Siblings Of Those With Blood Clots In Leg Have Higher Risk Of Same Disorder
8/10/2011
Siblings of those who have been hospitalized with potentially lethal blood clots in the legs or pelvis are more likely to also suffer the disorder than those with healthy siblings, according to research published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association...
Flowing Structures In Soft Crystals
8/10/2011
A liquid does not have to be a disordered bunch of particles: A team of researchers at Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) and the University of Vienna has discovered intriguing structures formed by tiny particles floating in liquids. Under mechanical strain, particle clusters in liquids can spontaneously form strings and dramatically alter the properties of the liquid...
Penn Study Finds More Effective Approach Against "Achilles' Heel" Of Ovarian Cancer
8/10/2011
In a recent issue of Cancer Research, Daniel J. Powell, Jr., PhD, a research assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, showed for the first time that engineered human T cells can eradicate deadly human ovarian cancer in immune-deficient mice...
Cancer Biomarker -- Detectable By Blood Test -- Could Improve Prostate Cancer Detection
8/10/2011
A new study supports the use of a DNA-based "biomarker" blood test as a complement to the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test currently offered to screen men for prostate cancer. University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers report their findings online ahead of print in the British Journal of Cancer...
Elderly Lung Cancer Patients Benefit More From Combination Chemotherapy Than Monotherapy
8/10/2011
Giving elderly lung cancer patients platinum-based doublet chemotherapy lengthens median overall survival considerably compared to monotherapy, despite its increased toxic effects - treatment for those on monotherapy should be revised, French researchers wrote in The Lancet...
Link Found Between Hospital-Acquired Anemia And Blood Loss In Patients With Heart Attacks
8/09/2011
Blood loss from increased use of phlebotomy (blood taken for diagnostic testing), in patients with acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), appears to be independently linked with the development of hospital-acquired anemia (HAA) according to a study first published Online by Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, is part of the journal's "Less Is More" series...
Man With Breast Cancer Denied Government Medical Insurance
8/09/2011
An American man with breast cancer has been denied government funded insurance coverage because he is not a woman. Raymond Johnson, a 26-year-old construction worker from Charleston, South Carolina, says he cannot afford private health insurance; he earns $9 an hour, and his medical bills are likely to run to hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Men Have Overly Optimistic Expectations About Recovery From Prostate Cancer Surgery, U-M Study Finds
8/09/2011
Nearly half of men undergoing surgery for prostate cancer expect better recovery from the side effects of the surgery than they actually attain one year after the operation, a University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center study finds...
Forty-two-year-old Manahawkin, New Jersey resident David Caldarella can recite a long list of dates off the top of his head. The first one starts with the day he found a lump on the right side of his neck while shaving. It was March 23, 2010. Caldarella immediately called his physician. Caldarella's local otolaryngologist, or ENT, found a growth on his right tonsil...
Distance Caregivers For Advanced Cancer Patients Have Special Needs
8/09/2011
By 2012, an estimated 14 million people will serve as distance caregivers to family members who live across the state, across the region, even across the country...