(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered how a deadly microbe evades the human immune system and causes disease.
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(University of Southern California) Contrary to popular assumptions about the health benefits of green tea, researchers at the University of Southern California have found that the widely used supplement renders a cancer drug used to treat multiple myeloma and mantle cell lymphoma completely ineffective in treating cancer.
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(University of Missouri-Columbia) University of Missouri researchers have uncovered clues identifying which proteins are involved in the development of the nervous system and found that the proteins previously thought to play a significant role, in fact, do not. Understanding how the nervous system develops will give researchers a better understanding of neurological diseases, such as [...]
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(Medical College of Georgia) The Georgia Stem Cell Initiative, a partnership of academia, industry and public officials to advance stem cell research in the state and educate the public about its impact, will meet Feb. 10 on the campus of the Medical College of Georgia.
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(Wiley-Blackwell) A new review of four randomized controlled trials that directly compared two different treatments for small inoperable liver tumors has found that radiofrequency ablation significantly improves patient survival compared to the standard therapy of percutaneous ethanol injection.
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(Wiley-Blackwell) A new study suggests that Capn4, a protein involved in cell migration, is associated with liver cancer recurrence and metastasis after liver transplantation. Capn4 could potentially be used as a biomarker for diagnosis and a target for therapy.
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(Wiley-Blackwell) Blocking off the splenic artery, either through surgical ligation or radiological coiling, helped six out of seven patients suffering from small-for-size syndrome after a partial liver transplant. This finding is in the February issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons.
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(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) A team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators has developed a group of chemical compounds — the first selective inhibitors of the protein phospholipase D — that could represent a new class of drugs for treating cancer.The new inhibitors, reported in the February issue of Nature Chemical Biology, block the invasive [...]
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Tom Daschle’s tax troubles led him to withdraw his nomination today as secretary of Health and Human Services, a move that is sure to affect the Obama administration’s plans to reform the nation’s healthcare system.
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(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are one gene closer to understanding schizophrenia and related disorders. Reporting in the Jan. 9 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, the team describes how a variation in the neuregulin 3 gene influences delusions associated with schizophrenia.
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