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NCI survey: Most people do not know much about clinical trials

Most people don't know much about clinical trials, according to surveys across all races and groups. Yet many members of the Hispanic community fear and distrust doctors, hospitals, and medical research. Part of this distrust may have come from the legacy of enforced sterilizations that Latinas experienced before World War II in Puerto Rico.

2 May 2011

Greenwich Hospital offers spiritual care to patients

People expect their medical needs to be satisfied when in the hospital, but how about their spiritual, emotional and cultural needs? These are also important to the healing process and, at Greenwich Hospital, it's the spiritual care chaplains who make sure doctors understand how to address these patient needs.

2 May 2011

New method helps scientists to determine specific protein molecular structure

The structures of many protein molecules remain unsolved even after experts apply an extensive array of approaches. An international collaboration has led to a new, high-performance method that rapidly determined the structure of protein molecules in several cases where previous methods had failed.

2 May 2011

Temsirolimus with chemotherapy may serve as promising therapy for mesothelioma

A drug commonly used to treat kidney cancer may increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy for mesothelioma, according to a study published in the May issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.

2 May 2011

Porter Adventist Hospital introduces new institute for robotic surgery

Robotic surgery, once the stuff of science fiction, has for some years been recognized as an important advance in surgical technique and patient experience. Now, at Porter Adventist Hospital, a comprehensive team of surgeons and staff are helping to bring in a new era in robotic surgery.

2 May 2011

Hartford credits NICHE with hospital's success in improving older patients' care

"On the Front Line of Change" was the theme of the 14th annual conference of NICHE, held last month in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference brought together hundreds of nurses, nursing administrators, educators and other healthcare professionals from across the US and Canada, whose shared passion and purpose is to improve the quality of care for hospitalized older adults.

2 May 2011

Researchers discover two mutations responsible for neurological condition

Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered two mutations responsible for a devastating neurological condition they first identified 15 years ago. The researchers say their study -- appearing in Nature Genetics -- has revealed a new neural pathway that may help understand a variety of similar conditions.

2 May 2011

Stowers Institute for Medical Research launches new graduate program

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is pleased to announce the formation of its graduate program: The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

2 May 2011

Karmanos receives $50,000 GM Foundation grant for cancer research

The General Motors Foundation awarded the Karmanos Cancer Institute a $50,000 grant Saturday evening for research to help the nationally renowned Detroit-based center in its work toward curing and treating cancer.

2 May 2011

China smoking ban in place

Starting today all bars, restaurants, hospitals and other public places in China are slated to become smoke-free, inside and out. Efforts to ban smoking in public places here have been plagued by false starts and failed campaigns.

1 May 2011

Alcohol and raised cancer risk: Report

These numbers come from the Cancer Council analysis that reveals the number of cancer cases caused by long-term drinking in Australia is far higher than previously thought, following strong international evidence of its link to a broader range of cancer types.

1 May 2011

Abnormal connections created by central nervous system linked to persistence of chronic pain

Chronic pain is an epidemic. One in four Americans suffers from chronic pain due to disease—including cancer and HIV—and the medications used to treat those diseases. One reason for the persistence of chronic pain may be that the patient's central nervous system creates abnormal connections or improves connections that shouldn't be strengthened, explains Susan G. Dorsey, PhD, RN, co-director of the School of Nursing's Center of Excellence in Disorders of Neuroregulatory Function.

30 Apr 2011

SaneVax criticizes FDA for approval of Roche's cobas HPV genotyping test

In an April 22, 2011 letter to FDA Commissioner; Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Norma Erickson on behalf of the SaneVax Inc. Board of Directors, criticized the FDA for not following its own guidelines and recommendations in approving Roche's cobas HPV Test for cervical cancer screening and for HPV-16 and HPV-18 genotyping.

30 Apr 2011

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center to present research studies at 2011 ATC

Available for expert commentary on the latest research findings presented at the 2011 American Transplant Congress in Philadelphia, April 30 to May 4, is Dr. Sandip Kapur, chief of transplant surgery and director of kidney and pancreas transplant programs at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and a leading authority on transplantation.

30 Apr 2011

Extensive folic acid fortification of foods prevents neural tube defects in neonates

Neural tube defects in neonates are common in Germany compared with the rest of Europe. Extensive folic acid fortification of foods in Germany might prevent these in 85-100% of cases, Wolfgang Herrmann and Rima Obeid argue in this issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2011; 108[15]; 249-54).

30 Apr 2011

Harvard Medical School and BIDMC professor delivered Solomon A. Berson Distinguished Lectureship

Christos Mantzoros, MD, DSc, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, delivered the Solomon A. Berson Distinguished Lectureship at the annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology held earlier this month in Washington, DC.

30 Apr 2011

No proven advantages of PET for diagnostic accuracy of head and neck tumours: Research

The benefit and harm of positron emission tomography in patients with head and neck tumours, applied alone or in combination with computed tomography, cannot currently be reliably assessed.

30 Apr 2011

MarginProbe System meets its primary endpoints: Dune Medical Devices

Dune Medical Devices, Inc. today announced that the landmark, 664-patient pivotal trial evaluating the MarginProbe System met its primary endpoints. The MarginProbe System provides surgeons with a real time, intraoperative technology to detect microscopically-positive margins on excised tissues.

30 Apr 2011

Bioniche Life Sciences opens new livestock vaccine manufacturing facility

Bioniche Life Sciences Inc., a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today officially opened its new Animal Health and Food Safety Vaccine Manufacturing Centre at its corporate headquarters in Belleville, Ontario, Canada.

30 Apr 2011

Study: Immigrants living less than five years in Canada less likely to have premature babies

Immigrants living less than five years in Canada are less likely than their Canadian-born counterparts to have premature babies regardless of where they live, according to a new study by St. Michael's Hospital.

30 Apr 2011

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Latest Cancer News and Research

NCI survey: Most people do not know much about clinical trials

Greenwich Hospital offers spiritual care to patients

New method helps scientists to determine specific protein molecular structure

Temsirolimus with chemotherapy may serve as promising therapy for mesothelioma

Porter Adventist Hospital introduces new institute for robotic surgery

Hartford credits NICHE with hospital's success in improving older patients' care

Researchers discover two mutations responsible for neurological condition

Stowers Institute for Medical Research launches new graduate program

Karmanos receives $50,000 GM Foundation grant for cancer research

China smoking ban in place

Alcohol and raised cancer risk: Report

Abnormal connections created by central nervous system linked to persistence of chronic pain

SaneVax criticizes FDA for approval of Roche's cobas HPV genotyping test

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center to present research studies at 2011 ATC

Extensive folic acid fortification of foods prevents neural tube defects in neonates

Harvard Medical School and BIDMC professor delivered Solomon A. Berson Distinguished Lectureship

No proven advantages of PET for diagnostic accuracy of head and neck tumours: Research

MarginProbe System meets its primary endpoints: Dune Medical Devices

Bioniche Life Sciences opens new livestock vaccine manufacturing facility

Study: Immigrants living less than five years in Canada less likely to have premature babies

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