AScribe Medicine News Service articles from June 2003

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from June 2003

Gene Linking Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer Identified; Liver Cancer Is Now the Leading Cause of Cancer Death in Asia.
June 12, 2003... Byline: City of Hope National Medical Center LOS ANGELES, June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at City of Hope Cancer Center have identified a gene specifically involved in the progression of hepatitis B infection to liver cancer. ...

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School Launch Center for Child Health Care Studies.
June 12, 2003... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School today announced the launching of the Center for Child Health Care Studies, a research center dedicated to...

Silent DNA Architecture Helps Block Cancer Cell Growth; Researchers Uncover New Tumor Suppression Mechanism.
June 12, 2003... Byline: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cancerous and precancerous cells can detect that they are abnormal and kill themselves, or remain alive indefinitely but cease proliferating,...

Intravenous Infusions of Human Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells Benefit Rodents with ALS, Spinal Cord Injury, University of South Florida Studies Find.
June 12, 2003... Byline: University of South Florida Health Sciences TAMPA, Fla., June 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Stem cells derived from human umbilical cord blood (HUCB) migrate to damaged areas in the brain and spinal cord caused by disease or injury and...

Media Advisory: Kaiser Family Foundation, Harvard School of Public Health to Release National Survey on Public's Views About Current Medicare Debate.
June 13, 2003... MENLO PARK, Calif., June 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- As the debate on Medicare and prescription drugs heats up, a new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health takes an in-depth look at public opinion about...

University at Buffalo Scientists Patent Novel Inhibitor of Poxvirus Replication; Work Could Result in Treatment for Smallpox, Monkeypox.
June 16, 2003... Byline: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y., June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Molecular biologists from the University at Buffalo have discovered a novel way to inhibit the replication of poxviruses, the group that includes smallpox virus, by...

Dr. Robert A. Good, Bone Marrow Transplantation Pioneer and Renowned Immunologist, Dead at 81.(Obituary)
June 16, 2003... Byline: University of South Florida Health Sciences ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The man considered by many to be the father of modern immunology died Friday. Dr. Robert A. Good was Physician-in-Chief of All...

GMAT Testing Resumes in China.(Brief Article)
June 23, 2003... Byline: Lipman Hearne, Inc. MCLEAN, Va., June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scheduling in China for GMAT test takers resumes today, Monday, June 23, based on authorities confirming they have contained incidents of Severe Acute Respiratory...

Pancreatic Cancer Linked to Errant Reactivation of Embryo Cell Pathway.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center specialists has uncovered a novel pathway in the origin of pancreatic cancers, one of the deadliest of...

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Designated NIH Center for AIDS Research.
June 23, 2003... Byline: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center DENVER, June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center has been designated a National Institutes of Health Center For AIDS Research (CFAR), becoming one...

New Mechanism of Action Discovered for Crohn's Disease Treatment.
June 24, 2003... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have found that a monoclonal antibody against tumor necrosis factor (TNF) protects...

Moores UC San Diego Cancer Center Launches Human Trial for Prostate Cancer Vaccine.
June 25, 2003... Byline: University of California, San Diego SAN DIEGO, June 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cancer researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) today launched a human trial of a new experimental vaccine - a type of gene therapy -...

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Professor Dr. E. Chester Ridgway Named President of Endocrine Society.
June 26, 2003... Byline: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center DENVER, June 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. E. Chester Ridgway, head of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center's Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, has been...

Towards an AIDS Vaccine: Unusual Antibody That Targets HIV Described by Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute.
June 26, 2003... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., June 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- A group of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and several other institutions has solved the structure of an antibody that effectively...

Study Traces Global Spread of Virulent Dengue Virus to U.S. Doorstep.
June 26, 2003... Byline: University of North Carolina Healthcare System CHAPEL HILL, N.C., June 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill describes the emergence and spread of a virulent form of dengue virus...

Scientists Identify Genetic Link Between Cancer, Aging.
June 26, 2003... Byline: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center SEATTLE, June 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Biologists have long known that the promise of eternal youth comes with a hefty price tag, a truth borne out by the immortality of most cancer cells. ...

Study Finds Racial Differences in Seeking Time-Critical Treatment for Heart Attack.
June 26, 2003... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, June 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- African Americans are far less likely to seek immediate treatment for a heart attack than non-Hispanic whites, according to a researcher at the University of...

National Camp Gives Voice to Youth With Speech Disabilities.
June 26, 2003... Byline: University of Wisconsin, Whitewater WHITEWATER, Wisc., June 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- A record turnout is expected for the third annual Authentic Voices of America (AVA) Camp on the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus from July...

DDT in Mothers' Blood Predicts Delays in Daughters' Pregnancies.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2003... Byline: Public Health Institute BERKELEY, Calif., June 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- A research letter in this week's issue of THE LANCET reports on the effect of the pesticide DDT and its by-product, DDE, on female reproductive capability. ...

Minimal Long-Term Effects of Marijuana Use Found in Central Nervous System by UC San Diego Researchers.
June 27, 2003... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Calif., June 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- An analysis of research studies with long-term, recreational users of marijuana has failed to reveal a substantial, systematic effect on the...

Novel Immune Therapy for Leukemia Tested at Moores UC San Diego Cancer Center.
June 27, 2003... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Calif., June 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, in conjunction with Xcyte Therapies, Inc., of Seattle, are conducting a clinical...