Seeking Public Acceptance Of The Use Of Residual Newborn Screening Specimens For Research
6/15/2011
Government guidelines published on the use of dried blood spots collected during mandatory newborn screening underemphasize the importance of getting the public on board with the practice, according to University of Michigan researcher...
Failure To Support Surgical Research Will Damage Patient Care Of The Future, Warns RCS Report, UK
6/15/2011
Failure to generate support and implement surgical research means NHS patients are missing out on groundbreaking new procedures and cures, warns a new report by the Royal College of Surgeons...
Stabilization Of Vulnerable Plaques Could Wipe Out Half Of Coronary Events
6/15/2011
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Working Group of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology has published a position paper to raise the profile of vulnerable plaques and the need for greater use of therapies to promote plaque stabilisation...
Prostate Cancer Finds Way Around Hormone Therapy Using Alternate Route
6/15/2011
Study Finding Could Result in Use of Combination Therapies to Fight Disease Cancer is crafty. When one avenue driving its growth is blocked by drugs targeting that path, the malignancy often creates a detour, finding an alternative route to get around the roadblock...
Immune Response To Tumour Cells Could Aid Cancer Battle
6/15/2011
A new research at the University of Leicester has developed a novel immunotherapeutic approach with potential for cancer treatment. Malignant tumours are the second main cause of death worldwide, with haematological malignancies representing 10%...
AUA Champions New Prostate Legislation Introduced In Congress Today
6/15/2011
The American Urological Association (AUA) is pleased to announce its support for the Prostate Research, Outreach, Screening, Testing, Access and Treatment Effectiveness (PROSTATE) Act of 2011, H.R. 2159, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives today by Representatives Edolphus Towns (D-NY-10) and Paul Broun, MD (R-GA-10). Companion legislation, S...
Craftiness Of Prostate Cancer: Tumor Growth Reroutes Around Drug Therapy Roadblocks
6/15/2011
When prostate cancer meets the roadblocks set up by conventional drugs that target a hormone pathway that feeds the tumor, it often shows its craftiness by rerouting to an alternative cell signalling pathway, according to a new Cancer Cell study...
Finding Is Potential Predictor Of Deadly Cancer Common In Asia
6/15/2011
In a study recently published in Cancer Research, Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers found a protein that could help predict the spread of the head and neck cancer nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC); this protein could also serve as part of a treatment strategy to stop the spread of the disease...
Charity Leads World In Helping Cancer Patients Get The Right Treatment
6/15/2011
Cancer Research UK's chief executive Harpal Kumar today spoke of a 'golden era' for cancer research as the UK is poised to lead the world in individualising the practice of medicine by understanding which treatments are best suited to an individual patient's particular genetic type of cancer...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new genetic test that will help health care professionals determine if women with breast cancer are HER2-positive and, therefore, candidates for Herceptin (trastuzumab), a commonly used breast cancer treatment. The test, called Inform Dual ISH, allows for measurement of the number of copies of the HER2 gene in tumor tissue...