Biomedical Foundation Supports Technology Aimed At Destroying Cancer Cells

A new technology, using electric pulses to destroy cancer tissue and named by NASA Tech Briefs as one of seven key technological breakthroughs of 2007, is receiving additional support aimed at moving the procedure to the marketplace. One of its lead developers, Rafael V. Davalos, a faculty member of the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (SBES) http://www.sbes.vt. Read more ...

FDA issued warning on Amylin's diabetes drug Byetta as the agency found that Byetta has a potential risk for pancreatitis. FDA says 2 patients have died.

Zacks's analyist Mark Vickery realizing the implications for Amylin's stock owners immediate recommended to Sell the stock and avoid the name Amylin. You can already realize how serious is the FDA warning is on Byetta diabetes drug.

Here is what Vickery writes at Zacks.com:

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Initiatives Seek To Reduce Salt Intake Among Blacks, Offer Health Benefits Assistance To Hispanics, Examine Caring For People With Alzheimer's Disease

Baltimore: The city in September will launch a six-month awareness campaign about salt intake associated with high blood pressure, particularly among blacks, the Baltimore Sun reports. According to the Sun, "In a city that is nearly 65% black, the risks of hypertension, which can lead to heart attack, kidney failure and stroke, are especially high. Read more ...

It all started because of failure, a missing person who couldn't be located in time. It was and still is a story that happens monthly, if not weekly all across our nation. For families and caregivers exploring options of how to protect a loved one who wanders away from the safety of their home due to Alzheimer's, Dementia, Autism, Intellectual Disabilities or other wandering conditions, there is hope. Read more ...

Cancer Research

Today the boundaries between medical and biological disciplines have vanished. . . . In an anatomy department, biologists, chemists, and physicists can present the human body to medical students as an uninterrupted ascent from atoms to man: from the tens of atoms that make a small molecule, to the thousands of molecules that make a polymer (such as a protein or a nucleic acid), to the millions of such polymers that make a cell, to the billions of cells that make a tissue, and the trillions of specialized cells that create a body.