Hip Replacement Patients Benefit From Apixaban
9/19/2012
The clot-inhibiting drug apixaban (trade name: Eliquis®) was approved in May 2011 for the prevention of thrombosis (blood clots) after operations to replace a hip or knee joint...
Cell Phones Pose No Health Risks, New Study
9/18/2012
There is no evidence to support the belief that low-level electromagnetic field exposure from electronics, mobile phones and wireless networks is detrimental to health, including the risk of cancer. This is the conclusion of a 200 page study carried out by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health...
Embryo-Critical Protein Modeled In 3D For First Time
9/18/2012
PRC2 (Polycomb Repressive Complex 2) is a protein that is important in embryo development, and also plays a key role in the progression of many cancers...
Just A Single HPV Protein Required For Cervical Cancer And Pre-Cancer Cervical Growths
9/18/2012
Human papillomavirus (HPV) has long been implicated in cervical cancer, but details of how it happens have remained a mystery. Now researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that a single HPV protein is required for cervical cancer and even pre-cancer growths in the cervix to survive...
News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: Sept. 17, 2012
9/18/2012
Improving pancreatic islet transplantation in humans One of the major obstacles to widespread use of pancreatic islet transplantation for the treatment of diabetes is the risk of post-transplant inflammation and immune rejection. Additionally, generalized immune suppression has many side effects and there is a need for immunosuppressive therapies that specifically target the transplant site...
Breath Analysis Could Help Diagnose Pulmonary Nodules
9/18/2012
A pilot study, published in the October 2012 issue of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's (IASLC) Journal of Thoracic Oncology, showed that breath testing could be used to discriminate between benign and malignant pulmonary nodules...
Just A Single HPV Protein Required For Cervical Cancer And Pre-Cancer Cervical Growths
9/18/2012
Human papillomavirus (HPV) has long been implicated in cervical cancer, but details of how it happens have remained a mystery. Now researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that a single HPV protein is required for cervical cancer and even pre-cancer growths in the cervix to survive...
Cancer Now Leading Cause Of Death In US Hispanics
9/18/2012
A new report from American Cancer Society researchers finds that despite declining death rates, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death among Hispanics in the U.S. In 2009, the most recent year for which actual data are available, 29,935 people of Hispanic origin in the U.S. died of cancer, compared to 29,611 deaths from heart disease...
First 3-D Model Of A Protein Critical To Embryo Development
9/18/2012
The first detailed and complete picture of a protein complex that is tied to human birth defects as well as the progression of many forms of cancer has been obtained by an international team of researchers led by scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)...
Reversible Method Of Tagging Proteins Developed By Chemists
9/18/2012
Chemists at UC San Diego have developed a method that for the first time provides scientists the ability to attach chemical probes onto proteins and subsequently remove them in a repeatable cycle...