As cancer knowledge regarding American veterans is being under-reported, state and national details will be deficient and unreliable, messing up American cancer surveillance efforts, says a World Focus report in The Lancet Oncology, September issue. According to a report obtained by The Lancet Oncology,...

Oncology focused pharmaceutical development company Kiadis Pharma announced that it has successfully completed a Phase II clinical trial evaluating its product Reviroc(TM). Reviroc is used to eliminate cancer cells from an autologous graft in bone marrow transplantations for end stage blood cancer patients....

The loss of the protein VMP1 in cancer cells increases their tendency to detach from the initial tumor the first step towards metastasis. The reason for that, as scientists of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have shown, is that a loss of VMP1 causes cells to...

Despite new implant technologies and surgical techniques main to increased rates of spinal fusion surgery, the percentage of patients requiring further low back surgery after spinal fusion has actually increased since the early 1990s, reports the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Spine, published by Lippincott...

A new study published nowadays in the Journal of Periodontology shows that a combination of the locally delivered antibiotic ARESTIN® (minocycline hydrochloride) Microspheres, 1 mg, plus the standard treatment procedure for gum disease is significantly increasingly effective than standard treatment...

A new MayoClinic.com feature on resilience defines folks with resilience as those who “harness inner strengths and rebound increasingly quickly from a setback or challenge, whether it’s a job loss, an illness or the death of a loved one.” The feature offers a checklist to tryout your...