News tagged with research institutions

An old drug finds a new use

Dr. Anglea Wandinger-Ness and Dr. Laurie Hudson were awarded a Provocative Questions grant to investigate the use of R-ketorolac against ovarian cancer. Ketorolac is an NSAID that the FDA approved for human use in 1991. They ...

Medications Sep 27, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Reseach reveals genomic similarities between breast cancer, ovarian cancers

One subtype of breast cancer shares many genetic features with high-grade serous ovarian cancer, a cancer that is very difficult to treat, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of ...

Cancer Sep 23, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Guidance to rehabilitate patients with hearing and balance problems and tinnitus

Hearing and balance-related problems are often chronic conditions which can be managed but not always cured. Now new guidance by the British Society of Audiology – devised in collaboration with the National ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Aug 31, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Autism, development delay often missed in Hispanics

(Medical Xpress)—Hispanic children often have undiagnosed developmental delays and large numbers of both Hispanic and non-Hispanic children who first were thought to have developmental delay actually had autism, researchers ...

Autism spectrum disorders Aug 28, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Large health gaps found among black, Latino, and white fifth-graders

Substantial racial and ethnic disparities were found for a broad set of harmful health-related issues in a new study of 5th graders from various regions of the U.S. conducted by Boston Children's Hospital and a consortium ...

Health Aug 22, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Genomic study shows colon and rectal tumors constitute a single type of cancer

The pattern of genomic alterations in colon and rectal tissues is the same regardless of anatomic location or origin within the colon or the rectum, leading researchers to conclude that these two cancer types ...

Cancer Jul 18, 2012 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Web-based tools facilitate matching cancer drugs with gene targets

A new study details how a suite of web-based tools provides the research community with greatly improved capacity to compare data derived from large collections of genomic information against thousands of ...

Cancer Jul 16, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Intermittent hormone therapy for prostate cancer inferior to continuous therapy

Many men with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer live longer on continuous androgen-deprivation therapy (also known as hormone therapy) than on intermittent therapy, according to a seventeen-year study led by SWOG, ...

Cancer Jun 03, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

'Jack Spratt' diabetes gene identified

Type 2 diabetes is popularly associated with obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. However, just as there are obese people without type 2 diabetes, there are lean people with the disease.

Genetics Jun 01, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Scientists find that chromosomal abnormalities are associated with aging and cancer

(Medical Xpress) -- Two new studies have found that large structural abnormalities in chromosomes, some of which have been associated with increased risk of cancer, can be detected in a small fraction of people without a ...

Genetics May 08, 2012 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Blacks have trouble clearing cervical cancer virus

Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease.

Cancer Apr 01, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Researchers: Myeloid malignancies underreported in US

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues from the UF Shands Cancer Center in Gainesville, Fla., have found that cases of myeloid malignancies are being underreported since a change in registry protocols ...

Cancer Mar 28, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

The challenges of cancer vaccines

The first therapeutic cancer vaccine has now been approved by the FDA, and a diverse range of therapeutic cancer vaccines directed against a spectrum of tumor-associated antigens are currently being evaluated in clinical ...

Cancer Mar 06, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Researchers reveal how cancer cells change once they spread to distant organs

Oncologists have known that in order for cancer cells to spread, they must transform themselves so they can detach from a tumor and spread to a distant organ. Now, scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have revealed ...

Cancer Feb 22, 2012 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

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