Renowned nutrition experts tackle nation's obesity problem in new book on primary care nutrition
...roughout the life-cycle, using medical nutritional therapy to treat common medical problems, answering questions about supplements, and the influence of culture on lifestyle behaviors. "Although the problem has gained considerable attention in the last few years, the obesity epidemic continues to rage," s...IMS reaction to report on breast cancer incidence in 2003 in US
...r message on the presumed association with hormone therapy (HT). The IMS wishes to stress the following rele...ccurring within a year after cessation of estrogen therapy is unlikely. The WHI study has already provided very good epidemiological data on the association b...Discoveries thrust cancer-initiating stem cells into a larger role in cancer biology and treatment
...atopoietic Stem Cells: Abstract 5050 Radiation therapy affects not only the cancer mass, but also the sur...ive in treating breast cancer, localized radiation therapy increases the risk of developing secondary cancer, which most frequently manifests in the form of ac...Researchers identify key gene that may be a marker of breast cancer metastasis
...one of the newest, most effective forms of hormone therapy for postmenopausal women whose breast cancer tests positive for estrogen receptors, which means that estrogen in the body fuels the growth of cancer cells. "Unfortunately, one of the drawbacks to extended use of an AI may be that some of the cancer c...OHSU lab finds meth receptor that could lead to therapy
...resents a completely new target for pharmaceutical therapy to treat meth addiction and also reduce the negative manifestations of its abuse. "Meth addiction is such a problem and we have nothing to treat it with except group support therapy," Grandy said. "Now we have a new target, something completely dif...Genes and biomarkers that allow doctors to choose the right therapy for the right patient
...low physicians to personalize lung or brain cancer therapy and lower the risk of unnecessary radiation treatm...able to tell if a patient is not responding to the therapy and alter their treatment strategy accordingly." The researchers screened lung and brain tumors to...Carnegie Mellon University research shows how sensory-deprived brain compensates
...ation much better. This kind of "forced use" therapy is already applied in the clinic for patients with motor deficits. For example, a patient who suffers a brain injury is made to use a poorly performing arm with the expectation that the brain may be plastic enough to assist that arm in recovering mot...Scientists find major susceptibility genes for Crohn's disease
... important targets for drug development to improve therapy of Crohn's disease in the future." Dr. Stephen P. James, M.D., director of the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition at the National Institutes of Health's NIDDK continued by saying that "these important discoveries not only offer new hope fo...Cetuximab and irinotecan combination increases survival in metastatic colorectal cancer
...sistance to the drug oxaliplatin, a platinum-based therapy commonly used in the treatment of colorectal cancer. The trial participants, enrolled from cancer centers across Europe, Australia and the United States, were primarily male (62.9%) and Caucasian (91.6 %), with a median age of 62. The patients we...Cetuximab increases survival in advanced colorectal cancer patients, study shows
...he first time a single agent biologically targeted therapy has demonstrated a survival advantage in patients with colorectal cancer, and it is also the first time an EGFR-targeting drug has achieved this goal." Conducted by the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group (NCIC CTG) in collabo...Research director to be honored at international congress
... stem cell and tissue engineering technologies for therapy and laboratory models of human tissue; and mathematical and computational modeling of molecules, cells and tissues. Professor Shakesheff and co-workers have filed numerous patents for novel medical systems that promote the regeneration of tissue wi...Scientists find new genes for Crohn's disease
... important targets for drug development to improve therapy of Crohn's disease in the future," he said. Stephen P. James, M.D., director of the division of digestive diseases and nutrition at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) agreed, saying that "these important di...Progress toward a targeted therapy for a specific form of leukemia
...eral other forms of cancer. On the way to a new therapy The researchers are convinced that MYB can be an important target for the development of a new therapy for T-ALL. They are particularly encouraged by the results they obtained when they suppressed the ex...Scientists find major susceptibility gene for Crohn's disease
... important targets for drug development to improve therapy of Crohn's disease in the future." Dr. Stephen P. James, M.D., director of the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition at the National Institutes of Health's NIDDK continued by saying that "these important discoveries not only offer new hope...New imaging method shows whether treatment for advanced prostate cancer is working
...s could allow patients to switch to an alternative therapy without wasting time on a treatment that is not working," says study author Kenneth Pienta, M.D., professor of internal medicine and urology and director of the Urologic Oncology Program at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center. The American Cancer S...Diseased brain cells more involved in ALS-associated motor neuron death
... on April 15, suggest that developing an effective therapy for ALS would require overcoming the destructive effects of astrocytes and replacing the damaged motor neurons, possibly by transplanting motor neurons derived from embryonic stem cells. In ALS, there is a progressive degeneration of motor neurons...Health disparities -- Genetics, society and race play an important role in access to healthcare
...tumors, we may find new molecular targets to which therapy can be tailored specifically to African American women," Field said. Familial Breast Cancer in a Cohort of 59,000 African American Women: the Black Women's Health Study: Abstract 2500 Having a mother or sister with breast cancer significantly i...Blame the brain for high blood pressure
...hose patients that fail to respond to conventional therapy for hypertension with drugs that reduce blood vessel inflammation and increase blood flow within the brain. The future challenge will be to understand the type of inflammation within the vessels in the brain, so that we know what drug to use, and how...Investigational cancer drug targets critical proteins
...ed in human cancer and seem resistant to radiation therapy and chemotherapy, according to Dr. Bhalla. ......hers are exploring clinical testing of combination therapy with the drugscetuximab (trade name Erbitux) and celecoxib (Celebrex)to treat breast cancer metastasis. The research team, led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Joan Massagu at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, published its f...