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First Edition: May 9, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about the politics surrounding the health law, both in terms of the latest GOP push for repeal and the Obama administration's implementation efforts.

9 May 2013

PCB concentrations affect both urban and rural communities, study finds

Since polychlorinated biphenyls are produced through industrial processes or activities, it is assumed that people living in industrial cities will have higher concentrations of these toxic chemicals in their blood than people in rural communities.

9 May 2013

Precision Therapeutics to present clinical data of ChemoFx chemoresponse assay at WAGO meeting

Precision Therapeutics, Inc., a life science company that develops personalized medicine products for individualizing cancer care, today announced that a clinical study which demonstrates the feasibility of the ChemoFx chemoresponse assay to identify patients unlikely to respond to first-line therapy has been accepted for presentation at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Western Association of Gynecologic Oncologists.

9 May 2013

New Mosby's Index now available in easier-to-navigate format

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the revamping of Mosby's Index, the most robust journal abstracts and indexing database available for nurses and other healthcare professionals.

9 May 2013

Loyola opens 20-bed unit for patients undergoing stem cell transplants for cancers

Loyola University Medical Center has opened a new 20-bed unit for patients undergoing stem cell transplants for cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma.

9 May 2013

Researchers discover that microRNAs link two defining characteristics of fit muscles

Researchers discovered that small pieces of genetic material called microRNAs link the two defining characteristics of fit muscles: the ability to burn sugar and fat and the ability to switch between slow- and fast-twitch muscle fibers.

9 May 2013

Thijn Brummelkamp wins 2013 EMBO Gold Medal for genetic analysis of human disease

EMBO today announced Thijn Brummelkamp of the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam as the winner of the 2013 EMBO Gold Medal. The award acknowledges his outstanding work to accelerate the genetic analysis of human disease.

9 May 2013

Meridian Health celebrates Paint the Town Pink to emphasize importance of annual mammography

This May, Meridian Health celebrates Paint the Town Pink - a community-wide effort taking place in 23 Monmouth and Ocean County towns that raises awareness of the importance of annual mammography, as early detection is a woman's best defense against breast cancer.

9 May 2013

Special issue of Gastroenterology presents variety of topics related to pancreas

The editors of Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association Institute, are pleased to announce the publication of this year's highly anticipated special 13th issue.

9 May 2013

BIDMC researcher receives IMFAR's 2013 Slivka/Ritvo Innovation in Autism Research Award

Dennis P. Wall, PhD, an investigator in the Department of Pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Director of the Computational Biology Initiative at the Center for Biomedical Infomatics at Harvard Medical School, was recently honored at the International Meeting for Autism Research.

9 May 2013

Researchers identify genetic mutations that appear to underlie rare syndrome

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Duke University have identified genetic mutations that appear to underlie a rare but devastating syndrome combining reproductive failure with cerebellar ataxia - a lack of muscle coordination - and dementia.

9 May 2013

Porter Adventist Hospital receives "A" for patient safety

For the second year in a row, which is also the second year that The Leapfrog Group has issued letter grades for hospital safety, Porter Adventist Hospital has earned an "A" for overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.

9 May 2013

Review for clinicians on optimal utilization of aspirin to treat, prevent heart attacks published

Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., Dr.P.H., the first Sir Richard Doll professor and senior academic advisor to the dean in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University published a review for clinicians on the optimal utilization of aspirin to treat and prevent heart attacks.

9 May 2013

GW team receives research award from PCORI to evaluate cancer survivorship care models

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has approved a $2.1 million, three-year research award to The George Washington University Cancer Institute, housed within the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the GW School of Public Health and Health Services to evaluate cancer survivorship care models.

9 May 2013

Gene offers new insights into treatment strategies for deep-vein thrombosis

A gene associated with both protection against bacterial infection and excessive blood clotting could offer new insights into treatment strategies for deep-vein thrombosis -- the formation of a harmful clot in a deep vein.

9 May 2013

Exosome Diagnostics' urine exosome technology accurately predicts outcome of prostate biopsy

Exosome Diagnostics, a leading developer of biofluid-based molecular diagnostic products for use in personalized medicine research and clinical diagnostics, today announced the presentation of data at the American Urological Association Annual Meeting in San Diego demonstrating the performance of urine exosome technology in accurately predicting the outcome of a prostate biopsy.

9 May 2013

Antitumor medication from natural origins on the rise

Natural phenolic compounds play an important role in cancer prevention and treatment. Researchers who examine the medicinal herbs and dietary plants that can aid in cancer treatment and prevention have found that antitumor medication from natural origins is on the rise.

9 May 2013

Cancer News and Research

Latest Cancer News and Research

First Edition: May 9, 2013

PCB concentrations affect both urban and rural communities, study finds

Precision Therapeutics to present clinical data of ChemoFx chemoresponse assay at WAGO meeting

New Mosby's Index now available in easier-to-navigate format

Loyola opens 20-bed unit for patients undergoing stem cell transplants for cancers

Researchers discover that microRNAs link two defining characteristics of fit muscles

Thijn Brummelkamp wins 2013 EMBO Gold Medal for genetic analysis of human disease

Meridian Health celebrates Paint the Town Pink to emphasize importance of annual mammography

Special issue of Gastroenterology presents variety of topics related to pancreas

BIDMC researcher receives IMFAR's 2013 Slivka/Ritvo Innovation in Autism Research Award

Researchers identify genetic mutations that appear to underlie rare syndrome

Porter Adventist Hospital receives "A" for patient safety

Review for clinicians on optimal utilization of aspirin to treat, prevent heart attacks published

GW team receives research award from PCORI to evaluate cancer survivorship care models

Gene offers new insights into treatment strategies for deep-vein thrombosis

Exosome Diagnostics' urine exosome technology accurately predicts outcome of prostate biopsy

Antitumor medication from natural origins on the rise

UCSF researchers find new genomic test to identify aggressive form of prostate cancer

The Avon Foundation awards $275,000 grant to George Washington University

Study: Patients are more likely to have recurrence of cancer after bladder removal

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