Archive for July 2017

Experts flu-ethicist and debate controversial H5N1 Papers

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Experts flu-ethicist and debate controversial H5N1 Papers - Exactly how much and which parts of the two controversial H5N1 studies will be published could be decided today and tomorrow during a meeting in Geneva. The World Health Organization (WHO) invited 22 experts from around the world to discuss...

Chinese famine Leads to More Female Births

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Chinese famine Leads to More Female Births - In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Mao Zedong of China proposed the "Great Leap Forward" campaign which was supposed to increase the production of steel and propel his country in the higher ranks of industrialized nations. But the leaders were scrambling...

Many cancer Faces of Resistance

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Many cancer Faces of Resistance - The big push in the nowadays cancer treatment is to sample the tumor of a person, the test for mutations, and give the patient a medicine for genetic weak point in the tumor. A new study suggests one reason why this strategy of targeted drugs do not always work....

A flawed process flu Papers?

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A flawed process flu Papers? - Concerned. NSABB member Michael Osterholm criticized the review process of the controversial document of influenza in a new letter. Courtesy of the University of Minnesota last month, a third of the US National Science Advisory...

The largest hub of the world for cancer genomes opener

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The largest hub of the world for cancer genomes opener - Researchers in California today unveiled what they describe as the largest repository in the world for cancer genomes . The database will be easier for scientists to analyze large amounts of sequencing data spilling genome projects (NCI) of...

Blocker fight tumor fibrosis

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Blocker fight tumor fibrosis - Connective tissue holds our body together, but in a condition called fibrosis, an overabundance of material devastates organs such as the liver, heart and lungs . A new study suggests that the fragments of a promising cancer drug may inhibit fibrosis, which is currently...

NIH to extend Undiagnosed Diseases Program

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NIH to extend Undiagnosed Diseases Program - Mystery revealed. The knee of a patient with an artery in the leg calcified. NIH A popular program that provides patients with mysterious illnesses to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda,...

The cancer stem cells can fuel tumor growth

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The cancer stem cells can fuel tumor growth - Too often, the cancer seems to have been erased by the processing returns. Some scientists have blamed so-called cancer stem cells, a subset of cancer cells that may be able to remain dormant, evading chemotherapy or radiation to form months or years,...

Cancer Institute Director Varmus meeting the press

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Cancer Institute Director Varmus meeting the press - Harold Varmus Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center National Cancer Institute (NCI) Director Harold Varmus says his agency budget problems do not just slow progress in fight against cancer; they can also...

Texas Cancer Agency Interrupts News subsidies

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Texas Cancer Agency Interrupts News subsidies - Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) yesterday asked embattled $ 3 billion research agency on the state to stop cancer grants until it addresses concerns about its procedures. The Institute of Prevention and Cancer Research of Texas (CPRIT) responded by announcing...

Using gut bacteria fight against diarrhea

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Using gut bacteria fight against diarrhea - microbial threat. A gut bacteria cocktail may one day be used to treat chronic diarrhea caused by this bacterium. David Goulding Genome Research Limited a tonic of gut microbes may be the secret recipe to treat...

Millionaires Get NIH to further examination

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Millionaires Get NIH to further examination - hard look. NIH will give further consideration to proposals from researchers with at least $ 1 million in direct support of research. NIH Some well-funded biomedical researchers may have to tighten their belts...

Clinics attacked in Nigeria

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Clinics attacked in Nigeria - A gunman or gunmen shot and killed up to 11 people this morning in two health clinics in Kano State in northern Nigeria. The shootings follow closely on the heels of the targeted killing of nine polio workers and other humanitarian workers in Pakistan in December and...

If you mix the two drugs? Ask Dr. Google

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If you mix the two drugs? Ask Dr. Google - A risky mix? The exploration of search engine terms of data can reveal clues about what drugs combinations have side effects. ParentingPatch / Creative Commons Analysis of queries made to Google, Bing and other search...

Neanderthals Got tumors, Too

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Neanderthals Got tumors, Too - No bones about it. a micro-CT analysis of a Neanderthal rib shows the empty once occupied by a tumor. GW Weber / University of Vienna Neanderthals living 0,000 years ago in what is now Croatia has not been exposed to industrial...

Researchers Spar More Tests for the risk of breast cancer

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Researchers Spar More Tests for the risk of breast cancer - Boston- A heated discussion broke out today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics on a hot topic -button: When will we know enough about the risk of rare cancer genes begin to systematically test for them in patients...

Extreme diets can quickly Alter intestinal bacteria

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Extreme diets can quickly Alter intestinal bacteria - Eat. This meal herbal was provided as part of a test of the effects of diet on gut microbes. Lawrence David With all the recent talk about how gut bacteria affect health and disease, it begins to seem...

Final gift from a billionaire to Six U.S. Cancer Centers

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Final gift from a billionaire to Six U.S. Cancer Centers - A trust fund created by billionaire shipping magnate Daniel K. Ludwig ends today with a bang and donated for research. Six US medical centers will receive $ 540 million- $ 0 million each-funds to provide cancer studies in perpetuity, or until...
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