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Alan Mozes — Cases of deadly bacterial infection are rising sharply among HIV-infected males, health officials report.

Travis Giddings, DailyRX — There are two main types of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and knowing whether a patient has the aggressive or the slow version is very important to determine treatment early on. New research from the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine was presented to the Federation…

SULEIKA JAOUAD — Today, I’m writing from a hospital bed in New York City. I’m in the bone marrow transplant unit, where this week I’ve undergone 20 intensive chemotherapy treatments in anticipation of receiving my brother’s stem cells. In the year since my diagnosis with leukemia, I’ve struggled to…

Rockefeller University Press, — Targeting a single protein can help fight both breast cancers and leukemias, according to two reports published online on January 23 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
The single protein is HSP90, which acts as a chaperone to protect other proteins in the cell

New York University Langone Medical Center — A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine by NYU Cancer Institute researchers, shows how the cancer causing gene Notch, in combination with a mutated Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) protein complex, work together to cause T- cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia…

Fish oil offers numerous health benefits. It can lower risks for heart disease, cancer and neurological disorders and even help treat conditions such as high cholesterol, diabetes, inflammation, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, eye disorders and ulcers. Scientists credit the omega-3 fatty acids present in fish oil, such as DHA (docosahexaenoic acid)…

Julie D. Andrews — Recent college graduate Suleika Jaouad waited until after she had undergone chemotherapy — and been told by doctors that the treatment had not taken — to consider how to alert her 1,500 Facebook friends to the news. At first, while the then-22-year-old woman was in…

Arlene Weintraub — When her black Lab, Emmy, started limping in 2008, Kathi Streeter suspected the normal aches and pains of aging. Then came the devastating diagnosis: osteosarcoma, a deadly bone tumor. Osteosarcoma affects humans, too—mostly children, whose long-term survival rate, if the cancer spreads, is under 4…

University at Buffalo. — Will a drug used to treat childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia and other pediatric cancers cause heart problems later in life?
UB associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, Javier G. Blanco, PhD, who sees his work as a bridge between research and clinical practice, has focused recent…

University of Colorado Denver — A study recently published in the journal Leukemia identifies a mechanism that acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells use to evade chemotherapy — and details how to close this escape route.