Elevated blood sugar in heart failure patients linked with early death
1/07/2015
New research suggests that acute heart failure patients should have their blood sugar levels checked on arrival at the emergency department.
Adding head and neck cancer screenings to recommended lung cancer screenings would likely improve early detection and survival, according to a multidisciplinary team led by scientists affiliated...
Researchers target the cell's 'biological clock' in promising new therapy to kill cancer cells
1/06/2015
Cell biologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have targeted telomeres with a small molecule called 6-thiodG that takes advantage of the cell's 'biological clock' to kill cancer cells and shrink...
3-D culture system for pancreatic cancer has potential to change therapeutic approaches
1/06/2015
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer, with only 6 percent of patients surviving five years after diagnosis.
Lung cancer metastases may travel through airways to adjacent or distant lung tissue
1/06/2015
A new study by researchers in Canada supports the hypothesis that lung cancer, particularly adenocarcinoma, may spread through the airways.
Rotating night shift work linked to all-cause, CVD and lung cancer mortality
1/05/2015
A new study finds women who work rotating night shifts for more than 5 years may be at higher risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality.
Cancer treatment potential discovered in gene repair mechanism
1/05/2015
Case Western Reserve researchers have identified a two-pronged therapeutic approach that shows great potential for weakening and then defeating cancer cells.
New liver cancer target is a protein that accelerates inflammation
1/05/2015
Hepatitis, alcohol consumption, even obesity can produce chronic inflammation in the liver and set the stage for cancer.
Test predicts response to treatment for complication of leukemia stem cell treatment
1/05/2015
A new test may reveal which patients will respond to treatment for graft versus host disease (GVHD), an often life-threatening complication of stem cell transplants (SCT) used to treat leukemia and...
Study sheds light on what causes cells to divide
1/05/2015
When a rapidly-growing cell divides into two smaller cells, what triggers the split? Is it the size the growing cell eventually reaches?