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Recurrent Gliomas: Vorinostat Shows Anti-cancer Activity

...lioblastoma patients is 12-16 months. These tumors spread quickly to other parts of the brain, and because of this are difficult to treat and often recur. When the tumor recurs, treatment options are limited, and patients survive for an average of three to four months. "Existing treatment interventions ha...

Cell Genesys Reports Additional Data From Phase 2 Clinical Trial of GVAX Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer

...d on the unfavorable finding that their cancer had spread to regional lymph nodes. The new data reported today included a median disease-free survival of approximately 16 months which compares favorably to the 13 months disease-free survival recently reported for gemcitabine adjuvant therapy. Moreover, a co...

Crackdown on Dirty Hospitals in UK

...s and the misuse of antibiotics are blamed for the spread of the bug. Last year, cases of C-difficile rose by 8 per cent to a record 55,681 cases. The number of deaths has risen four-fold since 1999, although part of the rise is due to better reporting. The Health Protection Agency, which released the fig...

Pazopanib Shows Positive in Advanced Renal Carcinoma, Ovarian Cancer and Soft Tissue Sarcoma

... the body, plays a critical role in the growth and spread of tumors. About Renal cell carcinoma study. This ongoing Phase II randomized discontinuation study is evaluating patients with advanced or metastatic RCC who have not received prior systemic therapy or have failed one prior therapy (cytokine or be...

Better Access to Testing Urgently Needed to Fight HIV in Asia-Pacific

...e disease, UNAIDS, to identify ways of slowing the spread of HIV and improving services for people who already have it. "With so few people aware of their status, efforts to prevent new infections and treat those who are positive are becoming more difficult," the agencies said in a statement. Although v...

Humans Could Face Greater Bird Flu Risk, Indonesia Warns

...s being among the main factors contributing to the spread of the virus, which has now reached all but two of Indonesia's 33 provinces. "About 97 percent of Indonesian people already know of the presence of the disease but only about 15 percent are aware that the disease could threaten their life," he said...

Kerala Seeks Centres Help to Curb Chikungunya Spread

... hospitalised with chikungunya fever, an infection spread by the Aedes mosquito , the state has decided to s...cabinet meet here Wednesday. The reason for the spread of chikungunya has been cited to be poor waste management facilities at the famed temple in Sabarima...

New Bacterium Discovered - Related to Cause of Trench Fever

...that the new microbe is genetically similar to one spread by body lice in the trenches during World War I. T...Andes are also home to another Bartonella species, spread by sand flies. The researchers first thought this was causing the patients infection. But genetic...

Talcum Powder Curbs Lung Tumor Risk

...in the breast, lung or gastrointestinal tract, has spread throughout the body. The prognosis for the rough.... All of these make it hard for tumors to grow and spread into healthy lung tissue. When endostatin was first discovered in 1997, doctors hoped its tumor-fi...

Bird Flu Reappears in Malaysia

...sts fear the virus could mutate into a form easily spread among humans, leading to a global pandemic with the potential to kill millions....

A Welcome Initiative to Spread Awareness on Environment

... display Wednesday at the ITC Maurya Hotel here to spread awareness about a cleaner future. "I urge all the citizens of Delhi to think in terms of environment and make Delhi a better place to live. Government, corporates and citizens must work together for a cleaner and better future," Delhi Chief Ministe...

Export of Herbal Products to Reach Rs.120 Billion by 2012: Study

... tropical areas mostly in the various forest types spread across the Western and Eastern ghats, the Vindhyas, Chotta Nagpur plateau, Aravalis and Himalayas. Assocham noted that plants that have higher medicinal value are found in temperate and alpine areas and higher altitudes. "About 90 percent of medi...

Warning Over Drug-resistant Diseases in EU

...olio in the EU since 1992. However, the increasing spread of HIV, the emergence of new diseases such as variant-CJD (the human form of mad cow disease) and the respiratory illness SARS, the threat of influensa and drug resistant strains of tuberculosis put the health of EU citizens at risk. And rising rat...

Whooping Cough Spreads from a Massachusetts Hospital

...y were being extremely cautious about the possible spread of whooping cough. Pertussis is transmitted by coughing during the first two weeks of symptoms, said Dr. Alan Sugar, an epidemiologist at Cape Cod Hospital in a Friday afternoon news conference at the hospital. We are very confident we dont need to...

WHO Cautions Against Spread of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis.

Far greater efforts should be made to stop the spread of TB as about420,000 of the estimated 8.8 million... responsibility to take special efforts to stopthe spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis....

Scientists Observed Live Cell Migration

...ategies for controlling both normal growth and the spread of cancer, processes that depend on the programmed, organized movement of cells across space. "The stars of our live show are a cluster of fruit fly cells that literally crawl across the length of an egg chamber while it is maturing," says Denise M...

APEC Agree to Share Bird Flu Samples

...the bird flu virus could mutate into a form easily spread among humans, leading to a global pandemic with the potential to kill millions....

New Bird Flu Case in Hong Kong

... Migratory birds have been blamed for the global spread of the disease. Biologists believe local species of wild birds found dead with the virus could have picked it up from contact with infected flocks in mainland China, where it is believed the strain first mutated into a form deadly to humans. Hong K...

Dengue Sweeping Across Southeast Asia

...s in Southeast Asia. According to experts, the spread of dengue, which is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito and is endemic in much of the region, has also accelerated in recent years due to increasing urbanization and travel or migration within the region So why not consider a vaccine?Not po...

Developing Antimetastasis Therapy- An Early Stage of Tumor Control.

...asis therapies. Scientists know that tumor cells spread via the lymphatic system, but they dont understand the details of how this deadly migration takes place. In the June 2007 issue of the journal Cancer Cell, EPFL Professor Melody Swartz and postdoctoral researcher Jacqueline Shields provide an explana...

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