February 1, 2011
Medical detectives find their first new disease: Doctors at the NIH are working on solving unanswered questions about a new disease.
What’s a little swine flu outbreak among friends?: A study finds that kids who catch the swine flu are more likely to contract it from friends than classmates.
Pneumonia DNA morphs to dodge vaccines: Learn how a single strand of pneumonia has grown over the past 30 years.
Childhood: obesity and school lunches: Researchers say another factor in childhood obesity may be school lunches.
February 8, 2011
Social scientist sees bias within: Does Psychology attract a more liberal population?
On evolution, biology teachers stray from lesson plan: A recent study finds that 28% of biology teachers consistently follow the recommendations of the National Research Council to describe evolution.The matriarch of modern cancer genetics: Read an interview with Janet Davison Rowley, a premiere researcher in modern cancer genetics.
Drugmakers’ fever for the power of RNA interference has cooled: The development of new drugs using RNA interference may not be as promising as once thought.
Lymph node study shakes pillar of breast cancer care: A new study shows that a routine procedure in breast cancer care may not be necessary.
The "lymph node" study was definitely my favorite last week, for both personal and scientific reasons.
ReplyDeleteMy aunt is a breast cancer survivor, now nearly 12 years post-diagnosis. Her disease was high-risk and required VERY aggressive treatment--surgical, chemo, and radiation (RT). She did have lymphadenectomy and does suffer from lymphedema, but she's still a dynamo as always.
Scientifically, I loved this study as an example of how science *changes*. It's not that lymphadenectomy does NOT remove metastases that could be troublesome, but just that other elements of the now-standard of care treatment remove those metastases (in some cases) just as well. The standard of care changed, so each element should be re-evaluated for its *current* contribution.
Way cool.