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• New more-sensitive blood test catches recurring breast cancer a year earlier
• Standard test may miss food ingredients that cause milk allergy
• Key mechanism involved in Type 2 diabetes identified
• Health impact, interplay of diet soft drinks and overall diet unravelled
• With you in the room, bacteria counts spike -- by about 37 million bacteria per hour
• US cancer death rates continue to decline
• Meditation improves emotional behaviors in teachers
• New layer of genetic information helps determine how fast proteins are produced
• Danger of grill brushes identified
• Novel compound halts tumor spread, improves brain cancer treatment in animal studies
• Weight Loss Surgery and Diabetes: Expert Interview Opportunity
• Protein 'jailbreak' helps breast cancer cells live
• Does BMI affect post-surgical complications, survival in esophageal adenocarcinoma?
• Body mass index not linked to post-surgical complications, survival in esophageal adenocarcinoma, study suggests
• Stopping statin therapy increases risk of death for rheumatoid arthritis patients
• Researchers create cellular automation model to study complex tumor-host role in cancer
• Epigenetic changes in blood samples may point to schizophrenia
• Research gives hope to detecting cancer in early stages

New more-sensitive blood test catches recurring breast cancer a year earlier Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:36 PM PDT A new blood test is twice as sensitive and can detect breast cancer recurrence a full year earlier than current blood tests, according to new research.

Standard test may miss food ingredients that cause milk allergy Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:36 PM PDT The standard test used to detect milk-protein residues in processed foods may not work as well as previously believed in all applications, sometimes missing ingredients that can cause milk allergy, the most common childhood food allergy, which affects millions of children under age 3, a scientist has reported.

Key mechanism involved in Type 2 diabetes identified Posted: 28 Mar 2012 02:22 PM PDT Scientists have discovered a key protein that regulates insulin resistance -- the diminished ability of cells to respond to the action of insulin and which sets the stage for the development of the most common form of diabetes. This breakthrough points to a new way to potentially treat or forestall Type 2 diabetes, a rapidly growing global health problem.

Health impact, interplay of diet soft drinks and overall diet unravelled Posted: 28 Mar 2012 02:22 PM PDT Are diet sodas good or bad for you? The jury is still out, but a new study sheds light on the impact that zero-calorie beverages may have on health, especially in the context of a person's overall dietary habits.

With you in the room, bacteria counts spike -- by about 37 million bacteria per hour Posted: 28 Mar 2012 02:22 PM PDT A person's mere presence in a room can add 37 million bacteria to the air every hour -- material largely left behind by previous occupants and stirred up from the floor -- according to new research.

US cancer death rates continue to decline Posted: 28 Mar 2012 02:21 PM PDT A report from the nation's leading cancer organizations shows rates of death in the United States from all cancers for men and women continued to decline between 2004 and 2008.

Meditation improves emotional behaviors in teachers Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:28 AM PDT Schoolteachers who underwent a short but intensive program of meditation were less depressed, anxious or stressed -- and more compassionate and aware of others' feelings. The novel project blended ancient meditation practices with the most current scientific methods for regulating emotions.

New layer of genetic information helps determine how fast proteins are produced Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:28 AM PDT A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists, thanks to a new technique called ribosome profiling, which enables the measurement of gene activity inside living cells.

Danger of grill brushes identified Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:28 AM PDT Physicians have identified a number of cases of accidental ingestion of wire grill brush bristles that required endoscopic or surgical removal.

Novel compound halts tumor spread, improves brain cancer treatment in animal studies Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:27 AM PDT By stopping the spread of cancer cells into normal brain tissue in animal models, researchers have developed a new strategy for treating brain cancer that could improve clinical outcomes. The researchers treated animals possessing an invasive tumor with a novel molecule called imipramine blue, followed by conventional doxorubicin chemotherapy. The tumors ceased their invasion of healthy tissue and the animals survived longer than animals treated with chemotherapy alone.

Weight Loss Surgery and Diabetes: Expert Interview Opportunity Posted: 28 Mar 2012 10:59 AM PDT Caroline Apovian, MD, a leading obesity medicine specialist specializing in medical treatments for obesity and monitoring type 2 diabetes, can provide insight into recent research suggesting that weight loss surgery may reverse type 2 diabetes.

Protein 'jailbreak' helps breast cancer cells live Posted: 28 Mar 2012 09:29 AM PDT Researchers have traced the molecular interactions that allow the protein survivin to escape the nucleus of a breast cancer cell and prolong the cell's life. The study may help in the development of better therapies and prognostics.

Does BMI affect post-surgical complications, survival in esophageal adenocarcinoma? Posted: 28 Mar 2012 08:33 AM PDT Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have found – contrary to previous studies linking inferior outcomes in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies to higher body mass index (BMI) – that in their study of BMI and negative outcomes, there was no such link. They concluded that BMI was not associated with either surgical complications or esophageal cancer patient survival.

Body mass index not linked to post-surgical complications, survival in esophageal adenocarcinoma, study suggests Posted: 28 Mar 2012 07:40 AM PDT Researchers have found – contrary to previous studies linking inferior outcomes in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies to higher body mass index (BMI) – that in their study of BMI and negative outcomes, there was no such link. They concluded that BMI was not associated with either surgical complications or esophageal cancer patient survival.

Stopping statin therapy increases risk of death for rheumatoid arthritis patients Posted: 28 Mar 2012 06:08 AM PDT Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who discontinue use of statin therapy are at increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and other causes.

Researchers create cellular automation model to study complex tumor-host role in cancer Posted: 27 Mar 2012 12:29 PM PDT To better understand the role complex tumor-host interactions play in tumor growth, researchers have developed a cellular automation model for tumor growth in heterogeneous microenvironments.

Epigenetic changes in blood samples may point to schizophrenia Posted: 27 Mar 2012 09:42 AM PDT Researchers have identified epigenetic changes – known as DNA methylation – in the blood of patients with schizophrenia. The researchers were also able to detect differences depending on how old the patients were when they developed the disease and whether they had been treated with various drugs. In the future this new knowledge may be used to develop a simple test to diagnose patients with schizophrenia.

Research gives hope to detecting cancer in early stages Posted: 27 Mar 2012 06:43 AM PDT Scientists have found a mechanism which causes normal cells to develop into cancer cells.

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