Oklahoma Area Health Education Center at Okla-homa State University and Rural Health Projects NwAHEC will conduct a free cancer survivorship education session in Enid noon to 2 p.m. June 21 at Senior Life Network’s activity room in Oakwood Mall, 4125 W. Garriott.
This is the first of several two-hour cancer survivorship education sessions planned throughout rural [...]
If you didn’t get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award in school, the government is giving you another chance to prove you’re in shape.
An adult fitness test is being introduced Wednesday by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. It will incorporate several of the exercises that millions of students undertake each year as they [...]
More than a third of the trials contained statistical analyses that the reviewers considered inappropriate to assess the effects of an intervention being studied. And 88 percent of those studies reported statistically significant intervention effects that, because of analysis flaws, could be misleading to scientists and policymakers, the review authors say.
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Robert L. Ferris, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and colleagues previously found that the chemokine receptor 7 (CCR7) is frequently active in metastatic squamous cell cancers of the head and neck.
In the current study, Ferris and colleagues used cancer cell lines and tumor cells isolated from primary and metastatic head and [...]
Researchers looked at patterns of screen-time through high school, including total time viewing television, video, computer and the Internet. Then they examined the influence of neighborhood social factors on distinct patterns of screen-time.
%26quot;Boys and those whose parents had lower educational attainment were much more likely to be in the ‘high-screen time’ group,%26quot; said Tracie [...]
Few genes have been found to have a large impact on the risk of familial breast cancer, and researchers expect that most breast cancers are influenced by the combined effects of multiple genes, each of which has a small impact on its own. One of those genes may be AKAP9.
To determine whether a rare sequence [...]
Maria Teresa Landi, a scientist in the National Cancer Institute’s division of epidemiology and genetics, examined the spiraling lengths of DNA in lung cells to determine exactly how smoking causes genes to go awry. The study provides a broader picture of the mechanisms involved in DNA alterations, which until now, had remained largely incomplete, experts [...]
Researchers from Kent State analyzed data from nearly 500 married adults from 13 counties in northeastern Ohio and found that only about one-fifth of employed women and men were satisfied completely with the time they spend with their spouse and their children.
Men were more likely to want more time with their spouses, while women were [...]
The findings, based on animal studies and appearing in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, mark the first time arsenic has been used to label antibodies for the detection of tumors.
Dr. Philip Thorpe, professor of pharmacology at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study, helped create the cancer drug called bavituximab, an antibody that homes [...]
Instead of studying one mouse model of the disease causing the brain tumors, the laboratory of David Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D., the Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of Neurology, evaluated three. They %26quot;auditioned%26quot; the three models to see which was the best match for neurofibromatosis 1, a genetic condition that increases the risk of brain tumors [...]
