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A new minimally invasive tumor ablation technique is providing hope for liver cancer patients who can't undergo surgery or thermal ablation, a study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-ablation-technique-liver-cancer-patients.html Cancer Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:04 EST news285436299 (HealthDay)—There was no effect of intensive versus conventional insulin therapy during the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) on cardiac parameters as assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) in the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) cohort (follow-up to the DCCT), but prior glycemic exposure had an impact on cardiac parameters, according to research published online March 21 in Diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-cardiac-function-unaffected-prior-intensive.html Diabetes Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:59:21 EST news284990356 Platelet rich plasma (PRP) therapy has been used to manage pain associated with torn tendons, muscles and ligaments, mostly in athletes, at all levels. Though it has anecdotally been successful, the evidence to support its efficaciousness is weak. Researchers at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson participated in a multi-center randomized prospective study to evaluate the clinical value of PRP versus an active control group to determine its effectiveness in managing the pain and tenderness associated with tennis elbow. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-platelet-rich-plasma-significantly-outcomes-patients.html Surgery Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:00:03 EST news283024711 An international team, headed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has identified a key enzyme in the reprogramming process that promotes malignant stem cell cloning and the growth of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), a cancer of the blood and marrow that experts say is increasing in prevalence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-enzyme-malignant-stem-cell-cloning.html Cancer Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:00:09 EST news275575816 Although a standard behavioral weight loss intervention among overweight and obese adults resulted in greater average weight loss over 18 months, a stepped care intervention resulted in clinically meaningful weight loss that cost less to implement, according to a study in the June 27 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-stepped-care-intervention-results-weight-loss.html Health Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:00:06 EST news259943259 Results of some preclinical trials have shown that low doses of the antidiabetic drug metformin may effectively destroy cancer stem cells, a group of cells that are considered to be responsible for tumor initiation and, because they are resistant to standard chemotherapies, tumor relapse. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-metformin-treatment-cancer-stem-cell.html Cancer Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:30:18 EST news259332583 Cabazitaxel (trade name: Jevtana) has been approved since March 2011 in men with metastatic prostate cancer who no longer respond to conventional therapy with hormone blockers and have already been pre-treated with the cytostatic drug docetaxel. In an early benefit assessment pursuant to the "Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicinal Products" (AMNOG), the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) examined whether cabazitaxel offers an added benefit compared with the present standard therapy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-cabazitaxel-advantage-patients.html Cancer Tue, 29 May 2012 13:07:31 EST news257515625 A small, early-phase clinical trial to test the effectiveness of treating patients with advanced melanoma using billions of clones of their own tumor-fighting cells combined with a specific type of chemotherapy has shown that the approach has promise. One patient of the 11 experienced a long-term, complete remission that has lasted more than three years, and in four others with progressive disease, the melanoma temporarily stopped growing. The results of the study are published in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences for the week of March 5. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-patients-tumor-fighting-cells-advanced-melanoma.html Cancer Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:00:01 EST news250166366 A team of 18 researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have found that treating high-risk, soft tissue sarcoma patients with a combination of implanted dendritic cells (immune system cells) and fractionated external beam radiation (EBRT) provided more than 50 percent of their trial patients with tumor-specific immune responses lasting from 11 to 42 weeks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-sarcoma-tumor-immune-response-combination.html Cancer Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:29:14 EST news249823745 Opioids are a mainstay of care in the critical care unit, but their use frequently causes constipation which can lead to adverse outcomes including delayed feeding and later discharge from the ICU. Researchers from London, UK, and Chicago, IL, have found that methylnaltrexone (MNTX), a peripheral opioid antagonist, may restore bowel function in critically ill patients. Their retrospective study appears in the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-treatment-opioid-induced-constipation-critical-patients.html Addiction Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:43:14 EST news249820988 Severely impaired stroke survivors could walk better when a robotic assist system was added to conventional rehabilitation, according to a study in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-robotic-therapy-gains-immobilized-survivors.html Cardiology Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:40:01 EST news243188998 Maintaining good glucose control early in the course of type 1 diabetes could lessen the long-term risk of kidney disease, as measured by a common test of kidney function. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-intensive-diabetes-therapy-diabetics-kidneys.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:14:25 EST news240329657 (Medical Xpress) -- An Auburn University team of chemical and biomedical engineers led by Mark Byrne, the Daniel F. and Josephine Breeden Associate Professor in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, has developed a new method to deliver eye medication by wearing contact lenses. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-smart-contact-lenses-eye.html Medical research Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:54:42 EST news240051266 Early results suggest that using virtual reality (VR) human-computer interfaces might help adult stroke patients regain arm function and improve their ability to perform standard tasks, when compared to patients who don't use VR. The findings are reported in a new review published in The Cochrane Library. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-virtual-reality-adults-recover.html Other Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:14:04 EST news234587061 Colchicine, when given in addition to conventional therapy, was more effective than placebo in reducing the incidence of recurrence and the persistence of symptoms of pericarditis in a randomised controlled trial. This is the first time that the efficacy of colchicine in preventing recurrent episodes of pericarditis has been demonstrated in a double-blind multicentre randomised trial. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-colchicine-safe-effective-recurrent-pericarditis.html Cardiology Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:51:08 EST news233837437 Pleural mesothelioma patients who undergo lung-sparing surgery in combination with photodynamic therapy (PDT) show superior overall survival than patient treated using the conventional therapy of extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) (or en bloc removal of the lung and surrounding tissue) with PDT, indicates new research from the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The research is published in the June 2011 issue of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-combination-therapy-rare-deadly-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:09:45 EST news226235336