Management of common debilitating side effects of hot flashes, excessive sweating, and night sweats that are commonly linked with breast cancer treatment can be effectively treated with acupuncture. The finding was revealed in a study that also suggested that there are no side effects of acupuncture.
The findings were part of a [...]
June 14, 2010 | Posted in
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A recently discovered mechanism can play a critical role in virulence of an infectious fungus, as per Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators at Duke University Medical Center.
The finding suggested that changes in light after fungal invasion of the human body can be termed as a important but previously neglected cue that sparks infection.
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April 28, 2010 | Posted in
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A link has been identified between lupus of young patients and abnormal secretion of alpha interferon to the malfunctioning immune systems by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research in Dallas.
Lupus is a condition that can lead to skin, kidney, heart, and other organ damages in children [...]
April 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Acupuncture is equally effective and long-lasting when compared to a conventional drug therapy for efficiently managing the common debilitating side effects of hot flashes, excessive sweating, and night sweats that are associated with breast cancer treatment, according to a study. It was also noted by the study that there are no [...]
April 2, 2010 | Posted in
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Harris Perlman, a researcher from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has invented a novel way to halt and even reverse rheumatoid arthritis.
This way was developed by imitation of a suicide molecule (whimsically referred to as Casper the Ghost) that floats undetected into overactive immune cells responsible for the disease.
From Sciencedaily.com:
Current treatments for rheumatoid arthritis [...]
February 25, 2010 | Posted in
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The positive effects of angiogenesis drugs to treat the deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas are due to edema reduction and not from any direct effect of anti-tumor, as per researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
It was remarked by Rakesh K. Jain, PhD, director of the Steele Laboratory in the MGH Department of Radiation Oncology, [...]
February 8, 2010 | Posted in
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Steroid pill treatment can prove to be an effective option for improving the overall survival rate of patients with multiple myeloma, as per researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Multiple myeloma is a type of cancer that takes about 14,000 lives in the United States alone.
James Berenson, M.D., lead author of the Southwest Oncology Group sponsored [...]
November 10, 2009 | Posted in
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According to new findings from the Rush University Medical Center, “unprecedented” survival for multiple myeloma patients was seen with an oral drug, Revlimid.
Multiple Myeloma is a form of blood cancer that happens in the blood making cells of bone marrow.
It was revealed in the findings that patients treated with the oral drug, Revlimid, had a [...]
July 20, 2009 | Posted in
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A new drug candidate, abiraterone, has been showing enough promise in initial trials for helping prostate cancer patients whose tumors have not stopped growing despite medical or surgical castration.
Abiraterone has proved to be an effective option for reducing the levels of prostate-specific antigen and tumors in prostate carcinoma patients who have undergone hormone therapy but [...]
July 17, 2009 | Posted in
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