Now that screening for genes that predispose a woman to breast cancer is routinely available, women at an increased risk are looking for ways to keep themselves healthy. Insoo Bae, PhD, a junior faculty member of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center received a $2 million research award from Susan G. Komen for the Cure to do just that. [click link for full article]

The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is proud to announce that it is collaborating closely with the Portuguese EU Presidency on a key European meeting on health care issues, where cancer will be an important part of the agenda. [click link for full article]

University of Florida researchers have identified a set of proteins that appear to signal the presence of bladder cancer, a discovery they hope will lead to a simple, fast and noninvasive test that can detect the disease early.Working with colleagues at the University of Michigan, the scientists used advances in technology to isolate nearly 200 proteins from the urine of patients with and without bladder cancer. [click link for full article]

The acetaminophen (paracetamol) overdose rate in Calgary, Canada dropped by over 40% in the decade to 2004, without a change to the smaller pack sizes that were credited with overdose reductions in the UK. The results published n the online open access journal BMC Public Health suggest that young women, Aboriginals and those on social security remain at greatest risk.A University of Calgary, Canada team led by Dr. [click link for full article]

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a protein absorbs lipids in the upper part of the intestine, and they believe its key role in this process may provide a novel approach for obesity treatment in the future.Principal investigator Nada A. Abumrad, Ph.D., the Dr. Robert C. [click link for full article]

A new Wesley Research Institute project aims to make it much easier for people to manage their Type 2 Diabetes by using community pharmacists.There are more than one million Australians with Type 2 Diabetes who are at an increased risk of developing serious health problems including heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and blindness. [click link for full article]

Given that healthy women “deliver not just babies but paychecks and economic growth,” it is a “mystery why maternal and newborn health still receives inadequate international attention and funding,” Jill Sheffield, president of Family Care International, writes in a [click link for full article]

The Wall Street Journal on Thursday examined the criminal investigation of the pediatric device company NuMed and its President and CEO Allen Tower. NuMed manufactures custom-made catheters, therapeutic balloons and stents for children. Tower is being investigated by [click link for full article]

The San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday examined the increasing incidence of gastroschisis, a prenatal disorder in which parts of a fetus’ intestines grow outside of its body and contaminate the amniotic sac. Researchers say gastroschisis incidence in the U.S. has doubled in the last two decades. [click link for full article]

Anybody who has tried to concentrate on work while suffering a headache knows that pain compellingly commands attention — which is how evolution helped ensure survival in a painful world. Now, researchers have pinpointed the brain region responsible for pain’s ability to affect cognitive processing. They have found that this pain-related brain region is distinct from the one involved in cognitive processing interference due to a distracting memory task. [click link for full article]