A team of international scientists has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the cause of bile duct cancer a deadly type of liver cancer. By identifying several new genes frequently mutated in bile duct cancers researchers are paving the way for better understanding of how bile duct ...
( Van Andel Research Institute ) A team of international scientists has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the cause of bile duct cancer a deadly type of liver cancer. By identifying several new genes frequently mutated in bile duct cancers researchers are paving the way for bette ...
The hepatitis C virus is believed to have links to the growth of liver cancer but those connections have been hard to study. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill research aimed at learning more about those connections has secured a $2.35 million federal grant. The five-year grant from th ...
WOONSOCKET R.I. May 16 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MultiCell Technologies Inc. (MCET.OB) is pleased to announce representatives from the Company will present preclinical research findings ...
The international research effort identifies gene mutations in bile duct cancer.
Clinical trials are underway to test an azithromycin-based combination treatment for pregnant women "which could tackle some of the leading preventable causes of death for babies in sub-Saharan Africa" according to researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) who pu ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite recommendations that pregnant women have tests for certain sexually transmitted diseases many may not be getting them a new study suggests. Researchers found that of nearly 1.3 million U.S. women who had blood work done during pregnancy only 59 percent were t ...
Another increase in sexually transmitted infections last year didn't surprise Rock County health officials they said. Cases rose 12 percent in 2011 following a 23 percent increase in 2010.
A review and meta-analysis of studies published in the May 16 theme issue of Global Health in JAMA reveals a significant burden of malaria and STIs/RTIs amongst pregnant women who attend antenatal facilities in sub-Saharan Africa. The findings were discovered after a review of studies reporting ...
Cell surface protein GD2 blows potent tumor-generating cells' cover. The first single marker of breast cancer stem cells also is targetable by a drug in preclinical tests.
What if your very own bone marrow stem cells upgraded with more immune cells could be used to increase your chances of survival after a heart attack?
ANN ARBOR Mich. -- Aastrom Biosciences Inc. the leading developer of patient-specific expanded multicellular therapies for the treatment of severe chronic cardiovascular diseases today announced that ...
Breast cancer stem cells wear a cell surface protein that is part nametag and part bull's eye identifying them as potent tumor-generating cells and flagging their vulnerability to a drug researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report online in Journal of Clinical Invest ...
One of the first long-term studies of stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury shows significant functional and other improvements in three out of ten patients reports a study in the May issue of Neurosurgery official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published ...
Washington May 15 : In a new study researchers have shown that human embryonic stem cells can be used to grow bone tissue grafts for use in research and potential therapeutic application.
A Japanese research team has developed a promising new treatment for heart failure by growing sheets of new heart muscle tissue from stem cells. When implanted in damaged rat hearts the bioengineered tissue improved heart function.The study led by Dr. Kenji Miki a cardiovascular surgeon at Osak ...
Two teams of Boston scientists have developed new ways to turn stem cells into different types of lung tissue surmounting a major hurdle for scientists trying to harness the power of stem cell biology to study and develop treatments for major lung diseases. One team then used skin cells from cy ...
LAWRENCEVILLE NJ-- - Celsion Corporation a leading oncology drug development company today announced a joint resubmission with Philips Healthcare of an Investigational New Drug/Investigational Device ...
Healthcorps Highway to Health Festival 2012 and more
Arrowhead Research Corporation today announced that David Lewis Ph.D. Vice President Biology and Site Head of its Madison WI research and development facility presented data at the European Foundation for Clinical Medicine Conference in basel Switzerland.
COLUMBIA National Hepatitis Testing Day will be observed on May 19 in South Carolina to emphasize the importance of being tested for viral hepatitis B and C.
The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) and the Hepatitis B Foundation with the support of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health today launched the Hep B United national campaign aimed at bringing attention and action to e ...
BETHESDA Md. May 14 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Almost three-quarters (74 percent) of baby boomers (those born between 1945 and 1965) have never been tested or are unsure if they have been tested for hepatitis ...
( University of California - Davis Health System ) A vaccine that targets cancer cells in combination with the drug letrozole a standard hormonal therapy against breast cancer significantly increased survival when tested in mice a team of UC Davis investigators has found.
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