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Benefits, challenges of making health care safer and better: Study reviews a national initiative to 'retool'

Safety and quality seem like obvious goals for health care education. But improving the way budding doctors and nurses are taught, bringing those professions together in the classroom and clinical settings, and measuring ...

Health created Jan 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Planning for bacteria in cancer patients may help hospitals fight infections

What cancerous conditions lead to what kinds of bacterial infections? If doctors knew, they could predict which patients would likely benefit from pre-treatment with certain kinds of antibiotics. A University of Colorado ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As colorectal cancer gets more aggressive, treatment with grape seed extract is even more effective

(Medical Xpress)—When the going gets tough, grape seed extract gets going: A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cancer Letters shows that the more advanced are co ...

Cancer created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Body's ibuprofen, SPARC, reduces inflammation and thus bladder cancer development and metastasis

Cancer researchers are increasingly aware that in addition to genetic mutations in a cancer itself, characteristics of the surrounding tissue can promote or suppress tumor growth. One of these important tissue characteristics ...

Cancer created Jan 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Choline supplementation during pregnancy presents a new approach to schizophrenia prevention

Choline, an essential nutrient similar to the B vitamin and found in foods such as liver, muscle meats, fish, nuts and eggs, when given as a dietary supplement in the last two trimesters of pregnancy and in early infancy, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Epigenomic abnormalities predict patient survival in non-Hodgkins lymphoma

Think of the epigenome like a giant musical mixing board, turning up or down the expression of various genes. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal PLOS Genetics shows that in cancer ...

Genetics created Jan 10, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

High fiber diet prevents prostate cancer progression

(Medical Xpress)—A high-fiber diet may have the clinical potential to control the progression of prostate cancer in patients diagnosed in early stages of the disease.

Cancer created Jan 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New marker of drug response may speed pace of lung cancer prevention trials

Testing medicines to prevent lung cancer requires treating many thousands of high-risk individuals and then waiting 5, 10 or 15 years to discover which of them develop cancer and which, if any, experience survival benefit ...

Cancer created Jan 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study looks at how states decide which child receives early intervention for developmental problems

A new study out by researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, found large differences in the criteria that states use to determine eligibility for Part C early intervention services for infants and toddlers ...

Pediatrics created Jan 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Timely reminders boost childhood immunizations rates

New research from the Children's Outcomes Research Program at Children's Hospital Colorado shows that timely reminders by state or local health departments are more effective at increasing immunization rates among preschool ...

Health created Jan 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Common data determinants of recurrent cancer are broken, mislead researchers

In order to study the effectiveness or cost effectiveness of treatments for recurrent cancer, you first have to discover the patients in medical databases who have recurrent cancer. Generally studies do this ...

Cancer created Jan 02, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Serendipity points to new potential target and therapy for melanoma

(Medical Xpress)—A University of Colorado Cancer Center study in this month's edition of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology describes a new target and potential treatment for melanoma, the most d ...

Cancer created Dec 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Healthy lifestyle during menopause may decrease breast cancer risk later on

Obese, postmenopausal women are at greater risk for developing breast cancer and their cancers tend to be more aggressive than those in lean counterparts. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the December ...

Cancer created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers discover a chemical that fends off harm to organs

(Medical Xpress)—Anesthesia is quite safe these days. But sometimes putting a patient under to fix one problem, such as heart damage, can harm a different organ, such as a kidney.

Medical research created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MicroRNA-218 targets medulloblastoma, most aggressive childhood brain cancer

Between the blueprint of the genome and the products of its expression lie microRNAs, which can boost or lower the rate at which genes become stuff. In fact, many cancers use microRNA to magnify the expression of faulty genes ...

Cancer created Dec 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast