The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Ad Council have launched a national ad campaign encouraging men over 40 to take an active role in their own health care.
The Real Men Wear Gowns campaign, which was created pro bono by McCann Erickson Detroit, [...]

A project led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Santa Cruz is allowing scientists to see individual ribosomes in action for the first time.
Ribosomes play an important role in the body by translating the genetic instructions carried by messenger RNA (mRNA). The ability to [...]

If you’ve been reading our journal for a while, you know I’m a big fan of OR-Live, an innovative web site that lets you watch cutting-edge medical procedures from the comfort of your own home.
OR-Live covers a wide variety of operations going on around the country and tonight’s will involve a cancer patient.
This evening’s feature [...]

A study led by the Methodist Hospital Research Institute indicates extracts from a tropical fungus called Phellinus linteus may combat breast cancer.
Methodist Hospital’s results add to previous research suggesting the yellow mushroom is also effective for slowing lung, prostate and skin cancers.
Phellinus linteus grows on the bark of mulberry trees and has been used [...]

Research conducted by the National Cancer Institute indicates the function of T cells that regulate the body’s immune system is impaired when cancerous tumors are present.
Findings from a mouse study reported by the NCI Center for Cancer Research indicate tumors reduce the expression of Treg cells, a specialized subset of T Cells responsible for managing [...]

Still wondering how you’ll spend your summer vacation? Consider a kid’s cancer camp.
Oncology camps offer pediatric cancer patients and their families a great opportunity to have some fun away from the dreary routine of hospital visits. Plus, kids and their parents get to spend some recreational time with others who truly understand what [...]

Biologists at Boston College have developed a more effective mouse model for studying how cancer spreads through the human body.
Boston’s team developed two cell lines which express all the major biological characteristics of human metastatic cancer only three weeks after being injected into healthy laboratory mice. In typical mouse models, researchers must [...]

An article published in the April 2008 edition of the American Medical Association News shows 3,170 pairs of prescription drugs have names that look or sound so much alike they can easily lead to serious medication errors.
The report stems from a January 2008 drug review compiled by US Pharmacopeia (USP), a nonprofit organization based [...]

Cancer survivors know treatment side effects have a way popping up at inconvenient times and places — sometimes even at the airport. So what do you do if you’re stuck at the airline terminal and you suddenly start to feel ill? These days you might not need to leave the airport to [...]

PerkinElmer, Inc (NYSE: PKI) is celebrating the opening of a new research and development facility in Singapore.
The company, which develops a wide range of products for the scientific community and the industrial sector, established the facility to expand its health and environmental infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Opening ceremonies for the PerkinElmer Inc Center of [...]