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NICE Publishes First Evidence-based Draft Guidelines On Barrett's Oesophagus - Ablative Therapy

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:00pm CST

NICE has published a draft clinical guideline on the use of ablative therapies for the treatment of Barrett's oesophagus. Ablative therapies destroy the abnormal cells within the oesophagus caused by the condition, without removing an entire section of oesophagus...
MBL Scientists Identify Driving Forces In Human Cell Division

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 8:00am CST

If you can imagine identical twin sisters at rest, their breath drawing them subtly together and apart, who somehow latch onto ropes that pull them to opposite sides of the bed - you can imagine what happens to a chromosome in the dividing cell...
Molecule Tells Key Brain Cells To Grow Up, Get To Work, Stanford Study Shows

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:00am CST

About four out of every 10 cells in the brain are so-called oligodendrocytes. These cells produce the all-important myelin that coats nerve tracts, ensuring fast, energy-efficient transmission of nerve impulses...
Identifying Patient-Relevant Outcomes In Metastatic Prostate Cancer

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 6:00am CST

While subjective patient-reported outcomes, such as scores from health-status questionnaires, have become an integral part of clinical trials, there is also a need to identify what specific outcomes are the most important ones to target in a given disease context...
Tumors May Respond To Extreme And Moderate Heat

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:00am CST

Aided by ultrasound guidance, treating tumors with extreme heat or moderate heat may provide a possible therapeutic option, according to early research presented at the second AACR Dead Sea International Conference on Advances in Cancer Research: From the Laboratory to the Clinic, held March 7-10, 2010...
Maryland Legislation Introduced To Prohibit Indoor Tanning For Minors

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:00am CST

New Maryland legislation to protect youth from melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, is based on significant scientific evidence that indoor tanning before the age of 30 is undeniably linked to increased risk of developing the disease. Senator James N. Robey and Delegate William A...
Fewer Platelets Could Be Used For Some Cancer And Bone-Marrow Transplantation Patients, Helping Alleviate Shortages

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:00am CST

Physicians may be able to safely lower the platelet dosage in transfusions for cancer and bone-marrow transplant patients without risking increased bleeding, according to new research involving UT Southwestern Medical Center and 28 other medical institutions...
Research Findings Expected To Ease Treatment Of Low Neutrophil Counts In Cancer Patients

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 3:00am CST

For patients like 10-year-old Sabrina Jo Spence, new research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators meant fewer injections to combat the drop in white blood cells following her recent chemotherapy. "Cool," Sabrina told Sheri Spunt, M.D., an associate member of the St. Jude Department of Oncology, after hearing the news and breaking into what Sabrina called her "happy dance...
Digestive CARE™ Is Seeking Online Votes For Top Colonscopy-Related Song Titles During National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 3:00am CST

Digestive CARE™, a medical group of more than 50 gastroenterologists in Broward and Palm Beach County, announced that it is receiving hundreds of online votes in its "Bottom Line Song Title Contest" to bring awareness to National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (March 2010). Digestive CARE™ is urging people to go to the Web site http://www.DigestiveCareOnline...
HHMI's Gilliam Fellowships Aim To Increase Diversity In The Sciences

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:00am CST

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has selected five exceptional individuals to receive the 2010 Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study. These students will join a dynamic group of 30 Gilliam fellows, who share a passion for science and a commitment to increasing diversity in the sciences. "It's been very gratifying to see the impact of the Gilliam fellows program," says Peter J...
Dr. Alexander Varshavsky And Dr. Harmit Malik Awarded Vilcek Prizes In Biomedical Science

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:00am CST

The Vilcek Foundation is pleased to announce the granting of the 2010 Vilcek Prize for Biomedical Science to Dr. Alexander Varshavsky, the Howard & Gwen Laurie Smits Professor of Cell Biology at California Institute of Technology, for elucidating the process and biological significance of regulated protein degradation in living cells...
Destroying Cancers By Exploiting Their Architecture

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:00am CST

After making a diagnosis of cancer, clinicians have a number of treatment options. Most of these involve coordinating multiple attacks on the tumor using an arsenal of cancer-killing therapies. Chemotherapy, where toxic drugs are used to specifically kill cancer cells, is a very powerful weapon in this arsenal...
Newly Published Data Shows Chronix Biomedical's Serum DNA Assays Can Detect Early-Stage Breast Cancer

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:00am CST

Chronix Biomedical today announced publication of a study that supports the utility of its serum DNA blood tests for the early and accurate detection of breast cancer. The Chronix tests detect the circulating DNA that is released into the blood stream by damaged and dying cells...

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