Cattle: Latest Weapon In The War On Cancer?
...tracts of cattle cartilageas a possible potent new weapon in the war on cancer, the Chief of CSIROTropical Agriculture, Dr Elizabeth Heij, has announced. A team led by Dr Greg Harper of CSIRO's J.M.Rendel Laboratory in Rockhamptonis working to identify special factors in cattle cartilage shown by internati...Interleukin-2 Boosts Cancer Vaccine Effectiveness In Mice
.... ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Interleukin-2, a well-known weapon in the fight againstcancer, has proven to be a powerful new addition to a University of Michigancancer vaccine that mobilizes the body's own immune system to attack and destroymalignant cells. In a study published in the March 2 issue of the Proceedi...Poor Health In Pregnancy And After Childbirth Tied To History Of Abuse
...mily or friend, ever attacked you with orwithout a weapon but with the intent to kill you or seriously injure you?" Alsoincluded were questions pertaining to physical harm from being kicked, beaten orhurt in other ways. Of 47 women for whom complete data were available, 16 (34 percent) saidthey had been phy...New Cancer Procedure At Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Offers Hope
...chemotherapy and this is an alternative -- another weapon we have in ourarmory." Fortunately, size of the tumor does not matter, according to Zagoria. " For alarge tumor we will actually treat numerous sides of it so that we try to getthe entire tumor. At times, one 12-minute treatment is not enough. We can...Faculty research contributes to new cervical cancer treatment
...rs of ongoing research, investigators have found a weapon that actuallyimproves the survival rate of cervical cancer patients. Upon reviewing the impressive results of five nationwide clinical trialsinvolving more than 1,700 women from 1992-97, NCI is urging the medicalcommunity to improve the treat...UI researchers identify prostate tumor suppressor
...ostate cancer to distant sites may provide another weapon in thebattle against this deadly disease," added Lubaroff, the associate director forresearch infrastructure for the UI Cancer Center. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and is the second leadingcause of cancer death in American m...Medicine, international law and weapons
...14 August 1999 pp410-412 (Circumstances around weapon injury in Cambodia after departure of a peacekeepi...olume 319 14 August 1999 pp412-5 (Incidence of weapon injuries not related to interfactional combat in Afghanistan in 1996: prospective cohort study) BMJ...University of Pittsburgh study finds that simple test spots early signs of heart disease in women
...URGH, Aug. 27 -- Women may now have a powerful new weapon in the waragainst heart disease. A study by researchers at the University of Pittsburghhas shown that a non-invasive test called electron beam computed tomography(EBCT) can predict heart problems in middle-aged women who lack any clinicalsigns of di...It is easy for adolescents to purchase cigarettes illegally in North Carolina
...ng with a drinking driver, fighting, or carrying a weapon to school." These effects are in addition to the effects that smoking can have on aperson's overall health. Smokers are about 14 times more likely to die fromcancer of the lung, throat or mouth. In addition, cigarettes are a principalcause of......onal drug forpostmenopausal women an excellent new weapon in the fight against osteoporosis. In a placebo-controlled study of 2,458 post-menopausal women with osteoporosis,researchers found that after three years of treatment with the drug, calledrisedronate, the incidence of new fractures of the spine (ver...New study shows link between sex and violence among N.C. high school males
...These same males are more likely to fight, carry a weapon to school,attempt suicide, smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and use illegal substances,said the report's author, Robert H. DuRant, Ph.D., vice-chair for HealthServices Research for the Department of Pediatrics at Wake Forest UniversityBaptist Medical ...Earlier detection for breast cancer in sight
...diffraction based diagnostic probe; a powerful new weapon in the fight against breast cancer....Lawrence Livermore Lab pioneers advanced radiation treatment for cancer
... LIVERMORE, Calif. Mankind will soon have another weapon in the 4,000-year fight against cancer. Clearance has been granted by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for an advanced method for targeting tumors with radiation treatment developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energys Lawrence Livermo...Hand size counts in safe handgun use
... he or she must be able to draw, aim, and fire the weapon repeatedly, avoid injury from recoil, and hit what is aimed at. Although this group of events may not be "safe" for the person being aimed at, it constitutes safe operation from the officer's perspective. Any other outcome may injure innocent bystand...Stimulating environment protects brain against damage from lead exposure
...avioral environment. If it's true, this might be a weapon to attenuate the damage done to kids. This might lead to an early educational intervention for at-risk populations." "At present, the way we deal with the dangers of lead poisoning is to try to limit the possibility of exposure," says Theodore Lid...Mayo Clinic researchers develop 'cancer snitch'
...ve penetrated a tumor. The snitch may become a new weapon in the strategic assault on cancer. Kah-Whye Peng, Ph.D., and Stephen J. Russell, M.D., Ph.D., both Mayo Clinic molecular medicine researchers, have reported encouraging results about their experiment on mice to find an inexpensive and painless way t...Drugs may not be best weapon against teen migraines, study finds
...erapy "not medication -- may be the most effective weapon against migraine pain for teen-agers. Researchers with the Ohio University Headache Treatment & Research Project enrolled 30 teens ages 12 to 17 in the pilot project. Half were treated with triptans -- a fairly new class of drugs widely used for mig...Potent experimental drug shown to slow the growth of breast and prostate cancer tumors in mice
...ancer cells, leaving healthy ones intact. One key weapon in this arsenal of new therapies is called Herceptin, a drug that is currently used to treat breast cancer and works by targeting a specific protein that controls cell growth called HER-2/neu. But despite the drug's effectiveness, tumors shrink in o...Study results offer new hope for people with manic depression
..., suggest that it is an important and valuable new weapon in our fight against this problematic disease." Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depressive illness, is a severe mental illness that affects more than 1% of the adult population. As more patients are being accurately diagnosed this figure will......y animals. "Bacterial proteins could well be a new weapon in the war against cancer," said Ananda Chakrabarty, distinguished professor of microbiology and immunology and one of the study's investigators. Results of the three-year-long study are published in the October 29 issue of the Proceedings of the Nat...