For 30 years, the chemotherapy drug cisplatin has been one of doctors’ first lines of defense against tumors, especially those of the lung, ovary and testes. While cisplatin is often effective when first given, it has a major drawback: Tumors can become resistant to the drug and start growing again.
Now, MIT cancer biologists have shown [...]
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MIT Cancer Biologists Have Shown How Resistance To Cisplatin Arises
Posted by admin on Nisan 16th, 2010
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No Comments »Findings That Key Protein Aids In DNA Repair Have Potential For Cancer, Other Age-Related Diseases
Posted by admin on Nisan 14th, 2010
Scientists have shown in multiple contexts that DNA damage over our lifetimes is a key mechanism behind the development of cancer and other age-related diseases. Not everyone gets these diseases, because the body has multiple mechanisms for repairing the damage caused to DNA by aging, the environment and other human behaviors [...]
Study Finds Overall Increase In Developing Country Domestic Health Spending, Some Countries Have Reduced Health Budgets As Donor Funding Increases
Posted by admin on Nisan 12th, 2010
Researchers on Friday released a study in the Lancet that found while “[m]ost countries in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East doubled their health budgets,” countries in sub-Saharan Africa appear to have trimmed their health spending as donors have boosted their health aid, the Associated Press/Washington Post reports.
For the study, the [...]
Reproductive Endocrinologists And Fertility Specialists Now Have A New Transfer Catheter For Improved Uterine Access And Embryo Placement
Posted by admin on Nisan 10th, 2010
Cook Medical’s Women’s Health division has released the Guardia™ AccessET Curved Embryo Transfer Catheter, featuring Cook’s patented EchoTip® technology. The catheter’s echogenic band allows the catheter tip to be seen more clearly under ultrasound, which can allow for more accurate embryo placement.
Cook has also incorporated Microvol™ technology into the Guardia [...]
Posted in Genel Tags: a, access, and, catheter, embryo, Endocrinologists, fertility, For, have, improved, new, now, placement, reproductive, specialists, Transfer, uterine No Comments »Empathy And Violence Have Similar Circuits In The Brain
Posted by admin on Nisan 10th, 2010
Researchers from the University of Valencia (UV) have resumed the brain structures involved with empathy, in other words the ability to put oneself in another person’s position, and carried out a scientific review of them. They conclude that the brain circuits responsible for empathy are in part the same as those [...]
Media Report On Haiti Rebuilding Effort After Donor Conference
Posted by admin on Nisan 6th, 2010
News outlets report on the implications and follow up after Wednesday’s donor conference to aid Haiti’s rebuilding effort.
Newsweek: “The next big challenge is figuring out how to apply the raised funds to fix not just Haiti’s earthquake damage, but also the years of poverty and corruption that have plagued the nation [...]
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Posted by admin on Nisan 6th, 2010
Health Care Law Is Good The Las Vegas Sun
States can’t on the one hand accept the benefits of federal health care spending and then legitimately claim that the federal government is playing too large a role in the health care sector (4/2).
On The Front Line The New York Times
If Dr. Berwick [...]
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Posted by admin on Nisan 6th, 2010
On Wednesday, the Tennessee Senate voted 29-2 and the state House voted 87-8 in favor of bills (SB 3812, HB 3301) that would require abortion clinics to post signs alerting women of a Tennessee law that prohibits coercing a woman into having an abortion, the AP/Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.
The legislation would [...]
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