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Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today
Research Identifies New Mechanism Regulating Embryonic Development - A Princeton University-led research team has discovered that protein competition over an important enzyme provides a mechanism to integrate different signals that direct early embryonic development. The work suggests that these signals are combined long before they interact with the organism's DNA, as was previously believed, and also may inform new therapeutic strategies to fight cancer...
Genetic Variant Greatly Increases Lung Cancer Risk For Light Smokers - Individuals with a certain type of genetic susceptibility to lung cancer face a greatly increased risk for the deadly disease with even a small exposure to cigarette smoke, a study team that includes researchers from the University of Cincinnati (UC) has concluded...
Cellectar Completes Enrollment In Phase I Clinical Trial Of Lead Drug Candidate (131)I-CLR1404 For The Treatment Of Solid Malignancies - Cellectar, Inc., a privately held radiopharmaceutical company that designs and develops products to detect, treat and monitor human cancers, announced that enrollment for its Phase I dosimetry trial for its lead drug candidate, (131)I-CLR1404 has been completed. Results of this trial will be used to set the starting dose in a follow-on Phase I dose escalation study planned for later this year...
University Of Florida Researchers Find Cancer-fighting Properties In Papaya Tea - The humble papaya is gaining credibility in Western medicine for anticancer powers that folk cultures have recognized for generations. University of Florida researcher Nam Dang, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues in Japan have documented papaya's dramatic anticancer effect against a broad range of lab-grown tumors, including cancers of the cervix, breast, liver, lung and pancreas...
Professor Discovers Link Between Low Oxygen Levels In Body And Cancer-Aiding Protein; Could Help Treatments For Retinoblastoma, Breast Cancer - What began as research into how diabetics could possibly preserve their eyesight has led to findings that could prolong the vision of children afflicted with retinoblastoma...
Public Health News From Medical News Today
Fashion And IT - Consider this T-shirt: It can monitor your heart rate and breathing, analyze your sweat and even cool you off on a hot summer's day. What about a pillow that monitors your brain waves, or a solar-powered dress that can charge your ipod or MP4 player? This is not science fiction - this is cotton in 2010...
Male Batterers Consistently Overestimate General Rates Of Violence Toward Partners - Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days, according to new research conducted at the University of Washington...
Federal Funds Support Health Depts., But Leadership Is Key - Study - The surge of funds for bioterrorism preparedness over the past decade does not appear to be improving local public health resources in general, according to research from Purdue University...
Medical Miracles More Likely, But At What Cost? - The Fiscal Times reports on medical miracles and their place in the national health care reform debate with a likely subheading: high health care costs. "The idea of foregoing heroic efforts and new technologies to save dying patients is anathema for most Americans...
New York Times Examines Factors Affecting VBAC Rates As NIH Conference Begins - The New York Times on Tuesday examined efforts to increase rates of vaginal births after caesarean sections at the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation, a small hospital run by the Navajo Nation and financed partially by the Indian Health Services...

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