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Drug deliver system for brain cancer

October 23rd, 2008 - 12:49 pm ICT by IANS -
London, Oct 23 (IANS) Scientists have developed a new drug delivery system that breaches the blood-brain barrier to reach and kill cancer cells in the brain, according to the latest research. Following ...

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Human microRNA inhibitor discovery may lead to new cancer therapies

September 26th, 2008 - 2:40 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, September 26 (ANI): American scientists have identified a molecule that can regulate microRNAs, short strands of RNA that play a vital role in gene expression and are closely associated with ...

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Childhood brain cancer genes identified

September 16th, 2008 - 6:41 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Sept 16 (ANI): In a breakthrough study, scientists at the University of Nottingham have identified three important genes involved in the development of a type of childhood brain cancer. Scientists from ...

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Treating common brain cancer as two diseases could help improve cure

September 15th, 2008 - 12:02 pm ICT by ANI -
London, September 15 (ANI): Genetic studies conducted on patients with glioblastoma, the most common type of brain cancer, in America suggest that this disease should be treated as two disease not ...

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More people surving cancer in Australia

August 25th, 2008 - 12:17 pm ICT by IANS -
Sydney, Aug 25 (IANS) Survival after cancer is improving significantly in Australia, especially among the better-off groups in the population, according to a report. The report shows that between mid-1980s and early ...

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Obama’s kin to burnish American image at convention

August 21st, 2008 - 9:44 am ICT by IANS -
Washington, Aug 21 (DPA) There are few things more American than basketball and "family values".When the Democratic Party's presidential convention opens Monday in Denver, Colorado, Barack Obama's wife Michelle, her basketball-coach brother ...

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Biotech Park to develop vaccines against brain cancer

July 9th, 2008 - 4:48 pm ICT by IANS -
Lucknow, July 9 (IANS) Production of vaccines to fight brain cancer will soon start at the Biotech Park in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow district, an official said Wednesday. "A firm from United States ...

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2 Billion may suffer from Mobile Cancer by 2020: Australian Health Research Institute

June 20th, 2008 - 11:10 pm ICT by ANI -
New Delhi, June 20 (ANI/Business Wire India): The studies and survey conducted by Australian Health Research Institute indicates that due to billions of times more in volume electromagnetic radiation emitted by ...

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Health risk of long-term mobile phone use put under the scanner

June 9th, 2008 - 1:27 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, June 9 (ANI): Scientists from Imperial College, London have undertaken a study to determine if long-term mobile phone use can lead to number of health problems such as brain cancer, ...

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Hasselhoff raises money for late friend’s family

May 28th, 2008 - 2:10 pm ICT by admin -
London, May 28 (IANS) Former "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff performed songs that he and his late business partner Wade Hubbard recorded together in a tribute to raise money to help the bereaved ...

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Kennedy assassination remark adds to Clinton woes

May 24th, 2008 - 10:02 am ICT by admin -
By Arun Kumar Washington, May 24 (IANS) Hillary Clinton courted fresh trouble as she referred to the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy to explain why she is still running in the Democratic ...

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Tears, shock over Kennedy’s brain cancer diagnosis

May 22nd, 2008 - 9:15 am ICT by admin -
By Pat Reber Washington, May 22 (DPA) Stunned silence swept across the US Congress, observers said. One colleague wept. Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy, left-wing icon and champion of the rights of workers and ...

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Senator Kennedy leaves hospital after brain cancer diagnosis

May 22nd, 2008 - 12:19 am ICT by admin -
DPA Washington, May 21 (DPA) Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy left Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Wednesday surrounded by his family, smiling and waving to applauding well-wishers after being diagnosed with a serious form ...

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Ted Kennedy diagnosed with malignant brain tumour

May 21st, 2008 - 1:25 pm ICT by admin -
New York, May 21 (ANI): Democrat Senator Edward M. Kennedy has been admitted to the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and been diagnosed with a malignant form of brain tumour. According to ...

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Senator Kennedy has brain cancer: doctors

May 21st, 2008 - 3:09 am ICT by admin -
New York, May 21 (IANS) Veteran US Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who was hospitalised after suffering a seizure over the weekend, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. Doctors at the hospital in ...

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Common virus may serve as target for deadly brain tumour vaccine

May 18th, 2008 - 11:50 am ICT by admin -
Washington, May 18 (ANI): Researchers at the Dukes Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center have found that by targeting a common virus, doctors may be able to prolong the lives of ...

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Researchers discover gene behind cleft lip and palate

April 24th, 2008 - 1:44 pm ICT by admin -
Washington , Apr 24 (ANI): Scientists at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered a gene, called TFAP2A (Activating Enhancer-Binding Protein), that causes distinctive clefting disorder Branchio-Oculo-Facial syndrome (BOFS), characterized ...

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Brain study may pave way for better epilepsy treatments

April 15th, 2008 - 3:10 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, April 15 (ANI): Scientists have discovered in a study on mice how a neurotransmitter that the body releases during epilepsy seizures, known as glutamate, leads to an increased production of ...

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Special type of MRI can identify brain cancer early

March 26th, 2008 - 1:45 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, Mar 26 (ANI): According to a new study, a special type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can depict changes in blood volume in the brain that often precede cancerous transformation ...

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Special MRI identifies brain cancer early

March 25th, 2008 - 3:53 pm ICT by admin -
London, March 25 (IANS) A special kind of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can register changes in the brain's blood volume that often precede tumours, according to a new study. "Patients with low-grade ...

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Scientists identify signalling system that inhibits growth of a childhood brain cancer

March 16th, 2008 - 1:41 pm ICT by admin -
Washington, Mar 16 (ANI): Scientists at St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital have taken a major step forward in the fight against medulloblastoma, a rare but often fatal childhood brain tumour, by ...

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$55mln human brain map project may revolutionise neuroscience

March 14th, 2008 - 5:48 pm ICT by admin -
London, March 14 (ANI): The Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington, has launched a 55-million-dollar project to create a three-dimensional map depicting the activity of about 20,000 genes across ...

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Anti-brain cancer drug found to have major side effect

March 11th, 2008 - 11:18 am ICT by admin -
New York, March 11 (IANS) A promising anti-cancer drug that eliminated brain tumours in mice in a 2004 study is now suspected to cause permanent bone damage. The researcher who conducted both ...

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Specialised tumor-killing virus paves way for novel brain cancer treatment

February 20th, 2008 - 1:18 pm ICT by admin -
Washington , Feb 20 (ANI): Researchers conducting a study on mice have discovered a specialised virus with the ability to reproduce its tumour-killing genes that selectively targets and eradicates cancers in the ...

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Brain cancer drug study shows promising results

December 16th, 2007 - 11:30 am ICT by admin -
Washington, Dec 16 (ANI): A study on the use of Avastin, a drug used to extend the survival of patients with the most common and aggressive type of brain cancer called glioblastoma ...

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New vaccine may help treat aggressive brain cancer

November 14th, 2007 - 2:42 am ICT by admin -

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Clinical trial of novel brain cancer vaccine in progress at NYU

November 14th, 2007 - 2:36 am ICT by admin -

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