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Approval Of Votrient® (Pazopanib) Provides First Oral Targeted Cancer Therapy For Patients With Selective Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcomas

Date: Aug-10-2012
From today, patients in the UK with certain types of soft tissue sarcomas (STS) could benefit from the first oral therapy for advanced stages of the disease. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved Votrient® (pazopanib) for the treatment of adult patients with selective subtypes of advanced STS who have received prior chemotherapy for metastatic disease or who have progressed within 12 months after (neo) adjuvant therapy. Efficacy and safety have only been established in certain STS histological tumour subtypes*...

U.S.-Born Latina Women At Greater Risk Of Having Children With Retinoblastoma Than Their Mexican-Born Counterparts

Date: Aug-10-2012
Report-Based Study also Finds Children Born to Older Fathers or to Mothers with STDs at Greater RiskIn a large epidemiologic study, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center found that the children of U.S.-born Latina women are at higher risk of having retinoblastoma, a malignant tumor of the retina which typically occurs in children under six...

Study Reveals Prevalence Of Diabetes Among TB Patients Almost Double That Of The General Population

Date: Aug-10-2012
Nearly 50% of tuberculosis (TB) patients were found to have diabetes or pre-diabetes, a recent study on more than 800 TB patients in Tamil Nadu (TN) revealed. The study findings were released by Dr Vijay Viswanathan, Managing Director, M.V. Hospital for Diabetes, and Prof. M. Viswanathan Diabetes Research Centre (WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Education and Training in Diabetes). A two-hour Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) revealed that 25.3% of TB patients had diabetes and another 24.5% had pre-diabetes. Out of the 25...

New Study Finds Link Between Cell Division And Growth Rate

Date: Aug-10-2012
Findings answer puzzling question of how cells know when to progress through the cell cycle. It's a longstanding question in biology: How do cells know when to progress through the cell cycle? In simple organisms such as yeast, cells divide once they reach a specific size. However, determining if this holds true for mammalian cells has been difficult, in part because there has been no good way to measure mammalian cell growth over time...

Genomic Study Of Rare Children's Cancer Yields Possible Prognostic Tool

Date: Aug-10-2012
A new study of the genetic makeup, or genome, of Ewing sarcoma, a rare cancer that strikes children, teenagers, and young adults, has produced multiple discoveries: a previously unknown sarcoma subtype, genetic factors related to long-term survival, and identification of a genetic change between the primary and metastatic stages of the disease that could lead to better, more targeted treatment...

Children's Brains Change As They Learn To Think About Others

Date: Aug-10-2012
Researchers have shown that activity in a certain region of the brain changes as children learn to reason about what other people might be thinking. At around the age of 4 or 5, children begin to think and reason about other people's thoughts and emotions; they start to develop a skill that scientists call "theory of mind". Now, a new study shows that a region of the brain that was already known to be involved in the use of this skill in adults, changes its pattern of activity in children as they begin to acquire theory of mind reasoning for themselves...

Learning Achievement With And Without Stress

Date: Aug-10-2012
Stressed volunteers use different strategies and brain regions Stressed and non-stressed persons use different brain regions and different strategies when learning. This has been reported by the cognitive psychologists PD Dr. Lars Schwabe and Professor Oliver Wolf from the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum in the Journal of Neuroscience. Non-stressed individuals applied a deliberate learning strategy, while stressed subjects relied more on their gut feeling...

Deciding Which Bacteria Made It Into The Drinking Water

Date: Aug-10-2012
Contrary to popular belief, purified drinking water from home faucets contains millions to hundreds of millions of widely differing bacteria per gallon, and scientists have discovered a plausible way to manipulate those populations of mostly beneficial microbes to potentially benefit consumers. Their study appears in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology...

'Exergames' Not Perfect, But Can Lead To More Exercise

Date: Aug-10-2012
Active video games, also known as "exergames," are not the perfect solution to the nation's sedentary ways, but they can play a role in getting some people to be more active. Michigan State University's Wei Peng reviewed published research of studies of these games and says that most of the AVGs provide only "light-to-moderate" intensity physical activity. And that, she says, is not nearly as good as what she calls "real-life exercise...

The Psychological Effects Of Thinking That You Are Fat May Make You Fat

Date: Aug-10-2012
They're everywhere -- in magazines, on the Internet, on television - people with super-thin bodies who are presented as having the ideal body form. But despite the increasing pressure to be thin, more and more of us are overweight. Now, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have found that normal weight teens who perceive themselves as fat are more likely to grow up to be fat...