The days of “Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Origin” diagnoses are coming to an end. The Food and Drug Administration has just announced clearance for marketing of a new genetic experiment, dubbed Pathwork Tissue of Origin tryout, from Pathwork Diagnostics, Inc., a Sunnyvale, CA firm. The analysis...

Nature has released a free supplement that looks at recent advances in our understanding of chronic inflammatory responses. Inflammation is our body’s instant response to damage to its tissues and cells. While initiation and the process of acute inflammation are reasonably well defined, much less...

Researchers in Germany have discovered that methadone, an agent used to break addiction to opioid drugs, has surprising killing capability against leukemia cells, including treatment resistant forms of the cancer. Their laboratory study, published in the August 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal...

A maternal history of Alzheimer’s disease appears to predispose individuals to the mind-robbing disease considering their brains aren’t using glucose efficiently, according to new findings presented at the Alzheimer’s organization 2008 worldly Alzheimer’s Disease Conference held...

Reflecting its ongoing commitment to patient safety and clinical research, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), announced the initiation of the first investigational sites in the United States to participate in PROTECT,1 the company’s global study comparing the Endeavor® and Cypher® drug-eluting stents...

Congress Highlights Some of the highlights that will be presented during the educational and scientific program at Europe’s premier medical oncology assembly include: Molecular analysis for target discovery: Identification of ‘Achilles’ heel’ MicroRNa, SiRNA li Original...

Based on a pilot study in children with sarcoma, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) believe that immunotherapy could prove favourable in treating high-risk forms of that cancer. The researchers tested a novel dendritic vaccine as well as a standard flu vaccine to potentially strengthen...

The adverse perinatal outcomes associated with assisted fertilization (AF) in comparison to infants conceived spontaneously could be associated with the causes of infertility rather than the procedure itself, according to an spread released July 31, 2008 in The Lancet. Increasingly, women in...

Apple’s website features AstraZeneca’s Heart FXPod, a “53-foot-long mobile van outfitted with five virtual reality stations that offer a complex multimedia demonstration involving custom devices and interactive feedback.” So far, the van has logged by 70,000 miles in the field,...