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Shrinking Brain Tumors with Drugs and Pumps
Written by: Matt Palmquist, Friday 22 August 2008 - 11:02 AM 
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Drugs used to restrict a specific fatty acid in the brains of rats with glioblastoma-like tumors dramatically shrank tumors and reduced new blood vessel growth, prolonging survival, according to the cover story of the August Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism.
ED Drugs Break Through Blood-Brain Tumor Barrier
Written by: Amy R. Ramos, Monday 18 August 2008 - 13:35 PM 0 Comments
Although it's unlikely to be incorporated into the ubiquitous marketing campaigns for erectile dysfunction drugs, a significant off-label use of the medications may have been identified by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In a laboratory study conducted on rats, the research team used erectile dysfunction drugs to increase…
The Sun Is Bad For You; The Sun Is Good For You
Written by: Rob Kuznia, Friday 15 August 2008 - 14:53 PM 0 Comments
Despite mixed messages, there may be a way to have your sunscreen and reap the vitamin D, too.
Big Doses of Vitamin C Shrink Tumors
Written by: Matt Palmquist, Tuesday 12 August 2008 - 13:08 PM 0 Comments
Large doses of vitamin C shrink tumors by about 50 percent in mice with brain, ovarian and pancreatic cancers, according to a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Devil's Dilemma: Die Young So Live Fast
Written by: Barbara Hesselgrave, Friday 25 July 2008 - 07:00 AM 0 Comments
A threatened marsupial offers the most compelling case yet for encouraging teen pregnancy — extinction.
Sharpshooter Radiation Takes Aim at Disease
Written by: Barbara Hesselgrave, Wednesday 23 July 2008 - 10:19 AM 0 Comments
A technical findings brief from the Department of Health and Human Services reports a new method to target cells that are "anatomically adjacent to vital organs," that may in the future, take radiation therapy, typically a balancing act of "taking the good with the bad," to one that echos the physicians creed -- "do no harm."
Hope for a New Anti-Cancer Vaccine
Written by: Matt Palmquist, Thursday 03 July 2008 - 09:06 AM 0 Comments
In the search for cancer vaccines, researchers are often foiled by the lack of antigens - proteins, usually, that generate antibodies and can cause an immune response - that are tumor-specific and not found elsewhere in the body. If a patient is immunized with antigens that the body also expresses somewhere else, autoimmune complications can result.
What Makes Cocoa Good?
Written by: Lisa Conti, Tuesday 01 July 2008 - 15:56 PM 0 Comments
We all know that chocolate is good. It tastes good. And there are all those studies that say it's good for you, too. What did they say? That it was good to eat chocolate -- dark chocolate, if I remember correctly. Something about antioxidants... something about warding off cancer.
Toward a Cure?
Written by: Matt Palmquist, Monday 30 June 2008 - 17:02 PM 0 Comments
A cancer-killing treatment that works astoundingly well in mice is being readied for human trials.
Plastic Surgeons Turn Their Knives on Cancer
Written by: Matt Palmquist, Friday 20 June 2008 - 10:58 AM 0 Comments
You won't see it on an episode of Nip/Tuck, but plastic surgeons have discovered a method to deliver cancer-fighting proteins through skin flaps placed over tumors on rats, according to the May issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
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