"Powerful Sway" Of Industry To Cut Avoidable Deaths From Chronic Diseases, BMJ Raises Concern
8/24/2011
In view of September's summit on non-communicable diseases where world leaders will meet at the United Nations in New York, the BMJ raises serious concerns regarding the "powerful sway" of the tobacco, alcohol, food and drug industries as international governments prepare to agree global targets to cut avoidable deaths from chronic diseases...
Unnecessary Cervical Treatments Reduced When HPV Test Performed Twice
8/24/2011
According to new research published today in the British Journal of Cancer, performing the human papillomavirus (HPV) test twice with a short interval between tests would reduce the number of women having unnecessary treatment...
Potential Link Between Nickel Nanoparticles And Lung Cancer
8/24/2011
All the excitement about nanotechnology comes down to this: Structures of materials at the scale of billionths of a meter take on unusual properties...
Adding Avastin To Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Benefits Breast Cancer Patients
8/24/2011
Amid the controversy surrounding the Food and Drug Administration's ruling that Avastin should no longer be used to treat metastatic breast cancer, a new multinational Phase III clinical trial shows that Avastin significantly increased tumor response rates in breast cancer patients when given before surgery...
Signaling Stop To Leukemia Stem Cells
8/24/2011
There are numerous specialized growth factors that are responsible for cells of different tissues of our body to divide and differentiate when needed. These hormone-like factors bind to matching receptors on the surface of their target cells and thus give order for the cell to divide. However, a single genetic alteration can be sufficient for the whole system to get out of control...
Malignant Brain Tumors In Children Found To be Two Different Diseases
8/24/2011
Ependymomas are the second most frequent type of malignant brain tumor in children. Ependymoma develops from precursor cells of the tissue that lines the hollow cavities of the brain. Therapy results of ependymoma vary immensely: While in some patients tumor growth comes to a standstill after surgery and radiotherapy, in other children the disease rapidly takes a severe course...
Prostate Cancer Prognostic Marker Discovery By Next Generation Sequencing
8/24/2011
Genomatix Software, the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences (USU), and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation (HJF) for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. have entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to extend their collaborative endeavors in prostate disease research...
Investigational drug Alpharadin (radium-223 chloride) for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer in patients whose cancer has spread to the bone (bone metastasis) has been granted Fast Track designation by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), Bayer Health Care announced today. Alpharadin is exclusively licenced to Bayer from Algeta ASA...
Love Hormone Oxytocin Inspires New Small-cell Lung Cancer Treatment Research
8/23/2011
Scientific studies into oxytocin, a hormone that produces feelings of contentment after an orgasm, have inspired researchers from The Australian National University to investigate new therapies for small-cell lung cancer, the most common cause of cancer death in Australia...
Bacterium Molecule Stops Breast Cancer
8/23/2011
In a study published in Nature Chemistry, researchers have revealed how a molecule that was first discovered in bacteria, blocks a protein which causes breast cancer to develop and spread...