Silicone Gel-Filled Breast Implant Approved By FDA, With Conditions
3/10/2012
Sientra Inc's silicone gel-filled breast implant for breast reconstruction or augmentation has been approved by the FDA, as long as the company carries out post-approval studies to assess the device's long-term effectiveness, safety, and rare disease outcomes. The implant is approved for females aged at least 22 years...
Zytiga Prednisone Combo Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Trial Unblinded
3/10/2012
A new statement by Janssen Research & Development, LLC informs that they have unblinded the Phase 3 study, COU-AA-302, which shows that Zytiga (abiraterone acetate), when taken alongside prednisone, is effective in treating mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic patients who are suffering from metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and have not gone through chemotherapy...
Seeking Out The 'Achilles' Heel' Of Clot-Buster Plasmin
3/10/2012
Everyone is familiar with the pain of skinned knees. However, the complex pathway of proteins that works behind the scenes after the bleeding has stopped is not as well known. Central to this process is the production of plasmin, a powerful blood enzyme that disposes of blood clots. Doctors also harness the "clot busting" abilities of plasmin to treat patients who suffer heart attack or stroke...
Seeking Out The 'Achilles' Heel' Of Clot-Buster Plasmin
3/10/2012
Everyone is familiar with the pain of skinned knees. However, the complex pathway of proteins that works behind the scenes after the bleeding has stopped is not as well known. Central to this process is the production of plasmin, a powerful blood enzyme that disposes of blood clots. Doctors also harness the "clot busting" abilities of plasmin to treat patients who suffer heart attack or stroke...
Bowel Cancer - New Clinical Guidelines
3/09/2012
The new clinical guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of bowel cancer have been published by the Cancer Council Australia. Dr. Cameron Bell, Chair of the Surveillance Colonoscopy Guidelines Working Party, says that the guidelines offer proven information that assists practitioners in deciding when a surveillance colonoscopy is required...
Bowel Cancer - New Clinical Guidelines
3/09/2012
The new clinical guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of bowel cancer have been published by the Cancer Council Australia. Dr. Cameron Bell, Chair of the Surveillance Colonoscopy Guidelines Working Party, says that the guidelines offer proven information that assists practitioners in deciding when a surveillance colonoscopy is required...
First 'Theranostic' Treatment For Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
3/09/2012
A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has developed the first "theranostic" agent for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). ALL is the most common type of childhood cancer diagnosed in approximately 5,000 new cases each year in the United States...
New Way To Study Liver Cancer Created By Wilmot Researchers
3/09/2012
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center's James P. Wilmot Cancer Center have made significant strides in the study of a primary cancer of the liver - Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (IHCC), also called biliary tract cancer. Their work has been published online and in print editions of Cancer Research, the most frequently cited cancer journal in the world. Aram Hezel, M.D...
Research Sheds Light On Cancer Of The Appendix
3/09/2012
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have demonstrated that cancer of the appendix is different than colon cancer, a distinction that could lead to more effective treatments for both diseases. The study by Edward A. Levine, M.D., professor of surgery and chief of the surgical oncology service at Wake Forest Baptist, is the result of gene analysis of cases covering a 10-year period...
New Study Clarifies Crystal Structure Of Archael Chromatin
3/09/2012
Researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima, Japan have clarified for the first time how chromatin in archaea, one of the three evolutionary branches of organisms in nature, binds to DNA...