ten times more sensitive than current gold standard methods. They have tested it on HIV and prostate cancer biomarkers, and suggest it offers a cheap and simple way of spotting early onset of these and other diseases that could be of particular benefit in poorer countries...