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The Progression of Leukemia: Most Old People Have Some of the Necessary Mutations in Blood Cells
Here is an interesting look at the progression and prevalence of DNA damage leading to leukemia, cancers of bone marrow and white blood cells. Cancer is an age-related disease because its proximate cause is DNA damage and we accumulate ever more of this damage as time goes on. DNA repair systems in our cells and destruction of precancerous cells by the immune system are highly efficient but not perfect, and falter with age due to other forms of accumulating damage. The development of a robust suite of effective cancer treatments is an essential part of progress towards effective treatments for degenerative aging, and perha...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 27, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

PubMed misses the big picture when it comes to nutrition
As medical librarians, we’re certainly the first to say that PubMed is a superb database, elegantly crafted at the National Library of Medicine to do fast and efficient searches for almost all medical and health subjects. Much of the power of PubMed is that it makes it possible to search broad subjects easily. When the user searches “cancer,” for example, PubMed quickly finds thousands of citations on all types of cancer, from melanoma to leukemia, whether the word “cancer” appears in the citation or not. Likewise, a search for “antidepressants” finds articles on all specific types of antidepressants. The see...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 26, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Conditions Obesity Source Type: blogs

An Era Of Precision Medicine And Rapid Learning
At a recent White House event, President Obama presented his proposals for a Precision Medicine Initiative. The key elements include a national research system where 1 million or more volunteers can share their (privacy protected) electronic health records, genetics, and other data, and a national cancer initiative. The proposals will be developed in more detail based on meetings led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins. If national health policy adopts these proposals, much about today’s medical care system—including biomedical science, medical education, diagnostics, treatment optio...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 20, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Lynn Etheredge Tags: All Categories Big Data Chronic Care Innovation Medicaid Medicare Policy Public Health Research Source Type: blogs

An Update on Efforts to Use Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cells as a Treatment for Cancer
Engineering a patient's own T-cells to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) has shown considerable promise as a cancer treatment. This alteration steers the immune cells to attack tumor cells, and has for example been used to drive leukemia into remission in trials. Here researchers are preparing a trial to test the use of CARs in targeting the brain cancer glioblastoma: Immune cells engineered to seek out and attack a type of deadly brain cancer were found to be both safe and effective at controlling tumor growth in mice that were treated with these modified cells. The results paved the way for a newly opened clinic...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 19, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Anti-vaxxers and chemotherapy refusers
Arizona measles exposure worries parents of at-risk kids “It’s not my responsibility to inject my child with chemicals in order for [a child like Maggie] to be supposedly healthy,” he said. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s very likely that her leukemia is from vaccinations in the first place.” “I’m not going to sacrifice the well-being of my child. My child is pure,” he added. “It’s not my responsibility to be protecting their child.” CNN asked Wolfson if he could live with himself if his unvaccinated child got another child gravely ill. “I c...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - February 1, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs

The FDA Approves a New HPV Vaccine Containing Over Twice as Much Aluminum As its Predecessor
According to recent reports, the FDA has approved yet another HPV vaccine, despite documented safety issues and the new vaccine containing an exceptionally high level of aluminum, a known neurotoxin. Until now, only two vaccines have been manufactured to protect men and women against human papillomavirus (HPV), a virus believed to be the leading cause of cervical cancer: Cervarix, which is believed to protect against strains 16 and 18 of the virus, and Gardasil, which is believed to protect against strains 6, 11, 16 and 18.   //   A Third HPV Vaccine Hits the Market In December 2014, Gardasil 9 vaccine, manu...
Source: vactruth.com - February 1, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Physical Top Stories aluminum hydroxide Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Gardasil 9 HPV Vaccine Merck Sharp and Dohme Source Type: blogs

Mortally Wounded
Neither of the two most important people in Aaron's life could stand to be in the same room with each other.  There was a long colorful history between his ex-wife and his brother, and as his disease began to accelerate, the feuding became quite intense.  They argued over Aaron's advance directives.  They both tried to coerce and manipulate themselves into commanding positions.  The shouting became louder, the fury more fierce.  Aaron, for his part, was fading under the colossus of his difficult to treat leukemia.  Any bit of energy left after chemotherapy, was quickly snuffed out by his loved...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - January 26, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs

Fucoxanthin for Weight Loss, Can Seaweed Help you Lose Weight?
Fucoxanthin is an antioxidant that is extracted from a particular kind of seaweed called Undaria pinnatifida, more commonly known as wakame, which many of you might have tried in sushi restaurants as the green chewy salad that is served as ‘seaweed salad’. Fucoxanthin is a bright orange pigmented carotenoid, which is in the same class of antioxidant as that of carrots. Some carotenoids, like beta carotene, are also ‘precursors’ to Vitamin A, however fucoxanthin is not. Fucoxanthin may be an interesting substance, however, in that in at least one study has shown that it has a higher amount of free radical qu...
Source: Immune Health Blog - January 24, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Food and Nutrition Reviews Supplements fucoxanthin fucoxanthin for weight loss weight loss supplements Source Type: blogs

A tale of two unnecessarily doomed aboriginal girls with leukemia
I’m depressed and angry as I write this. The reason for this is simple. I hate it when cancer quacks claim the lives of patients with cancer, particularly patients who were eminently treatable for cure. It’s happened again, and it makes me sad. Florida cancer quack Brian Clement has claimed the life of Makayla Sault,…
Source: Respectful Insolence - January 20, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Quackery Religion Brian Clement Canada chemotherapy First Nations Florida Hippocrates Health Institute indigenous medicine lymphoblastic leukemia Makayla Sault Ojibwe Ong Source Type: blogs

Another Promising Example of Adoptive T Cell Therapy
Adoptive T cell therapies are one of the most promising methodologies for immunotherapy at the present time. This small trial is for pediatric cancer, and one might argue that you'd expect better results from immunotherapy in children, however. The aged immune system is much less effective at all of its jobs. As is the case for stem cell therapies and their issues in treating the old, we can hope that the challenge of immune aging will simply be an incentive for the research community to develop means to overcome it so that cancer immunotherapies can work at peak effectiveness. After all, cancer in children is rare in comp...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 16, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

The Future of Cord Blood Research
  You may have heard that the stem cells in your baby’s umbilical-cord blood can save lives, but if you’re like most people, you have only a vague notion of how stem cells work — or which diseases they can treat. Right now, certain cancers, blood disorders, and immune disorders, among other conditions, are being successfully treated with cord-blood stem cells — and thanks to cord blood research, the list of conditions and diseases that may be treated by these stem cells is growing. Why is it important to know about the cord blood research and what types of diseases it can treat? Knowing what cord blood can and...
Source: Cord Blood News - December 15, 2014 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: joyce at mazelabs.com Tags: babies blood disorder brain development Cord Blood medical research parents pregnancy stem cells affordable cord blood banking bone marrow breast feeding cerebral palsy cord blood banking fees cord blood banking information cor Source Type: blogs

A Look at the Current State of Cancer Immunotherapy
The next generation of cancer treatments are all about targeting, finding ways to distinguish and destroy only cancer cells, to as to produce therapies that are much more effective, even against late stage metastatic cancer, and have few side effects. The present staples of chemotherapy and radiation therapy are arduous and only partially effective precisely because they are not very selective. It is easy to destroy cells, but hard to destroy only particular cells. One of the more promising lines of research and development for targeted cell destruction is immunotherapy: making use of the existing capabilities of immune ce...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 12, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

A View of Stochastic DNA Damage in Aging
Cancer is thought to be a disease of aging because we accumulate randomly distributed damage to nuclear DNA as we age. The older you are the more of this damage you have. Sooner or later the right combination of mutations occur in a cell that slips past the monitoring of the immune system and other defensive systems, which themselves decline with age due to other forms of damage, and it runs amok to grow a cancer. It remains an open question as to whether this nuclear DNA damage in aging is significant in any other way besides cancer over the present length of a human life span, though it is the default assumption in the r...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 10, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

A cancer cure testimonial for “traditional healing” of leukemia
Cancer cure testimonials due to alternative medicine have been a staple of this blog since its very inception. Unfortunately, another staple of this blog since very early on has included stories of children with cancer whose lives have been endangered when their their parents refuse effective cancer therapy for their cancer, in particular chemotherapy. The…
Source: Respectful Insolence - December 4, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Anishnawbe Anishnawbe Mushkiki Brian Clement Canada chemotherapy Daryl Archie Eddie Two-Teeth First Nations Jody Porter Source Type: blogs

Physicians are treating the well, and nurses are treating the sick
A rash could be leukemia or idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. A sore throat could be glossopharyngeal neuralgia or a retropharyngeal abscess. A blocked ear could be Ramsay-Hunt syndrome, a self-limited serous otitis or sudden sensorineural hearing loss with an abysmal prognosis if not treated immediately with high doses of steroids. A headache or sinus pain could be cancer, and a cough could be a pulmonary embolus or heart failure. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 3, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs