Because depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder are common among people with implanted cardioverter defibrillators,…
Month: September 2012
LIFR protein suppresses breast cancer metastasis, study suggests
A receptor protein suppresses local invasion and metastasis of breast cancer cells, the most lethal…
Cuba’s prenatal program improves low birth weights
Comprehensive prenatal care can decrease the rate of low birth weights, according to a new…
Primate study adds to evidence of BPA harming human reproduction
A researcher has found new evidence that the plastic additive BPA can disrupt women’s reproductive…
Life in the extreme: Hot acids and heavy metals make similar organisms deal with stress in different ways
Life in extreme environments — hot acids and heavy metals, for example — can apparently…
Like prostate cancer, bladder cancer patients may benefit from anti-androgen therapy
Bladder cancer patients whose tumors express high levels of the protein CD24 have worse prognoses…
Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s-like memory loss in animal models by blocking EGFR signaling
Neuroscientists have published new research suggesting that EGFR inhibitors, a class of currently used anti-cancer…
Treating ovarian cancer: New pathways through genetics
A new discovery that sheds light on the genetic make up of ovarian cancer cells…
Drug originally developed for cancer proves effective for children with progeria
Results of the first-ever clinical drug trial for children with progeria, a rare, fatal “rapid-aging”…
Exposing cancer’s lethal couriers
New nanotechnology detects metastases in mouse models of breast cancer before they’ve grown into new…