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New pill holds promise for fewer side effects in treating leukemia

(Medical Xpress)—An international team of researchers has developed a new anti-cancer drug that holds promise as a therapy that fights cancer while causing fewer side effects than current medicines. The ...

Cancer created Jan 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Study finds important factor in fat storage and energy metabolism

As part of their ongoing research on the physiologic factors that contribute to the development of obesity, Joslin Diabetes Center scientists have identified a cell cycle transcriptional co-regulator – ...

Medical research created Jan 06, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Disruption of cellular signaling identified in pulmonary arterial hypertension

(Medical Xpress)—Impairment of a key signaling cascade in the pulmonary blood vessels plays an important role in pulmonary arterial hypertension, a Yale study has found. The study appears in the advance ...

Medical research created Dec 27, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The role of the innate immune cells in the development of type 1 diabetes

Julien Diana and Yannick Simoni of the "Immune Mechanisms in Type 1 Diabetes," Inserm/Université Paris Descartes, directed by Agnès Lehuen, have just published the results of their work on type 1 diabetes in the Nature Me ...

Diabetes created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers identify role for protein linked to obesity, type 2 diabetes

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have taken another step toward better understanding the metabolic functions of obesity and its connection to type 2 diabetes.

Medical research created Dec 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team studies role of white blood cells in kidney failure

Better targeted treatments for 20 per cent of renal failure patients are on the horizon following a key discovery about the role of white blood cells in kidney inflammation.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fungus responsible for five deaths in the wake of massive tornado

A fast growing, flesh-eating fungus killed 5 people following a massive tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., according to two new studies based on genomic sequencing by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Flesh-eating fungal infection can follow natural disasters, study finds

(HealthDay)—After a natural disaster, doctors should be on the lookout for outbreaks of a rare but deadly "flesh-eating" fungal infection, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Improving chemotherapy effectiveness by acting on the immune system

An Inserm team in Dijon directed by François Ghiringhelli is to publish an article this week in the Nature Medicine review. The article suggests that two chemotherapy drugs frequently used to treat digestive and breast cancers ...

Immunology created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research shows immune system response is detrimental to novel brain cancer therapy

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the response of natural killer (NK) cells is detrimental to glioblastoma virotherapy, a novel way of treating malignant brain cancer by injecting a virus into the tumor. ...

Cancer created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Alzheimer's disease in mice alleviated promising therapeutic approach for humans

Pathological changes typical of Alzheimer's disease were significantly reduced in mice by blockade of an immune system transmitter. A research team from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the University ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Nov 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Meditation may reduce death, heart attack and stroke in heart patients

African Americans with heart disease who practiced Transcendental Meditation regularly were 48 percent less likely to have a heart attack, stroke or die from all causes compared with African Americans who attended a health ...

Cardiology created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study discovers a new live vaccine approach for SARS and novel coronaviruses

Rapid mutation has long been considered a key to viral adaptation to environmental change. But in the case of the coronavirus responsible for deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), collaborating researchers at the ...

Medical research created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

It's not just what you eat, but when you eat it

Fat cells store excess energy and signal these levels to the brain. In a new study this week in Nature Medicine, Georgios Paschos PhD, a research associate in the lab of Garret FitzGerald, MD, FRS direct ...

Medical research created Nov 11, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Detection, analysis of 'cell dust' may allow diagnosis, monitoring of brain cancer

A novel miniature diagnostic platform using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology is capable of detecting minuscule cell particles known as microvesicles in a drop of blood. Microvesicles shed by cancer ...

Medical research created Nov 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast