11 Oct Ovarian cancer patients survive longer with BRCA2 mutated in tumors

Posted at 23:42h in Cancer Research, MD Anderson, Ovarian Cancer

HOUSTON – Women with high-grade ovarian cancer live longer and respond better to platinum-based chemotherapy when their tumors have BRCA2...

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06 Oct Survival increased in early stage breast cancer after treatment with herceptin and chemo

Posted at 02:12h in Breast Cancer

Treating women with early stage breast cancer with a combination of chemotherapy and the molecularly targeted drug Herceptin significantly increases...

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05 Oct Blood Tests May Hold Clues to Pace of Alzheimer’s Disease Progression

Posted at 14:00h in Alzheimer's - Dementia, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Mayo Clinic, Mental Health Research

Release Date: 10/03/2011 Johns Hopkins-led research suggests levels of certain fats in blood might predict rate of cognitive decline. A...

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09 Sep Genomic analysis of superbug provides clues to antibiotic resistance

Posted at 22:46h in Antibiotic Resistance, Baylor College of Medicine Houston

HOUSTON – (Sept. 7, 2011) – An analysis of the genome of a superbug has yielded crucial, novel information that...

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08 Sep Aerobic exercise may reduce the risk of dementia

Posted at 10:56h in Alzheimer's - Dementia, Exercise - Fitness, Mayo Clinic

ROCHESTER, Minn. – Any exercise that gets the heart pumping may reduce the risk of dementia and slow the condition’s...

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16 Aug Pegloticase aids gout patients not helped by standard treatments

Posted at 23:09h in Gout, JAMA

Injections of pegloticase, a modified porcine enzyme, can produce significant and sustained clinical improvements in 2 out of 5 patients...

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07 Aug Sporadic Mutations cause more than half the cases of Schizophrenia

Posted at 20:21h in Mental Health Research, Nature, Schizophrenia

Columbia University Medical Center researchers have shown that new, or “de novo,” protein-altering mutations—genetic errors that are present in patients...

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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...

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03 Aug Exploring Breast Cancer Mechanisms of Spread and Treatment Options

Posted at 20:15h in Breast Cancer

ORLANDO, Fla. — August 3, 2011 — Research into new methods to prevent and slow metastatic breast cancer will be...

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03 Aug Simpler test to decide which lung cancer pts benefit from crizotinib

Posted at 01:10h in Lung Cancer

A relatively simple and inexpensive method may be used to determine whether a lung cancer patient is a candidate for...

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01 Aug Combining dasatinib with Tamoxifen, may overcome Tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer

Posted at 20:45h in Breast Cancer

August 1 20100 PHILADELPHIA—Taking a leukemia chemotherapy drug may help breast cancer patients who don’t respond to tamoxifen overcome resistance...

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