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Written by IV Post
Wednesday, 08 July 2009
Washington, DC - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking several actions to reduce the risk of overdose in patients using pain medications such as Darvon and Darvocet that contain propoxyphene. The actions were taken because of data linking propoxyphene and fatal overdoses.
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Purdue Researchers Create Prostate Cancer Drug Delivery Homing Device

Written by Elizabeth K. Gardner
Monday, 06 July 2009
West Lafayette, Indiana - A new prostate cancer "homing device" could improve detection and allow for the first targeted treatment of the disease.
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Study Documents How HIV May Have Spread to Human Populations

Written by IV Post
Monday, 06 July 2009
Washington, DC - Researchers at NCI and other institutes have documented how a mutation in an African population may have made them susceptible to infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and related viruses. This finding may indicate how HIV first jumped into human populations and also yield clues about how viral infections can lead to certain types of cancer.
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FDA Approves First Maintenance Drug Therapy for Advanced Lung Cancer

Written by IV Post
Monday, 06 July 2009
Washington, DC - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Alimta (pemetrexed), the first drug available for maintenance therapy of advanced or metastatic lung cancer.
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Discovery Pinpoints New Connection Between Cancer Cells, Stem Cells

Written by Stanford School of Medicine
Saturday, 04 July 2009
Stanford, California - A molecule called telomerase, best known for enabling unlimited cell division of stem cells and cancer cells, has a surprising additional role in the expression of genes in an important stem cell regulatory pathway, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Researchers Testing Virus-Gene Therapy Combination Against Melanoma

Written by UC San Diego
Saturday, 04 July 2009
San Diego, California - Researchers at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center are injecting a modified herpes virus into melanoma tumors, hoping to kill the cancer cells while also bolstering the body’s immune defenses against the disease.
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UCLA Collaboration Identifies Immune System Link to Schizophrenia

Written by UCLA
Saturday, 04 July 2009
Los Angeles, California - Schizophrenia is a devastating mental disease, thought to be caused by the interaction of both genetic and environmental factors. Because there is no biochemical test that can identify the disorder, physicians rely upon the recognition of its symptoms - which can include auditory hallucinations and paranoia - in order to make their diagnosis.
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