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Virus Shows Promise as Prostate Cancer Treatment
February 25, 2013 A recombinant Newcastle disease virus kills all kinds of prostate cancer cells, including hormone resistant cells, but leaves normal cells unscathed, according to a new article. A treatment for ... > full story -
Scientists Find Genes Linked to Human Neurological Disorders in Sea Lamprey Genome
February 24, 2013 Scientists have identified several genes linked to human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury, in the sea lamprey, a vertebrate fish whose ... > full story -
Scientists Find Bone-Marrow Environment That Helps Produce Infection-Fighting T and B Cells
February 24, 2013 Medical researchers have deepened the understanding of the environment within bone marrow that nurtures stem cells, this time identifying the biological setting for specialized blood-forming cells ... > full story -
Endocrine Disorder Is Most Common Cause of Elevated Calcium Levels
February 21, 2013 Researchers have found that unusually high calcium levels in the blood can almost always be traced to primary hyperparathyroidism, an undertreated, underreported condition that affects mainly women ... > full story -
Gains Made Towards Treatment of Rare Bone Disease
February 20, 2013 Diagnosed in toddlers, X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is the most common form of heritable rickets, in which soft bones bend and deform, and tooth abscesses develop because infections penetrate soft ... > full story -
Balsam for the Bones: Chemists Develop a Nanopaste for the Repair of Bone Defects
February 20, 2013 Following accidents or cancer surgery surgeons often have to transplant healthy bone tissue or synthetic material to repair the resulting bone defects. Unfortunately, these procedures do not always ... > full story -
Steroid Injection May Lead to Worse Outcomes in Patients With Spinal Stenosis
February 19, 2013 For patients with spinal stenosis, epidural steroid injections (ESI) may actually lead to worse outcomes—- whether or not the patient later undergoes surgery, according to a new ... > full story -
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Degenerative Cervical Spine Disease May Not Progress Over Time
February 19, 2013 Follow-up data on patients with degenerative disease of the upper (cervical) spinal vertebrae show little or no evidence of worsening degeneration over time, according to a new ... > full story -
Researchers Coat Spinal Polymer Implants With Bioactive Film to Improve Bonding With Bone
February 19, 2013 Researchers have for the first time successfully coated polymer implants with a bioactive film. The discovery should improve the success rate of such implants -- which are often used in spinal ... > full story -
Bone Marrow Cells Used in Bladder Regeneration
February 18, 2013 A new approach to bladder regeneration uses bone marrow cells to recreate the organ's smooth muscle, vasculature and nerve ... > full story
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