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Public Release: 31-Aug-2009

International Journal of Cancer
Natural compounds, chemotherapeutic drugs may become partners in cancer therapy
Research in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University suggests that some natural food compounds, which previously have been studied for their ability to prevent cancer, may be able to play a more significant role in treating it -- working side-by-side with the conventional drugs that are now used in chemotherapy.

NIH/National Cancer Institute

Public Release: 31-Aug-2009
Family stability may be more crucial than 2 parents for child success
The advantage that children get from living in two-parent families may actually be due to family stability more than the fact that their parents are married. A new study finds that children who who are born and grow up in stable single-parent homes generally do as well as those in married households in terms of academic abilities and behavior problems.

NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Public Release: 31-Aug-2009
Rhode Island Hospital awarded $11 million, 5-year renewal
Rhode Island Hospital has received an $11 million renewal of a National Institutes of Health grant to fund its Center of Biomedical Research Excellence Center for Cancer Research Development. Rhode Island Hospital's COBRE CCRD offers cancer researchers access to the latest technologies in molecular pathology and the emerging field of proteomics. The 5-year grant from the NIH's National Center for Research Resources guarantees that the laboratory-based cancer research program will continue through the year 2013.

NIH/National Center for Research Resources

Public Release: 31-Aug-2009

Journal of National Cancer Institute
Family, friends may impact breast cancer surgery decision, U-M study finds
About three-quarters of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer have a friend or family member with them at their first visit with a surgeon. And that person plays a significant role in the patient's decision of what type of surgery to have, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

NIH/National Cancer Institute

Public Release: 31-Aug-2009

Annals of Internal Medicine
New assessment quantifies risks and benefits of warfarin treatment for atrial fibrillation
Warfarin therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation -- the most common type of significant heart rhythm disorder -- appears to be most beneficial for the oldest patients, those who have had a prior stroke and for patients with multiple risk factors for stroke.

NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Eliot B. and Edith C. Shoolman Fund

Public Release: 31-Aug-2009

AIDS and Behavior
High HIV infection rate among Soweto Township gays
The study's authors were the first to examine HIV and the community of men who have sex with men in the Soweto Township, an area on the periphery of Johannesburg reserved for black South Africans during apartheid. The researchers found that Soweto MSM identified themselves as straight, bisexual or gay, with the highest HIV rate among gay identified men, at 33.9 percent.

NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, Peninsula Community Foundation's Hurlbut-Johnson Fund

Public Release: 30-Aug-2009

Nature Neuroscience
Caltech neuroscientists find brain region responsible for our sense of personal space
In a finding that sheds new light on the neural mechanisms involved in social behavior, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology have pinpointed the brain structure responsible for our sense of personal space. The discovery, described in the Aug. 30 issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, could offer insight into autism and other disorders where social distance is an issue.

NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, Simons Foundation, Della Martin Foundation

Public Release: 28-Aug-2009

Molecular Therapy
UF scientists construct 'off switch' for Parkinson therapy
Addressing safety concerns related to potential gene therapies for Parkinson's disease, researchers at the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute have constructed a gene transfer therapy that can be inhibited with a common antibiotic. Experiments in rats show that the gene therapy product can be completely shut off, indicating for the first time that genes that have been irrevocably delivered to the brain to treat Parkinson's can be regulated.

NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Public Release: 27-Aug-2009

Chemistry & Biology
The path to new antibiotics
Researchers at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and University of Maryland have demonstrated that an enzyme that is essential to many bacteria can be targeted to kill dangerous pathogens. In addition, investigators discovered chemical compounds that can inhibit this enzyme and suppress the growth of pathogenic bacteria. These findings are essential to develop new broad-spectrum antibacterial agents to overcome multidrug resistance.

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Public Release: 27-Aug-2009

Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Researchers report gene associated with language, speech and reading disorders
A new candidate gene for Specific Language Impairment has been identified by a research team directed by Mabel Rice at the University of Kansas, in collaboration with Shelley Smith, University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Javier Gay�n of Neocodex, Seville, Spain. The results point toward the likelihood of multiple genes contributing to language impairment, some of which also contribute to reading or speech impairment.

NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Public Release: 27-Aug-2009

Science
Turning back the clock: Fasting prolongs reproductive life span
Scientific dogma has long asserted that females are born with their entire lifetime's supply of eggs, and once they're gone, they're gone. New findings by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, published online Aug. 27 in Science, suggest that in nematode worms, at least, this does not hold true.

National Institutes of Health, American Diabetes Association, NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Public Release: 27-Aug-2009

Arthritis Care & Research
Women with strong thigh muscles protected from symptomatic knee osteoarthritis
A new study by researchers at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics found that thigh muscle strength does not predict the occurrence of knee osteoarthritis (OA) uncovered in X-rays, but does predict incidence of painful or stiff knee OA. Women with the strongest quadriceps muscles appeared to be protected against the development of knee OA symptoms. Details of this study appear in the September issue of Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology.

NIH/National Institute on Aging

Public Release: 26-Aug-2009

New England Journal of Medicine
Disclosing financial conflicts of interest to research participants may not be enough
Disclosure of financial conflicts of interests to potential participants in research is important, but may have a limited role in managing these conflicts, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins, Duke and Wake Forest.

NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Public Release: 26-Aug-2009

New England Journal of Medicine
Conflict of interest disclosures in clinical trials need to be clearer
When enrolling patients in a clinical trial, researchers should disclose relevant financial relationships that might affect a patient's decision about participation. Now disclosure guidelines are available, based on five years of research. Patients often don't understand such disclosures, says Kevin Weinfurt, Ph.D., a medical psychologist at Duke University Medical Center and lead author.

NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute