Research undertaken by the British Geriatrics Society on behalf of Help the Aged has revealed that 47% of doctors specialising in the care of older people think the NHS is institutionally ageist. 77% of doctors would support the introduction of legislation against age discrimination in the NHS. The research also revealed that 66% agreed that, in their experience, older people are less likely to have symptoms fully investigated. Read more ...
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Gastric Cancer: Magnetic-Anchor-Guided Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection Shows Promise
A prospective clinical trial from researchers in Japan shows magnetic-anchor-guided endoscopic submucosal dissection for large early gastric cancer to be a feasible and safe method in humans. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is useful in the en bloc removal (in a single large piece) of large gastric lesions because it reduces the risk of a local recurrence caused by removing the lesions piecemeal (in multiple small pieces). Read more ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Study Uncovers Long-Sought Mechanism That Limits Centriole Duplication, With Implications For Potential Cancer Treatments
Study Uncovers Long-Sought Mechanism That Limits Centriole Duplication, With Implications For Potential Cancer Treatments
Like DNA, centrioles need to duplicate only once per cell cycle. Rogers et al. uncover a long-sought mechanism that limits centriole copying, showing that it depends on the timely demolition of a protein that spurs the organelles' replication. The study appears in the January 26, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology and online at http://www.jcb.org.
Like DNA, centrioles need to duplicate only once per cell cycle. Rogers et al. uncover a long-sought mechanism that limits centriole copying, showing that it depends on the timely demolition of a protein that spurs the organelles' replication. The study appears in the January 26, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology and online at http://www.jcb.org.
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