UF physician, colleagues identify successful blood cancer therapy

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new treatment regimen can help some patients who have blood cancer to live disease-free longer, University of Florida researchers and colleagues have found.

Research reveals link between hepatitis C and the development of diabetes type 2

Yale team discovers unexpected source of diabetic neuropathy pain

By Bill Hathaway

Nearly half of all diabetics suffer from neuropathic pain, an intractable, agonizing and still mysterious companion of the disease. Now Yale researchers have identified an unexpected source of the pain and a potential target to alleviate it.

Traumatized people who take a class of common blood pressure medications tend to have less severe post-traumatic stress symptoms, researchers have found.

Insulin Resistance, Inflammation and a Muscle-Saving Protein

* the complex interactions of lipids and inflammation in insulin resistance

* the roles of omega 3 fatty acids and a particular gene in fighting inflammation

* how elevated levels of a particular protein might delay the muscle-destroying effects of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Study reveals that childhood obesity affects more than half of the children in Mexico city

* El estudio Genética de la obesidad en la infancia y la adolescencia muestra que el 56.4% de la población investigada presenta problemas de obesidad y sobrepeso

Rare brain diseases often misdiagnosed

Three different times by three different doctors, Rex Yoder was told that his wife had Alzheimer's disease. Three times, Rex felt in his heart they were wrong.

New method seeks to decrease a sexual transmission disease in Mexico

Good news for Parkinson's patients: Meds ease depression without worsening symptoms

Certain antidepressants appear to decrease depression in people with Parkinson's disease without worsening motor problems, according to a study published in a recent online issue ofNeurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. It is estimated that of the nearly one million Americans who have Parkinson's disease, half suffer from depression.

Penn Study: Breast Cancer Patients Suffer Treatment-related Side Effects Long After Completing Care

More than 60 percent of breast cancer survivors report at least one treatment-related complication even six years after their diagnosis, according to a new study led by a researcher from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The findings are part of a special issue of Cancer devoted to exploring the physical late effects of breast cancer treatment and creating strategies to prevent, monitor for, and treat these conditions in the nation's 2.6 million survivors of the disease.

Scripps Research Institute Scientists Create Compounds that Dramatically Alter Biological Clock and Lead to Weight Loss

The other side of the exam table

How Emory is fostering compassion in young doctors.

University of Michigan Health System creates system to prevent retained surgical items

ANN ARBOR, Michigan.— Puede que suene como algo tomado de un teledrama médico en la television, pero la incidencia de los cirujanos que se olvidan algo adentro del cuerpo de la persona operada es muy real en hospitales de todo el país.

En su esfuerzo por ser el hospital más seguro del país el sistema de Salud de la Universidad de Michigan, UMHS, usa una tecnología nueva, que incluye código de barras, para verificar que no se olviden objetos en la cirugía

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Risks of Pregnancy via Egg Donation Similar for Women Over Age 50 as for Younger Women

NEW YORK, NY, January 31, 2012) – Although women over age 50 who become pregnant via egg donation are at an elevated risk for developing obstetrical complications, their complication rates are similar to those of younger recipients, according to a study by Columbia University Medical Center researchers to be published in the February 2012 issue of the American Journal of Perinatology. This is contrary to epidemiological data suggesting that these women are at greater risk of certain complications of pregnancy, including hypertension, gestational diabetes, premature birth, and placenta abnormalities.

The discriminatory cancer

More cell lines in the freezer could mean more options, eventually, for women with a hard-to-treat form of breast cancer. That’s the idea behind LaTonia Taliaferro-Smith’s plans to generate more basic materials for scientists working on triple-negative breast cancer.

Adding chemotherapy to radiation doubles survival time for some brain tumor patients

The addition of chemotherapy to radiation therapy nearly doubled median survival time for patients with anaplastic oligodendroglioma, a rare type of brain tumor, containing a genetic abnormality known as the 1p19q co-deletion. The finding, from a phase III trial in which patients were followed for a median of 11 years, may result in changes to at least one ongoing National Cancer Institute-sponsored clinical trial. NCI and the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) announced the finding Jan. 19.

A Clue to the GI Problems that Plague Many Kids with Autism?

Top Journal Names Discovery That HIV Treatment Can Prevent Spread of Virus "Breakthrough of the Year"

Ovary Removal in Younger Women Linked to Bone Thinning and Arthritis