Resting brain activity associated with spontaneous fibromyalgia pain
7/29/2010
| A recent study from researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and University of Michigan provides the first direct evidence of linkage between elevated intrinsic (resting-state) brain connectivity and spontaneous pain intensity in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). This research shows an interaction of multiple brain networks, offering greater understanding of how pain arises. Details of th... [Comments] |
Doctors, Patients Rarely on Same Page
7/29/2010
| By Jenifer Goodwin HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors and patients are often out of sync with each other when it comes to what patients believe about their illnesses, including to what extent the patient is to blame and what's the best way to mana... [Comments] |  |
Snake venom studies yield insights for development of therapies for heart disease and cancer
7/29/2010
| BETHESDA, Md., July 29, 2010 Researchers seeking to learn more about stroke by studying how the body responds to toxins in snake venom are this week releasing new findings that they hope will aid in the development of therapies for heart disease and, surprisingly, cancer. The Japanese team is reporting in a Journal of Biological Chemistry "Paper of the Week" that they are optimistic th... [Comments] |
Breast Cancer's DNA Yields More Secrets
7/29/2010
| By Jenifer Goodwin HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- The genetic makeup of breast cancer tumors may be a better predictor of how well a woman will fare than a tumor's size and appearance, which has been the traditional way of looking at cancers, new rese... [Comments] |  |
Experts Support FDA Panel's Backing of New Blood Thinner
7/29/2010
| By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Following a federal health panel's endorsement of the new blood thinner Brilinta Wednesday, cardiologists say the drug could be a welcome addition to treatments for heart patients. In a 7-to-1 vote, t... [Comments] |  |
UCLA scientists for the first time identify a cell-of-origin for human prostate cancer
7/29/2010
| UCLA scientists have identified for the first time a cell-of-origin for human prostate cancer, a discovery that could result in better predictive and diagnostics tools and the development of new and more effective targeted treatments for the disease. The researchers, from UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, proved that basal cells found in benign prostate tissue could become human... [Comments] |
A new ground zero for prostate cancer
7/29/2010
| A type of prostate cell that has been largely ignored by cancer researchers can, in fact, trigger malignant prostate cancer, according to new studies by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists and their colleagues. HHMI researcher Owen N. Witte and his colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) found that the somewhat overlooked prostate basal cell can spawn... [Comments] |
Researchers identify key enzyme in DNA repair pathway
7/29/2010
| HOUSTON - Researchers have discovered an enzyme crucial to a type of DNA repair that also causes resistance to a class of cancer drugs most commonly used against ovarian cancer. Scientists from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Life Sciences Institute of Zhejiang Un... [Comments] |  |
TNF blockers may increase the risk of malignancy in children
7/29/2010
| The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received reports of malignancies in children using tumor necrosis factor a (TNF) blockers, raising concerns of an associated risk and prompting an investigation. Researchers from the FDA set out to identify all reports of malignancy in children using infliximab, etanercept, and adalimumab and their report is published in the August issue of Arthritis & R... [Comments] |
Plant compound resveratrol shown to suppresses inflammation, free radicals in humans
7/29/2010
| BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Resveratrol, a popular plant extract shown to prolong life in yeast and lower animals due to its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, appears also to suppress inflammation in humans, based on results from the first prospective human trial of the extract conducted by University at Buffalo endocrinologists. Results of the study appear as a rapid electronic publicati... [Comments] |
Most youth hockey injuries caused by accidents, not checking, UB study shows
7/29/2010
| BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Hockey fans likely would assume that body-checking -- intentionally slamming an opponent against the boards -- causes the most injuries in youth ice hockey. But they would be wrong. Findings from a new study, the largest and most comprehensive analysis to date of young hockey players, show that 66 percent of overall injuries were caused by accidentally hitting the boards o... [Comments] |
