Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Health News
Lung cancer rates are increasing substantially in women, particularly in non-smoking women, with no known reason for the increase. Now researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center may have uncovered a critical piece in the puzzle. Working in a mouse model of smoking-induced lung cancer, Margie Clapper, Ph.D…
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Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Health News
A blood test used to determine the level of inflammation in the body may offer some help in assessing colon cancer risk, according to results of a study presented by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s Gong Yang, M.D., MPH, at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)…
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Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Health News
New immigrants, especially women and those of South Asian or African descent, have a higher risk of diabetes compared with long-term residents of Ontario, found a research study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of diabetes among more than 1.1 million immigrants to Ontario, from various regions [...]
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Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Health News
Two editorials discussed a recent study in the Lancet a showing worldwide decline in maternal deaths…
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Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Health News
Maintain Funding Commitments To PEPFAR “The Obama administration’s new Global Health Initiative, designed to broaden and better integrate health programming overseas, deserves wide support…
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Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Health News
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — President Obama officially nominated Donald Berwick, MD, a pediatrician and health policy scholar, to be the first permanent administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in four years.
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Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Health News
Although inhalant abuse has become less prevalent since the early 1990s in all age groups, it remains a source of injury and death, particularly among teenagers, researchers found.
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A new form of smokeless tobacco that looks like candy and has a candy-like flavor poses a threat to children, researchers warned.
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Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Health News
XOMA Ltd., a leader in the discovery and development of therapeutic antibodies, announced that independent researchers today presented results showing that XOMA’s antibody to interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), XOMA 052, was highly effective in reducing production of a protein that supports the proliferation of cancerous human myeloma cells in vitro.
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Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Health News
Researchers at Boston Biomedical, Inc., are working to develop a novel first-in-class cancer drug that works by targeting the stem like properties of some cancer cells, and so far, results of an ongoing Phase I clinical trial demonstrate early signs of a strong safety profile and clinical activity.
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