During Dialysis, Low Blood Pressure Found To Increase Risk Of Clots
8/01/2011
A sudden drop in blood pressure while undergoing dialysis has long vexed many kidney patients. Side effects associated with this situation over the long term range from stroke to seizure to heart damage to death. Patients also suffer in the short term with gastrointestinal, muscular and neurologic symptoms. Now one more disturbing side effect can be been added to this list...
Bone Fluoride Levels Not Associated With Osteosarcoma
8/01/2011
The International and American Associations for Dental Research have released in its Journal of Dental Research a study that investigated bone fluoride levels in individuals with osteosarcoma, which is a rare, primary malignant bone tumor that is more prevalent in males...
Dogs Help Researchers To Improve Their Understanding Of Bone Cancer
7/31/2011
A team led by Dr. Jaime Modiano, a College of Veterinary Medicine and Masonic Cancer center expert in comparative medicine, discovered a gene pattern that distinguishes the more severe form of bone cancer from a less aggressive form in dogs. Dogs are the only other species besides humans that develops this disease spontaneously with any frequency...
Introducing Maspin Protein Into Tumor Nucleus Can Halt Growth And Spread
7/31/2011
According to the Canadian Cancer Society, one in four Canadians will die of cancer. This year alone, the disease will kill an estimated 75,000 people. With incidence rates on the rise, more cancer patients are facing grave prognoses. Fortunately, Lawson Health Research Institute's Dr. John Lewis, Dr. Ann Chambers, and colleagues have found new hope for survival...
Progressive Decrease In Telomere Length Characterizes Familial Breast Cancer Patients
7/31/2011
Telomeres, the complex structures that protect the end of chromosomes, of peripheral blood cells are significantly shorter in patients with familial breast cancer than in the general population...
Hot-Dog Health Warning Outside NASCAR Event In Indianapolis
7/30/2011
A large billboard close to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, that looks very similar in design to cigarette warnings, tells passers-by "Warning: Hot dogs can wreck your health." Readers are directed to CancerProject.org. The billboard has a picture of hotdogs sticking out of a cigarette pack, which has an image of the skull and crossbones...
High Fiber Intake Lowers Breast Cancer Risk
7/30/2011
Women who want to lower their risk of developing breast cancer should seriously consider increasing their intake of dietary fiber. A study reported in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that those who consumed the most fiber had an 11% lower risk of developing breast cancer compared to women who ate the least...
Inspiration Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Inspiration) announced data from its clinical development program for OBI-1, an intravenous (IV) recombinant porcine factor VIII product (rpFVIII), intended for the treatment of bleeding in people with hemophilia A with inhibitors and in people with acquired hemophilia...
High Fiber Intake Lowers Breast Cancer Risk
7/29/2011
Women who want to lower their risk of developing breast cancer should seriously consider increasing their intake of dietary fiber. A study reported in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that those who consumed the most fiber had an 11% lower risk of developing breast cancer compared to women who ate the least...
Being Brought Up In Livestock Farm Raises Risk Of Blood Cancers Later On
7/29/2011
Individuals who were brought up in a livestock farm have a higher risk of developing blood cancers compared to other people, researchers from New Zealand and England reported in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a BMJ publication. For those growing up in a poultry farm the risk was found to be three times higher...