Cancer Research

Benefits Of Oral Xeloda Over Continuous Intravenous Chemotherapy Confirmed For Advanced Stomach Cancer

BASEL, Switzerland, January 7 /PRNewswire/--- For non US or non UK Media Only- Oral Chemotherapy Tablet Option Reduces the Time Patients Need to Spend in the Hospital Data recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine confirm oral chemotherapy ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 7 2008 - 9:31am

Solving The Mystery Of Idiosyncratic Drug Reactions

A mysterious and unpredictable group of side effects from modern medications called idiosyncratic drug reactions (IDRs) likely will persist as a major health care problem unless there is a dramatic increase in research funding, according to a 20-year revie ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2008 - 11:31am

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Announces Publication Of Research On Combination Reovirus And Cyclophosphamide Treatment

CALGARY, Canada, January 7 /PRNewswire/-- Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (TSX: ONC, NASDAQ: ONCY) ('Oncolytics') reported today that a research group led by Dr. Richard Vile of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, published the ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 7 2008 - 3:31pm

Identified: 480 Genes That Contol Human Cell Division

A team of U.S., Israeli and German scientists used computational biology techniques to discover 480 genes that play a role in human cell division and to identify more than 100 of those genes that have an abnormal pattern of activation in cancer cells. Mali ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2008 - 7:54pm

Study: U.S. Showed Least Improvement Among Surveyed Countries In Preventable Deaths

The Commonwealth Fund has issued another indictment of US health care, this one stating that the United States showed the least improvement among 19 countries when it comes to preventable deaths. The new research is published in the January/February issue ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2008 - 2:14am

Study: Four Healthy Behaviors Can Add 14 Years To Your Life

It seems like common sense but a new study adds empirical weight to commonly held beliefs about health: 1) Don't smoke 2) Exercise 3) Moderate alcohol intake 4) Eating 5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day People who do those four things live on ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2008 - 2:27am

Early Study: Freeze-Dried Tendons Work In Hard-To-Treat ACL Injuries

Donated, freeze-dried tendon grafts loaded with gene therapy may soon offer effective repair of injured tendons, a goal that has eluded surgeons to date. According to study data published today in Molecular Therapy, a new graft technique may provide the fi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2008 - 10:53am

Report: Stress Causes Everything

Stress, to put it bluntly, is bad for you. It can kill you, in fact. A study reveals that stress causes deterioration in everything from your gums to your heart and can make you more susceptible to everything from the common cold to cancer. Thanks to new r ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2008 - 6:57pm

Study: Even Moderate Doses Of Methadone Can Kill

Methadone is a possible cause of sudden cardiac death even when it isn’t overdosed but is taken at therapeutic levels primarily for relief of chronic pain or drug addiction withdrawal, a new study by Oregon Health & Science University researchers sugge ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2008 - 2:18pm

Scientific American Article On Science 2.0

Mitch Waldrop has written an informative piece on the Science 2.0 movement in Scientific American: Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk? Consistent with the content of the article, Mitch invites feedback: Welcome to a Scientific American experiment i ...

Article - Jean-Claude Bradley - May 15 2010 - 10:07am