http://www.breakthroughdigest.com Medical Breakthroughs, Health News and Medical Information About Cancer, Diabetes, Leukemia and more Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:42:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Contact: Keri Stedman keri.stedman@childrens.harvard.edu 617-919-3110 Children's Hospital Boston In largest study to date, chromosomal microarray analysis picks up more abnormalities than current tests Boston, Mass. -- A large study from Children's Hospital Boston and the Boston-based Autism Consortium finds that a genetic test that samples the entire genome, known as chromosomal microarray analysis, has about ... http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/medical-news/a-better-genetic-test-for-autism/ Contact: Teresa Herbert teresa_herbert@dfci.harvard.edu 617-632-4090 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON ––– Improving on traditional screening tests for potential anti-cancer drugs, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a laboratory technique that more closely simulates the real-world conditions in which tumor cells mingle with the body's normal cells. Because these neighboring cells – key components of what ... http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/medical-news/new-cancer-drug-screening-technique-more-closely-mirrors-reality/ Contact: David Olejarz dolejar1@hfhs.org 313-874-4094 Henry Ford Health System The drug regadenoson is safe and poses fewer side effects than the conventional medication used during a cardiac nuclear stress test of heart transplant patients, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study. Researchers say the 25 patients in the study did not experience adverse side effects ... http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/medical-news/regadenoson-is-safe-effective-for-use-in-heart-transplant-patients/ Contact: David Olejarz dolejar1@hfhs.org 313-874-4094 Henry Ford Health System The presence of plaque on an abdominal CT scan is a strong predictor of coronary artery disease and mortality, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study. Researchers found that patients are nearly 60 percent at risk of having coronary artery disease when the CT scan showed ... http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/medical-news/plaque-on-ct-scan-is-strong-predictor-of-heart-disease-worse-long-term-outcomes/ Contact: Linda Homewood homewood@ufl.edu 352-665-3665 University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For patients with diabetes and heart disease, less isn't always more — at least when it comes to blood pressure. New data show an increased risk of heart attack, stroke or death for patients having blood pressure deemed too high — or too low, ... http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/medical-news/uf-researcher-urges-caution-in-reducing-blood-pressure-in-patients-with-diabetes-coronary-disease/ Contact: Diana Lutz dlutz@wustl.edu 314-935-5272 Washington University in St. Louis Nanoparticles provide a targeted version of photothermal therapy for cancer In a lecture he delivered in 1906, the German physician Paul Ehrlich coined the term Zuberkugel, or "magic bullet," as shorthand for a highly targeted medical treatment. Magic bullets, also called silver bullets, because of the ... http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/medical-news/a-golden-bullet-for-cancer/ Contact: Tamara Hargens-Bradley hargenst@ohsu.edu 503-494-8231 Oregon Health & Science University OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital is part of largest-ever NIH-funded pediatric epilepsy clinical trial to examine which of 3 standard treatments is most effective PORTLAND, Ore. — One of the oldest available anti-seizure medications, ethosuximide, is the most effective treatment for childhood absence epilepsy, according to ... http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/medical-news/new-study-identifies-best-treatment-for-childhood-epilepsy/ Contact: Steve Pogonowski press@f1000.com 44-207-631-9134 Faculty of 1000: Biology and Medicine Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium found in about 50% of humans worldwide, can cause stomach ulcers and, in extreme cases, gastric cancer. In an article for F1000 Medicine Reports, Seiji Shiota and Yoshio Yamaoka discuss the possible eradication of H. pylori infections Infection by the ... http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/medical-news/preventing-gastric-cancer-with-antibiotics/ Contact: James Reed jr576@york.ac.uk 44-019-044-32029 Public Library of Science The secret world of inflammation is slowly being revealed by the application of advanced techniques in microscopy, as shown in a study published March 12 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens. Researchers at the Hull York Medical School and the University of York used 2-photon ... http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/medical-news/research-sheds-light-on-the-inner-workings-of-the-inflammatory-response-to-leishmaniasis/ Contact: Sydney Clevenger clevenge@ohsu.edu 503-418-1792 Oregon Health & Science University The research, published in the Journal of Neuroscience Research, sheds light on what determines availability of the molecules involved in blood pressure control Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University's School of Dentistry (www.ohsu.edu/sod) have discovered that nitric oxide is a powerful regulator of a ... http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/medical-news/ohsu-team-discovers-powerful-molecule-regulator-in-blood-pressure-control-system/