News tagged with head and neck cancer


From cars to cancer: Researcher employs auto industry tools for tumor therapy

From cars to cancer: Researcher employs auto industry tools for tumor therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An effort is under way at the University of Houston to use technologies with origins in the automobile industry to develop new tools that will help doctors and technicians better plan radiation therapy for ...


Acupuncture eases radiation-induced dry mouth in cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twice weekly acupuncture treatments relieve debilitating symptoms of xerostomia - severe dry mouth - among patients treated with radiation for head and neck cancer, researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...





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What a grind: Bruxism at night likely a sign of stress by day

Medicine & Health / Health

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

You can practically track Steve Barkley's stress by the level of activity in his temporomandibular joint, or TMJ, the hinge joint that connects the lower jaw to the temporal bone of the skull and helps one chew, talk and ...


Girl's progress after pioneering brain surgery gives hope to other parents

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Lexi Haas is awakening into a world of new possibilities. Miracle by tiny miracle, she is making her body do what she wants -- instead of her body always controlling her. She looked up at her mother a few weeks ago, pursed ...


Study explores violent world of raptors

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A journey that started with a box of bird feet carried three Montana State University graduate students into the gruesome world of raptors and led to their findings being published in a prominent journal.


New device enables early detection of cancerous skin tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev are developing a new device that detects cancerous skin tumors, including melanomas that aren't visible to the naked eye.


5 exercises can reduce neck, shoulder pain of women office workers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Strength training exercises using dumbbells can reduce pain and improve function in the trapezius muscle, the large muscle which extends from the back of the head, down the neck and into the upper back. The exercises also ...


World's first delivery of intra-arterial Avastin directly into brain tumor

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Neurosurgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center performed the world's first intra-arterial cerebral infusion of Avastin (bevacizumab) directly into a patient's malignant brain tumor. This novel ...


Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes (AP)

Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working ...


Imaging techniques may help predict response to head and neck cancer treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A combination of imaging tests conducted six to eight weeks after patients complete chemoradiotherapy for head and neck cancer may help identify patients who will respond to treatment and those who will require surgical follow-up, ...


New advice: Skip mammograms in 40s, start at 50 (AP)

New mammogram advice raises questions, concerns

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences. Now, women in their 40s have the added anxiety of trying to figure out if they should even be getting one at ...


Acute heart attack patients receiving high ionizing radiation dose

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Acute heart attack patients received an average total dose of ionizing radiation equal to 725 chest X-rays from medical tests during their hospital stay, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's ...



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