Eating Walnuts Slows Cancer Growth, Laboratory Study Finds

Snack-sized quantities of walnuts slow cancer growth in mice, reports a Marshall University pilot study published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nutrition and Cancer.
Researcher W. Elaine Hardman, Ph.D., of Marshall’s Joan C. Edwards School [...]

Boston Scientific Announces FDA Approval Of TAXUS(R) Express2(TM) Atom(TM) Stent System, First Drug-Eluting Stent For Small Vessels

Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its TAXUS(R) Express2(TM) Atom(TM) Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System. The TAXUS Express Atom Stent is a highly deliverable drug-eluting stent (DES) specifically designed for treating small coronary vessels. It [...]

New Hope For Patients With Advanced Liver Disease

While there are many causes of advanced liver disease, fatty liver, or NASH (nonalcoholic steatohepatitis), has become the second leading cause of liver transplant in the United States. Obesity, along with elevated cholesterol and diabetes, has long been known to cause increased fat stores, which may be injurious to the [...]

DiagnoCure’s GCC Marker For The Staging Of Colorectal Cancer Discussed At Two Scientific Meetings

DiagnoCure Inc. (TSX: CUR), a life sciences company commercializing high-value cancer diagnostic tests and delivering laboratory services, announced that its Guanylyl Cyclase C (GCC) marker for identifying colorectal cancer cells is being featured at two scientific meetings this [...]

World Stroke Congress 2008: “Silent Stroke” Much More Common Than Assumed – World Congress To Discuss Novel Prevention Strategies

“Little strokes, big trouble,” is the theme of this year’s World Stroke Day on October 29th. Subclinical strokes, which are a risk factor for strokes and dementia, are very common and affect every tenth apparently healthy middle-aged person. The WSO World Stroke Day Proclamation aims to improve global awareness of the “preventable catastrophe” stroke represents. [...]