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A new European consortium will use next-generation biomarkers to build a virtual patient in which to test colon cancer treatments.

Three Nashville-area clinics are offering a lung cancer screening trial for smokers and ex-smokers. The Nashville Lung Cancer Screening Trial is a research project to find specific traits in blood, urine or tissue that could lead to the early diagnosis of lung cancer in smokers and ex-smokers. The screening process will include several steps, ...

A day after Dr. Mark Geier's medical license was suspended in Maryland over allegations of putting children with autism at risk, state officials were seeking to remove his son from a state commission that advises the governor on the disorder.

The specter of prostate cancer is alarming enough and it just got even more alarming.

From the L.A. Times . "One of the first things we were taught in medical school was the pivotal role of thresholds in governing the human body.

Prostate-Cancer Exam Deaths From Superbugs Spur Inquiry Bloomberg May 6 (Bloomberg) -- Among the millions of men tested for prostate cancer around the world each year, doctors are detecting an increasing number of cases in which patients become sick from potentially lethal, drug-resistant infections. ... and more »

Novartis AG's cancer drug Afinitor has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a rare type of pancreatic cancer that has few treatment options.

Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch cancer treatment is "looking good" Band mates are optimistic.

A study found that people who work for more than ten years in front of a computer are at risk of developing various deadly diseases.

Newtonville Discovery thrift shop to close Wicked Local (blog) The American Cancer Society's Discovery Shop on Walnut Street in Newtonville is closing at the end of June to the dismay of many residents in and outside of Newton. Read the story on wickedlocalnewton. Note: You can use basic XHTML in ...

Blogs Aren't Plumbing Problems Patch.com You'll also share the Interweb with George D. "Boots" Weber, who was a real estate broker for more than 50 years and a life-long farmer and has decided to blog for Patch to aid his recovery from cancer. Inspired yet? Peck out your idea for a blog and ...

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Chad Brown Talks About Cancer on the SCOOP CardPlayer.com We offer daily poker news, poker professionals' blogs and tweets, exclusive poker videos, thousands of free poker articles, as well as coverage from all major poker tournaments in the world. You can also find here poker player profiles, ... and more »

Little Elm Mother turns to blogging to inform, cope during son's fatal cancer ... 33 KDAF-TV Huffines started the blog last October, when 5-year old Caleb was diagnosed with a rare, inoperable brain stem cancer. She says Facebook wasn't enough to keep people up to date, so she started to write about the family's deepest struggles to defeat ... and more »

Sophisticated treatments are needed to outwit cancer cells. Frederick C. Tucker Jr.

Los Angeles Times

Prostate cancer biopsies linked to risk of serious infection Los Angeles Times The specter of prostate cancer is alarming enough – and it just got even more alarming. Some doctors are reporting that men who get biopsies for prostate cancer may be putting themselves at ... A Growing Risk for Prostate Biopsies: Potentially Deadly InfectionWall Street Journal (blog) Prostate Cancer Surgery For A Better Chance Of SurvivalInternational Business Times Prostate Exam Deaths From Superbugs Spur Cancer-Test InquirySan Francisco Chronicle PR Newswire (press release) -Bloomberg -Reuters all 295 news articles »

French researchers have reported the strongest proof yet that evidence of 'circulating tumor cells' found in samples of a patient's blood is strongly linked to poor outcomes such as a short time to disease progression.

This afternoon, five teenage girls, all undergoing treatment for cancer at West Palm Beach's St.

New York Daily News

With Budget Unveiling, Bloomberg Draws the Battle Lines WNYC "We are forced to do the best we can with what we've got. The state has shifted the burden from them to us." Following the unveiling of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's final budget, the battle lines are now drawn between the mayor and City ... Bloomberg to cut more than 6000 NYC teaching positionsCNN International Bloomberg's $65.7 Billion New York City Budget Proposes 6000 Teacher CutsBloomberg NYC Mayor's Budget Would Cut 1 Out Of 12 TeachersNPR Brooklyn Daily Eagle -Patch.com -The Associated Press all 331 news articles »

While children of all ethnicities can contract Kawasaki disease (KD), a study led by researchers at the Kawasaki Disease Research Center at the University of California, San Diego and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego finds that Filipino children with KD are at a higher risk for inflammation of the blood vessels of the heart than those of other Asian and non-Asian backgrounds.

People in countries with governments that have a greater number of social services are more satisfied with life, a Baylor University researcher finds.

In the May-June issue of the journal American Mineralogist, a team of scientists announced the discovery of the new mineral krotite, one of the earliest minerals formed in our solar system. It is the main component of an unusual inclusion embedded in a meteorite (NWA 1934), found in northwest Africa. These objects, known as refractory inclusions, are thought to be the first planetary materials formed in our solar system, dating back to before the formation of the Earth and the other planets.

A bold new design for thin film solar cells that requires significantly less silicon -- and may boost their efficiency -- is the result of an industry/academia collaboration between Oerlikon Solar in Switzerland and the Institute of Physics' photovoltaic group at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

It is an article of faith among critics of public schools that there is no correlation between spending and learning. But it's not so -- at least where library spending is concerned. When support for school libraries rises, reading scores go up and learning by other measures increases also.

In the work published in the May 2011 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Dr. Huang and his students, Guo, Feng and Trivedi, offer a first step towards understanding the source of the stable pattern of gene expression profiles by testing whether gene expression profiles are indeed established by a gene regulatory network that has the structure of a "medusa," with a command and control "head" and an enslaved periphery, as proposed by theoreticians.

Green roofs like the one atop a Con Edison building in Long Island City, Queens can be a cost-effective way to keep water from running into sewer systems and causing overflows, Columbia University researchers have found.

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have established a new method to patch a damaged heart using a tissue-engineering platform that enables heart tissue to repair itself. This breakthrough, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is an important step forward in combating cardiovascular disease, one of the most serious health problems of our day.

It’s the end of a long week and today I thought it would be nice to highlight some people who write about cancer in the blogosphere since some people have emailed asking me what blogs do I read. Here are … Continue reading →

Clinicians, researchers and scientists from around the world will gather for Digestive Disease Week 2011, the largest and most prestigious gastroenterology meeting, from May 7-10, 2011, at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL.

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12 Charitable Wedding Ideas from a Best Bridal Blogs Winner! OneWed.com (blog) Attire: Organizations like Brides Against Breast Cancer or dress shops like The Bridal Garden both sell wedding dresses and use part or all of the proceeds to help their respective causes. Grooms can get in on the action too by wearing Tom's Shoes or ...

Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Smoking Bans on Public Property Reason Online (blog) It also conflates one-time DNA damage, which occurs with any carcinogenic exposure, with cancer risk, which likewise generally requires repeated exposure. Siegel worries that such hyperbole damages the scientific credibility of the anti-smoking ... and more »

U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of Afinitor has been expanded to include people with progressive neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas that have spread to other parts of the body or cannot be removed by surgery, the agency said Friday.

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Democrats choose Mastroianni as new Parma treasurer Sun Star Courier (blog) Mastroianni replaces Anthony Zielinski, who died of pancreatic cancer on March 25. Mastroianni, in a brief speech after he was chosen treasurer, told the PDPC that Zielinski was his best friend. “I don't think I could ever fill his shoes,” Mastroianni ... and more »

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FDA OKs Afinitor to Treat Pancreatic Cancer WebMD May 6, 2011 -- The FDA has approved the drug Afinitor (everolimus) to treat a rare type of pancreatic cancer. The Novartis-made drug has been approved to treat patients with progressive neuroendocrine tumors located in the pancreas ... Novartis gets FDA approval for pancreatic cancer drugReuters FDA approves Afinitor for rare pancreatic cancerLos Angeles Times FDA Approves New Treatment for Rare Form of Pancreatic CancerFox News U.S. News & World Report -PR Newswire (press release) -ThirdAge all 96 news articles »

Tags Nano-carriers for DNA delivery to the lung based upon a TAT-derived peptide covalently coupled to PEG-PEI. Journal of controlled release , Vol.

Now in its fifth year, the Great Prostate Cancer Challenge is led by ZERO - The Project to End Prostate Cancer.

Medivation Reports First Quarter 2011 Financial Results and Provides Corporate ... Marketwire (press release) We now have multiple MDV3100 trials ongoing evaluating a broad spectrum of advanced prostate cancer patients, and we have jointly reached a decision to conduct an interim analysis of our Phase 3 AFFIRM trial in the post-chemotherapy patient population ... Medivation Inc. halves Q1 lossSan Francisco Business Times all 4 news articles »

Nicole Cassity was just 23 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a devastating blow to the young wife and mother.

New research findings on informatics in biomedicine and health cover a variety of topics in health care: impact on small physician practices, quality and safety of online social networks, information needs of case managers caring for HIV patients, accuracy of clinical-decision support systems, biosurveillance.

An international panel of experts from the Heart Rhythm Society and the European Heart Rhythm Association issued new guideline recommendations for all health care professionals about cardiovascular genetic testing at the Heart Rhythm Society's 32nd Annual Scientific Sessions.

Researchers with the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta have discovered that some "protective" T-cells can kill neurons. This finding is significant because a specific type of T-cell therapy is being touted in the medical community as a potential treatment for MS and other autoimmune conditions.

A new strain of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria associated with exposure to livestock was recently discovered in one Iowa child care worker who reported no contact with livestock, according to University of Iowa researchers

Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute have found a temperature-sensing protein within immune cells that, when tripped, allows calcium to pour in and activate an immune response. This process can occur as temperature rises, such as during a fever, or when it falls -- such as when immune cells are "called" from the body's warm interior to a site of injury on cooler skin.

The Daily Start-Up: Longitude Sees Latitude To Raise New Fund Wall Street Journal (blog) Also, Polaris Group is raising about $20 million for its lead drug targeting liver-cancer patients, VentureWire has learned…General Fusion Inc. has raised a $19.5 million round at a post-money valuation of about $50 million as it eyes several years of ...

Prepped And Ready: A Baseball Bonanza Austin American-Statesman (blog) I couldn't buy you all flowers but I'm offering up this blog as my gift to you. New Braunfels pitcher shines while mom battles cancer (via the San Antonio Express-News). State-bound shot put participant has already won a state title this spring (via ...

Only a minority of patients who undergo surgical resection for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma are cured.

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FDA Approves New Treatment for Rare Form of Pancreatic Cancer Fox News The US Food and Drug Administration said Friday it had approved a new treatment for patients with a rare form of pancreatic cancer. The agency expanded the use of Afinitor, already approved to treat kidney cancer and some brain tumors, ... Novartis gets FDA approval for pancreatic cancer drugReuters Afinitor Approved for Rare Pancreatic CancerU.S. News & World Report FDA Approves Novartis Drug Afinitor to Treat Pancreatic Neuroendocrine TumorsPR Newswire (press release) FiercePharma -MedCity News -Pharma Times all 78 news articles »

Lawyers for both sides made opening statements to the jury today in a wrongful death and product liability case brought against Philip Morris Inc.

Aquaporins have been recognized to promote tumor progression, invasion, and metastasis and are therefore recognized as promising targets for novel anti-cancer therapies.

Androgens - male sex hormones - are necessary for the growth and functioning of the prostate gland and contribute to the growth of tumors of the prostate.