Berlin, Germany: An international group of scientists has taken the first step on the road to targeting radiotherapy dosage to individual patients by means of…
Sep 24, 2009
Berlin, Germany: For the first time researchers have shown that by inhibiting the action of an enzyme called TAK-1, it is possible to make pancreatic cancer…
Sep 24, 2009
Since the human response to infection is highly complex, research to understand how people fight infection is facilitated by studying how similar processes occur in simpler organisms.
Sep 24, 2009
Following one of the largest studies ever conducted in Parkinson's disease (PD), researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine report today in The New England…
Sep 23, 2009
MIAMI -- El Niño, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be…
Sep 23, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- SEPTEMBER 23, 2009 -- Late-breaking data from SPIRIT IV, a large-scale multi-center study of nearly 4,000 patients in the U.S., shows that…
Sep 23, 2009
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Recent studies conducted by Dr. Eric Blough and his colleagues at Marshall University have shown that use of the common pain reliever acetaminophen may help prevent age-associated muscle loss and other conditions.
Sep 23, 2009
Most people don't think twice about the ability to choose the movie they want to watch, the book they want to read or with whom they will have coffee.
Sep 23, 2009
As part of an effort to develop effective medical therapies that block the progression of liver cyst growth in patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic…
Sep 23, 2009
Scientists now have a better understanding of a perplexing gene that is associated with susceptibility for a wide spectrum of severely debilitating mental illnesses.
Sep 23, 2009
New Rochelle, NY, September 23, 2009 -- The commercial failure of Exubera® (Pfizer, New York, NY), the first inhaled insulin product to come to market, led…
Sep 23, 2009
Washington, DC -- The Presidents of 57 liberal arts colleges in the U.S., representing 22 states, have declared their support for the Federal Research Public Access Act (S. 1373) in an Open Letter released today.
Sep 23, 2009
More low-income students would make it to college if changes were made to streamline the complicated financial aid process, according to a groundbreaking study…
Sep 23, 2009
Berlin, Germany: One of the first of a series of trials to investigate the use of sorafenib -- a targeted anti-cancer drug -- for the treatment of advanced…
Sep 23, 2009
