http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Transplants of blood-forming stem cells from umbilical cord blood may be an effective alternative to transplants of matched donor bone marrow stem cells to treat children with a rare, debilitating disease known as Hurler's syndrome (HS), according to results of a study published online today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-cord-blood-effective-alternative-donor.html Medical research Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:03:12 EST news282477785 Ever since discovering a decade ago that a gene altered in lung cancer regulated an enzyme used in therapies against diabetes, Reuben Shaw has wondered if drugs originally designed to treat metabolic diseases could also work against cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-diabetes-drug-lung-cancer-patients.html Cancer Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:06:14 EST news278676360 A team of international scientists led by principal investigator Dr. Tak Mak at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, has identified a causative link between the product of a mutated metabolic enzyme and the onset of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), one of the most common types of leukemia in adults. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-scientists-link-oncometabolite-onset-acute.html Cancer Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:09:40 EST news260626161 A novel mechanism for anxiety behaviors, including a previously unrecognized inhibitory brain signal, may inspire new strategies for treating psychiatric disorders, University of Chicago researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-mystery-gene-reveals-mechanism-anxiety.html Genetics Tue, 15 May 2012 12:00:01 EST news256299869