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Diabetes Drug Dramatically Boosts Potency of Platinum Chemotherapy

...rove the chemotherapy's effectiveness for multiple forms of cancer," said George Demetri, MD, a Dana-Farber researcher who is preparing a proposal for a pilot study of rosizitaglone and platinum chemotherapy drugs in lung and ovarian cancer and sarcomas. If a pilot study shows promising activity, the com...

Hepatitis C Carries Another Risk-Cancer Of The Immune System

...t of the body's immune system. The two most common forms of lymphoma are Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. About 8,000 Americans develop Hodgkin's lymphoma and more than 56,000 develop non-Hodgkin's lymphoma each year, according to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is cancer t...

Nature Unleashes Terror Across America

... coasts of America and in the Midwest regions, two forms of severe weather have put citizens to the extreme test. While wildfires have been raging across southern Georgia for three whole weeks now, in its wake scorching 167 square miles of forest and swamp, wet storms across the Southeast are currently ch...

Cataloging the Structural Variations in Human Genetics

...isk of prostate cancer, and susceptibility to some forms of cardiovascular disease result from deletions of particular genes or parts of genes. Extra copies of a gene known as CC3L1 reduce a person's susceptibility to HIV infection and progression to AIDS. Lower than normal quantities of other genes can le...

Depression Common Among Pregnant Women, but Frequently Undiagnosed

...b-clinical depression lacks the longevity of other forms of depression, it is of significant importance to the mental and physical health of mothers and their infants. Brief and intermittent cases of depression during the early stages of pregnancy may be indicators of depression during the third trimester ...

Estrogen is Important for Bone Health in Men as Well as Women

...eral enzymes convert the standard hormone to other forms - some of these forms, or estrogen metabolites, ar... addressed the role of estrogen metabolism and the forms of circulating hormone in male osteoporosis. The Washington University researchers found that the ...

Spinal Manipulation Beneficial for Neck Pain

...nipulation is beneficial for patients with certain forms of chronic neck pain." As part of the literature review, Dr. Vernon and his colleagues reviewed nine previously published trials and found "high-quality evidence" that patients with chronic neck pain showed significant pain-level improvements follo...

New Strategy Identified for Preventing Acute and Chronic Brain Disease

...ding ways to specifically eliminate these abnormal forms of tau, but this has been difficult. The current study suggests that lowering overall tau levels may be a good alterative, especially since even partial tau reduction was effective and very well tolerated, at least in the mice. A breakthrough came ...

Multiple Sclerosis Could Be Checked Through Testosterone Gel

...y 10 men took part in the research, all had milder forms of MS, and more studies will be needed before doctors determine whether the treatment really works. Still, the researchers were impressed that the men's mental decline ceased, and the shrinking of their brains returned to the normal levels expected d...

Modern Medicine Originated in Egypt, Not Greece

...acacia is still used in cough remedies while aloes forms a basis to soothe and heal skin conditions, said Dr Campbell. In fact, many of the ancient remedies we discovered survived into the 20th century and, indeed, some remain in use today, albeit that the active component is now produced synthetically,"...

Higher Intake of Fish and Vitamin D Reduces the Risk of Age-related Macular Disease

...d vessels in the retina, which contributes to some forms of AMD, the authors speculate. "This study provides evidence that vitamin D may protect against AMD," the authors conclude. "However, at this time there is insufficient epidemiologic evidence of the relationship between vitamin D level and AMD to m...

Researchers Identify Immune Dysfunction in Melanoma Patients

... Lee was interested in melanoma rather than other forms of cancer in part because of the deadly nature of the disease, which will kill about one in six of the 47,700 people it is expected to strike this year. Unless melanoma is caught early and removed, there is no effective treatment, although research g...

Memory Loss Linked to Cognitive Disorders

...n as long-term potentiation (LTP) encodes everyday forms of memory. In neuroscience, LTP is an increase in the strength of a chemical synapse that lasts from minutes to several days. It is widely considered one of the major mechanisms by which memories are formed and stored in the brain. The study was ...

Sanctions Imposed On Zimbabwe Can Threaten International Health Security

...powerful countries have imposed economic and other forms of sanctions on our country. The knock-on effects these measures are having on the health of the people of Zimbabwe cannot be over-emphasized. As a result of this, the quality of our health services provision has been compromised. "This World Healt...

Trauma Exposure can Affect Brain Function Several Years After Event

...he brain that judges emotional intensity, and that forms and stores emotional memories) between 3.5 and 4 years after September 11, 2001. All of the participants had some level of exposure to the events of September 11. The authors wanted to determine whether close proximity to a traumatic event - Septem...

Stimulating the Ankle Can Help Patients With Overactive Bladder

...mulation (PTNS), this is one of the least invasive forms of neurostimulation for urological conditions, suc...llion people in the U.S. suffer from OAB and other forms of incontinence. Overactive bladder affects men and women equally....

Psychological Bullying Hits Just as Hard

..., and name calling. This study looks at how other forms of aggression that target victims relationships and peer standing can lead to school-related problems. Contrary to other work in this field, it also looks at the effect of witnessing relational aggression, rather than simply focusing on victims. The...

Exposure to Smoking in Prenatal Stage Increases ADHD Risk in Children

... When the child has either or both of two specific forms of dopamine pathway genes (DAT and DRD4), and was exposed to cigarette smoking in utero, the risk for having combined type ADHD (many inattention and hyperactive/impulsive symptoms) increased 3 to 9 fold," explained Dr. Rosalind, one of the studys au...

Circadian Clocks Triggered Chemical Reactions may Be Behind Jet Lag

...y be behind jet lag, mental illness, and even some forms of cancer in humans. Circadian clocks in cells respond to differences in light between night and day and thereby allow organisms to anticipate changes in the environment by pacing their metabolism to this daily cycle. They affect many processes like...

Scientists Identify New Breast Cancer Gene

...s of DNA damage that breast-cancer-causing mutated forms of BRCA1 cannot recognise," says co-senior author Dr. Roger Greenberg, Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology at Penn. "Now we have gained a partial understanding of the molecular basis between cancer-causing BRCA1 failures to fix DNA damage versus ...

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