http://www.news-medical.net Latest Medical News From Around The World News-Medical.Net en editor@news-medical.net http://www.news-medical.net/medical_rss.gif http://www.news-medical.net 144 33 http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44696 Scientists have revealed for the first time that cancer cells can reverse a process which irrevocably commits normal cells to die, in a study published in the British Journal of Cancer. Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:18:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44695 Scientists have found a new way of accurately measuring the success of experimental cancer drugs, according to a study published in Cancer Research. Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:17:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44636 Across the University of Colorado at Boulder campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers in hopes of earning a better grade. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:42:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44642 Lots of experts disagree over the seemingly obvious notion of keeping weight off by trying to eat less - a debate that centers on whether the practice backfires, leading to binging and weight gain. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:42:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44633 An international team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers has identified genetic markers associated with risk for ulcerative colitis. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:42:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44637 Each year thousands of patients undergo total hip replacement surgery in order to help alleviate pain associated with debilitating hip disease and other related hip problems. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:42:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44639 Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma-the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans-that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain tumors that arise naturally. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:42:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44640 A team of scientists has discovered a new syndrome associated with severe congenital neutropenia (SCN), a rare disorder in which children lack sufficient infection-fighting white cells, and identified the genetic cause of the syndrome: mutations in the gene Glucose-6-phosphatase, catalytic subunit 3 (G6PC3). Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:42:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44676 Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding are at high risk for developing drug-resistant HIV if they get infected anyway, a team of researchers report. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:27:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44693 The study of ancient microbes may not seem consequential, but such pioneering research at the University of Oklahoma has implications for the state of modern human health. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:27:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44629 New research in mice and five independent collections of human breast tumors has enabled National Cancer Institute (NCI) scientists to confirm that genes for factors contributing to susceptibility for breast cancer metastasis can be inherited. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:42:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44644 Adults with diabetes experience a slowdown in several types of mental processing, which appears early in the disease and persists into old age, according to new research. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:28:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44682 Two studies, presented (Tuesday 6 January) at a major academic conference, reveal the gender difference in activity levels among school children and the over 70s. Both studies show males to be more physically active than females. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:28:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44685 Fortification of corn masa flour products could increase folic acid intake by nearly 20 percent for Mexican-Americans, who are at a 30-40 percent higher risk for a number of severe brain and spinal birth defects, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:28:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44679 One of the current handicaps of cancer treatments is the difficulty of aiming these treatments at destroying malignant cells without killing healthy cells in the process. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:28:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44681 Two new studies led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, suggest that taking maternity leave before and after the birth of a baby is a good investment in terms of health benefits for both mothers and newborns. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:28:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44684 A new epidemiological study has found that among women who have never used menopausal hormone therapy, obese women are at an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer compared with women of normal weight. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:28:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44688 A team of researchers at Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey has identified a long-sought gene that is fatefully switched on in 30 to 40 percent of all breast cancer patients, spreading the disease, resisting traditional chemotherapies and eventually leading to death. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:28:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44690 Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and at UC-San Francisco have succeeded in isolating stem cells from human testes. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:28:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44694 Johns Hopkins and other researchers report what is believed to be the first direct evidence in lab animals that the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil amplifies the effects of a heart-protective protein. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:28:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44677 Few things are as tiresome as house hunting and moving. Unfortunately, metastatic cancer cells have the relocation process down pat. Tripping nimbly from one abode to another, these migrating cancer cells often prove far more deadly than the original tumor. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:28:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44686 Social workers play a vital role in improving the quality of nursing home residents' lives. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:27:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44687 People with substance abuse disorders cost Medicaid hundreds of millions of dollars annually in medical care, suggesting that early interventions for substance abuse could not only improve outcomes but also save substantial amounts of money, according to a comprehensive study that examined records of nearly 150,000 people in six states. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:27:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44667 Individuals who have persistent high blood pressure are at increased risks of a number of serious medical conditions, including heart failure. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:27:00 EST http://www.news-medical.net/?id=44668 When there is a threat of disease during pregnancy, mothers produce less aggressive sons with more efficient immune systems, researchers at The University of Nottingham have discovered. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:27:00 EST