Benefits of vitamin A cancer therapy blocked by a protein
8/18/2014
Retinoic acid is a form of vitamin A that is used to treat and help prevent the recurrence of a variety of cancers, but for some patients the drug is not effective.
Research sheds light on how aspirin works to reduce cancer deaths
8/18/2014
Researchers have discovered that women who had been prescribed aspirin regularly before being diagnosed with breast cancer are less likely to have cancer that spread to the lymph-nodes than women who...
Researchers uncover earliest clues yet to development of cells that produce all adult blood cells
8/18/2014
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) give rise to all other blood cell types, but their development and how their fate is determined has long remained a mystery.
HPV vaccine could 'close the gap' on Indigenous health
8/17/2014
In the most comprehensive assessment of its type, UNSW Australia-led research has found that in just four years, the HPV vaccine has resulted in a dramatic drop in genital warts in young Australians...
Daily antiseptic baths for patients in intensive care units may become less effective
8/16/2014
Bacteria that cause life-threatening bloodstream infections in critically ill patients may be growing increasingly resistant to a common hospital antiseptic, according to a recent study led by...
Urinating in sitting position beneficial for men with enlarged prostate
8/15/2014
Men with benign prostate hypertrophy, a condition in which the prostate is enlarged are shown to urinate better in sitting position compared to standing.
Major breakthrough in the understanding of leukemia
8/15/2014
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have discovered mutations in genes that lead to childhood leukaemia of the acute lymphoblastic type - the most common childhood cancer in the...
C. noyvi-NT shrinks tumors when injected into rats, dogs and humans
8/15/2014
A modified version of the Clostridium novyi (C. noyvi-NT) bacterium can produce a strong and precisely targeted anti-tumor response in rats, dogs and now humans, according to a new report from Johns...
Preventing transplant rejection using stimuli-responsive drug delivery system
8/15/2014
Following a tissue graft transplant - such as that of the face, hand, arm or leg - it is standard for doctors to immediately give transplant recipients immunosuppressant drugs to prevent their body's...
Dangerous sepsis controlled in animal models by treatment with lymph node cells
8/15/2014
An immune-regulating cell present in lymph nodes may be able to halt severe cases of sepsis, an out-of-control inflammatory response that can lead to organ failure and death.