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Intraoperative Radiation Therapy a New Step in Breast Cancer Treatment

...y machine, a single, concentrated dose is inserted directly into the affected area inside the breast during surgery. Dr. McCready says the one-time dose is, biologically equivalent, to conventional radiation treatments for breast cancer that typically require, on average, a minimum of 16 treatments over three...

Novel Treatment Beneficial for Colon and Liver Cancer

...st worked on designing non-viral systems which act directly upon the liver and the colon. In this manner, she prepared, optimized and evaluated, in vitro and in vivo, a new pharmaceutical format called lipopolyplex. This compound aids the genetic material in penetrating into the damaged cells, and allows drug...

Autism Could Be Related to Higher Level of Growth Hormones

...with autism had higher levels of two hormones that directly regulate growth -- insulin-like growth factor-1 and IGF-2. The boys also had higher levels of hormones that indirectly affect growth. The researchers did not measure the boys' levels of human growth hormone, which for technical reasons is difficult...

Protein Targets for Carcinogenesis

...rtually every process within an eukaryotic cell is directly or indirectly controlled by ubiquitin, says Dikic....quipped with an UBD can ubiquitinate themselves by directly recruiting Ub-loaded E2 enzymes thus making E3 ligases dispensible. In their previous work Hoeller a...

Researchers Link Bacteria Destroying Proteins to Alzheimer's Treatment

...w type of vaccine containing antibodies that would directly attack the amyloid beta protein clusters. Unlike c...ystem to produce antibodies, the new vaccine would directly provide the antibodies to patients. "These new developments are encouraging, but possible side effe...

University of Zurich Announces Worldwide Clinical Trial of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

...e first time select patients who show dyssynchrony directly assessed by echocardiography, but not by ECG....

Consume Less, Experts Advise as Malthusian Nightmare Returns to Haunt West

...ere is corn. While relatively little corn is eaten directly it is of pivotal importance to the food economy as so much of it is consumed indirectly. The milk, eggs, cheese, butter, chicken, beef, ice cream and yoghurt in the average fridge is all produced using corn and the price of every one of these is infl...

Chronic Metamphetamine Abuse is Related to Cardiovascular Disease

... qualities. In addition, a wide range of cytokines directly linked to AGE exposure were increased in rats that self-administered methamphetamine. The study also showed that even limited daily access to the drug was enough to produce an over-expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a potent ...

Using Portion-control Dishes can Help Obese Diabetics Lose Weight

...f calories ingested by subjects at a meal has been directly correlated with the serving size offered," the authors write. "This is important, as a 5 percent weight loss has been shown to be clinically significant in terms of decreasing morbidity and mortality associated with obesity-linked disorders such a...

Weight Control for Obese Diabetics

...e. Most cases of type 2 diabetes can be attributed directly to obesity. Restricting calories has been shown ...f calories ingested by subjects at a meal has been directly correlated with the serving size offered. Sue D. Pedersen, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., and colleagues at the...

Experts to Discuss Climate Change Health Risks: WHO

...sation said Thursday. Climate change contributes directly or indirectly to about 77,000 deaths per year in the region, according to WHO estimates. "We have now reached a critical stage in which global warming has already seriously impacted lives and health, and this problem will pose an even greater threa...

World Bank Loans Kenya 80 Million Dollars to Boost War on AIDS

...nya - especially orphans and young women - who are directly and indirectly affected and made very vulnerable by the disease," said Colin Bruce, the bank's representative in Kenya, in the statement. Britain's Department for International Development (DfID) is also expected to provide 33 million dollars (25 m...

Cancer Deaths of Rural Men on the High

... cancer in Australia. Smoking is estimated to have directly caused 10,800 new cases of cancer. Although the survival rate had improved for all Australians in the 10 years to 2004, the report found that the chances of survival for a city dweller were improving more quickly than for someone from the rural are...

New Engineered Drug Shows Promise in Treating Lymphocytic Leukaemia

...esearch showed that the agent kills leukemia cells directly by triggering their self-destruction through the process of apoptosis. The study also found that this self-destruction happens differently from how other drugs cause apoptosis. Most drugs cause cells to self-destruct by triggering a cell mechanism...

New Cervical Cancer Test Increases the Detection Rate of Abnormal Cells

... taken from the cervix by a collection instrument, directly onto a glass slide. LBC slides are made by rinsing the collection instrument in liquid to produce a suspension, which is processed in a laboratory to produce a single layer of cells. A recent study published by Guglielmo Ronco in the BMJ found that...

Boys and Girls are Different by Nature and Learn in Different Ways

...se leanings. "Thus girls get more practice being directly empathic and using words to connect with feelings, and boys get more practice in aggression/competitive hierarchies and non-verbal affection," he said. "Nature and nurture always work together," he said....

Suit Filed Against Horrors of Psychiatric Ward in New York Hospital

... the ward forces patients to sleep on foam mats or directly on a floor that is often covered with blood and urine. Blankets, pillows and pillowcases are scarce, but when they are available, it's common to find them stained with dirt, urine, blood and lice and reeking of body odor. Soap, toothbrushes, toot...

Now Sex Determination of Fetuses in Six Weeks in UK

...e a woman has taken the test, she sends her sample directly to the company's laboratory for analysis and will receive the result in the post or can access it online using a protected password. Julia Millington of the Prolife Alliance said: "There is a real risk that some people would choose to abort babies ...

Going Overboard on Alcohol Creates a Bottleneck at Hospitals

...like David fighting Goliath. Government revenue is directly related to the economy of the alcohol industry, and it has powerful political connections with both sides of politics. That makes cultural change very difficult." Elaborating on the harmful effects of alcohol on young brains, Professor John Toumbou...

When Smell Cells Fail They Call In Stem Cell Reserves

...lly bad. The only nerve cells in the body to run directly from the brain to the outside world, olfactory cells are under constant assault from harsh chemicals that one might happen to catch a whiff of by accident, risking damage or death. To figure out how the olfactory system repairs severely damaged ner...

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