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Posted by geri
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Tuesday, 29 December 2009 |
People with prostate cancer have been offered new hope after researchers at University of Pennsylvania discovered a molecule that appears to target the tumours. The researchers found that the "monoclonal" antibody seems to act against the disease in both its early and advanced stages.
Besides attacking the disease directly, it also helps the immune system to identify and destroy cancer cells.
(Continue reading in the Telegraph)
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Posted by geri
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Saturday, 26 December 2009 |
The wrapping on Cassy Rivera's Christmas present was totally non traditional this year: white gauze, layered over a sterile eye patch.
After the bandage came off, the Brooklyn woman blinded two years ago by a rare disease was thrilled by the gift of a lifetime - the sight of her two daughters' beaming faces.
(Read more, or watch video at NY Daily News)
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Posted by geri
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Sunday, 20 December 2009 |
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New Zealand scientists have developed tiny "light" particles that can seek out and destroy cancer cells.
Victoria University synthetic chemist Richard Tilley said researchers had established the tools to detect cancer when it was at the stage of a single diseased cell - well ahead of some MRI scans which cannot identify tumours until they are about 2.5 centimetres wide.
The lit particles can be attached to cancer drugs, which could treat the disease in a targeted way.
(Continue reading in the New Zealand Herald)
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Posted by geri
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 |
A World Health Organization report released yesterday confirmed a reversal in the course of malaria, with far fewer children dying from the disease. The UN organization documented the increased use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and better treatment across sub-Saharan Africa, where 90 percent of all malaria deaths occur.
More than 140 million long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets were delivered to the region between 2006 and 2008, protecting over 280 million lives, and doubling the number of households in Africa with access to a net.
"The 2009 WHO World Malaria Report demonstrates that we are succeeding in the global campaign to end deaths from a disease that takes the lives over one million people each year," said Ray Chambers, the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Malaria. "Thanks to unprecedented levels of funding and extraordinary collaboration among partners, the malaria community has achieved remarkable progress."
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Read more... [Malaria Cases Drop Dramatically Thanks to Increased Funding]
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