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03 Aug New Breast Cancer Strategies Presented at Conference

Posted at 20:24h in Breast Cancer, Cancer Research, Nature

ORLANDO, Fla. — August 3, 2011 — In their lifetime, women have more than a 12 percent risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer. 1 This week, research on novel approaches to breast cancer treatment is being presented at the Era of Hope (EOH) conference, a scientific meeting hosted by...

29 Jul Study examines how blood protein levels change as breast cancer develops before it is clinically detectable

Posted at 01:38h in Breast Cancer, Nature

SEATTLE – Using a "systems biology" approach – which focuses on understanding the complex relationships between biological systems – to look under the hood of an aggressive form of breast cancer, researchers for the first time have identified a set of proteins in the blood that change in abundance long...

28 Jul Increased muscle mass may lower risk of pre-diabetes

Posted at 15:11h in Diabetes, JCEM, Nature, UCLA

Study shows building muscle can lower person's risk of insulin resistance A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) found that the greater an individual's total muscle mass, the lower the person's risk of having insulin resistance, the major precursor of type...

26 Jul Antibiotic appears more effective than cranberry capsules for preventing urinary tract infections

Posted at 20:24h in Infections, JAMA, Urinary Tract Infections

In premenopausal women who have repeated urinary tract infections (UTIs), the antibiotic trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) appeared more effective than cranberry capsules for preventing recurrent infections, at the risk of contributing to antibiotic resistance, according to a report in the July 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives...

25 Jul Substance may extend time to prevent brain damage after Stroke

Posted at 21:35h in Nature, Stanford, Stroke, UCLA

STANFORD, Calif. — A naturally occurring substance shrank the size of stroke-induced lesions in the brains of experimental mice — even when administered as much as 12 hours after the event, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have shown. The substance, alpha-B-crystallin, acts as a brake on the immune system,...

24 Jul 2 genetic variations predict second cancers after radiation for children with Hodgkin lymphoma

Posted at 23:01h in Cancer Research, Nature, Sloan Kettering, University of Pennsylvania

A genome-wide association study published in the August issue of Nature Medicine has found two tiny genetic variations that can predict which patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma are most likely to develop radiation-induced second cancers years after treatment. Knowing in advance who is at risk could help physicians tailor treatment to...

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