http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Ohio State University researchers have discovered a hereditary cancer syndrome that predisposes certain people to a melanoma of the eye, along with lung cancer, brain cancer and possibly other types of cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-hereditary-predisposition-melanoma-eye.html Ophthalmology Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:18:14 EST news243188281 A research team led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists has identified a potential new target for treatment of the childhood eye tumor retinoblastoma. Their work also settles a scientific debate by showing the cancer's cellular origins are as scrambled as the developmental pathways at work in the tumor. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-childhood-eye-tumor-hybrid-cells.html Cancer Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:16:27 EST news232632963