Archive: 23/10/2013
Diabetes drug metformin with chemo and radiation may improve outcomes in lung cancer patients
Treating aggressive lung cancer with the diabetes drug metformin along with radiation and chemotherapy may slow tumor growth and recurrence, suggests new preliminary findings from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine ...
Oct 23, 2013
Neurologists finds potential route to better treatments for Fragile X, autism
When you experience something, neurons in the brain send chemical signals called neurotransmitters across synapses to receptors on other neurons. How well that process unfolds determines how you comprehend the experience ...
Oct 23, 2013
Penn docs find successful strategy to expand patient participation in hard-to-enroll clinical trials
Clinical trials are key to finding new cancer treatments, but with patient participation hovering around 5 percent, new strategies are needed to boost enrollment, particularly to study the rare cancers that have so few cases. ...
Oct 23, 2013
Cancer wasting due in part to tumor factors that block muscle repair, study shows
A new study reveals that tumors release factors into the bloodstream that inhibit the repair of damaged muscle fibers, and that this contributes to muscle loss during cancer wasting. The condition, also called cancer cachexia, ...
Oct 23, 2013
Lower blood sugars may be good for the brain
Even for people who don't have diabetes or high blood sugar, those with higher blood sugar levels are more likely to have memory problems, according to a new study published in the October 23, 2013, online issue of Neurology, ...
Oct 23, 2013
To halt AIDS, stop brief risk counseling, concentrate on testing, national study says
For decades, people seeking an HIV test have been counseled on realistic and achievable steps they could take to avoid infection. But a national study led by Miller School investigators has determined that, given the rapid ...
Oct 23, 2013
Congress probes growing 'Obamacare' tech fiasco
Furious US lawmakers demanded answers ahead of a Thursday hearing to probe the troubled "Obamacare" website, as the White House acknowledged more problems with its health care rollout.
Oct 23, 2013
Researchers discover new genetic errors that could cause one of the most deadly leukaemias
Acute dendritic leukaemia is a rare type of leukaemia, but one with the worst prognosis—the average patient survival rate is just 12-14 months—that is difficult to treat. Juan Cruz Cigudosa's team, from the Spanish National ...
Oct 23, 2013
A simple test may catch early pancreatic cancer
Reporting on a small preliminary study, Johns Hopkins researchers say a simple blood test based on detection of tiny epigenetic alterations may reveal the earliest signs of pancreatic cancer, a disease that is nearly always ...
Oct 23, 2013