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Chimeric Antigen Receptor Cancer Therapies Can Now Target Solid Tumors
If the research community is to win in the fight to cure cancer, and win soon enough to matter for all of us, then the focus must be on technology platforms that can be easily and cheaply adapted to many different types of cancer. The biggest strategic problem in the field is that most of the expensive, time-consuming efforts to develop new therapies are only applicable to one or a few of the hundreds of types of cancer. Immunotherapies based on the use of chimeric antigen receptors are an incremental step towards solving this problem, an improvement on the present situation because this technology may cut the cost of tail...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 22, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Lessons learned from constipation
Here’s an excerpt from Wheat Belly Total Health about constipation. As uninteresting as it can seem at first glance, constipation can offer useful insights into diet and health, but not simple-minded insights like “get more fiber.”   A condition as pedestrian as constipation serves to perfectly illustrate many of the ways in which grains mess with normal body functions, as well as just how wrong conventional “solutions” can stray, Keystone Kops of health stumbling, fumbling, and bumping into each other, but never quite putting out the fire. Drop a rock from the top of a building and it predictabl...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 21, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel health cellulose constipation fiber grains prebiotic Source Type: blogs

Web Searches for Symptoms May Provide Early Warning of Cancer
It makes perfect sense that individuals with vague physical symptoms like abdominal pain might turn to the web to see if they can connect their symptoms to a specific disease. A study was conducted focusing on individuals who developed pancreatic cancer. The researchers worked backwards and looked at their prior web searches about the possible meaning of their early symptoms (see: Microsoft Finds Cancer Clues in Search Queries). Below is an excerpt from the article: Microsoft scientists have demonstrated that by analyzing large samples of search engine queries they may in som...
Source: Lab Soft News - June 14, 2016 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Information Technology Medical Consumerism Medical Ethics Preventive Medicine Public Health Informatics Source Type: blogs

This doctor was remembered for his devotion to patients. Was it enough?
Recently I attended the funeral of a prominent gastroenterologist in my community whom I knew socially as the father of my son’s friend. It was an untimely and rapid death due to pancreatic cancer. He left behind a young wife and four children, two of whom are in college. I would see him periodically at school functions; he would sneak into an event at the last minute and often struggle to stay awake through squeaky orchestra concerts or long school administration speeches on the district’s budget goals. Very often he would rush out right as the event ended to go back to the office and finish up his chart work. He had ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 12, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs

Texas Takes On Cancer – A CPRIT Progress Report
Last week, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) passed a major milestone in the fight against cancer. In 2007, LIVESTRONG played a leadership role in advocating for passage of the legislation and constitutional amendment to create CPRIT – a $3 billion investment in cancer research and programs in the state of Texas. CPRIT was launched in 2009 and is now the largest source of public funding for cancer research and programs in the United States outside of the federal government. Since that time, CPRIT has awarded more than 1000 grants and, last week, the agency exceeded $1.5 billion in grant doll...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - May 23, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: David Lofye (LIVESTRONG Staff) Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 9th 2016
This report is comprehensive and interested readers are encouraged to review. The authors provided projections on organ donation and transplantation rates, quality-adjusted life years and life years saved, health risks to patients, living organ donation, cross-border exchange, and health inequalities. Their most favorable scenario projected health benefits including transplanting up to 21,000 more organs annually in the EU, which would save 230,000 life years or gain 219,000 quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). For social impacts, it was predicted that increasing organ transplantation will have a positive effect on quality...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 8, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Views of the Cost and Time Required to Build an Organ Engineering Industry
This report is comprehensive and interested readers are encouraged to review. The authors provided projections on organ donation and transplantation rates, quality-adjusted life years and life years saved, health risks to patients, living organ donation, cross-border exchange, and health inequalities. Their most favorable scenario projected health benefits including transplanting up to 21,000 more organs annually in the EU, which would save 230,000 life years or gain 219,000 quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). For social impacts, it was predicted that increasing organ transplantation will have a positive effect on quality...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 4, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs

Compassion on the inpatient oncology service
She had been admitted overnight: a previously healthy 62-year-old woman who had been blindsided by acute onset of abdominal bloating and pain 6 months prior. A flurry of tests showed she had pancreatic cancer, and that it was advanced. She had started chemotherapy, but the regimen was so toxic; she suffered from unrelenting nausea and fatigue to the point that in the last six weeks she had gone from playing tennis every weekend to becoming unable to rise from bed. In the last 24 hours her family witnessed a significant decline. She was awake only sometimes, and when she was, she was incoherent. This prompted her admission....
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 5, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Hospital Source Type: blogs

ARID1A Gene Knockout Improves Regeneration in Mice
Researchers have made the accidental discovery that removing the gene ARID1A in mice produces greater regenerative capacity. The team was focused on liver cancer research so most of their observations relate to liver regeneration, but they note that the improvement appears in other tissues as well: The liver is unique among human solid organs in its robust regenerative capability. A healthy liver can regenerate up to 70 percent of its tissue after injury. However, when the liver has been repeatedly damaged - by chemical toxins or chronic disease - it loses its ability to regenerate. Following repeated injuries, cirrhosis...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 27, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Progress against cancer? Let ' s think about it.
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without reading an article proclaiming progress in the field of cancer research. Here is an example, taken from an article posted on the MedicineNet site (1). The lead-off text is: " Statistics (released in 1997) show that cancer patients are living longer and even " beating " the disease. Information released at an AMA sponsored conference for science writers, showed that the death rate from the dreaded disease has decreased by three percent in the last few years. In the 1940s only one patient in four survived on the average. By the 1960s, that figure was up to one in thre...
Source: Specified Life - March 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer cure cancer statistics cancer treatments orphan diseases progress in cancer research rare diseases Source Type: blogs

Progress against cancer? Let's think about it.
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without reading an article proclaiming progress in the field of cancer research. Here is an example, taken from an article posted on the MedicineNet site (1). The lead-off text is: "Statistics (released in 1997) show that cancer patients are living longer and even "beating" the disease. Information released at an AMA sponsored conference for science writers, showed that the death rate from the dreaded disease has decreased by three percent in the last few years. In the 1940s only one patient in four survived on the average. By the 1960s, that figure was up to one in three, ...
Source: Specified Life - March 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer cure cancer statistics cancer treatments orphan diseases progress in cancer research rare diseases Source Type: blogs

An Unexpected Benefit of Cellular Senescence
Researchers have found that, unusually, entering a senescent state actually improves some measures of performance in the beta cells of the pancreas responsible for producing insulin. Senescent cells are those that have removed themselves from the cycle of replication, either because they have reached the Hayflick limit, or prior to that point in reaction to molecular damage or a toxic local environment. A senescent cell may destroy itself via programmed cell death mechanisms or it may be destroyed by the immune system, but while it remains in place it behaves badly, secreting a harmful mix of molecules that change surround...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 7, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Cancer Surgery At Low-Volume Hospitals In California
More than 100 years ago, Boston Surgeon Dr. Ernest Amory Codman took note of data on surgeries at a small semi-private hospital and some other larger and more prestigious hospitals. “They clearly showed,” he wrote, “that the semi-private hospital not only did more operations, but that the mortality was much lower, especially in some of the more difficult branches of surgery.” Not quite 50 years ago, results from the National Halothane Study produced some of the first solid statistical evidence of a link between the volume of services and outcomes. Since then, the work of numerous investigators has solidified and ex...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 10, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Laurence Baker and Maryann O'Sullivan Tags: Featured Health Professionals Hospitals Organization and Delivery Quality California hospital volume Physicians surgery Source Type: blogs

My Children are Vaccine-Damaged; are Yours?
Conclusion A growing number of today’s children suffer from vaccine damage. Most individuals do not make the connection between health problems and vaccines. When asked about the cause of autoimmune disorders, asthma, allergies, diabetes, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, autism, and other common childhood diseases and illness, the majority of health care providers advise patients that the causes are unknown. Doctors, including most integrative physicians, fail to make the connection to vaccines. It takes one moment to permanently damage the health of an adult or child, but takes a lifetime to t...
Source: vactruth.com - February 5, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Top Stories autoimmune disorders gardasil HPV Vaccine Medical Authority vaccine injury Source Type: blogs

DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Mock Test 4
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Source: Cardiophile MD - January 18, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Featured Source Type: blogs