Archive for the 'Women's Health' Category
April 13th, 2011 by admin
Findings from the Washington University in St. Louis and the Siteman Cancer Center have proved that almost every breast cancer patient has a unique type of breast cancer, in terms of the genetics of the cancer. The researchers who sequenced the complete genomes of tumors from 50 breast cancer patients detected over 1,700 mutations, most of which were unique to individual patients.
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April 12th, 2011 by admin
In a revolutionary move, genetic tests that have the possibility of almost completely eliminating the probability of couples having a baby with an inherited disease have been approved by the Human Genetics Commission.
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January 21st, 2011 by admin
It was Max Wicha of the University of Michigan who first identified breast cancer stem cells back in 2003. Now, Wicha and colleagues have identified a possible way to attack these cells, which are responsible for a tumor’s growth and spread.
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November 1st, 2010 by admin
Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have been able to describe the 3D structure of a complete egg receptor that binds sperm at the beginning of fertilization. The results will lead to better understanding of infertility and may enable entirely new types of contraceptives.
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August 27th, 2010 by admin
Drug counterfeiting has become a $200-billion business annually, according to the World Customs Organization. By some calculations, the counterfeiting trade has become more lucrative than the narcotics business. It’s a global problem. The World Health Organization estimates that counterfeit drugs make up ten percent of the drug market worldwide. And experts say that solving it–or at least stemming the tide–requires the participation of both government and industry.
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August 16th, 2010 by admin
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr. Margaret Chan, announced that the world is no longer in phase six of influenza pandemic alert — we are now moving into the post-pandemic period and the new H1N1 virus has largely run its course. Dr. Chan went on to say: “As we enter the post-pandemic period, this does not mean that the H1N1 virus has gone away. Based on experience with past pandemics, we expect the H1N1 virus to take on the behavior of a seasonal influenza virus and continue to circulate for some years to come.
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July 30th, 2010 by admin
GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) has agreed to pay more than $1 billion of its $2.4 billion legal expense budget to settle hundreds of Paxil birth defect lawsuits. Families whose children were born with birth defects after their mothers used Paxil will each get an average of $1.2 million from the company. The settlement covers more than 800 of the birth defect cases, leaving more than 100 pending, sources tell Bloomberg. GSK spokeswoman Claire Brough confirms for Reuters that other birth-defect cases are still outstanding. Three of them are scheduled for trial in Philadelphia in September, she said.
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July 28th, 2010 by admin
A Utah doctor is being sent to jail for his connection to an illegal online pharmacy that sold more than eight million weight-loss pills manufactured in Mexico. Dr James A Brinton was sentenced to three years in a federal penitentiary after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute phentermine and conspiracy to commit international money laundering, according to the Desert News. The doctor was one of 18 people who were charged with crimes in connection to the Lighthouse Meds website.
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June 7th, 2010 by admin
While many medical professionals continue to debate the effectiveness of mammograms for women prior to age 50, a new study concludes that such tests are becoming more precise in their ability to “detect and intercept” breast cancer, the Group Health Research Institute recently announced. Data from more than 2.5 million screenings for more than 970,000 women ages 40 to 79 determined that by 2004, radiologists were able to correctly identify cancerous lesions in women nearly 84 percent of the time, up from 71.4 percent in 1996. While over the same time period, the accuracy with which radiologists correctly identified non-cancerous lesions decreased from 93.6 percent in 1996 to 91.7 percent in 2004, researchers were not overly concerned with the “false-positive test results.”
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May 7th, 2010 by admin
Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) scientists have identified a new link between strong period pain experienced in adolescence and early adulthood and the risk of endometriosis. Researchers from QIMR’s Gynaecological Cancer Laboratory have found having strong period pain often at an early age doubles a woman’s risk of developing endometriosis.
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