Novel way found to block gene driving cancer growth
9/17/2014
'When you want to keep an alligator from biting you, you can tie its mouth shut. We took another approach: We put a stick in its mouth to hold it open.
Urine-based HPV test 'feasible alternative for cervical cancer screening'
9/17/2014
A study claims testing for HPV using urine samples rather than cervical samples provides an effective, non-invasive screening option for women and may increase screening uptake.
Final pieces to the circadian clock puzzle found
9/17/2014
Sixteen years after scientists found the genes that control the circadian clock in all cells, the lab of UNC's Aziz Sancar, M.D., Ph.D.
Time to halt "unethical" breast cancer screening trial, warn experts
9/17/2014
Experts are calling for the ongoing trial into extended breast cancer screening to be halted.
Novel device inspired by the spleen quickly filters bacteria, fungi and toxins for sepsis therapy
9/17/2014
Things can go downhill fast when a patient has sepsis, a life-threatening condition in which bacteria or fungi multiply in a patient's blood - often too fast for antibiotics to help.
Study compares effectiveness of treatments for blood clots
9/16/2014
In an analysis of the results of nearly 50 randomized trials that examined treatments of venous thromboembolisms (blood clot in a vein), there were no significant differences in clinical and safety...
Specific baldness pattern linked with increased prostate cancer risk
9/16/2014
Evidence suggests that prostate cancer and male pattern baldness are connected by increased levels of male sex hormones. Now, a specific pattern is linked to increased cancer risk.
Specific baldness pattern linked with increased prostate cancer risk
9/16/2014
Evidence suggests that prostate cancer and male pattern baldness are connected by increased levels of male sex hormones. Now, a specific pattern is linked to increased cancer risk.
Research continues to fuel significant advances against cancer. This progress has been spurred by federal investments in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute (NCI)...
Improved HPV vaccine uptake could prevent around 200 cervical cancer cases every year, UK
9/16/2014
Around 200 cases of cervical cancer and 90 deaths from the disease could be prevented each year if uptake of the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine was increased in every region to just ten per...