Archive: 02/10/2015

Cancer test predicts treatment outcome

University of Queensland researchers have announced a new tool in the fight against cancer, with the development of a world-first test that will direct treatment choices for patients with some forms of blood cancer.

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Video: Finding the key to cancer metastasis

The capacity of cancer cells to spread throughout the body and invade new tissues — to become metastatic — makes them deadly. What makes metastatic cells different?

Oct 2, 2015

Marijuana brain study offers new substance by including nicotine use

Until recently, marijuana research largely excluded tobacco users from its participant pool. But scientists at the Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas have found reason to include them, uncovering significant differences ...

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Sleep proteins in new DNA repair mechanism

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and universities in Hong Kong have found a new molecular mechanism for DNA repair involving an unexpected interaction between the PARP-1 protein and sleep proteins in humans. Their discovery ...

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Researcher finds that a small amount of oxidative stress can actually be good for you

Oxygen, while necessary for life, has a dark side. With every breath taken, free radicals form, and these damaging molecules can wreak havoc in the body. The process is called oxidative stress.

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To increase testing for hepatitis B, promote it in the community, study shows

It's been called the silent epidemic. Four million people worldwide are infected with chronic Hepatitis B (HBV) and in the United States over two million people have been diagnosed with the disease. The viral infection is ...

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The pharmaceutical ethics of stunning drug-price increases

Last week Turing Pharmaceuticals, a startup run by a former hedge-fund manager, raised the price of Daraprim—the standard treatment for toxoplasmosis—from $13.50 to $750 a tablet soon after acquiring the drug from another ...

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AAP report ignores health impacts of screen time

I just came across a new release from the American Academy of Pediatrics titled "Beyond 'turn it off': How to advise families on media use". The report is the result of their recent invitation-only Growing Up Digital Media ...

Oct 2, 2015

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Scientists identify potential birth control 'pill' for men

Two drugs that help suppress the immune system in organ transplant patients may have a future as the long-sought birth control "pill" for men, new research suggests.

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Videos reveal how HIV spreads in real time

How retroviruses like HIV spread in their hosts had been unknown—until a Yale team devised a way to watch it actually happen in a living organism. The elaborate and sometimes surprising steps the virus takes to reach and ...

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