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Blood Transfusions Are Overused During Common Heart Surgery
May 28, 2013
According to a new study published in The Lancet, blood transfusions are still being overused during common heart surgery even though there is compelling evidence demonstrating the dangers of unnecessary blood transfusions... Read More
Genes That Control Whether Tumors Adapt Or Die When Faced With P53 Activating Drugs
May 27, 2013
When turned on, the gene p53 turns off cancer. However, when existing drugs boost p53, only a few tumors die - the rest resist the challenge. A study published in the journal Cell Reports shows how: tumors that live even in the face of p53 reactivation create more of the protein p21 than the protein PUMA; tumors that die have more PUMA than p21... Read More
DNA Damage - The Dark Side Of Respiration
May 27, 2013
Adventitious changes in cellular DNA can endanger the whole organism, as they may lead to life-threatening illnesses like cancer. Researchers at LMU now report how byproducts of respiration cause mispairing of subunits in the double helix. The DNA in our cells controls the form and function of every cell type in our bodies... Read More
Giving Children With Leukemia The Best Chance For Long-Term Survival With Minimal Toxic Side Effects
May 27, 2013
Treating pediatric leukemia patients with a liposomal formulation of anthracycline-based chemotherapy at a more intense-than-standard dose during initial treatment may result in high survival rates without causing any added heart toxicity, according to the results of a study published online in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH)... Read More
Potential Alternative Drug Therapies For Neuroblastoma Revealed By New Genomic Screening
May 27, 2013
Nearly two-thirds of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma - a common tumor that forms in the nerve cells of children - cannot be cured using tumor-killing cancer drugs... Read More
Breast Cancer Advance That Turns Previous Thinking On Its Head
May 27, 2013
Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an advance in breast cancer research which shows how some enzymes released by cancerous cells could have a protective function... Read More
Economic Incentives Increase Blood Donations Without Negative Consequences
May 27, 2013
Canada and other countries should reassess guidelines that prohibit offering economic incentives such as gift cards to potential blood donors, says a study from the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)... Read More
As Proof Of Principle, Technique Finds Antibody That Mimics Key Hormone For Blood Clotting
May 27, 2013
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have devised a powerful new technique for finding antibodies that have a desired biological effect. Antibodies, which can bind to billions of distinct targets, are already used in many of the world's best-selling medicines, diagnostics and laboratory reagents... Read More
At Initial Screening Exam, Twice As Many Lung Cancers Detected By CT Compared To X-ray
May 27, 2013
National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) investigators also conclude that the 20 percent reduction in lung cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) versus chest X-ray (CXR) screening previously reported in the NLST primary paper is achievable at experienced screening centers in the United States... Read More
Aggressive Prostate Cancer Tumors Share The Same Genetic Origins
May 27, 2013
Using a new form of genomic analysis, researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified that some of the more aggressive prostate cancer tumors share the same genetic origins, lending more insight into the development of prostate cancer. The finding, published in the journal Cancer Research, could significantly help predict prostate cancer progression... Read More
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