Archive: 13/11/2013
Personalized medicine: New biomarker for oral cancer
(Medical Xpress)—University of Toronto researchers have identified a protein that can help doctors predict whether a patient will develop oral cancer – one of the most common cancers in Asia.
Nov 13, 2013
UCLA doctors test stem-cell therapy to improve blood flow in angina patients
Marty Greenfield lives with crushing pain every day due to angina, a condition that is caused by an inadequate supply of blood to the heart. He has suffered a heart attack, and a coronary bypass procedure and angioplasty ...
Nov 13, 2013
Living in disordered neighborhoods gets under the skin
Living in a violence-plagued neighborhood may cause such great stress that a person's gene expression may be altered. These are the findings of Katherine Theall, Stacy Drury and an interdisciplinary team of Tulane University ...
Nov 13, 2013
States continue to place clinicians where they are in short supply, despite recession
(Medical Xpress)—Despite the recent recession, states increased the overall number of loan repayment programs designed to recruit health care professionals to live and practice in underserved communities, according to research ...
Nov 13, 2013
Study finds new explanation for resistance to breast cancer treatment
Breast cancers that initially respond to hormone therapies such as tamoxifen eventually become resistant to treatment, and a new study finds this may be because of a mutation in the receptor present in the cancer cell to ...
Nov 13, 2013
Gene linked to common intellectual disability
(Medical Xpress)—University of Adelaide researchers have taken a step forward in unravelling the causes of a commonly inherited intellectual disability, finding that a genetic mutation leads to a reduction in certain proteins ...
Nov 13, 2013
Retirement makes people more active
(Medical Xpress)—Retirement may make people more active, at least in the short term, suggests new research from ageing experts at Newcastle University.
Nov 13, 2013