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White Blood Cell Booster May Help Cancer Patients Avoid Deadly Complications

...evelop," said Jeffrey Crawford, M.D., chief of the division of medical oncology at Duke and one of the study's investigators. "The new recommendations also suggest that we need better methods to identify patients who are at higher risk of developing febrile neutropenia, and future studies will be aimed at doi...

Advanced therapy offers cure for relapsed cancer patient

...nour, M.D., associate professor of medicine in the division of hematology/oncology and associate dean for clinical research at the IU School of Medicine. Although the number of relapsed testicular cancer patients is small, the IU Simon Cancer Center treats a majority of them. As a leader in this treatment, t...

Electric Field Therapy to Zap Cancerous Tumours

... to disrupt tumour growth by interfering with cell division of cancerous cells which causes the cells to stop proliferating and die off instead of dividing and growing. The device was developed by a team of researchers led by Professor Yoram Palti at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The fiel...

UK Sports Clubs Failing to Run Comprehensive Health Checks on Professional Players

... but less than half of the cricket and rugby union division 1 clubs did so. Fewer rugby union and cricket cl...at this stage. And fewer than 40% of rugby union division 1 clubs and cricket clubs screened players for cardiovascular health before employment, despite the ...

China Bans Sales of Leukemia Drug in Latest Medicine Scare

...00 dollars) while heading up the drug registration division of the state food and drug administration. In China, suspended death sentences are often commuted to life in prison. Cao's conviction follows a death sentence meted out in May to his boss, Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of the agency, in a case that e...

Singapore Firm Launches MBBS Programme in Eastern India

... for the MBBS degree. He said the HCMI education division would provide MBBS degrees to Indian medical students from various Philippines universities accredited under the Commission of Higher Education, Government of Philippines. Many Philippines universities, such as the University of Northern Philippine...

IFC to Invest About Rs.3 Billion in Max Healthcare

...ernational Finance Corp. (IFC), the private sector division of World Bank, Monday announced its plans to invest Rs.3 billion in India's Max Healthcare Institute for its expansion plans. Max Healthcare Institute is a subsidiary of Max India, a multi-business company with interests in life insurance, health ...

A New Monoclonal Antibody Kills Cancer Cells

...darshan P. Singh Monga, M.D., associate professor, division of cellular and molecular pathology and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, obtained rat and human liver cancer cell lines and analyzed them for level of expression of an RTK protein known as platelet-derived growth factor ...

Understanding HIV Interference With Infected Cell Division

...igase complex, is essential for the defect in cell division induced by Vpr. Further characterization of this p...cidation of the mechanism by which it affects cell division may open new avenues for therapeutic intervention against HIV....

Monoclonal Antibody Induces Death in Liver Cancer Cells

...darshan P. Singh Monga, Associate Professor in the division of cellular and molecular pathology at the university, directed his colleagues to obtain rat and human liver cancer cell lines so as to analysed the cell lines for the levels of expression of an receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) protein, shown to be hig...

War Stimulates Research Blitz in Prosthetics Industry

... clinical marketing manager for the North American division of Iceland-based Ossur hf., the world's second-largest prosthetics manufacturer. Ossur said sales of prosthetics grew by 12% worldwide and 17% in North America last year. Wounded warriors historically have helped push the boundaries of prosthetic ...

Manufacturer to Pay $20 Million for Improperly Promoting a Sleep Disorder Drug

... a fatal lung disease. Scios of Mountain View, a division of Johnson & Johnson, has acknowledged that the U.S. attorney in San Francisco is investigating it for allegedly engaging in off-label marketing of its drug Natrecor. Although the FDA has approved Natrecor's sale to people with congestive heart fai...

Research in the Origin of Microtubules

... vincristine and paclitaxel (Taxol) can block cell division by altering microtubule dynamics. "Many classic chemotherapy strategies affect microtubules, although it's not quite clear how these drugs influence cancer cells differently than normal cells," said Kaverina. "Both microtubule regulation of prolife...

WTC Neighborhood Residents Misled on Extent of Contamination

... director of the natural resources and environment division of the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress. He spoke after testifying at a hearing of the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, which is reviewing th...

Tibetans to Introduce Organic Farming

...dup Dorje, head of the agriculture and cooperative division of the Tibetan government-in-exile here. The model villages will receive all inputs in the process of organic conversion ranging from training programmes and exposure tours of organic farms, besides procuring seeds and making eco-friendly compost. ...

Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals Smoke More Than General Population in California

... according to Gruskin, a scientist in the research division of Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Among women who have sex with women but do not identify themselves as lesbian or bisexual, 44 percent were smokers.Among men, 20 percent in the general population smoked, compared to about 27 percent of gay...

Loss of Antenna Leads to Cancer in Insects

...suspect that it may play a role in timing the cell division process. Commonly, cancer cells have entirely lost their cilia, and this absence may help explain why tumors fail to respond properly to environmental cues that cause normal cells to stop growing. Hence, the discovery that too much HEF1 and Aurora A ...

High Court Warns Medical Staff Against Misuse of Ambulance

... their services be availed of only by patients. A division bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice S.N. Agrawal said: "No ambulance of any of the hospitals of both state and central governments would be used by the medical staff for their private use." While giving its ruling on a petition, the bench said...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

...06. Saha Wednesday filed a fresh appeal before a division bench of the Calcutta High Court against the WBMC, which allegedly kept him in the dark about information he had sought under the RTI....

Court Seeks Explanation from Hospital for Childs Amputation

...d in the Metronow tabloid, detailing the case. A division bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and S.N. Agrawal asked the Safdarjung Hospital and the central government to file their replies by Aug 3 on alleged medical negligence meted out to Jai. The court also appointed Jubeda Begum, an advocate, to assist the ...

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