Satellites Against Skin Cancer
Sun is bad for our skin. Even if we are aware of this, it is hard to resist wanting a suntan. For this reason, melanoma occurrences have been steadily rising in Europe since 1930. (Feb. '03)
View ArticleThe Dawn of Life
European researchers are curently carrting out a zebrafish embryo study researching angiogenesis, which means the recruitment of new blood vessels as a normal process in growth and development, but...
View ArticleUncertainties surrounding nanoparticles aimed for medical use
Nanomedicine holds a lot of promise, but many questions remain before nanoparticles (NPs) can be widely used in this field. Reports revealed adverse effects in different models, but the effects in...
View ArticleEarly detection of lung cancer through breath tests
Breathing into a machine to deliver a breath sample for early detection of lung cancer is a routine test that is non invasive, safe and simple to do, so likely to be a preventive screening test...
View ArticleBreathtaking Fight Against Cancer
A new revolutionary method has been developed by Austrian scientists to improve early diagnosis of lung cancer through breath detection of tumoral cells. (Apr. '09).
View ArticleNano Nose Smells Cancer
New methods relying on an electronic nose and optoacoustics to improve prostate cancer diagnosis techniques and avoid fatal treatment delays
View ArticleGold nanoparticles enhance cancer diagnostics
Early cancer diagnosis is key to increasing patients’ chance of survival. Gold nanoparticles have attracted increasing attention from cancer researchers due to their ability to improve cancer...
View ArticleProf. Markus Affolter: "Breakthroughs in zebra fish research can be vitally...
The blood vessel research conducted by Professor Markus Affolter and his team at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel could prove indispensable in the development of new cancer treatments
View ArticleProf. Anton Amann: "Breathing gas analysis is a non-intrusive lung cancer...
Thousands of lives could be saved if tumour cells in the lung are detected earlier with the breathing gas analysis. Today most lung tumours are discovered too late for a successful treatment. But when...
View ArticleRealising the scale of chronic disease
The scale of the economic burden of chronic conditions dwarfs that of the economic crisis and climate change, suggesting the need for more prevention down to the individual level
View ArticleNanodiamonds: a cancer patient’s best friend?
Real-time monitoring of cancer cell processes could soon be possible thanks to nanometric scale diamonds used as biosensors
View ArticleAir quality models: new health prevention tools
As the link between air pollution and several illnesses has been established, air quality forecast will play an increasing role in mitigating health risk.
View ArticleTo save lives, raise tobacco taxes
A recent study finds that rising prices is, by far, the best way to tackle tobacco-related diseases while ignoring tobacco industry arguments that higher taxes would affect state revenues
View ArticleMaria Leon Roux – a taxation approach to deter smokers
Scientist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) talks tax and price polices for tobacco
View ArticleMichael Boutros: Advancing the search for new cancer drugs
High-throughput experiments enable researchers to identify potential targets for cancer treatment. But the road to new therapies is still long.
View ArticleTowards new cancer therapies
The genetics of fruit flies helps researchers to identify new targets for cancer therapy and to develop more individualised treatments.
View ArticleWhy Cells Turn Cancerous
Switching off cancer may sound like science fiction today, but this is what researchers at the German Cancer Research Center DKFZ in Heidelberg are working on.
View ArticleSaving lives during cancer surgery by separating the good from the bad
Advances in real-time hyperspectral imaging gives neurosurgeons new precision when operating on the brain, improving patient outcomes
View ArticleBreast cancer: innovative 3D device to boost research on metastasis
European researchers are working on a novel hybrid device to better understand the metastatic process of cancer cells travelling from breast to bone and fast screen new drugs against it
View ArticleEarly signs support revolutionary potential of EU clinical trials regulation
Summary: The EU Clinical Trials Regulation should help resolve problems caused by its predecessor directive and help meet needs arising from the pandemic. There will be challenges in doing so, but...
View ArticlePainting and writing to fight cancer: the importance of being “more than a...
Developing art and creativity to improve the effectiveness and delivery of healthcare. From narrative medicine to the disclosure of one’s medical records on the net: how “open sourcing” feelings and...
View ArticleFighting cancer: when survival depends on geography and education
If you’re just born in the wrong country, or social class, you may have 60% less chance of surviving cancer. On World Cancer Day, experts call to fight “inequities”: not a matter of chance, but of...
View ArticleFrom death to discrimination sentence: when surviving cancer equals being...
Being denied loans and adoptions, because of one’s medical records. The ‘return to life of many cancer survivors is a history of discrimination. European institutions and some member states are pushing...
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