Blood Protein EPO Involved In Origin And Spread Of Cancer
12/07/2011
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have demonstrated that a growth hormone, PDGF-BB, and the blood protein EPO are involved in the development of cancer tumours and that they combine to help the tumours proliferate in the body. These new preclinical findings offer new potential for inhibiting tumour growth and bypassing problems of resistance that exist with many drugs in current use...
Lasting Toxicity In The Brain From Ecstasy Drug
12/07/2011
Recreational use of Ecstasy - the illegal "rave" drug that produces feelings of euphoria and emotional warmth - is associated with chronic changes in the human brain, Vanderbilt University investigators have discovered...
New Method For Safer Dosing Of Anticoagulants
12/07/2011
Elderly people with atrial fibrillation are often treated with anticoagulants to thin the blood, but this medicine is hard to dose and patients have to have their blood tested regularly. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology have now devised a new method that improves the accuracy of risk assessments...
Imaging In Cancer Drug Development Conference 14-15 March 2012, London
12/06/2011
Effective treatments for a wide verity of cancers are still very slow and costly to develop with many prospective drugs ending up in being scraped. With the current economic climate businesses of all sizes are looking for new ways to develop drugs in a smarter manner with reduced production time and improved methods of predicting futility to prevent wasted time and money...
Prophylactic Vaccines Results To Be Revealed At The Global Vaccine Forum, Vienna, 1-2 March 2012
12/06/2011
Microbial causing infectious diseases is associated with more than 30% off all cancers. In the recent years several prophylactic vaccines that have been developed proved to be an important essence impacting the incidence of liver cancer and cervical cancer...
Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy And Prolonged Fatigue
12/06/2011
In a follow-up study, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that patients who receive chemotherapy for breast cancer might experience prolonged fatigue years after their therapy...
Is Oxidative Stress Less Harmful Than Suspected?
12/06/2011
Arterial calcification and coronary heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, cancer and even the aging process itself are suspected to be partially caused or accelerated by oxidative stress. Oxidative stress arises in tissues when there is an excess of what are called reactive oxygen species (ROS)...
Learning About Human Leukemia: The Power Of Basic Model Organisms In Human Health
12/06/2011
The trifecta of biological proof is to take a discovery made in a simple model organism like baker's yeast and track down its analogs or homologs in "higher" creatures right up the complexity scale to people, in this case, from yeast to fruit flies to humans...
Rare Gene Variants Critical For Personalized Drug Treatment Discovered By Pharmacogenomics Study
12/06/2011
The use of genetic tests to predict a patient's response to drugs is increasingly important in the development of personalized medicine. But genetic tests often only look for the most common gene variants...
American Society Of Clinical Oncology Issues Annual Report On Progress Against Cancer
12/06/2011
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) released Clinical Cancer Advances 2011: ASCO's Annual Report on Progress Against Cancer, an independent review of the advances in cancer research that have had the greatest impact on patient care this year...