http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—When dealing with cancer, time is critical. Identifying cancer before it spreads can often be the difference between life and death, so early diagnosis is key. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-capturing-cancer-cells.html Cancer Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:20:11 EST news281088114 The health properties of red wine have long been debated but an Australian biochemist believes he has created a drop so loaded with antioxidants that it could treat a range of ills. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-australian-wine-health-benefits.html Health Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:00:01 EST news278059789 Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida have identified a new target to improve treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cancer, which accounts for more than 95 percent of pancreatic cancer cases. This fast-growing, often lethal cancer is resistant to conventional chemotherapy. The findings are published in the Jan. 3 online issue of PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-scientists-molecule-pancreatic-cancer-treatment.html Cancer Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:00:01 EST news276433930 (Medical Xpress)—Research by University of Notre Dame biochemist Anthony S. Serianni is providing new insights that could have important implications for understanding and treating diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-important-implications-combating-diabetes.html Diabetes Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:10:01 EST news274438045 A picture is worth 1,000 words when it comes to understanding how things work, but 3D moving pictures are even better. That's especially true for scientists trying to stop cancer by better understanding the proteins that make some chemotherapies unsuccessful. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-3d-key-human-protein-powerful.html Cancer Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:10:06 EST news259330185 When brain cells start oozing too much of the amyloid protein that is the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, the astrocytes that normally nourish and protect them deliver a suicide package instead, researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-neuron-nourishing-cells-retaliate-alzheimer.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 22 May 2012 11:13:59 EST news256903979 (Medical Xpress) -- Later-stage cancers thrive by finding detours around roadblocks that cancer drugs put in their path, but a Purdue University biochemist is creating maps that will help drugmakers close more routes and develop better drugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-substrate-kinase-interactions-effective-cancer-drugs.html Cancer Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:28:21 EST news252087997 A review of the genetic and biochemical abnormalities associated with autism reveals a possible link between the widely diagnosed neurological disorder and Type 2 diabetes, another medical disorder on the rise in recent decades. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-common-link-autism-diabetes.html Medical research Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:39:54 EST news238246785 Scientists have shown a molecular chaperone is working like a waste management company to collect and detoxify high levels of toxic amyloid beta peptide found in Alzheimer's disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-natural-alzheimer-weapon-treatment.html Medical research Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:55:56 EST news227786109