http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new, highly sensitive blood test that quickly detects even the lowest levels of malaria parasites in the body could make a dramatic difference in efforts to tackle the disease in the UK and across the world, according to new research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-malaria-kit-boost-efforts-worldwide.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:01 EST news288006049 An international group of investigators, led by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University's Kimmel Cancer Center, have solved the mystery of why a substantial percentage of castrate-resistant metastatic prostate cancer cells contain abnormally high levels of the pro-growth protein Stat5. They discovered that the gene that makes the protein is amplified—duplicated many times over—in these cancer cells, which allows them to produce excess amounts of the oncogenic protein. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-amplification-stat5-gene-excess-oncogenic.html Cancer Tue, 07 May 2013 17:46:53 EST news287167606 An irregularity within many neuroblastoma cells may indicate whether a neuroblastoma tumor, a difficult-to-treat, early childhood cancer, is vulnerable to a new class of anti-cancer drugs known as BET bromodomain inhibitors, Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center scientists will report at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Washington, April 6-10. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-genetic-biomarker-neuroblastomas-vulnerable-class.html Cancer Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:00:09 EST news284735117 A new blood test revealed more of the gene mutations that sustain certain digestive-tract tumors than did a DNA analysis of a traditional tumor biopsy, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators will report at a special symposium of the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in Washington, April 6-10. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-blood-fuller-picture-mutations-cancer.html Cancer Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:26:45 EST news284552788 The notion that police can identify a suspect based on the tiniest drop of blood or trace of tissue has long been a staple of TV dramas, but scientists at Harvard have taken the idea a step further. Using just a single human cell, they can reproduce an individual's entire genome. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cell-technique-sequence-entire-genome.html Genetics Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:39:09 EST news276766740 More patients can benefit from highly effective breast cancer drugs that are already available, according to DNA sequencing studies by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and other institutions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-drugs-breast-cancer-patients.html Cancer Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:10:03 EST news274093071 (Medical Xpress)—The quality of internet information available for women opting for "designer vagina" procedures is "poor," and in some cases, inaccurate, reveals a small study led by academics at the UCL Institute of Women's Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-web-info-vagina-procedures-poor.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:36:04 EST news272532944 Groundbreaking research taking place at the University of York could lead to Alzheimer's disease being diagnosed in minutes using a simple brain scan. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-scanning-technology-aims-quicker-diagnosis.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:22:17 EST news268939281 More effective treatments for one of the deadliest forms of cancer are one step closer thanks to groundbreaking research from an international collaborative study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-breakthrough-lung-cancer-vulnerabilities-therapy.html Cancer Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:00:37 EST news268315602 (Medical Xpress)—A protein called Myc, commonly found at high levels inside cancer cells, fuels the disease by allowing cells to override their in-built self-destruct mechanisms, according to two new studies by US scientists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-myc-protein-cancer-volume.html Cancer Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:15:02 EST news268301694 (Medical Xpress)—People who have fewer social resources, such as friends and family, literally see challenging objects and events in a more exaggerated way than do people who feel emotionally supported, according to research by Kent Harber, associate professor of psychology at Rutgers-Newark. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-friends-self-esteem-distorted-perceptions-life.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:50:01 EST news267092653 In 2002, much of North America became acquainted with an infection that few people had heard of – West Nile Virus. Governments and public health offices launched massive awareness programs to get people to take up practices that would help to avoid the virus. It seemed to work – after that summer, we rarely heard about West Nile Virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-summers-west-nile.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:42:41 EST news266478094 New research shows that sleep loss markedly exaggerates the degree to which we anticipate impending emotional events, particularly among highly anxious people, who are especially vulnerable. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-deprivation-higher-anxiety-fmri-scans.html Psychology & Psychiatry Sun, 10 Jun 2012 05:31:45 EST news258525038 (HealthDay) -- A reduction in central to brachial amplification induced by some antihypertensive drugs may result in lesser reductions in central than brachial systolic blood pressure, according to research published online May 25 in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-anti-htn-drugs-distinct-effect-central.html Medical research Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:10:01 EST news258208003 Amplification of anaplastic lymphoma kinase, which has been reported in other cancers such as non-small cell lung cancers, may be a primary driver of the rapid metastasis that patients with inflammatory breast cancer experience. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-pathway-linked-inflammatory-breast-cancer.html Inflammatory disorders Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:22:39 EST news240409351