Medicalnewsbase - medicalnewsbase.com
General Information:
Latest News:
Gut Bacteria Control Allergic Diseases 2012 medical allergy news 28 Mar 2012 | 10:05 pm
When poet Wally Whitman authored that people “contain multitudes,” he was speaking metaphorically, but he was correct within the literal sense. Every individual carries over 100 trillion individual mi...
Some Women Orgasm During Exercise 2012 Fitness sport news 28 Mar 2012 | 10:57 am
Some women achieve orgasm throughout exercise, especially individuals which involve the core stomach muscles, investigator Debby Herbenick, and J. Dennis Fortenberry, M.D., both from Indiana College, ...
Regular Smear Tests Raises Chances Of Cervical Cancer Cure 66% To 92% 25 Mar 2012 | 10:58 am
According to a study published on bmj.com, regular cervical screening can considerably increase a women’s chance of surviving cervical cancer. The study, the first to estimate chances of surviving cer...
US Cancer Deaths Continue To Fall, ACS Report 2012 cancer news 25 Mar 2012 | 08:57 am
A new report from the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows that rates of cancer deaths in the United States continue the downward trend of the last two decades. The new figures show that over the past ...
Mechanism Revealed For Melanoma Drug Resistance 2012 health news 25 Mar 2012 | 06:56 am
Cancer is tough to kill and has many ways of evading the drugs used by oncologists to try and eliminate it. Now, researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how an advance...
Abscopal Effect – When Radiation Also Destroys Non Targeted Tumors 25 Mar 2012 | 05:55 am
In the March 8 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center report on an extremely rare phenomenon known as the abscopal effect, in can...
Advanced Melanoma: Using Patients’ Own Anti-Tumor Cells Holds Treatment Promise 25 Mar 2012 | 04:53 am
Results of a small trial published online on 5 March in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, where patients with progressive metastatic melanoma were treated with billions of lab-grown...
Zelboraf Skin Cancer Medication Launches In UK 2012 health news 25 Mar 2012 | 02:52 am
Malignant melanoma cases are on the rise in the UK, with about 10,000 individuals diagnosed each year. This specific type of cancer claims 2,300 deaths annually and disproportionately affects young pe...
Melanoma Passes From Mother To Unborn 2012 health news cancer 25 Mar 2012 | 12:47 am
Malignant Melanoma is known to be highly aggressive, spreading rapidly to other parts of the body if left untreated. It’s extremely rare, however, for it to be able to pass to an unborn fetus. This is...
Zelboraf (vemurafenib), For Deadly Skin Cancer, Approved In Europe 24 Mar 2012 | 10:46 pm
Zelboraf (vemurafenib), manufactured by Roche, has been approved by the European Commission, for treating patients with BRAF V600 mutation-positive metastatic melanoma, a deadly, and dangerous type of...
