Stoves In The Developing World Contribute To 2 Million Deaths A Year
10/15/2011
An international effort to replace smoky, inefficient household stoves that people commonly use in lower and middle income countries with clean, affordable, fuel efficient stoves could save nearly 2 million lives each year, according to experts from the National Institutes of Health...
Repairing Damaged Heart Muscle With Stem Cells From Umbilical Cord Blood
10/15/2011
New research has found that stem cells derived from human cord blood could be an effective alternative in repairing heart attacks. At least 20 million people survive every year, according to World Health Organisation estimates, but many have poor life expectancy and require continual costly clinical care...
Turning On Fetal Hemoglobin To Reverse Sickle Cell Anemia
10/15/2011
Not long after birth, human babies transition from producing blood containing oxygen-rich fetal hemoglobin to blood bearing the adult hemoglobin protein. For children with sickle cell disease, the transition from the fetal to adult form of hemoglobin - the oxygen-carrying protein in blood - marks the onset of anemia and painful symptoms of the disorder...
Yervoy (ipilimumab) Turned Down By UK Watchdog
10/15/2011
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recommended in a draft guidance against Bristol-Myers Squibb's Yervoy (ipilimumab) for the treatment of advanced malignant melanoma in patients who have already been treated with chemotherapy...
Yervoy (ipilimumab) Turned Down By UK Watchdog
10/15/2011
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recommended in a draft guidance against Bristol-Myers Squibb's Yervoy (ipilimumab) for the treatment of advanced malignant melanoma in patients who have already been treated with chemotherapy...
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Quanterix PSA Test Found To Be A Reliable Predictor Of Prostate Cancer Recurrence Following Surgery
10/14/2011
Quanterix Corporation, a company enabling a new generation of molecular diagnostic tests based on its revolutionary Single Molecule Array (SiMoA™) technology, announced results from a clinical evaluation of its Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test, a fifth-generation digital immunoassay, demonstrating that the assay is a reliable predictor of five-year biochemical recurre...
KGI Professor Links MicroRNA Gene To Aggressive Skin Cancer
10/14/2011
A certain microRNA gene, miR-34b, could be a useful biomarker in early diagnosis of the most lethal forms of melanoma, according to new research published by KGI Professor Animesh Ray and his research collaborators. Ray, together with Dr...
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A new study from Spain finds that narrow band imaging appears to be a less time-consuming and equally effective alternative to chromoendoscopy for the detection of dysplasia (abnormal growths) in patients with long-standing inflammatory bowel disease...