Cancer
13 Nov 2006
St. Jude announces breakthrough in eye cancer treatment
Researchers use new, localized treatment to shrink retinoblastoma tumours, avoid chemo; treatment could be effective against some breast, lung, prostate, colon cancers Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have demonstrated in a mouse model a new, locally applied treatment for the eye cancer retinoblastoma that not only greatly reduces…
Blood
07 Oct 2006
The Virtual Medical Centre Review Program- A New Model for Continuing Medical Information
The RACGP QA&CPD office (WA) recently endorsed a unique approach to the provision of continuing medical education proposed by the Virtual Medical Centre (VMC) for general practitioners. The VMC, an online provider of information for health professionals comprises 18 separate sites focussing on different diseases. Each site is headed…
Blood
06 Oct 2006
VMC Brings Breaking News from the RACGP Conference in Brisbane
This year’s Royal Australian College of General Practitioners 49th Annual Scientific Convention is being held in Brisbane from 5th – 8th October. Virtual Medical Centre is both exhibiting and lecturing at the convention. Keep posted for breaking news straight from the conference daily! The theme for this year’s convention…
Cancer
24 Sep 2006
Improved treatment raises medulloblastoma survival rate
A team of investigators led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has announced that improvements in the treatment of the childhood brain cancer medulloblastoma have significantly increased the rate of survival of children with this disease. The treatment increased the overall five-year survival for 86 children with average-risk medulloblastoma…
Cancer
24 Sep 2006
Clues to hearing loss from chemotherapy
Children with cancer who suffer hearing loss due to the toxic effects of chemotherapy might one day be able to get their hearing back through pharmacological and gene therapy, thanks to work done with mouse models at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Mice with a variety of genetic mutations that…
Cancer
11 Sep 2006
Study Links Lead Exposure to Brain Cancer in Adults
People who are routinely exposed to lead on the job are 50 percent more likely to die from brain cancer than people who are not exposed, according to a University of Rochester Medical Centre study. More than 18,000 brain and spinal cord tumours will be diagnosed in the United…
Cancer
10 Sep 2006
Mature muscle fibres can revert to become cancerous, researchers find
Mature muscle fibres, rather than their less-developed neighbours, are the tissues that turn malignant in a soft-tissue cancer that strikes children and teens, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre and Children’s Medical Centre Dallas have found. The research, performed in fruit flies, not only provides a clue to how…
Cancer
06 Sep 2006
Therapeutic Thoracentesis (Pleural Effusion Drainage)
Therapeutic thoracentesis samples pleural effusion in the lungs to check for disease. Symtoms of lung disease may include shortness of breath, chest pain and cough.
Cancer
03 Sep 2006
Pleural Effusion
Pleural effusion is an accumulation of fluid in the lungs, symptoms include cough, shortness of breath. Lung cancer, pneumonia, and asbestosis are diseases causing plural…
