(Research Australia) Forget what’s number one at the box office this week. The most exciting new film features the intricate workings of the body, filmed by scientists using ground-breaking technology.
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(Mayo Clinic) A new Mayo Clinic study found that patients with low-grade gliomas survived longest when they underwent aggressive surgeries to successfully remove the entire tumor. If safely removing the entire tumor was not possible, patients survived significantly longer when surgery was followed by radiation therapy. This study is available online as an advance publication [...]
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(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) A new study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has clarified how two major variants of HIV differ in their ability to cause neurologic complications.
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ST. LOUIS (MedPage Today) — A landmark study of long-term peginterferon for patients with chronic hepatitis C that isn’t responsive to therapy shows the extended treatment has no effect on disease progression.
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(University of Oklahoma) Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center discovered a new enzyme that not only affects the blood, but seems to play a primary role in how cancer tumors expand and spread throughout the body.
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(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Scientists have shown that cellular senescence, the process by which biological cells stop dividing in response to stress or damage to their DNA, triggers the secretion of proteins that cause inflammation in neighboring cells and tissue. Inflammation is linked to almost every major disease associated with aging, including many cancers.
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(La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology) A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology and Albany Medical College has illuminated the important role of natural killer T cells in Lyme disease, demonstrating that the once little understood white blood cells are central to clearing the bacterial infection and [...]
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(IQ Solutions, Inc.) A new study has found that a school-based asthma education program conducted in the Oakland, Calif., school district was shown to reduce symptoms and increase the number of days that children who suffered from asthma were able to go to school. The study will be published this month in the Journal of [...]
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In a new survey of American oncologists, nearly all of the respondents say that they routinely tell terminally ill patients that they will die. Medscape Medical News
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Clinicians should consider alternatives to tinzaparin sodium when treating patients aged 70 years and older with renal insufficiency. Medscape Medical News
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