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So are you an inpatient or an outpatient? 27 Aug 2013 | 06:28 pm
The hospital and Medicare get to decide. Not your doctor who is actually treating you.I found this pretty appalling. Medicare patients can be in the hospital for DAYS and be called and an outpatient b...
The dangers and risks of e-cigarettes 27 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, are becoming increasingly popular, with many people using them to try to quit smoking.The new gadget is touted as safe and harmless by tobacco companies, but ou...
Thyroid Ultrasound Imaging May Be Useful To Reduce Biopsies In Patients With Low Risk Of Cancer 27 Aug 2013 | 04:13 pm
Thyroid ultrasound imaging could be used to identify patients who have a low risk of cancer for whom biopsy could be postponed, according to a study by Rebecca Smith-Bindman, M.D., of the University o...
Disabling Enzyme Reduces Tumor Growth, Cripples Cancer Cells, Finds New Study 27 Aug 2013 | 03:02 pm
UC Berkeley researchers have found that knocking out an enzyme needed to make lipids can dramatically cripple the ability of aggressive cancer cells to spread and grow tumors. The discovery points to ...
New Function For A Well-Known Immune Messenger Molecule 27 Aug 2013 | 02:31 pm
ETH Zurich Assistant Professor Cornelia Halin and her colleagues have discovered a new function of the well-known messenger protein interleukin-7: It facilitates the drainage of lymph fluid from tissu...
Stress fuels cancer spread by triggering master gene 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
A new study from the US published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation finds that activation of a master gene called ATF3 that is important for helping cells adapt to stress may be involved in hel...
Northwestern Medicine Uses New Minimally Invasive Technique For Melanoma 27 Aug 2013 | 01:46 pm
Surgical oncologists are now using laparoscopic procedure to remove lymph nodes, cutting chance of infection and reducing recovery time in half.
Researchers Develop Software Tool For Cancer Genomics 27 Aug 2013 | 12:41 pm
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the National Cancer Institute have developed a new bioinformatics software tool designed to more easily identify genetic mutations responsible for c...
Racial/ethnic differences in young people with cancer 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Mei-Chin Hsieh, MSPH, CTR, of LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health's Louisiana Tumor Registry, is the lead author of a study that reports racial and ethnic differences in the...
Brain cancer patients benefit from Vessel Architectural Imaging 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
A new scanning technique developed by Danish and US researchers reveals how susceptible patients with aggressive brain cancer are to the drugs they receive. The research behind the ground-breaking tec...
