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Facing the challenge of kidney disease - CanadaEast.com |
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CanadaEast.com
Helping to promote the event, from left, are: Sam Mayo, general manager of the Fredericton Golf Course; Ann Quigg, a dialysis patient; and Tim Fox, executive director of the NB and PEI branch of the Kidney Foundation of Canada.
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Turkey tail mushroom found to be very effective in suppressing prostate tumors in mice. |
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The Hindu.com: A team led by the Queensland University of Technology found that the turkey tail mushroom was 100 per cent effective in suppressing prostate tumour development in laboratory mice during early trials, the ‘PLoS One’ journal reported. The compound, polysaccharopeptide (PSP), which is extracted from the turkey tail mushroom, was found to target prostate cancer stem cells and suppress tumour formation in mice, according to lead scientist Dr Patrick Ling.
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Heavy smoking tied to advanced kidney cancer. |
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Health Day News: In a new study, a team from Duke University Medical Center reviewed the cases of 845 patients who had had surgery for kidney cancer -- or renal cell carcinoma -- between 2000 and 2009. They found that current and former smokers were 1.5 to 1.6 times more likely to have advanced cancer than nonsmokers.
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Off topic: BCL6 shows fantastic results against non-Hodgkins lymphoma and ALL. |
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EurekAlert: The new study demonstrated that BCL6 is also active in ALL driven by the Philadelphia chromosome (Ph+ ALL), and that a combination of RI-BPI and Gleevec virtually shuts the cancer down, says Dr. Melnick. After a long search for the source of Gleevec resistance in this form of ALL by the team at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), it appears that BCL6 is the fundamental mediator of that resistance, he explains. "This gives us an opportunity to target Gleevec resistance, something that has the potential to substantially improve outcomes for patients with this disease."
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Push to evict double amputee rejected - ABC Online |
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ABC Online
The Northern Territory Tenancy Commissioner has rejected an application from Territory Housing to evict a double amputee on renal dialysis from his public housing property. The housing department issued an eviction notice to a family
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