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Transplanted Pancreatic Tissue Could Help Diabetics

...ffering with juvenile diabetes, transplants of the pancreatic tissue// could help solve the problem. Diabetes br...tems, they determined that the best time frame for pancreatic tissue was about a third of the way through gestation (from 42 to 56 days). In the new study, Reisn...

Increased risk Of Pancreatic Cancer Associated With Red Meat

...a diet high on red meat could increase the risk of pancreatic cancer//. Explaining about the risk involved wit...f red meat is associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer." Larsson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and colleagues had conducted their study o...

Women Benefit From Decaffeinated Coffee

...affect about 18 million Americans. The patient’s pancreatic cells no longer break down sugar properly which re...ffee is rich in antioxidants and hence protect the pancreatic cells which produce insulin. Though other studies show a link between coffee drinking and a reduced...

Menin Gene Mutation made Insulin Secreting Cells to Proliferate

...pressing function resulted in the proliferation of pancreatic islet cells, which again affected blood sugar// re...several endocrine organs, such as parathyroids and pancreatic islet cells. Normally, the menin protein has a tumor-suppressing or cell-proliferation-suppressing f...

New Method To Screen Breast Cancer Cells

...ively easily, such as lung, head and neck cancers, pancreatic and cervical cancers.' Pathologists look for telltale shapes of cells to determine if cancer is present, but molecular changes in cells, especially for early cancers, are beyond the reach of even the most powerful microscopes. Sukumar's test sear...

Gemzar the New Drug for Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

.... Gemzar is already approved in the US for lung, pancreatic and breast cancers. In the clinical trails it was found that ovarian cancer patients taking Gemzar with carboplatin had increased progression-free survival rates than patients taking carboplatin alone. The FDA advisory panel voted against recommendin...

Britain’s cancer initiatives leap forward with a miracle dru

... left a clue of its future use in breast, lung and pancreatic cancers. This drug called Sutent, nicknamed as the “smart” drug works by nipping an important enzyme that causes the cells to proliferate rapidly, as is the case in some cancers. Further Sutent ensures that tumors run dry of nutrients, thus curbin...

Cancer-Killing Compound From A Fungus

...ailor-made to knock out ras-dependent cancers like pancreatic cancer. After six years, however, rasfonin's secrets remain a mystery because researchers can't make enough of it to carry out tests. To bring about a new drug, organic chemists must produce a new chemical in enough quantity to test it under many...

Lowering Contrast Material Injection in Aged Patients is Cost-effective and can Offset Risks

...s of elderly patients, contrast enhancement of the pancreatic parenchyma was too intense," said Shigeki Itoh, MD, lead author of the study. "Therefore, we speculated that it might be possible to reduce the dose and rate of contrast material injection without adversely affecting the degree of contrast enhancemen...

In Elderly Patients Lowering Contrast Material Injection Will Reduce Costs

...s of elderly patients, contrast enhancement of the pancreatic parenchyma was too intense," said Shigeki Itoh, MD, lead author of the study. "Therefore, we speculated that it might be possible to reduce the dose and rate of contrast material injection without adversely affecting the degree of contrast enhancemen...

Roche Calls For Re-Examination Of Tarceva Data By EU Authorities

...rities to re-examine data related to approving the pancreatic cancer treatment Tarceva.// The European Committe...ly rejected the Tarceva application. "People with pancreatic cancer need new treatment options like Tarceva, which has been proven in clinical trials to signific...

Gene May Regulate Cellular Aging

...and Harvard University observed similar results in pancreatic islet cells and brain and blood stem cells. The r...udy focused on p16INK4a effects on the function of pancreatic islet cells. Islet cells are responsible for insulin production and secretion. Because p16INK4a stop...

Vitamin D May Cut Pancreatic Cancer Risk by Nearly Half

... of Vitamin D tablets was found to cut the risk of pancreatic cancer nearly in half, according to a study led// ...ance of Vitamin D (400 IU/day) reduced the risk of pancreatic cancer by 43 percent. By comparison, those who consumed less than 150 IUs per day experienced a 22 p...

MRI Can Monitor Transplanted Islets

... be a safe way to monitor the fate of transplanted pancreatic islets, says a new study in the September issue of the journal Diabetes. // Researchers from the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) said that they were able to track transplanted islets in mice using the gu...

Transplant Cures Rats’ Type 2 Diabetes without Need for Immune Suppression Drug

.... Their approach for diabetes treatment uses pig pancreatic primordia. In previous research, they found that o...man and Rogers showed that engrafted embryonic pig pancreatic tissue removed from rats and placed in a test tube releases pig insulin within a minute of being exp...

Diabetes Protein Identified by U.S. Scientists

...to the proper functioning of the insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells that are defective in diabetes. This protein has been found to be responsible for the regulation of 10 genes that had already been linked to diabetes. This study in mice has led to the hope of new treatments for this condition which affe...

Curcumin –New Weapon Against Colorectal Cance

...ty of human cancer cells, including colorectal and pancreatic tumor cells. According to the researchers curcumin reduces IL-8 production by inhibiting the signals neurotensin needs to have an effect on IL-8 production. UTMB surgery professor B. Mark Evers, senior author of the article and director of UTMB's Se...

Australia Mulls New Accreditation For Overseas Doctors

...ut certain types of operations - such as liver and pancreatic surgeries - in the US. Later, Patel's US medical licence was terminated. "There are no hard rules in place to ensure the quality of these doctors is up to the local standard," Birrell added. Abbott said he was committed to seeing the new scheme -...

Minorities, Uninsured Less Likely to Receive Care at High-Volume Hospitals

..., cardiac valve replacement, coronary angioplasty, pancreatic cancer resection, and total knee replacement. According to this database, a total of 719,608 patients received 1 of the 10 operations. The researchers found that “in general, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, patients with Medicaid, and uninsured patients...

Sugary drinks increase Pancreatic cancer risk

...ccording to a recent study, the risk of developing pancreatic cancer increases by 90% with the intake of at leas... direct association between sugary food, drink and pancreatic cancer. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden conducted a dietary survey of 80,000 peo...

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