Researchers to pinpoint relationship between obesity-associated diabetes and heart disease
... States, has been matched by a rise in diabetes, a deadly combination that increases heart disease risk by two to five times. Research has shown an association between obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes, and it's believed that insulin resistance plays an important role in the development of heart dise...Latest cancer research features small molecule therapy, and the preventative benefits of sunshine
...lating pathway to inhibit growth and metastasis in deadly thyroid tumors. From down under, Australian resear...t one percent of all thyroid cancers, but they are deadly and respond to no current treatment. Patients diagnosed with anaplastic thyroid cancer rarely surviv...Protein promotes cancer metastasis and survival
...onstrates that a protein called periostin promotes deadly spreading and late stage progression of colon canc... strategy for preventing late-stage progression of deadly metastatic cancers."...Smoking linked to more than 60 percent of overall cancer death burden in black men
...ers." Increasingly, research has linked smoking to deadly cancers other than lung cancer, including cancers of the colon, pancreas and prostate. In his new study, Leistikow found compelling data suggesting that tobacco smoke exposure is responsible for more than half the non-lung cancer death rate in Africa...HHS launches diabetes prevention campaign
...g epidemic to prevent the disease and its serious, deadly complications." The rapid increase in the number of people who are at risk for diabetes, and people with diabetes, is closely tracking the nation's escalating obesity rates. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a ...Business strategy used to increase immunization rates in children
...s particularly timely given the busy and sometimes deadly 2003 influenza season, will be presented May 1 at the annual Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in San Francisco. A team led by Maria Britto, MD, a physician in the division of Adolescent Medicine at Cincinnati Children's, examined whether proven, ...Pfizer's VFEND (R) as effective in treating Candidemia as two-drug standard of care, study shows
...ectious Diseases (ECCMID). Candidemia is the most deadly type of hospital-acquired bloodstream infection and ranks as one of the leading causes of such infections in the United States and Europe. This is the first scientific presentation of data assessing the clinical efficacy of VFEND in candidemia. V...Researchers define mechanism that enables stem cells to track migrating brain tumor cells
...GELES (May 4, 2004) Because they target and track deadly brain tumor cells even those that migrate within the brain neural stem cells appear to be effective "delivery systems" to transport cancer-killing gene and immune products. But not all neural stem cells take on this tracking role. Now researchers ...Cancer gene therapy news backgrounder: New ideas fuel next generation gene therapy research
... that had any effect on malignant glioma, the most deadly of brain cancers. Testing a gene therapy in mice, likened to a "viral smart bomb," the M. D. Anderson scientists found only empty cavities and scar tissue where human glioma tumors had once been. The therapy, known as Delta-24-RGD, had moved like wav...Obese men may have increased risk for prostate cancer recurrence after surgery
...findings add to the burgeoning list of chronic and deadly diseases associated with obesity and underscore the importance of this major public health problem," says Freedland. Obesity is an independent predictor of biochemical failure following radical prostatectomy. Stephen J. Freedland, William J. Aronson...Dartmouth researchers advance fight against pancreatic cancer
...e fight against pancreatic cancer, one of the most deadly and aggressive forms of cancer, and may lead to the development of new, highly targeted therapies to manage previously untreatable tumors. In two trials targeting some of the most challenging traits of pancreatic tumor cell growth, researchers from D...Cedars-Sinai Medical tipsheet for May 2004
...Neural stem cells, which have the ability to track deadly brain cancer cells as they migrate from a tumor to form new satellites, are potential transporters to deliver cancer-killing agents. In the May/June issue of Neoplasia, researchers from Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute identify th...Advances emerging in hepatitis management
.... Hepatitis B and C can be life-long, potentially deadly chronic infections. In studies presented today at Digestive Disease Week in New Orleans, researchers analyzed the causes of hepatitis and potential therapies that may improve care. Digestive Disease Week (DDW) is the largest international gathering...NIAID forms network to tackle potentially fatal reaction to smallpox vaccine
...f eczema vaccinatum (EV), a severe and potentially deadly complication of smallpox immunization. EV occurs almost exclusively in people with a history of atopic dermatitis (AD), a chronic, itchy skin condition commonly referred to as eczema. While uncommon, EV can develop when AD patients are given the smal...Duke scientists identify new way to block blood vessels that feed cancer growth
...arby blood vessels, fortifying the vessels against deadly onslaughts of radiation. The messages enable blood vessels to survive and ultimately nourish any remaining cancer cells that escape toxic radiation therapy. Radiation biologists from the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center identified the master switch a...Compound in salsa may fight food poisoning
... at killing Salmonella , a frequent and sometimes deadly cause of foodborne illness, the researchers say. It is the only naturally occurring antibacterial that is more effective than gentamicin against Salmonella , they claim. "We were surprised that dodecenal was such a potent antibiotic," says study lea...Diabetes increases deaths among people 65 and older
...ss mortality" in younger people, diabetes was less deadly in the elderly. "This may have led some doctors or family members not to worry much about a grandmother's touch of sugar," Bertoni said. "These new findings suggest that prevention of diabetes among the elderly should be a priority," Bertoni said. "T...Carbon monoxide from smoking helps keep arteries open following angioplasty
..., Ill.-In an unusual paradox, smoking cigarettes-a deadly habit that contributes to the development of peripheral artery disease-actually helps arteries stay open following a procedure to repair clogged blood vessels in the legs, according to a study in the June issue of Radiology. The study found that habi...New survey reveals surprising insights into parental attitudes toward teenage sexual behavior
... of the disease, 42 percent did not know it can be deadly and more than one third (37 percent) were unaware there is a vaccine available to prevent it. SAM Provides Help to Enhance the Parent-Adolescent Relationship "The teen-parent relationship is ever evolving and the transition through the teen years ...Passenger screening advised to cut risk of importing drug-resistant malaria to Africa
...ium falciparum (the parasite which causes the most deadly form of malaria) originated in South East Asia and were then imported and spread across Africa leading to the demise of both chloroquine and sulfadoxine pyrimethamine as effective, affordable treatments. Dr. Cally Roper of the London School of Hygie...