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India-Born 'Dr Death' Faces Civil Suits

...ut certain types of operations - such as liver and pancreatic surgeries - in the US. Later, Patel's US medical licence was terminated. Source-IANS SRI...

Stem cells hold promise for diabetes cure

...w was used to rectify the faulty insulin secreting pancreatic cells , blamed for diabetes in mice. This treatment was also effective in reducing the damage to the kidneys due to diabetes. Researchers from New Orleans' Tulane University feel that this method can be used in humans to treat diabetes. The US tea...

A Novel Technique That Detects "Cancer Genes" From The Breath Of Smokers

...discuss a test that can pick out patients who have pancreatic cancer - an advance that offers hope the disease c...ltiplexed serum markers screening for detection of pancreatic cancer. A panel of 10 blood biomarkers performed almost perfectly in picking out people who had pa...

Gums Disease May Lead to Pancreatic Cancer

... spread to other parts. Only about five percent of pancreatic cancer patients survive the first five years after...tyles and cancer. A total of 216 men who developed pancreatic cancer were studied. After clearing out factors like smoking, diabetes, obesity, physical activity, ...

New data from NIH lab confirms protocol to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice

... spleen cells in the recovery of insulin-producing pancreatic islets. The new data from a study performed at the...by diabetes but also allowed the insulin-producing pancreatic islet cells to regenerate. Evidence indicated that the spleen cells were the source of at least some...

Gene Discovered by Researchers Tied to Pancreatic Cancer

... of Medicine has been associated with two forms of pancreatic cancer//, according to a study by an international...e edge of wounds. “Now we find it implicated in pancreatic cancer,” said Otey, an associate professor of cell and molecular physiology at UNC and a member of t...

Team Discovers a Gene That Causes Familial Pancreatic Cancer

...ted form of a gene called Palladin causes familial pancreatic cancer. The findings may help explain why the// di...earchers estimate that at least ten percent of all pancreatic cancer cases are inherited. The discovery also reveals that the Palladin gene behaves abnormally i...

Anti Allergy Drugs Reduce Tumor Growth

... may lead to a treatment advance for patients with pancreatic cancer, believed to be the most lethal of all canc... "Cromolyn seems to reduce survival mechanisms in pancreatic cancer cells enough that when gemcitabine is added, the chemotherapy is more effective," Logsdon say...

Eating Spicy Food Daily Could Kill Cancer Cells

...ery promising result on human lung cancer cell and pancreatic cancer cells. JYT...

Antibody Therapy Prevents Type 1 Diabetes

...rchers were still able to see lymphocytes in their pancreatic islets, a tell-tale sign of pancreatic inflammation and autoimmunity. In addition, when the researchers isolated cells from the spleens of ...

Study: Older Pancreatic Cancer Surgery Survivors Live Long

...on University Hospital in Philadelphia, shows that pancreatic cancer patients //65 or older who live at least fi...earchers reviewed the records of 890 patients with pancreatic cancer who underwent the standard pancreaticoduodenectomy, or Whipple procedure, which entails the r...

Chew That Fat Away

...s that the pancreas produces a chemical- a hormone pancreatic polypeptide (PP) that suppresses hunger pangs once the stomach is full. Some people have pancreatic tumors and in this case more than required amounts of PP is produced, rendering the person chronical...

Link Found Between Periodontal Disease and Pancreatic Cancer

...out what causes it. One established risk factor in pancreatic cancer is cigarette smoking; other links have been... that periodontal disease may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer. This finding is of significance as it may provide some new insights into the mechanism of th...

Surgery and Adjuvant Therapy Can Work for Pancreatic Cancer

...nd chemotherapy after completely removing invasive pancreatic cancer may improve overall survival rates. The ...Cancer Society reports that while the incidence of pancreatic cancer has decreased over the last few years, it remains the fourth most common cause of cancer-rela...

Stem Cells Passed From Mother to Child Live On and Make Insulin

... a small number of female islet beta cells in male pancreatic tissue (procured from autopsies) that produced ins...ed. Originally, the study of 172 individuals and pancreatic tissue from four males was designed to ask the question whether small numbers of maternal cells migh...

Role of Appetite Hormone MCH in Insulin Production Revealed

...and humans. They then treated human donor or mouse pancreatic islet cells with MCH and found that it increased insulin secretion, compared to islet cells without MCH, which did not show the same effect. In the next phase, the researchers examined genetically-engineered mice that did not produce MCH and conseq...

Scientists Identify Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells

... Center have, for the first time, identified human pancreatic cancer stem cells.// Their work indicates that the...00 of these stem cells are needed to produce human pancreatic cancer in half of mice tested. They also found these cells are at least 100 times more tumorigenic t...

Mentally Ill Have High Risk Of Cardiovascular Death

...orectal, breast, prostate, stomach, esophageal and pancreatic cancer. "We chose to study death rates rather than incidence rates, because mortality is the most robust outcome since it includes diagnoses made post-mortem," the authors write. Over a follow-up period of at least six months, individuals of all ag...

Genetic Test for Type II Diabetes Moves Closer

... (EXT2), which modulates hedgehog signaling, early pancreatic development and insulin synthesis. The second is located in chromosome 11, mapped to a linkage disequilibrium block that contains the hypothetical LOC387761 gene. Professor David Balding, co-author of the study from Imperial's Division of Epidemi...

Chilli Extract may Stop Fat Cell Growth

...arch linking the spice to inhibiting the growth of pancreatic cancer cells, as well as a growing body of studies suggesting it may cut fat and energy intake when added to the diet. Some caution should also be exercised as high intake of hot chillies has been linked with increased risk of stomach cancers in th...

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