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Low dopamine levels during withdrawal promote relapse to smoking

Mark Twain said, "Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times." Many smokers would agree that it's difficult to stay away from cigarettes. A new study in Biological Ps ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research helping combat drug addiction

(Medical Xpress) -- Better help with battling drug addiction could be at hand as a result of research underway at Victoria University of Wellington.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemotherapy may influence leukemia relapse: research

The chemotherapy drugs required to push a common form of adult leukemia into remission may contribute to DNA damage that can lead to a relapse of the disease in some patients, findings of a new study suggest.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UK researchers present findings from Kentucky breast cancer patients with disease relapse

The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center breast oncologist Dr. Suleiman Massarweh and his research team presented findings from their studies on relapse of breast cancer at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium this ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Surveillance is sufficient for women following molar pregnancy: study

Six months following molar pregnancies, women who have high (although decreasing) human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) concentrations can be treated with chemotherapy. A study published Online First by The Lancet shows that s ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New hope for young leukemia patients?

The development of simple tests to predict a leukemic relapse in young patients is a step closer thanks to researchers from the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center and the University of Montreal. Approximately ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Gene impedes recovery from alcoholism

People who are alcohol-dependent and who also carry a particular variant of a gene run an increased risk of premature death. This is a recent finding from the interdisciplinary research at the Department of Psychology and ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene responsible for relapses in young leukemia patients

One of the causes of resistance to cancer treatment in children is now beginning to be elucidated. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients with a particular form of the ATF5 gene are at higher risk of having a relapse when ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High-dose vitamin D may not be better than low-dose vitamin D in treating MS

Low vitamin D levels are associated with an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), but the first randomized, controlled trial using high-dose vitamin D in MS did not find any added benefit over and above ongoing ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Surgery for epilepsy leads to around half of patients being seizure-free after 10 years

Around half of patients remain seizure free 10 years after undergoing surgery for epilepsy. However, there is scope for further improvement in presurgical assessment and surgical treatment of people with chronic epilepsy. ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new approach to cancer treatment published

(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have discovered a mechanism that causes an aggressive type of lung cancer to re-grow following chemotherapy, offering hope for new therapies.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Remitting multiple sclerosis: Natalizumab reduces relapses and disability

Taking the new generation anti-inflammatory drug natalizumab for two years lowers the number of remitting multiple sclerosis patients who experience relapses and progression of disability. This is the main finding of a systematic ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Vitamin D deficiency common in cancer patients

More than three-quarters of cancer patients have insufficient levels of vitamin D (25-hydroxy-vitamin D) and the lowest levels are associated with more advanced cancer, according to a study presented on October 2, 2011, at ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer tumor make-up changes through the course of disease

New research has found that breast cancer tumours change their hormonal status throughout the course of disease, whereas the decision about the most effective treatment for the patient is usually only based on one biopsy ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Common genetic variants associated with development of high-risk neuroblastoma

Patients with a high degree of African ancestry had a greater incidence of high-risk neuroblastoma and poorer outcomes, according to preliminary results presented here at the Fourth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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