A shortage of oncologists and rising costs of chemotherapy and radiation therapies and imaging tests, are making delivering quality cancer care increasingly difficult, according to a new review by researchers at RTI…
Quick dose of empathy may help close racial gaps in pain treatment
Years of research show black patients getting less treatment in the American health care system than their white counterparts, but a new study suggests that a quick dose of empathy helps close…
Scientists develop new method that uncovers combined effects of genes
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), both in Heidelberg, Germany, have developed a new method that uncovers the combined effects of genes. Published…
Klotho protein discovery can lead to new class of drugs for treatment of obesity
An important discovery in mice may make a big difference in people’s waistlines thanks to a team of Harvard scientists who found that reducing the function of a transmembrane protein, called Klotho,…
Lung Cancer Rates Double In Women Over 60, UK
Lung cancer rates have doubled for women over 60 since the mid 1970s according to new Cancer Research UK figures released yesterday ahead of No Smoking Day this Wednesday*. Rates for British…
Two Proteins Play Key Roles In Burkitt’s Lymphoma
Burkitt’s lymphoma is one of the most aggressive tumors affecting humans. Multiple alterations in genes that regulate cell proliferation rate explain its aggressive behavior. A new study reveals new molecular insights into…
Physicians’ empathy can improve patients’ positive clinical outcomes
It has been thought that the quality of the physician-patient relationship is integral to positive outcomes but until now, data to confirm such beliefs has been hard to find. Through a landmark…
Study shows how individual cells behave during blood vessel formation
Biologists tend to look at cells in bulk, observing them as a group and taking the average behavior as the norm – the assumption is that genetically identical cells all behave the…
Circadian system may contribute to daily pattern of vasovagal syncope
Fainting, or syncope, is quite common. About 50% of people will experience fainting at some point during their lifetime. The most common type of fainting is vasovagal syncope (VVS) that is caused…
Moderate drinking can reduce risk of dementia even among older adults
3202 German individuals (75+) attending general practitioners , who were free of dementia were studied at baseline, were followed up 1.5 years and 3 years later by means of structured clinical interviews…
Increased alcohol consumption leads to multiple cardiovascular outcomes
A summary paper on the effects of alcohol consumption on biologic mechanisms associated with coronary heart disease provides an excellent review of a large number of intervention studies in humans. Appropriate analyses…
First western U.S. hand transplant surgery performed at UCLA Medical Center
Surgeons at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center performed the first hand transplant in the western United States in an operation that began one minute before midnight on Friday, March 4, and was…
Children with H. pylori infection have lower levels of iron
Children without previous iron deficiencies or anemia who remained infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) had significantly lower levels of iron compared to children who had the infection eradicated, according to researchers…
Role of air pollutants in cardiometabolic syndrome
MSU named EPA Clean Air Research Center To explore one of the most critical health/environment intersections – how the very air we breathe can cause heart disease and diabetes and contribute to…
New discovery can provide insight into lung cancer
A discovery at University of Colorado Cancer Center shows testing lung cancer on a molecular level can produce new insights into this deadly disease. Cancer Center member D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD,…