http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The life expectancy of people diagnosed with type 1 diabetes dramatically increased during the course of a 30-year, long-term prospective study, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health study being presented at the 71st Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-life-diabetes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:29:39 EST news228155361 Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a particular form of leukemia or cancer of the bone marrow, which can be treated with targeted imatinib. However, in some cases this medicine has no effect. Researchers at the VIB Vesalius Research Centre, K.U. Leuven, under the direction of Peter Carmeliet, have investigated the role of placental growth factor (PlGF) in mice with CML. Blocking this growth factor increases the life expectancy of these mice, even in those resistant to imatinib. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-efficient-therapy-specific-leukemia.html Cancer Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:01:28 EST news227264422