1) Pre-cancerous cells that consume sugar more common in this population. 2) Prediabetes or gestational diabetes could speed development of cancer cells.
1) Race should be considered when recommending vitamin D supplementation. 2) Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to multiple diseases.
The uncontrolled re-entry of NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is now expected to occur this Friday, September 23 - plus or minus a day.
Seriously injured patients cared for at hospitals serving larger numbers of minorities are significantly more likely to die than those treated at hospitals serving mostly whites — regardless of the race of the patient, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.
A regulatory bias against taking oral anti-cancer medications with food places patients at risk for an overdose and forces them to flush away costly medicines, argues an authority on cancer-drug dosing. It could be safer, more effective and cost-efficient if the cancer drugs that are better absorbed with food were studied and, when appropriate, prescribed to be taken with food.
People with diabetes appear to be at a significantly increased risk of developing dementia, according to a study published in the September 20, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
1) Deaths from acute leukemia higher in blacks and Hispanics. 2) Racial disparity is greater in ALL than AML. 3) Reason unknown but researchers suspect socioeconomic factors.
1) African ancestry linked to increased rates of high-risk disease. 2) Variants may be found in patients of any ethnic makeup.
1) Fear, anxiety and isolation were all linked with aggressive breast cancer. 2) Higher levels of psychosocial stress were reported in blacks and Hispanics.
1) Overall incidence of breast cancer is higher among white women. 2) 4 percent of women developed cancer in the opposite breast. 3) Physicians should carefully watch the opposite breast for signs of disease.
1) Few women underwent ovarian or colorectal screening. 2) One-third of the participants met the criteria for depression. 3) Depression linked to ovarian, but not colorectal screening noncompliance.
• Mammography rates among immigrant women in the U.S. increased from 60.2 percent in 2000 to 65.5 percent in 2008. • Immigrant women remain less likely than native-born U.S. women to be screened. • Increasing immigrant women’s access to insurance coverage may diminish disparity.
Tumors have an arsenal of tricks to help them sidestep the immune system. A study published on September 19 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine reveals a new trick—the ability to keep tumor-fighting T cells out by disabling a T cell–attracting protein within the tumor core.
Gulf War Illness (GWI)—the chronic health condition that affects about one in four military veterans of the 1991 Gulf War—appears to be the result of several factors, which differed in importance depending upon the locations where veterans served during the war, according to a Baylor University study.
The planet’s deep oceans at times may absorb enough heat to flatten the rate of global warming for periods of as long as a decade even in the midst of longer-term warming, according to a new analysis led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
With an eye toward understanding DNA replication, Cornell researchers have learned how a helicase enzyme works to actually unzip the two strands of DNA.
A small group of veterans with spinal cord injuries who underwent a four-day scuba- diving certification saw significant improvement in muscle movement, increased sensitivity to light touch and pinprick on the legs, and large reductions in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, according to Johns Hopkins researchers.
It is a commonly held that information on Wikipedia should not be trusted, since it is written and edited by non-experts without professional oversight. But researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have found differently, according to a study published online Sept. 1 in the Journal of Oncology Practice.
Clinicians can monitor kidney function with a simple equation.
1) Merkel cell polyomavirus induces cell transformation in unexpected ways. 2)Discoveries help narrow possible treatments. 3) Virus functions differently than other cancer-related viruses.
1) Despite KRAS, lack of EGFR blocks pancreatic cancer development. 2) EGFR plays an “unappreciated” central role early in the carcinogenic process.
1) Virus construct may work to kill pancreatic cancer cells. 2) Therapeutic response to virus treatment can be noninvasively monitored. 3) Virus construct could facilitate targeted radiotherapy.
1) Researchers work to identify key pathways for cancer progression. 2) Approach may help identify new targeted therapies. 3) Global picture demonstrates how genes interact to affect cancer progression.
1) These lethal brain cancers depend on cholesterol for growth. 2) Laboratory findings identified a tumor survival pathway. 3) Glioblastoma is one of the most untreatable cancers.
Blocking the uptake of large amounts of cholesterol into brain cancer cells could provide a new strategy to battle glioblastoma, one of the most deadly malignancies, researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found.
A new study of interracial marriages in the United States since the 1980s suggests that the racial boundary between blacks and whites continues to break down – but is not yet close to disappearing.
A new study, conducted in part at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, finds that a 24-week triple medication treatment course for hepatitis C is just as effective as a 48-week regimen.
Study reveals link between early number sense and elementary math scores.
In a first of its kind study, researchers have found that using two way audio-video telemedicine to deliver stroke care, also known as telestroke, appears to be cost-effective for rural hospitals that don’t have an around-the-clock neurologist, or stroke expert, on staff. The research is published in the September 14, 2011, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Medical imaging experts at Johns Hopkins have reviewed the patient records of 302 men and women who had a much-needed X-ray of the blood vessels near the spinal cord and found that the procedure, often feared for possible complications of stroke and kidney damage, is safe and effective.
Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins have figured out how a widely used pacemaker for heart failure, which makes both sides of the heart beat together to pump effectively, works at the biological level. Their findings, published in the September 14 issue of Science Translational Medicine, may open the door to drugs or genetic therapies that mimic the effect of the pacemaker and to new ways to use pacemakers for a wider range of heart failure patients.
Why are African Americans more likely than Caucasians to be not only diagnosed with head and neck cancer, but also die from the disease? While the answer isn’t a simple one, differences in lifestyle, access to care and tumor genetics may, in part, be to blame, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital.
In the quest to understand genomes—how they’re built, how they’re organized and what makes them work—a team of Johns Hopkins researchers has engineered from scratch a computer-designed yeast chromosome and incorporated into their creation a new system that lets scientists intentionally rearrange the yeast’s genetic material. A report of their work appears September 14 as an Advance Online Publication in the journal Nature.
Researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit say HPV is much more likely to be found in tumors of laryngeal (voice box) cancer patients who are male and those with private health insurance, a finding that could impact head and neck cancer screening and treatment.
Making use of a new “super resolution” microscope that provides sharp images at extremely small scales, scientists have achieved unprecedented views of the immune system in action.
During the past two decades there has been a significant increase in the percentage of patients who have a high number of lymph nodes evaluated during colon cancer operations, but this improvement is not associated with an increase in the overall proportion of colon cancers that are node positive, according to a study in the September 14 issue of JAMA.
While the incidence of the life-threatening condition of aortic dissection is significantly higher than in the general population, it remains low among patients with the congenital heart defect, bicuspid aortic valve; however, the incidence of aortic aneurysms is significantly high, according to a study in the September 14 issue of JAMA.
The use of stronger graduated driver licensing programs for 16- to 19-year old drivers in the U.S. that included restrictions on nighttime driving and allowed passengers were associated with a lower incidence of fatal crashes among 16-year old drivers, but a higher incidence among 18-year olds, according to a study in the September 14 issue of JAMA.
A Henry Ford Hospital study has identified 23 microRNAs for laryngeal cancer, 15 of which had yet to be reported in head and neck cancer. The researchers say the discovery could yield new insight into what causes certain cells to grow and become cancerous tumors in the voice box.
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have for the first time used several imaging techniques to prove the efficacy of a promising new treatment for atherosclerosis—the build-up of plaque in artery walls that can lead to a heart attack.
People with high cholesterol may have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published in the September 13, 2011, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
An enzyme that appears to play a role in controlling the brain's response to nicotine and alcohol in mice might be a promising target for a drug that simultaneously would treat nicotine addiction and alcohol abuse in people, according to a study by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco.
The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation (CFI) announced today that Best Buy® is the founding consortium member of a new “living lab” in the Charter House, a continuing care retirement community in Rochester. John Noseworthy, M.D., President and CEO of Mayo Clinic, made the announcement at the Transform 2011 symposium today.
A research team led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has discovered proteins in the blood that are associated with early lung cancer development in mice and humans. The advance brings the reality of a blood test for the early detection and diagnosis of lung cancer a step closer.
The latest evidence for NVC-422’s power against biofilms comes from a just-published study by researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia. The study focused on sinusitis, an ailment marked by an inflammation of the paranasal sinuses, often as a consequence of a bacterial infection.
Young children who watch fast-paced, fantastical television shows may become handicapped in their readiness for learning, according to a new University of Virginia study published in the October issue of the journal Pediatrics.
Findings could potentially impact counseling, screening of women with BRCA mutation.
New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham pinpoints the relationship between primary brain tumors and the onset of epileptic seizures and reveals that a drug used to treat Crohn’s disease inhibits those seizures and may be able to slow a tumor’s growth. The onset of seizures is a common symptom in gliomas and often is the first sign of a brain tumor. Sen. Ted Kennedy had a seizure in May 2008, and three days later doctors confirmed that he had a malignant glioma. Kennedy died the following year.
New technique gives cats protection genes.
In a study published today (Sunday, Sept. 11), researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report the first full measurement of the proteins made by both types of stem cells. In a study that looked at four embryonic stem cells and four IPS cells, the proteins turned out to be 99 percent similar, says Joshua Coon, an associate professor of chemistry and biomolecular chemistry who directed the project.
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