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Is Your Heart Too Big? Too Weak? Or Just Right?
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disease that causes the heart muscle to become abnormally large. It often goes undetected and, as a result, HCM has the dubious distinction of being the leading cause of sudden death in children, young adults...
Food And Drug Administration Announces Safety Risk Associated with HIV Drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced that non-cirrhotic portal hypertension, a rare, but serious, liver disorder, has been reported in some HIV patients taking Videx/Videx EC (didanosine).
FDA Asks for $4.03B to Transform Food Safety System, Invest in Medical Product Safety, Regulatory Science
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has requested $4.03 billion to promote and protect public health as part of the President’s fiscal year 2011 budget – a 23 percent increase over the agency’s current $3.28 billion budget. The FY 2011 request,...
Lupus Not Identical in Twins.
Fewer DNA methylation marks may leave one identical twin vulnerable to lupus, even while the other sibling remains healthy, a new study shows. The finding suggests that environmental factors determine whether genetically susceptible twins will contract...
Alarming Rise in the Number of Women Getting Lung Cancer.
Lung cancer is now the second most common form of cancer diagnosed in Welsh men and women.
Soy Formula Associated with Higher Risk of Fibroids in Women.
Women who were fed soy-based infant formula as babies are 25 percent more likely to develop uterine fibroids than those who were breastfed or given milk-based formula.
Vaccine for Metastatic Prostate Cancer Extends Life Span
Dana-Farber.org – In a newly published clinical trial, patients with metastatic prostate cancer who received a vaccine of harmless poxviruses engineered to spur an immune system attack on prostate tumor cells lived substantially longer than patients...