The additional offender groans. You’re not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence. A new Northwestern University study of human behavior has determined that those who wrote letters using pen and paper — long before electronic mail existed — did so in a [...]
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Nanosponge drug delivery system better than direct injection
June 3rd, 2010
admin When loaded with an anticancer drug, a delivery system based on a novel material called nanosponge is three to five times more effective at reducing tumor growth than direct injection. That is the conclusion of a paper published in the June 1 issue of the journal Cancer Research. “Effective targeted drug delivery systems have been [...]
New mechanism of pancreatic cancer discovered
May 31st, 2010
admin [PRESS RELEASE, 31 May 2010] A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows how two types of cell change interact in the development of cancer. The results can improve the chances of early discovery of cancer – including pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the disease. Cancer of the pancreas is a form of [...]
Patients’ problems often misunderstood by caring staff
May 31st, 2010
admin Problems patients experience due to dental or skin conditions are often differently perceived by care providers. This is shown in a dissertation by Francesca Sampogna, a researcher in epidemiology at Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata in Rome. “To limit this problem, specific courses in communication should be included in the training of health-care personnel,” she says. On [...]
Exercise improves the defenses of cancer patients, experts say
May 29th, 2010
admin Cancer patients should engage in physical exercise because it improves the body’s defenses, aiding recovery and preventing clinical complications different side-motivation and self-esteem, increase social relations and greater capacity for empathy, and increased well-being and personal happiness, as experts have pointed out during the day ‘Sport and oncological diseases, an alliance of patient benefit. ”

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