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Queen's University to lead €6 million European study to find new treatments for bowel cancer

Queen's University has announced it is to lead a -6 million European study to find new treatments for bowel cancer.

12 Dec 2013

New mechanism explains why anti-tumor activity of specific immune suppressed during tumor growth

The Leuven-based VIB researchers have revealed a mechanism that explains why the anti-tumor activity of specific immune cells called macrophages is suppressed during tumor growth. They have also demonstrated that blocking the protein Nrp1 can restore this anti-tumor immune response.

12 Dec 2013

Despite a slight improvement in public opinion, health law continues to take a toll on Obama's approval ratings

New polls indicate that, even as the Obama administration hustles to fix healthcare.gov's troubles, the overhaul appears to be a drag on Americans' confidence in President Barack Obama.

12 Dec 2013

Tohoku University, Thomson Reuters team up to restore Tohoku’s medical system

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced a collaboration with Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) to help restore Tohoku's medical system to its pre-earthquake state and help its medical community further develop its research efforts.

12 Dec 2013

Scientists develop new technique that results in better ways to relieve pain, monitor healing

Understanding the science behind pain, from a simple "ouch" to the chronic and excruciating, has been an elusive goal for centuries. But now, researchers are reporting a promising step toward studying pain in action.

12 Dec 2013

HSET protein could help doctors identify aggressive breast cancers in African-American patients

African-American women who get breast cancer often get more aggressive forms of the disease and at younger ages than other women.

12 Dec 2013

Report: Screen all endometrial cancer patients for Lynch syndrome

A recent article by Norris Cotton Cancer Center researchers published in the January 2014 issue of the journal Clinical Chemistry reviews the scientific evidence that warrants screening all endometrial cancers for Lynch syndrome. Next to colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer is the most common form of cancer in women with Lynch syndrome.

12 Dec 2013

Inflating balloon inside artery after stent placement increases patients' risk of serious complications

Johns Hopkins surgeons say skipping one commonly taken step during a routine procedure to insert a wire mesh stent into a partially blocked carotid artery appears to prevent patients from developing dangerously low blood pressure, an extremely slow heart rate or even a stroke or heart attack.

12 Dec 2013

USPTO rejects NIKKEN's effort to invalidate Imagenetix's patent

Imagenetix, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: IAGXQ), announced today that the Board of Appeals for the United States Patent & Trade Office (USPTO) rejected NIKKEN's effort to invalidate Imagenetix's patent no. 5,569,676 and issued a decision confirming the validity of the patent.

12 Dec 2013

Endo Finance prices $700 million aggregate principal amount of 5.75% senior unsecured notes

Endo Health Solutions ("Endo") today announced that Endo Finance Co., its wholly-owned subsidiary ("Endo Finance"), priced $700 million aggregate principal amount of 5.75% senior unsecured notes due January 2022 at an issue price of $1,000 per $1,000 principal amount (the "notes") in connection with its previously announced private offering.

12 Dec 2013

People more likely to seek info on quitting smoking when media covers celebrities with cancer

Millions of people will make a resolution to quit smoking around Jan. 1, but a new study suggests an even more powerful motivator than New Year's resolutions: celebrity cancer diagnoses.

12 Dec 2013

House and Senate budget negotiators reach a deal

Some say the agreement brokered by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., will create breathing room to allow lawmakers to try to address major federal spending drivers, such as health care and entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security.

12 Dec 2013

Scientists explore mechanisms of viruses' shells

Viruses are like small vessels containing an active component, the genetic material, that can infect a host cell. The vessel, called capsid or vector, is basically a shell that changes its shape when it penetrates a cell to infect it, and may even break into pieces.

12 Dec 2013

Emergent BioSolutions enters into definitive agreement to acquire Cangene

Emergent BioSolutions Inc.announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Cangene Corporation (TSX: CNJ) under which Emergent will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Cangene in an all-cash transaction valued at $3.24 per share on a fully diluted basis for an aggregate purchase price of $222 million.

12 Dec 2013

HCV antiviral therapy also improves diabetes outcomes

Researchers from Taiwan reveal that antiviral therapy for hepatitis C virus improves kidney and cardiovascular outcomes for patients with diabetes. Results of the study published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, show that incidences of kidney disease, stroke, and heart attack were lower in patients treated with pegylated interferon and ribavirin compared to HCV patients not treated with antivirals or diabetic patients not infected with the virus.

12 Dec 2013

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes may be good biomarker of response to trastuzumab in breast cancer

Women with HER2-positive breast cancer who had the highest levels of immune cells in their tumors gained the most benefit from presurgery treatment with chemotherapy and trastuzumab, according to results presented here at the 2013 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 10-14.

12 Dec 2013

Probe mimics pathogen's amino acids, solving mystery behind Chlamydiae cell wall

Biochemical sleuthing by an Indiana University graduate student has ended a nearly 50-year-old search to find a megamolecule in bacterial cell walls commonly used as a target for antibiotics, but whose presence had never been identified in the bacterium responsible for the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease in the United States.

12 Dec 2013

Cardiologist offers tips to keep heart healthy during holiday season

Physicians have long recognized a "holiday bump" in the number of heart attacks at this time of year. "It's small, but it's something that we notice," said Renato Santos, M.D., an interventional cardiologist at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

12 Dec 2013

Researchers develop new screening tool to facilitate diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in adults

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a new screening tool to facilitate the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in adults. The test is presented in the scientific journal Molecular Autism and is unique in that researchers have, as part of their evaluation, compared the group diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder with psychiatric patients.

12 Dec 2013

100K sign up for coverage through insurance exchange in N.Y., but problems elsewhere persist

More than 100,000 people in New York have signed up for coverage on the health insurance exchange -- most in private plans.

12 Dec 2013

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Queen's University to lead €6 million European study to find new treatments for bowel cancer

New mechanism explains why anti-tumor activity of specific immune suppressed during tumor growth

Despite a slight improvement in public opinion, health law continues to take a toll on Obama's approval ratings

Tohoku University, Thomson Reuters team up to restore Tohoku’s medical system

Scientists develop new technique that results in better ways to relieve pain, monitor healing

HSET protein could help doctors identify aggressive breast cancers in African-American patients

Report: Screen all endometrial cancer patients for Lynch syndrome

Inflating balloon inside artery after stent placement increases patients' risk of serious complications

USPTO rejects NIKKEN's effort to invalidate Imagenetix's patent

Endo Finance prices $700 million aggregate principal amount of 5.75% senior unsecured notes

People more likely to seek info on quitting smoking when media covers celebrities with cancer

House and Senate budget negotiators reach a deal

Scientists explore mechanisms of viruses' shells

Emergent BioSolutions enters into definitive agreement to acquire Cangene

HCV antiviral therapy also improves diabetes outcomes

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes may be good biomarker of response to trastuzumab in breast cancer

Probe mimics pathogen's amino acids, solving mystery behind Chlamydiae cell wall

Cardiologist offers tips to keep heart healthy during holiday season

Researchers develop new screening tool to facilitate diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in adults

100K sign up for coverage through insurance exchange in N.Y., but problems elsewhere persist

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