GI Cancers: Promising Data Across the BoardGI Cancers: Promising Data Across the Board
Dr. David Kerr previews what he expects are practice-changing studies in colorectal, gastric, esophageal, and hepatocellular cancer, to be presented at ASCO® 2012. Medscape Hematology-Oncology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Improved Diagnostics For Sleeping Sickness
Lies Van Nieuwenhove, researcher at the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine, has produced proteins imitating typical parts of the sleeping sickness parasite. They can be used in more efficient diagnostic tests, without the need for culturing dangerous parasites. Each year many thousands of Africans contract sleeping sickness. The cause is a unicellular parasite, a trypanosome, which is transmitted by the bite of tsetse flies. First the parasite multiplies in blood and lymph, while evading the human immune system. It then lodges in organs like heart and kidneys and finally in the brain... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)div id=medwormpbiMedWorm Sponsor Message:/i/b Have a look at a href=http://www.thepsychologydaily.comThe Psychology Daily/a, the new psychology portal powered by MedWorm, with all the latest psychology news and research updated daily./p/div
