Individuals with scleroderma are living significantly longer today, compared with 30 years ago, and the physicians who treat this rare disease of connective tissue hope the newer drugs now on the market may extend lives even further.
Many people don?t give their kidneys enough serious thought, according to Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, nephrologist at UC.
A new study confirms an association between increased vitamin D levels and decreased risk of colon cancer.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) today announced the first reported case of West Nile Virus of 2007. The patient is an adult from North Central Kansas.
Biologists have long thought that a simple on/off switch controls most genes in human cells. Flip the switch and a cell starts or stops producing a particular protein. But new evidence suggests that this model is too simple and that our genes are more ready for action than previously thought.
One of the major issues associated with longer life expectancy in man and his best friend is an increase in the incidence of cancer. Even though they cannot talk it seems dogs might be able to tell us why and how certain cancers develop.
Measuring levels of a chemical found in blood offers the best indicator yet of the amount of fat surrounding abdominal organs, according to a new study of lean and obese individuals reported in the July issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press.
A Canadian clinical case study indicated the potential dangers of using portable CD and MP3 players, iPods in rains and thunderstorms, published in Wednesday’s issue of New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine report a significant new advance in the search for an effective treatment for human liver cancer in the July issue of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.
Kaposi sarcoma is unique among cancers because most tumors grow from a small number of different cells, whereas nearly all other cancers arise from a single cell, according to a study published online July 10 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.