A professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine has explained that the real culprit behind getting fat is eating sugar and not fat. Aaron Carroll, a pediatrics professor, has said that it is perfectly fine to eat avocados, nuts, cream, and butter. Sugar Linked To Weight Gain And Obesity Consuming fats does not make...
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Nanoparticles home in on cancer stem cells in promising new therapy
The researchers developed nanoparticles (represented in black) that can specifically target cancer stem cells (yellow), delivering a drug that inhibits their ability to grow Nanoparticle drug delivery systems are a hot area in medical research at the moment. The ability to engineer particles that can enter a human body and transport a drug directly...
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Cell death linked to tumor growth in prostate cancer patients
Micrograph showing prostatic acinar adenocarcinoma (the most common form of prostate cancer) The goal of any cancer treatment is to kill tumor cells. Yet, one little understood paradox of certain cancers is that the body’s natural process for removing dead and dying cells can actually fuel tumor growth. A new University of Michigan study identifies...
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Increased oral pathogens, decreased bacterial diversity predict precancerous stomach cancer lesions
Elevated pathogen colonization and a lack of bacterial diversity in the mouth were identified in people with precancerous lesions that could precede stomach cancer, finds a new study led by New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry) and New York University School of Medicine. The findings, published in the November issue of the Journal of...
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Vaginal mesh operations should be banned, says NICE
Image captionThe mesh is made of polypropylene – the same material used to make certain drinks bottles The health watchdog NICE is to recommend that vaginal mesh operations should be banned from treating organ prolapse in England, the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show has learned. Draft guidelines from NICE say the implants should only be used...
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Encouraging oxygen’s assault on iron may offer new way to kill lung cancer cells
Blocking the action of a key protein frees oxygen to damage iron-dependent proteins in lung and breast cancer cells, slowing their growth and making them easier to kill. This is the implication of a study led by researchers from Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health, and published online November 22 in Nature. Human cells contain...
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People willing to trade treatment efficacy for reduced side effects in cancer therapies
When choosing their preferred treatment, people with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) place the highest value on medicines that deliver the longest progression-free survival, but are willing to swap some drug efficacy for a reduced risk of serious adverse events according to a study published online in Blood Advances, a Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). The...
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Six Challenges To Tackle Before Artificial Intelligence Redesigns Healthcare
The potential of artificial intelligence for making healthcare better is indisputable. The question is how to integrate it successfully into our healthcare systems. For doing so, we have to overcome technical, medical limitations, as well as regulatory obstacles, soothe ethical concerns and mitigate the tendency to oversell the technology. The very first step should...
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Study suggests colon cancer cells carry bacteria with them when they metastasize
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers working at Harvard University has found evidence that suggests a certain type of bacteria found in colon cancer tumors makes its way to tumors in other body parts by traveling with the metastasizing cells. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their study of the bacteria and...
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Critical link between obesity and diabetes has been identified
UT Southwestern researchers have identified a major mechanism by which obesity causes type 2 diabetes, which is a common complication of being overweight that afflicts more than 30 million Americans and over 400 million people worldwide. Researchers found that in obesity, insulin released into the blood by the pancreas is unable to pass through the cells...