Healthcare Updates http://healthcareupdates.com A succinct summary of late-breaking health care news and headlines. Wed, 16 May 2012 19:23:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Nine new breast cancer risk genes: Landscape of cancer genes and mutational processes in breast cancer complicated http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/16/nine-new-breast-cancer-risk-genes-landscape-of-cancer-genes-and-mutational-processes-in-breast-cancer-complicated/ http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/16/nine-new-breast-cancer-risk-genes-landscape-of-cancer-genes-and-mutational-processes-in-breast-cancer-complicated/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 19:23:23 +0000 admin http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120516152349.htm
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ScienceDaily: Breast Cancer News

]]> http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/16/nine-new-breast-cancer-risk-genes-landscape-of-cancer-genes-and-mutational-processes-in-breast-cancer-complicated/feed/ 0 MGH launching test of proton beam therapy – Boston Globe http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/13/mgh-launching-test-of-proton-beam-therapy-boston-globe/ http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/13/mgh-launching-test-of-proton-beam-therapy-boston-globe/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 04:22:29 +0000 admin http://healthcareupdates.com/?guid=e1423a6134f79e210e6bda94761756dc
MGH launching test of proton beam therapy
Boston Globe
By Carolyn Y. Johnson Massachusetts General Hospital in the next few weeks will launch a large, long-awaited test of whether a controversial cutting-edge proton beam therapy is more effective than standard radiation treatment for prostate cancer.


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]]> http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/13/mgh-launching-test-of-proton-beam-therapy-boston-globe/feed/ 0 Do Vitamins And Supplements Actually Work? – Huffington Post http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/13/do-vitamins-and-supplements-actually-work-huffington-post/ http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/13/do-vitamins-and-supplements-actually-work-huffington-post/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 03:23:46 +0000 admin http://healthcareupdates.com/?guid=434008864edcb88dd39feb0ad594abd7
Do Vitamins And Supplements Actually Work?
Huffington Post
For more than a decade, for example, researchers followed more than 35000 men enrolled in SELECT, a clinical trial designed to see whether taking selenium and vitamin E might help prevent prostate cancer. In 2008, study participants received phone ...


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]]> http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/13/do-vitamins-and-supplements-actually-work-huffington-post/feed/ 0 With Biotechs Back In Limelight, OPKO’s Alzheimer’s Diagnostic And Other … – Forbes http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/13/with-biotechs-back-in-limelight-opkos-alzheimers-diagnostic-and-other-forbes/ http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/13/with-biotechs-back-in-limelight-opkos-alzheimers-diagnostic-and-other-forbes/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 00:38:34 +0000 admin http://healthcareupdates.com/?guid=517c9e824fe09c13980ad38f869c51ea
With Biotechs Back In Limelight, OPKO's Alzheimer's Diagnostic And Other ...
Forbes
It has also developed its own diagnostic screening system for prostate cancer, which is scheduled to be launched in Europe sometime later this year. A big part of investor excitement over OPK's stock, now trading at $4.55 a share, is the pending ...


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]]> http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/13/with-biotechs-back-in-limelight-opkos-alzheimers-diagnostic-and-other-forbes/feed/ 0 DoctorsHealthPress.com Reports on Study Showing Natural Remedy Might Halt … – Houston Chronicle http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/12/doctorshealthpress-com-reports-on-study-showing-natural-remedy-might-halt-houston-chronicle/ http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/12/doctorshealthpress-com-reports-on-study-showing-natural-remedy-might-halt-houston-chronicle/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 14:08:04 +0000 admin http://healthcareupdates.com/?guid=8ba5801f1d69f28f93a6f0227e3d6277
DoctorsHealthPress.com Reports on Study Showing Natural Remedy Might Halt ...
Houston Chronicle
As reported in Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin on Friday, May 11, 2012 (http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/cancer-articles/the-honeybee-solution-to-prostate-cancer), “caffeic acid phenethyl ester” (CAPE) is a compound isolated from honeybee hive ...

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]]> http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/12/doctorshealthpress-com-reports-on-study-showing-natural-remedy-might-halt-houston-chronicle/feed/ 0 New animal model for one of the least understood medical issues: ADHD http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/10/new-animal-model-for-one-of-the-least-understood-medical-issues-adhd/ http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/10/new-animal-model-for-one-of-the-least-understood-medical-issues-adhd/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 14:03:03 +0000 admin http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120510100353.htm
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]]> http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/10/new-animal-model-for-one-of-the-least-understood-medical-issues-adhd/feed/ 0 Mystery of the missing breast cancer genes http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/08/mystery-of-the-missing-breast-cancer-genes/ http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/08/mystery-of-the-missing-breast-cancer-genes/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 02:00:00 +0000 admin http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120508220004.htm
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]]> http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/08/mystery-of-the-missing-breast-cancer-genes/feed/ 0 Limit PSA Tests to Younger Men, These Docs Say – MedPage Today http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/07/limit-psa-tests-to-younger-men-these-docs-say-medpage-today/ http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/07/limit-psa-tests-to-younger-men-these-docs-say-medpage-today/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 19:35:52 +0000 admin http://healthcareupdates.com/?guid=cc014c18c70fd6c41d2dda1d24ff8d7e
Daily Mail
Limit PSA Tests to Younger Men, These Docs Say
MedPage Today
This analysis article, which looked at recent guidelines and trials, recommends individualizing decisions about using prostate-specific antigen (PSA) as a screening tool for prostate cancer. Note that this article recommends screening in younger men ...
Scientists Identify Therapy-Resistant Subset of Tumor-Propagating Prostate ...Genetic Engineering News
New test could determine prostate cancer treatmentPittsburgh Post Gazette
PSA screening to detect prostate cancer can be beneficial to younger and at ...Science Codex
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]]> http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/07/limit-psa-tests-to-younger-men-these-docs-say-medpage-today/feed/ 0 Training immune system to fight cancer comes of age – Fox News http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/07/training-immune-system-to-fight-cancer-comes-of-age-fox-news/ http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/07/training-immune-system-to-fight-cancer-comes-of-age-fox-news/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 12:18:07 +0000 admin http://healthcareupdates.com/?guid=8aeb85386934e551bc016d885fe0596d
Training immune system to fight cancer comes of age
Fox News
Bristol-Myers Squibb's Yervoy has been hailed as a major breakthrough for treatment of melanoma since its approval last year, while Dendreon Corp's Provenge prostate cancer vaccine has been hampered by management missteps and doctors' reluctance to ...

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]]> http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/07/training-immune-system-to-fight-cancer-comes-of-age-fox-news/feed/ 0 IsoRay to Introduce GliaSite and Cesium-131 Mesh to International Audience at … – MarketWatch (press release) http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/07/isoray-to-introduce-gliasite-and-cesium-131-mesh-to-international-audience-at-marketwatch-press-release/ http://healthcareupdates.com/2012/05/07/isoray-to-introduce-gliasite-and-cesium-131-mesh-to-international-audience-at-marketwatch-press-release/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 11:56:21 +0000 admin http://healthcareupdates.com/?guid=8bb9213130f3dbe7534edb3d06067e49
IsoRay to Introduce GliaSite and Cesium-131 Mesh to International Audience at ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Booth activities will also feature slide shows, videos, and working demonstrations of the application of mesh with Cesium-131 embedded seeds for use in brain, head and neck, lung, occular, gynecological and prostate cancers. GliaSite(R) remains the ...

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