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The Southern Health network has revealed its plans for a new children’s hospital in Melbourne, but it is waiting for State Government approval.
The network wants a 200 bed hospital with paedatric theatres, a cancer centre and a bigger outpatient service to be built at the Monash Medical Centre site in Clayton.
It says the project would [...]

London, Aug 25 (ANI): Apple-shaped women with a waist bigger than 88cm are at increased risk of developing asthma – even if they have a normal body weight, says a new study.

It is well-known that being overweight raises the risk of asthma but the new study, by the Northern California Cancer Centre at Berkeley, suggests [...]

Washington, Aug 19 (ANI): A new study has revealed that fatigue during radiotherapy for breast or prostate cancer might be caused by inflammation.

Lead researcher Dr Julie Bower, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles has found that patients who experience fatigue during radiotherapy for might [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): Scientists from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre have identified a protein that helps TB bacteria resist immune response, and remain latent in the body for decades.

They hope that the new discovery may lead to new [...]

Washington, July 3 (ANI): Researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre claim to have identified a cellular pathway that is involved in spread of lung cancer.

It is the same cellular pathway that has been shown to be involved with the spread of colorectal cancer, say the researchers.

The pathway enhances lung cancer’s ability to infiltrate [...]

London, June 25 (ANI): Scientists from University of Florida claim to have identified a genetic glitch responsible for the development of fatal childhood cancer.

They hope that the new discovery may provide a novel approach for developing treatments that target the disease also known as neuroblastoma.

“What makes our study so important is that although neuroblastoma accounts [...]

Washington, June 24 (ANI): A research team including an Indian origin scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital has found new biomarkers that may help in identifying patients with recurrent glioblastoma, or brain tumours.

It will help in predicting which patients would respond better to anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy, specifically cediranib, which is an investigational, oral agent [...]

Washington: Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated 1 million dollars to help displaced people in Pakistan. Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency for eight-years, has visited the country thrice, reports People magazine.
The head of the agency, António Guterres, thanked the Jolie-Pitt Foundation for its assistance, describing Pakistan’s plight “the [...]

Washington, May 22 (ANI): Researchers at Moores Cancer Centre at the University of California, San Diego have found that low levels of vitamin D may play a crucial role in cancer development.

Lead researcher Cedric Garland, professor of family and preventive medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, said that vitamin D may halt [...]

Washington, May 14 (ANI): A common anti-viral drug called ribavirin may prove to be beneficial in the treatment of cancer patients, according to a groundbreaking Canada-wide clinical trial.

Led by Dr. Katherine Borden, at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Universite de Montreal, the study has shown that that ribavirin suppresses [...]

Washington, May 04 (ANI): A new study, conducted by a team of Swiss researchers, has found that women may be more vulnerable than men to the cancer-causing effects of smoking tobacco.

For the study, the research team examined 683-lung cancer patients who were referred to a cancer centre in St Gallen between 2000 and 2005.

They [...]

Washington, May 1 (ANI): Researchers have found that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect cancerous brain cells.

The finding can open up new possibilities for neurosurgeons to fight against brain cancer.

Neurosurgeons from the City of Hope Cancer Centre, along with scientists from the Brain [...]

Washington, Apr 27 (ANI): Mayo Clinic researchers have come up with a novel diagnostic tool that not only helps detect bladder tumours but will substantially reduce the rate at which these cancers come back.

They claim that the new technique helped found more of the most [...]

Washington, Apr 23 (ANI): Researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Centre at Jefferson have found that vitamin K when combined with sorafenib can help curb pancreatic and primary liver cancers.

According to Dr Brian Carr, professor of Medical Oncology at the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, vitamin K1 or vitamin K2, combined with sorafenib (Nexavar) [...]

Washington, Apr 20 (ANI): Genetic variations in the micro-RNA (miRNA) processing pathway genes and miRNA binding sites could predict a woman’s risk of developing ovarian cancer and her prospects for survival, according to a new study.

The study by researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre was the first to examine the [...]

Washington, Apr 20 (ANI): Scientists from University of California, San Diego and the Moores UCSD Cancer Centre have identified a biomaker that may help predict aggressiveness of difficult-to-treat form of leukaemia.

The research team, led by Dr Paul A. Insel, professor of pharmacology and medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, has found that [...]

Fortis Healthcare has made announcement about the establishment of a separate block for the treating of cancer patients at its Noida Hospital.
The hospital said that it will make an investment of Rs 30 crore to set up this block.
Mr. Shivinder Mohan Singh, Fortis Healthcare Managing Director, said, “Fortis Noida is constructing a separate block for [...]

Washington, Apr 7 (ANI): In a novel study, researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre have identified a gene that protects PTEN, a major tumour-suppressor in breast cancer.

They have found that the gene known as Rak helps protect and regulate PTEN, which also is important in several other types of cancer.

“We’ve [...]

Testing for the human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer and treating it the same day as the test results cuts the death rate by 47 per cent, reports a study of 131,746 women from 52 villages across India. Of the 5 lakh cervical cancer cases reported every year worldwide, one-fifth -1 lakh – [...]

Washington, Apr 3 (ANI): Women with a family history of breast cancer can reduce their risk of developing the disease through regular exercise, say researchers.

With the evidence that reducing estrogen in the body reduces cancer risk, and that elite female athletes experience a drop in estrogen levels that often cause them to stop ovulating and [...]