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Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have identified a variation in a particular gene that increases a person’s susceptibility to early coronary artery disease.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the injectable drug degarelix, the first new drug in several years for prostate cancer.
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University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have discovered a new therapy for transplant patients, targeting the antibody-producing plasma cells that can cause organ rejection.
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Researchers have discovered two enzymes that, when combined, could be involved in the earliest stages of cancer. Manipulating these enzymes genetically might lead to targeted therapies aimed at slowing or preventing the onset of tumors.
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When neurons started dying in Clive Svendsen's lab dishes, he couldn't have been more pleased.
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Women with early-stage breast cancer who have undergone breast augmentation may be treated successfully with a partial-breast radiation treatment called brachytherapy
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Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today introduced the goLITE BLU, a natural, convenient way to offer quick relief from seasonal mood-related problems.
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Herpes simplex virus type I can cause bouts of cold sores, blindness and potentially lethal encephalitis when it reawakens from a quiescent state in the nerve cells it infects.
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A novel enzyme may play a major role in anencephaly, offering hope for a genetic test or even therapy for the rare fatal birth defect in which the brain fails to develop, according to a study from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.
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Specifically, Nagiel and Hudspeth studied the zebrafish's posterior lateral line system of cells whose hair-like projections are directly exposed to the water and sense its movement.
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Race, age, and geography appear to play important roles in who receives cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), a proven treatment for some patients with heart failure, say researchers at Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).
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Among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone therapy following vaccine treatment improved overall survival compared with either treatment alone or when the vaccine followed hormone treatment, according to recent data published in the July 15 Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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Drug that restores tumor-suppressor gene expression originated at M. D. Anderson.
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An professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, he has recently received a three-year, $307,611 grant from the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) to support his research.
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Stem cell therapies for the brain could be much more complicated than previously thought, an MIT research team's latest finding suggests.
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Mayo Clinic researchers have found that certolizumab pegol is an effective treatment for adults with Crohn's disease, according to two new studies. These findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Certolizumab pegol blocks tumor necrosis factor, an important cause of inflammation in Crohn's disease.
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