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NeoStem featured on CBS's Eye on New York City

NeoStem, Inc., an international biopharmaceutical company with a focus on cell-based therapeutic development, today announced that the Company was featured on CBS's Eye on New York City on Wednesday evening, August 24, 2011.

26 Aug 2011

Global obesity rates doubled over last 30 years, researchers say

"Obesity rates worldwide have doubled in the last three decades, even as blood pressure and cholesterol levels have dropped," according to a series of papers published Friday in the Lancet, the Associated Press/New York Times reports (8/25).

26 Aug 2011

Varian enters accelerated share repurchase agreement

Varian Medical Systems today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Bank of America, N.A. to repurchase $250 million of its common stock under an accelerated share repurchase program. Concurrently, the company amended its revolving credit facility with Bank of America, N.A. to increase its borrowing capacity from $225 million to $300 million.

26 Aug 2011

Tax on sugary drinks, limits on marketing to children may help curb global obesity epidemic

The global obesity epidemic has been escalating for decades, yet long-term prevention efforts have barely begun and are inadequate, according to a new paper from international public health experts published in the August 25, 2011 edition of the journal The Lancet.

26 Aug 2011

SuperSonic Imagine introduces UltraFast Doppler technology

SuperSonic Imagine, the ultrasound company that pioneered breakthrough ShearWave Elastography technology, today announced another major breakthrough in ultrasound imaging: UltraFast Doppler.

26 Aug 2011

Spatial light interference microscopy can measure all types of cell growth

University of Illinois researchers are giving a light answer to the heavy question of cell growth.

26 Aug 2011

Study: Aerobic training effectively reduces belly fat

Aerobic exercise is your best bet when it comes to losing that dreaded belly fat, a new study finds.

26 Aug 2011

Hospitals in Libyan capital in urgent need of supplies, medications, MSF says

"Conditions in Tripoli's hospitals could become catastrophic without a rapid improvement in security in the Libyan capital, the emergency coordinator of aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) told Reuters on Wednesday."

26 Aug 2011

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to surgery can benefit women with lobular breast cancer

Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna have found that the breast of one in two women with lobular breast cancer can be preserved through chemotherapy prior to a breast operation.

26 Aug 2011

Fludrocortisone may help reduce unexplained chronic nausea in children

Heart rate and blood pressure regulation may hold the key to treating unexplained chronic nausea in children. In a new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, a drug commonly used to treat a condition known as orthostatic intolerance (OI), which causes dizziness and occasional fainting when patients stand for long periods, was shown to reduce debilitating chronic nausea in patients.

26 Aug 2011

Long-term effects of chemotherapy on women's reproductive health

Current estimates of the impact of chemotherapy on women's reproductive health are too low, according to a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study.

26 Aug 2011

Waters recognizes Head of TGen's Center for Proteomics for research excellence

Waters Corporation today recognized the Center for Proteomics at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) as a Waters Center of Innovation.

26 Aug 2011

Largest study on breast cancer disparities in African-American women

Why are African-American women more likely than those of European descent to be diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age, and with poor prognoses? It's a provocative question, and one that a multidisciplinary team from the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Roswell Park Cancer Institute are coming together to address, supported by a five-year, $19.3 million award from the National Cancer Institute.

26 Aug 2011

High job stress causes workers to increasingly seek help from health professionals

Job-related stress is catching up with the Canadians. A new study by Concordia University economists, published in BMC Public Health, has found that increased job stress causes workers to increasingly seek help from health professionals for physical, mental and emotional ailments linked to job stress.

26 Aug 2011

Zinc may act as tumor suppressor in commonist form of pancreatic cancer

The essential element zinc has been shown in a new study to be a likely tumor suppressor in the commonist form of pancreatic cancer, University of Maryland scientists report in the current issue of the journal Cancer Biology & Therapy.

26 Aug 2011

Early-morning cigarette smokers more likely to develop lung, head and neck cancers

Two new studies have found that smokers who tend to take their first cigarette soon after they wake up in the morning may have a higher risk of developing lung and head and neck cancers than smokers who refrain from lighting up right away.

26 Aug 2011

GCC hormone receptor may also help fight obesity

The hormone receptor guanylyl cyclase C (GCC) has been established as a suppressor of colorectal cancer tumors, but new evidence from Thomas Jefferson University suggests it may also help fight one of the country's biggest pandemics: obesity.

26 Aug 2011

Viewpoints: Advice for the super committee and pundits; Calif. health insurance regulation; NEJM on episodic payment

As a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force, I supported gradually raising the Medicare eligibility age. I think it's a good idea now even though it wouldn't have been a couple of years ago. The bottom line is that raising the Medicare retirement age primarily affects higher income older people, who are more likely to be able to keep working and can afford the premiums even if they don't.

26 Aug 2011

Kentucky jury rules in favor of doctor who amputated man’s penis without permission

A Kentucky doctor had amputated part of a truck driver's penis after finding cancer during what was expected to have been a routine circumcision surgery in 2007. The jury noted that he had acted in accordance this Wednesday.

25 Aug 2011

Simcere receives Chinese SFDA approval for Iremod to treat active rheumatoid arthritis

Simcere Pharmaceutical Group, a leading pharmaceutical company specializing in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of branded generic and proprietary pharmaceuticals in China, today announced that it has received the new drug approval from the State Food and Drug Administration for Iremod.

25 Aug 2011

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Latest Cancer News and Research

NeoStem featured on CBS's Eye on New York City

Global obesity rates doubled over last 30 years, researchers say

Varian enters accelerated share repurchase agreement

Tax on sugary drinks, limits on marketing to children may help curb global obesity epidemic

SuperSonic Imagine introduces UltraFast Doppler technology

Spatial light interference microscopy can measure all types of cell growth

Study: Aerobic training effectively reduces belly fat

Hospitals in Libyan capital in urgent need of supplies, medications, MSF says

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to surgery can benefit women with lobular breast cancer

Fludrocortisone may help reduce unexplained chronic nausea in children

Long-term effects of chemotherapy on women's reproductive health

Waters recognizes Head of TGen's Center for Proteomics for research excellence

Largest study on breast cancer disparities in African-American women

High job stress causes workers to increasingly seek help from health professionals

Zinc may act as tumor suppressor in commonist form of pancreatic cancer

Early-morning cigarette smokers more likely to develop lung, head and neck cancers

GCC hormone receptor may also help fight obesity

Viewpoints: Advice for the super committee and pundits; Calif. health insurance regulation; NEJM on episodic payment

Kentucky jury rules in favor of doctor who amputated man’s penis without permission

Simcere receives Chinese SFDA approval for Iremod to treat active rheumatoid arthritis

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