Gene testing aids safer and personalized Chemotherapy

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Researchers led by Christof Vulsteke, of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, have discovered a novel way of identifying breast cancer patients who are likely to suffer fatal side effects from chemotherapy. Their findings could eventually help provide safer as well as specialized treatments to individual patients. In their study, which included More...

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aspirin
By admin On Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
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Gas-filled Aspirin in the battle against cancer

As per reports from the Iranian Students News agency (ISNA), one of their scientists, Khosrow Kashfi, has developed a gas-filled aspirin that can boost the cancer-fighting ability of the drug. Khosrow, is an associate More...

tusar silk
By Team Folks Health On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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Tasar silk in cardiac repair

Silk has been well known for its use in clothing material, since times immemorial. However, recently, scientists at Max Planck, Germany, have also found its application in growing replacement tissue for damaged More...

grape seed extract
By Team Folks Health On Sunday, January 29th, 2012
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Grape seed extract in cancer treatment

Cancer, known medically as malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. Cell growth occurs through a cell division cycle or cell cycle. This cycle involves a More...

nanoparticle vaccine
By Team Folks Health On Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
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Specialized nanoparticles boost vaccine response

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center, U.S.A, suggest that synthetic nanoparticles specialized to target lymph nodes, where the most effective immune reactions occur, could greatly boost vaccine responses. More...

Colorectal cancer therapy
By Team Folks Health On Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
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Developing better combination therapies for colorectal cancer

Scientists at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, U.S.A, have shed new light on the molecular connection between chronic inflammation and DNA methylation, a process that shuts down cancer-fighting More...

leucoderma
By Team Folks Health On Monday, January 23rd, 2012
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Herbal drug for Leucoderma

Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) introduced Lukoskin – a herbal drug developed for treatment of leucoderma, in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. The drug development process for Lukoskin More...

MRI pacemaker
By Team Folks Health On Thursday, January 19th, 2012
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MRI- compatible pacemakers, now in India

On Tuesday, St. Jude Medical said that it has released an “MRI-conditional” pacemaker in India. This pacemaker would enable patients with the implants to undergo some full-body MRI scans. As per the More...

The PICO system's pocket-sized pump fits in the palm of your hand. | Pic: Smith & Nephew Wound Management
By admin On Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
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Smith & Nephew’s PICO system is now FDA approved

Smith & Nephew plc has announced the FDA clearance of the pocket-sized PICO system, a single use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) system. PICO is cleared for use both in a hospital and homecare setting More...

diabetes cure
By Team Folks Health On Sunday, January 15th, 2012
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A promising strategy for Type1 Diabetes cure

Novel strategies for treating patients having type 1 diabetes are being explored. In one of the recent findings, a therapy using stem cells seems to re-educate abnormal immune system cells, allowing the pancreas More...