Everything You Need to Know About Health: ScienceDaily Health Headlines -- for Saturday, October 25, 2008

ScienceDaily Health Headlines

for Saturday, October 25, 2008

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Secret Of Death Protein's Activation Unlocked; May Lead To Drugs That Force Cancer Cells To Self-destruct (October 24, 2008) -- Scientists have identified a previously undetected trigger point on a naturally occurring "death protein" that helps the body get rid of unwanted or diseased cells. They say it may be possible to exploit the newly found trigger as a target for designer drugs that would treat cancer by forcing malignant cells to commit suicide. ... > full story

Gene Mutation In Worms Key To Alcohol Tolerance (October 24, 2008) -- Scientists have found that a genetic mutation in worms could further understanding of alcoholism in humans. ... > full story

Should Hepatitis C Patients Who Smoke Marijuana Be Eligible For Liver Transplants? (October 24, 2008) -- The pain is debilitating. The only option: smoking medical marijuana. That's the reality for many hepatitis C patients whose road to health includes a liver transplant. Although Canadian transplant centres are more willing than those in the United States, not everyone says yes to liver patients who smoke marijuana, and a University of Alberta researcher says that decision-making process is unacceptable. ... > full story

Promising New Obesity Drug May Have Huge Potential (October 24, 2008) -- According to trials, a new obesity drug, Tesofensine, which may be launched on the world market in a few years, can produce weight loss twice that of currently approved obesity drugs. ... > full story

Seeing Red -- In The Number 7 (October 24, 2008) -- Hypnosis can induce synaesthetic experiences -- where one sense triggers the involuntary use of another according to a new study in Psychological Science. ... > full story

Cancer Treatment: How Eating Fruit And Vegetables Can Improve Cancer Patients' Response To Chemotherapy (October 24, 2008) -- The leading cause of death in all cancer patients continues to be the resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapy, a form of treatment in which chemicals are used to kill cells. A new study shows that ingesting apigenin -- a naturally occurring dietary agent found in vegetables and fruit -- improves cancer cells' response to chemotherapy. Apigenin localizes tumor suppressor p53, a protein, in the cell nucleus -- a necessary step for killing the cell. ... > full story

Child Abuse Increases Risk For Later Sexually Coercive Behavior In Some Men (October 24, 2008) -- Researchers trying to identify factors that put men at risk for committing sexual coercion have found that being victims of both childhood physical and sexual abuse made them 4.5 times more likely to engage in sexually coercive behavior than men who were not abused. ... > full story

Chemists Devise Self-assembling 'Organic Wires' (October 24, 2008) -- Chemists have created water-soluble electronic materials that spontaneously assemble themselves into tiny "wires" that can be used in the human body. ... > full story

Gene Expression Pattern Predicts Response In Advanced Bowel Cancer (October 24, 2008) -- Research has shown for the first time that identifying patterns of gene expression can be used to predict response to treatment in patients with advanced metastatic colorectal cancer. ... > full story

New Hope For Multiple Sclerosis Sufferers (October 24, 2008) -- A drug which was initially designed to treat a form of leukemia has also proven effective against combating the debilitating neurological disease multiple sclerosis. ... > full story

Heart Failure Patients Have Higher Risk Of Fractures (October 24, 2008) -- Heart failure patients have four times the risk of fractures and 6.3 times the risk of hip fracture as other heart patients. Heart failure patients should be screened and treated for osteoporosis if necessary, researchers said. ... > full story

Genomic Changes Found In Brains Of People Who Commit Suicide (October 24, 2008) -- New light is being shed on the complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors as the result of growth in the field of epigenetics. ... > full story

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