http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new study will help determine if an antibiotic is a partial antidote for the poisonous effect blood has on the brain following a hemorrhagic stroke, researchers say. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-antibiotic-hemorrhagic.html Cardiology Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:20:28 EST news284034018 Proposed cancer therapeutic drugs based on blocking the catalytic activities of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which profoundly remodel the environment surrounding a breast cell, have performed poorly in clinical trials. In mouse studies of MMP14, an enzyme that is often highly expressed in breast cancer, Berkeley Lab researchers have found a possible clue as to why. If confirmed for other MMPs, the finding could point the way to new strategies for future MMP-based cancer therapies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-clue-clinical-trial-failures-mmp.html Cancer Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:09:36 EST news279878956 (HealthDay) -- For patients with diabetes, increased poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) immunoreactivity, reduced abundance of type 1 procollagen, and impaired skin structure correlate with foot complications, according to a study published online June 29 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-diabetic-foot-complications.html Diabetes Sun, 08 Jul 2012 05:51:10 EST news260945452 It should be possible to significantly improve the response of common cancers to existing "classical" chemotherapy drugs, say scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), by introducing agents that alter the interaction of cancer cells with their immediate surroundings, called the tumor microenvironment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-imaging-response-cancer-drugs-boosted.html Cancer Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:59:03 EST news253799935