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The Journal of the American Heart Association published the conclusive results from a study directed by Dr. Éric Thorin of the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI), which suggests for the first time that a blood protein contributes to the early development of atherosclerosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-early-biomarker-atherosclerosis.html Cardiology Tue, 14 May 2013 03:19:10 EST news287720328 Research led by the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital – Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has identified a fusion gene responsible for almost 30 percent of a rare subtype of childhood leukemia with an extremely poor prognosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-gene-sequencing-abnormal-rare-childhood.html Cancer Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:39:30 EST news271949948 Scientists at the research centre MEMBRANES at Aarhus University, Denmark, have completed an old puzzle, which since the 60s from many sides has been regarded as impossible to complete. The challenge was to solve the structure of the protecting protein complex that forms when haemoglobin is released from red cells and becomes toxic. This toxic release of haemoglobin occurs in many diseases affecting red cell stability, e.g. malaria. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-danish-scientists-blood-mystery.html Medical research Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:08:27 EST news265630100 Strong scientific evidence suggests that high levels of a blood protein called galectin-3 may increase the risk of heart attacks, cancer and other diseases, and help forecast the outcome of those diseases, a scientist reported here today at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-scientists-protein-cancers-heart-disease.html Medical research Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:29:22 EST news264774542 As with many concerned consumers, a team of University of Oklahoma researchers wondered if the green color sometimes seen in bacon is, in fact, harmful to human health. Recently, these OU scientists took an important first step in answering this question by determining the structure of the green pigment responsible for this 'nitrite burn.' http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-nitrites-bacon-meats.html Health Wed, 02 May 2012 12:50:03 EST news255178814 Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered the regulation and functional significance of the acute phase response during a lung infection. The findings, which will be published in the May edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, demonstrate that the liver responds in order to increase defenses in the blood that prevent localized infections from spreading throughout the body. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-scientists-uncover-liver-role-dissemination.html Medical research Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:00:05 EST news252584136 A new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology helps explain why the immune system often makes us worse while trying to make us well. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-healthy-worse-sick.html Immunology Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:53:32 EST news251477606 A team of researchers led by Kasturi Haldar and Souvik Bhattacharjee of the University of Notre Dame's Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases has made a fundamental discovery in understanding how malaria parasites cause deadly disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-notre-dame-fundamental-malaria-discovery.html Medical research Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:33:26 EST news246292398 Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have demonstrated that a growth hormone, PDGF-BB, and the blood protein EPO are involved in the development of cancer tumours and that they combine to help the tumours proliferate in the body. These new preclinical findings offer new potential for inhibiting tumour growth and bypassing problems of resistance that exist with many drugs in current use. The results are published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-blood-protein-epo-involved-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:20:54 EST news242306441 (Medical Xpress) -- Is the patient suffering from blood poisoning? To answer this question, the doctor draws a blood sample and sends it to a central laboratory for testing. This takes up valuable time, which could cost the patient his life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-blood-poisoning-quickly.html Medical research Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:00:01 EST news242036661 Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researchers are reporting a possible new blood test to help diagnose heart attacks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-blood-heart.html Cardiology Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:48:17 EST news235752396 A research team led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has discovered proteins in the blood that are associated with early lung cancer development in mice and humans. The advance brings the reality of a blood test for the early detection and diagnosis of lung cancer a step closer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-blood-proteins-early-lung-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:29:32 EST news235049316 A blood protein known as surfactant protein-D (SP-D), which is mainly synthesised in the lungs, has been described as "a good predictor" of cardiovascular disease following a large study in North America. Reporting the study online today in the European Heart Journal, the investigators said that circulating SP-D levels were clearly associated with CVD and total mortality in patients with angiographically diagnosed coronary artery disease independent of other well established risk factors (such as age, smoking, cholesterol and C-reactive protein levels). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-circulating-lung-protein-strongly-cardiovascular.html Cardiology Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:54:55 EST news226724073