Reuters - Researchers in Japan have designed a test to identify patients who are likely to be resistant to imatinib, the standard drug for treating leukemia or cancer of the blood cells. more >>
HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- The genetic makeup of
breast cancer tumors may be a better predictor of how well a woman will
fare than a tumor's size and appearance, which has been the traditional
way of looking at cancers, new research suggests. more >>
AP - Charlene Cotton will talk to anyone about sex. Several days a week she stands behind a table decorated with a bowl of flavored condoms and safer sex pamphlets, calling to women passing on the street, "Come check out my table. Don't be scared." more >>
OneWorld.net - VIENNA, Jul 26 (IPS) - The global conference on AIDS in Vienna last week will be remembered for
"Broken Promises Kill", a slogan echoed by a coalition of activists who had
gathered from around the world. more >>
Reuters - Children's visits to the emergency room for serious food-allergy reactions may be on the rise, if the experience of one major U.S. medical center is an indicator. more >>
LiveScience.com - When patients with celiac disease consume foods containing gluten
- a protein present in wheat, barley and rye - their immune systems send out an
alarm, triggering a response that can damage their intestines and prevent them
from absorbing certain nutrients. more >>
LiveScience.com - For researchers, a
key to studying any cancer is finding its "cell of origin." Now
scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles say they've found
just that -- a specific type of cell that gives rise to prostate cancer. more >>
HealthDay - MONDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Despite what many social observers
have described as a generally dark and brooding take on life, a new report
suggests that Russians are actually less likely than Americans to be
depressed. more >>
HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- Some HIV-positive women who
want to have children feel stigmatized by their doctors, new research has
found. more >>
Reuters - A decision by a U.S. appeals court could pave the way for cheaper generic forms of Eli Lilly and Co's Gemzar cancer drug to be launched in the United States beginning in mid-November. more >>
HealthDay - MONDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Gender-specific regulation of
cholesterol levels may help prevent depression in the elderly, suggests a
new study. more >>
Reuters - Researchers have identified three fragments in gluten that appear to trigger a disorder in people who are allergic to the wheat protein. more >>
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) -- A newly approved
therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine extended the lives of men with
metastatic tumors resistant to standard hormonal treatment, a new study
shows. more >>
Time.com - Popular wisdom has long held that young children survive traumatic events better than adults do, in part because they're too young to suffer. But new research suggests otherwise more >>
AP - President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have pledged the support of the United States in the global fight against AIDS. more >>
