An inspirational book is helping dogs with cancer receive expensive medical treatments their owners can’t afford to give them. Cliff and I: My Dog’s Journey Through Cancer and Beyond chronicles the author’s personal experience helping her German Shepherd battle cancer. As a tribute to her beloved pet, Cliff’s writer Joanne M. DeFluri is donating the [...]

Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota has won the Innovation of the Year in Patient Care Award from the Minnesota Hospital Association for making chemotherapy, CT scans and other medical procedures less frightening for children. Children’s Hospitals and Clinics have been using nitrous oxide, a mild sedative commonly referred to as laughing gas, to relax [...]

The National Science Foundation (NSF), Google Incorporated (NASDAQ: GOOG), and the IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM) have formed a partnership to create the Cluster Exploratory (CluE), an innovative tool designed to help the academic community conduct research projects that would otherwise be too expensive to explore. CluE is a new distributed computing resource consisting of approximately [...]

A study released by drug manufacturer GTx, Inc (NASDAQ: GTXI) indicates a new version of an old drug called toremifene helps reduce some of the side effects experienced by prostate cancer patients being treated with androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT). ADT, also known as androgen suppression therapy or AST, is a hormone therapy designed to block the [...]

Most cancer patients undergo at least one CT scan during the diagnosis, treatment, or follow-up phases of their disease. A new study conducted by the University of Michigan Health System indicates many of those patients should be taking an inexpensive prescription tablet called N-Acetylcysteine before their scan to protect their kidneys from potentially serious damage. [...]

Eight outstanding cancer care providers will receive the Lane W. Adams Quality of Life Award from the American Cancer Society (ACS) in a ceremony on Friday, May 9, 2008. This year’s ACS honors will go to: Karen Allison, CPNP Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York Karleen Habin, RN Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts [...]

A study of 3,450 colorectal cancer patients conducted by the University of Rochester Medical Center suggests smokers should start getting screened for colon cancer 10 years earlier than their non-smoking counterparts. The American Cancer Society and other cancer experts currently recommend most people begin getting colonoscopies at age 50. However, Rochester’s investigation indicates age 50 [...]

Who says an innovation has to be high-tech to have a big impact on medicine? A modest 8½ x 11 sheet of paper is helping physicians in the Chicago area reduce the amount of time they spend keeping track of complicated insurance rules and paperwork requirements so they can devote more time to caring for [...]

Most people think of breathalyzers as a tool to combat drunk driving, but a new type of breathalyzer could soon help doctors detect cancer, kidney failure, and other diseases impacting the lungs while they’re still in the early stages. Researchers at JILA, an institution jointly operated by the University of Colorado at Boulder and the [...]

Scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, the West Virginia University School of Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Medicine have developed a new imaging device which not only detects breast tumors too small to be seen by other imaging systems, it also gets a sample for cancer [...]