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Pathology is the study and diagnosis of disease through examination of organs, tissues, bodily fluids, and whole bodies (autopsies). The term also encompasses the related scientific study of disease processes, called General pathology. Medical pathology is divided in two main branches, Anatomical pathology and Clinical pathology. Veterinary pathology is concerned with animal disease whereas Phytopathology is the study of plant diseases.

Elsevier launches two new open access journals in cardiology journals series

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of two new open access journals in its cardiology journals series: International Journal of Cardiology-Heart & Vessels and International Journal of Cardiology-Metabolic & Endocrine.

20 Nov 2013

Atopix recruits first patient in OC459 Phase 2 trial for treatment of atopic dermatitis

Atopix Therapeutics Ltd, a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative CRTH2 antagonists for allergic disease, announced the recruitment of the first patient in a six month Phase 2 clinical trial of its lead compound OC459 in moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (eczema).

19 Nov 2013

Philipp E. Scherer honored with 15th Naomi Berrie Award for Outstanding Research in Diabetes

Columbia University Medical Center has honored Philipp E. Scherer, PhD, with the 15th Naomi Berrie Award for Outstanding Research in Diabetes, for his work that helped usher in a new understanding of fat and its role in diabetes and other metabolic diseases. His discovery of adiponectin, a hormone produced by fat, helped transform the scientific concept of fat as an inert storage depot to one of it as an endocrine "organ" that exerts control over the brain, muscles, and other organs. The award, given annually by CUMC's Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, is Columbia's top honor for excellence in diabetes research.

19 Nov 2013

Findings may help scientists better understand prognosis of advanced prostate cancer

Many patients diagnosed with prostate cancer have indolent, slow-growing forms of the disease that are not life-threatening. However, more than 30,000 American men will die from aggressive prostate cancer this year alone. This sharp contrast between low-risk and aggressive disease presents a challenge for many researchers and physicians as they diagnose patients and also determine the prognosis of the men with the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer.

19 Nov 2013

Women & Infants gets $3M grant to identify infants at greatest risk for developmental impairment

Advances in technology and medical care have dramatically improved survival for infants born prior to 30 weeks gestation and weighing less than three pounds. However, up to 50 percent of these infants may develop physical, cognitive, language and/or behavioral impairments that require extensive health care, educational and psychosocial community resources through adulthood. At this time, there is no reliable method to identify those infants who will go on to develop impairments and those who will not.

19 Nov 2013

Researchers find that caspase-2 gene plays important role in suppressing blood cell cancer

Adelaide researchers have found that a specific gene plays an important role in suppressing lymphoma, a type of blood cell cancer.

19 Nov 2013

Extract from bitter melon may have therapeutic qualities to treat head and neck cancer

Extract taken from an Asian vegetable may have therapeutic qualities to treat head and neck cancer, a Saint Louis University researcher has found.

19 Nov 2013

Experts develop new working formulation for reporting of cardiac antibody-mediated rejection

Antibody-mediated rejection of the transplanted heart is a recognized clinical complication and a major limitation to survival of patients who have undergone heart transplantation. Experts have now developed a new working formulation for the pathologic diagnosis, grading, and reporting of cardiac antibody-mediated rejection.

18 Nov 2013

Researchers take close look at medicine's highest volume activity

Laboratory testing is health care's single highest volume activity, with over 5 billion tests performed each year in the U.S.

18 Nov 2013

Close to 100 novel human gene regions that code for proteins may be linked to cancer

By using a new analysis method, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Sweden have found close to one hundred novel human gene regions that code for proteins. A number of these regions are so-called pseudogenes, which may be linked to cancer.

18 Nov 2013

Collaborative initiative set up to create precision medicine treatment pathways for advanced cancers

The Joint Center for Cancer Precision Medicine, a collaborative initiative among Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has been established to create "precision medicine treatment pathways" for patients with advanced cancers and to speed the development of personalized therapies.

16 Nov 2013

ESBC joins with Athena Breast Health Network to advance personalized breast cancer risk assessment

Edith Sanford Breast Cancer (ESBC), part of the Sanford Health system based in Sioux Falls, SD, today announced it is partnering with the Athena Breast Health Network, a University of California program, to advance the use of a personalized breast cancer risk assessment.

16 Nov 2013

Parkinson’s biomarker could be only skin deep

Deposits of α-synuclein in cutaneous nerves could represent a noninvasive biomarker for Parkinson’s disease, say researchers.

14 Nov 2013

Friendly microbes in the guts of healthy children have numerous antibiotic resistance genes

Friendly microbes in the intestinal tracts (guts) of healthy American children have numerous antibiotic resistance genes, according to results of a pilot study by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

14 Nov 2013

White matter integrity supports heritability of bipolar disorder

Researchers have detected widespread white matter integrity reductions in patients with bipolar disorder, which extend to their unaffected siblings.

13 Nov 2013

AMP 2013: EKF Molecular Diagnostics to launch four new PointMan DNA enrichment kits

EKF Diagnostics, the global diagnostics business, announces that EKF Molecular Diagnostics will launch four new PointMan DNA enrichment kits.

From EKF Diagnostics 13 Nov 2013

American Thyroid Association develops ethics guidelines for thyroidology

In this changing era of health care delivery, physician guidelines on ethics are more important than ever. As each specialty area faces its own issues and dilemmas regarding patient care, scarcity of resources, and conflicts of interest, the American Thyroid Association has developed ethics guidelines specific to the field of thyroidology.

13 Nov 2013

Researchers identify specific IRE1a inhibitor for rheumatoid arthritis treatment

Collaborating with researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, a research team at Wayne State University's School of Medicine led by Kezhong Zhang, Ph.D., has contributed to an important discovery in the inflammatory stress mechanism and specific inhibitor for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

13 Nov 2013

Leica Biosystems launches new Novocastra HD menu for hematopathology

Leica Biosystems announces the launch of the fourth Novocastra HD menu, focused on hematopathology. Previously launched were the Novocastra HD menus for breast, head & neck and dermatopathology.

12 Nov 2013

Xin is muscle damage biomarker

Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a protein that is only detectable after muscle damage, and it may serve as a way to measure injury.

12 Nov 2013

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Elsevier launches two new open access journals in cardiology journals series

Atopix recruits first patient in OC459 Phase 2 trial for treatment of atopic dermatitis

Philipp E. Scherer honored with 15th Naomi Berrie Award for Outstanding Research in Diabetes

Findings may help scientists better understand prognosis of advanced prostate cancer

Women & Infants gets $3M grant to identify infants at greatest risk for developmental impairment

Researchers find that caspase-2 gene plays important role in suppressing blood cell cancer

Extract from bitter melon may have therapeutic qualities to treat head and neck cancer

Experts develop new working formulation for reporting of cardiac antibody-mediated rejection

Researchers take close look at medicine's highest volume activity

Close to 100 novel human gene regions that code for proteins may be linked to cancer

Collaborative initiative set up to create precision medicine treatment pathways for advanced cancers

ESBC joins with Athena Breast Health Network to advance personalized breast cancer risk assessment

Parkinson’s biomarker could be only skin deep

Friendly microbes in the guts of healthy children have numerous antibiotic resistance genes

White matter integrity supports heritability of bipolar disorder

AMP 2013: EKF Molecular Diagnostics to launch four new PointMan DNA enrichment kits

American Thyroid Association develops ethics guidelines for thyroidology

Researchers identify specific IRE1a inhibitor for rheumatoid arthritis treatment

Leica Biosystems launches new Novocastra HD menu for hematopathology

Xin is muscle damage biomarker

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