News tagged with treatment
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Protein that takes care of our DNA is critical to leukaemia cell survival
A protein – already known to be involved in a cell's response to stress – called Tetratricopeptide repeat domain 5 (TTC5) is critical to the development of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), according to ...
Cancer
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Is it safe to exercise while undergoing cancer treatment?
Exercise can improve the quality of life for cancer survivors as well as for patients still undergoing treatment, based on an extensive review I was involved in as a research librarian. The massive study was a systematic ...
Cancer
Apr 05, 2013 |
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Study demonstrates effects of mutant IDH1 and IDH2 inhibitors in primary tumor models
Agios Pharmaceuticals announced today the publication of two articles in the journal Science by Agios scientists and their collaborators demonstrating the effects of the company's small molecule isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 and ...
Cancer
Apr 04, 2013 |
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Study reveals that chemotherapy works in an unexpected way
It's generally thought that anticancer chemotherapies work like antibiotics do, by directly killing off what's harmful. But new research published online on April 4 in the Cell Press journal Immunity shows that effective chemot ...
Immunology
Apr 04, 2013 |
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Writing can be a therapy after a traumatic stress
This study demonstrates that writing therapy resulted in significant and substantial short-term reductions in post traumatic symptoms (PTS) and comorbid depressive symptoms. Writing therapy is an evidence-based treatment ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 04, 2013 |
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New findings point to the importance of illness behavior
A paper by a group of Italian investigators in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics provides new data on the role of illness behavior in determining the illness impact.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 04, 2013 |
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On-and-off approach to prostate cancer treatment may compromise survival
Taking a break from hormone-blocking prostate cancer treatments once the cancer seems to be stabilized is not equivalent to continuing therapy, a new large-scale international study finds.
Cancer
Apr 03, 2013 |
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Breakthrough cancer-killing treatment has no side-effects, study finds
(Medical Xpress)—Cancer painfully ends more than 500,000 lives in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The scientific crusade against cancer recently ...
Cancer
Apr 03, 2013 |
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Ophthalmologists urge early diagnosis and treatment of age-related macular degeneration
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) continues to be the leading cause of visual impairment in the United States for people over age 65, according to a study recently published online in Ophthalmology, the journal of the ...
Ophthalmology
Apr 03, 2013 |
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Measuring ultrasound for better treatment of muscle injuries
A new tool developed at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Measurement Institute, could help improve the quality of ultrasound treatment for soft tissue injuries such as muscle strains and ligament ...
Medical research
Apr 03, 2013 |
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Cisplatin-resistant cancer cells sensitive to experimental anticancer drugs, PARP inhibitors
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors may be a novel treatment strategy for patients with cancer that has become resistant to the commonly used chemotherapy drug cisplatin, according to data from a preclinical study published ...
Cancer
Apr 03, 2013 |
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Fatty acid metabolite shows promise against cancer in mice
A team of UC Davis scientists has found that a product resulting from a metabolized omega-3 fatty acid helps combat cancer by cutting off the supply of oxygen and nutrients that fuel tumor growth and spread of the disease.
Cancer
Apr 02, 2013 |
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New diagnostic technology may lead to individualized treatments for prostate cancer
(Medical Xpress)—A research team jointly led by scientists from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of California, Los Angeles, have enhanced a device they developed to identify and "grab" circulating tumor cells, ...
Cancer
Apr 02, 2013 |
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Doctors don't ask about end-of-life plans, study finds
(HealthDay)—There is a lack of communication between doctors and their elderly patients about end-of-life plans, a new Canadian study reveals.
Health
Apr 01, 2013 |
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All water pills not equally effective against heart failure
Loop diuretics, more commonly known as water pills, are the most widely prescribed heart failure medications, but few studies had extensively compared their effectiveness until Yale School of Medicine researchers examined ...
Cardiology
Apr 01, 2013 |
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