More individualized therapy and better supportive care helped push the survival for children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) to 71 percent three years after diagnosis, according to new research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators and reported in the medical journal The Lancet Oncology.
May 10, 2010
Washington, DC -- A study by researchers from the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) identifies a potential new combination therapy to "rescue" treatment sensitivity to fulvestrant in estrogen receptor positive breast cancers. The findings were published on May 15, 2010 as the cover story of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.
May 10, 2010
A new study indicates that patients aged 75 years or older who have confined kidney tumors do not live longer if they have their entire kidney removed.
May 9, 2010
A new study by researchers from McGill University and the University of British Columbia shows that mice, like humans, express pain through facial expressions.
May 9, 2010
LA JOLLA, CA -- May 7, 2010 -- In findings that advance scientists' understanding of a whole class of inherited disorders, a team from The Scripps Research Institute has shed light on a mechanism that enables a potential treatment for Gaucher's disease and other lysosomal storage diseases.
May 9, 2010
LOS ANGELES (May 7, 2010) -- New research by scientists at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute suggests that a drug currently approved to treat erectile dysfunction may significantly enhance the delivery of the anti-cancer drug Herceptin to certain hard-to-treat brain tumors.
May 7, 2010
DALLAS -- May 11, 2010 -- Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered how the genetic mutation that causes Fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited mental retardation, interferes with the "pruning" of nerve connections in the brain. Their findings appear in the April 29 issue of Neuron.
May 7, 2010
There is a nice Internet site on Facebook about Grisha Perelman: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grigori-Perelman/41491033741?v=wall which claims to have 799 fans. Wonderful ! There is a guy who started there a discussion on Grisha: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=41491033741&topic=14910 Is Grisha yet another "slumdog millionaire" ? I do not think so.
May 7, 2010
CINCINNATI -- Post-transplant patients who have been removed from a corticosteroid regimen have fewer cardiovascular events than those patients on steroids, increasing their graft survival rates and reducing early mortality, according to study results being presented this week by University of Cincinnati (UC) transplantation researchers.
May 7, 2010
Investigators of the Melanoma Molecular Map Project (MMMP, www.mmmp.org) have proposed a new databank entitled "TARGETED THERAPY DATABASE-TTD" along with a…
May 7, 2010
Access to sustainable energy and increased energy efficiency is a prerequisite for achieving the MDGs.
May 7, 2010
Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- How much do we, who are alive today, differ from our most recent evolutionary ancestors, the cave-dwelling Neandertals, hominids who lived in Europe and parts of Asia and went extinct about 30,000 years ago?
May 6, 2010
SANTA CRUZ, CA--After extracting ancient DNA from the 40,000-year-old bones of Neanderthals, scientists have obtained a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome, yielding important new insights into the evolution of modern humans.
May 6, 2010
Law enforcement was able to thwart an attempt to set off an explosion in the middle of New York City's Times Square on May 1 thanks to the quick thinking of a T-shirt vendor who noticed smoke coming from a parked SUV. Unfortunately, the signs that a bomb is nearby are often more subtle, detectable only at a microscopic level.
May 6, 2010
