Almost 10 million American women of childbearing age are affected by chronic pelvic pain, gastrointestinal and urinary tract difficulties and infertility due to endometriosis, a strange condition, in which cells normally forming the lining of the uter…
read moreLaparoscopic Excision Surgery For Endometriosis Frees Patients From Chronic Pain And Complications
October 31, 2011
Fat cells in the omentum, a large fatty pad of tissue that drapes over the intestines in the abdomen, fuel the spread of ovarian cancer by providing nutrients and energy for rapid tumor growth, according to a new study published online in Nature Medi…
read moreWorldwide, there are more than 1.5 billion overweight adults, including 400 million who are obese. In Australia, it is estimated more than 50 per cent of women and 60 per cent of men are either overweight or obese. Although restriction of diet often re…
read moreBroad-spectrum antibiotics, which are active against a whole range of bacterial pathogens, have been on the market for a long time. Comparably versatile drugs to treat viral diseases, on the other hand, have remained elusive. Using a new approach, rese…
read moreLocally Released Insulin Activates Stem Cells To Produce More Gut And Stem Cells
October 31, 2011
A new study from University of California, Berkeley, researchers demonstrates that adult stem cells can reshape our organs in response to changes in the body and the environment, a finding that could have implications for diabetes and obesity…
read moreExposure to television coverage of terrorism causes women to lose psychological resources much more than men, which leads to negative feelings and moodiness. This has been shown in a new study, conducted at the University of Haifa and soon to be publis…
read morePoor Oral Health Tied To Chronic Disease And Worse Overall Health In Ontario
October 31, 2011
Forty-five per cent of Ontarians 65 years and older did not see a dentist in the last year, increasing their risk of chronic diseases and a reduced quality of life , a new study by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital, Women’s College Hospital and the…
read moreAccording to investigators at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Centocor R&D, a group of blood proteins can foresee which patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) – a progressive lung disease – are more likely to die within t…
read moreAccording to a new study led by Dr Camille Ettelaie of the University of Hull and Dr Anthony Maraveyas, consultant oncologist from Hull’s Castle Hill Hospital, anti-coagulants known collectively as Low Molecular Weight Heparin (LMWH), that are given ro…
read moreOne of the causes of resistance to cancer treatment in children is now beginning to be elucidated. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients with a particular form of the ATF5 gene are at higher risk of having a relapse when treated with E. coli asparagin…
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