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A long-standing breast cancer drug may have legs as a weapon against other kinds of tumors, according to scientists from the University of Leeds and University College London in the United Kingdom.
Research details are published in the journal PLoS ONE. Their work revolves around geldanamycin, which targets protein that helps breast cancer spread.
Hurricane Sandy wreaked major havoc on New York University Hospital's preclinical research efforts, inflicting damage that destroyed projects years in the making. The Daily News reports that thousands of laboratory mice drowned at a facility at E. 32 Street, near FDR drive, which sustained major flooding. Researchers used the genetically modified mice for cancer research and various other experiments, according to the story.
On Sunday, October 21st, hundreds of people will gather in Battery Park for the 6th annual Breathe Deep NYC 3K Walk. As the largest nonprofit in the nation focused on lung cancer, the event is designed to raise awareness and funds to be used for lung cancer research toward earlier detection and treatment that is more effective.
Lung cancer affects 1 in every 14 individuals in the U.S. today, and takes more lives each year than pancreatic, prostate, colorectal and breast cancers combined. While smoking cigarettes does increase the risk for developing lung cancer, more than half of those diagnosed with the disease have quit smoking prior to being diagnosed, or have never smoked. Currently, there is no diagnostic test to detect lung cancer early; the five year survival rate of those diagnosed each year is staggeringly low, at only 16%.
Food allergies are increasing all around the globe; however, it was recently revealed that Australia has the highest number of individuals who suffer from food allergies. An annual scientific meeting of the Australasian Society of Child Immunology was where results of the latest research were presented in early September of this year.
Food allergies are a global phenomenon. At the annual meeting, Professor Johan Garssen with the Department Immunopharmacology, Utrecht, the Netherlands, presented the latest research on how to manage this immunological disorder. In developed countries, about 20% of the population suffer from asthma and allergic diseases, which seem to be most prevalent in children. It seems that about 3% of the pediatric population has become allergic to the protein in cows' milk. Asians are experiencing a rapid rise in asthma, eczema and allergic rhinitis.
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