Chemical Society's Highest Award Goes To Ronald Breslow
...ry in thebasement of our house, right near the air duct next to our furnace," he said."My father was a physician, and I remember his patients would come streaming outof his office upstairs sometimes when I made something that really smelled bad.But he didn't mind." "I thought the whole thing was m......die, but other cells, such as fibroblasts and bile duct cells,proliferate. The Pitt researchers made their discovery, an outcome that proved their ownstudy hypothesis wrong, after a series of experiments with groups of mice eithercapable or incapable of producing IL-6. A model of cirrhosis was cr...From sci-fi to reality microendoscopy to diagnose breast cancer?
...east cancer in the future. "I envisage that breast duct endoscopy will be a method of screening high risk ...ack magnified pictures of the inside of the breast duct to television screens where doctors can identify any warning signs. Healthy ducts look like blue-wh...Calcification of breast blood vessels may predict stroke risk
...tes and women who had three or more children. Milk duct calcification, which was not associated with an increased risk of stroke, was more common among older women, cigarette smokers and among those who used hormone replacement therapy after menopause. Researchers say calcification of breast blood vessels...CWRU/University Hospitals of Cleveland researchers investigate new cancer treatment
...ed 14,500 new cases of liver and intrahepatic bile duct carcinomas are diagnosed; the five-year survival rate for these patients is less than 10 percent. In another 20 to 30 percent of the 160,000 patients diagnosed with colorectal carcinoma, tumors move through the lymph or blood system. These patients d...New technique lets doctors examine milk ducts for breast problems
...sional mammograms that use a dye injected into the duct at the nipple, may not precisely or completely loc...es insert a fine fiber-like probe into the problem duct and remove the tissue around the probe, or they may remove all the ducts behind the nipple. These p...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for September 2003 (first issue)
...ons in nearly all of the glands that secret into a duct (exocrine glands). The lungs are one of the main organs affected.) The authors point out that their findings suggest the potential advantages of using the CT/pulmonary function composite scoring in future clinical trials. However, they note that th...Manganese in intravenous nutrition a problem for patients needing intestine transplants
...ften, the TPN will cause blockages within the bile duct system of the liver, which as a result, make it difficult for manganese and other toxins to be adequately excreted. With successful intestinal transplantation and resumption of normal function of the intestine, the risk of manganese toxicity and othe...'Duct Busters' team travels to perform newborn heart surgery at regional hospitals
...irth. Most common in premature newborns, this open duct causes abnormal circulation in the newborn and can lead to heart failure and impaired lung function. Medication may succeed in closing the duct, but in some cases, surgical closure with small titanium clips is necessary. "We can bring the same ...Robotic surgery for young heart patients shortens hospital stay and speeds recovery, study indicates
...ication called a chylothorax, in which a lymphatic duct was punctured and leaked fluid into the chest cavity. The children who had robot-assisted surgery were in the operating room for a median of 116 minutes, compared with a median of 83 minutes for the open-chest procedures. This difference was statist...LSUHSC microsurgeon performs 1st ever eyelid reattachment
...our microsurgery, they also reconstructed the tear duct which was traumatized in the accident as well. Using 20 times magnification (the typical magnification at which microsurgery is performed is 4-7 times), the procedure was especially challenging because of the damage inflicted by the violent tearing ...New tool reveals molecular signature of cancer and HIV
...ules. Mutations of the KRAS2 gene were detected in duct fluid samples from three pancreatic cancer patients, which also corresponded to mutations found in their tumors. LigAmp also located a drug-resistance mutation, called K103N, in blood samples from three HIV patients. Further analysis of LigAmp ...Poor response to chemotherapy does not mean poor outcome for patients with rare breast cancer
...carcinoma, on the other hand, develops in the milk duct vessels that extend from the lobules to the nipple. Overall, use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy has proven successful in treatment of locally advanced breast cancer (that which has spread out into the breast or to adjacent lymph nodes) and is now standa...Elevated glucose levels and diabetes are associated with increased risk for cancer
...esophagus, colon/rectum, liver, pancreas, and bile duct in men and of the liver and pancreas in women. Of the 26,473 total cancer deaths in men and women, 848 were estimated as attributable to having a fasting serum glucose level of more than 90/mg/dL. For cancer incidence, the general patterns reflected...