Julia Carson, the first African-American person to become a congresswoman, told the Indianapolis Star yesterday that she has terminal cancer. She explained that her cancer had previously gone into remission, but has returned with a “terminal vengeance”. Carson opposed the 2002 Iraq war resolution. She strived to honor Rosa Parks, the civil rights figure. [click link for full article]

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer worldwide. Prognosis of patients with HCC complicating cirrhosis mainly depends on the tumor growth, progression of the underlying liver disease and the effectiveness of antitumoral treatment. Trans-catheter treatment is extensively used to treat HCC not suitable for surgical resection or percutaneous ablation therapies. [click link for full article]

Scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) have discovered a class of natural substances that are produced by soil bacteria and prevent somatic cells from dividing. After years of in depth research, the US pharmaceuticals company Bristol Myers Squibb is now launching this agent on the American market as a treatment for cancer. The epothilones that Prof. Gerhard Hofle and Prof. [click link for full article]

Several of the world’s most eminent health scientists and organizations published a landmark global consensus on the 20 foremost measures needed to curb humanity’s most fatal diseases, their study featured in Nature magazine. Known as chronic, non-communicable diseases, they are reaching world epidemic proportions and include cardiovascular diseases (mainly heart disease and stroke), several cancers, chronic respiratory conditions, and type 2 diabetes. [click link for full article]