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Cancer Clinical Trials: What is a Clinical Trial?

Clinical trials are research studies that test how well new medical approaches work in people. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) supports a vast array of clinical trials designed to test new ways to treat, prevent, detect or diagnose cancer as well as new methods to improve cancer patients’ quality of life.

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• Determining Risk For Pancreatic Cancer

In the latest clinical trial for a technique to detect pancreatic cancer, researchers found they could differentiate cells that are cancerous from those that are benign, pre-cancerous, or even early stage indicators called mucinous cystic lesions.

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Aldosterone Blockers

Dr. George Bakris reports that two Aldosterone receptor blocking drugs spironolactone and eplerenone have swiftly become important, second-line antihypertensive drugs for obese patients.

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• Scientists Manipulate Bacteria Into Generating Their Own Vaccine

Scientists have developed a way to manipulate bacteria so they will grow mutant sugar molecules on their cell surfaces that could be used against them as the key component in potent vaccines.

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• Normalize HPA Axis By Suppressing It

“In a paper from January 2009, doctors out of Canada proposed a new theory about treating a suppressed HPA axis (which may be an issue for CFS patients), by suppressing it further.

This is just a theory and hasn’t yet been used in humans or even animals. But is a new an interesting way that the HPA axis could be restored after being stuck in a hypocortisol state.”

Read the entire blog to find out more about this current theory on chronic fatigue treatment.

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Cardiologists Recommend Healthy Heart Habits

February may be American Heart Month, but keeping your heart healthy is a year-round proposition. Eating a nutritious diet and exercising regularly are two pillars of good health. However, a new study shows that nearly three-quarters of cardiologist would add another recommendation: taking dietary supplements.

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• Fat Tissue Around Blood Vessels Inflamed By High Fat Diets, This Contributes To Heart Disease

A study by researchers at the University of Cincinnati shows that high-fat diets, even if consumed for a short amount of time, can inflame fat tissue surrounding blood vessels, possibly contributing to cardiovascular disease. These findings will be published in the Feb. 20 edition of the American Heart Association journal Circulation Research.

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• It Only Takes A Second

When you think about how many bits of personal information hospitals and other healthcare providers gather on every patient or client who comes through their doors, it’s amazing most are able to keep those bits private. A thoughtless moment is all it can take to cross that HIPAA line into uncharted and unintended territory.
So what do you do when you’re on the other side of that line?
This blog discusses an incidence where HIPPA lines are crossed and what one employee did to rectify it.

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Lyme Disease Scientific Breakthrough: Dr. Mitchell Kronenberg Interview 2/1/2009

Dr. Mitchell Kronenberg, PhD., president and scientific director, was interviewed on his latest discovery on Natural Killer T Cells (NK T cells) and Lyme disease. NK T cells are being looked at experimentally in the role of infectious diseases, specifically Lyme disease. The NK T cell can recognize the part of the organism that causes the Lyme disease. The more NK T cells a person has, the more likely they are to be able to fight the Lyme bacteria in the blood. The conceptualization is to give humans substances which will increase the NKT cells. The hypothesis is that people with Lyme disease may have a lower level of NK T cells.