The Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) announced today a collaboration for the future of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS). The announcement came at the 30th Annual Charles A. Coltman Jr. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio. [click link for full article]

After observing results in New York City and Denmark, where mandatory restrictions on trans fats were imposed, the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) Board will recommend to UK Ministers that voluntary measures in the UK should suffice. The FSA Board mentioned that voluntary measures to lower trans fat content in food has resulted low consumer intakes. In other words, they believe that introducing legislation is not needed. [click link for full article]

About 80% of HIV-positive women in the Middle East contracted the virus from their husbands, Saeed Al Zenari, United Nations Development Programme regional coordinator for HIV/AIDS programs, said Monday at a conference aimed at encouraging religious leaders to help increase prevention efforts in the region, the Gulf News reports. [click link for full article]

A new study by researchers in the US suggests that people who eat the least red and processed meat are the least likely to develop cancer compared to people who eat the most. The research is published in the journal PLoS Medicine and is the work of Amanda Cross and colleagues at the US National Cancer Institute. [click link for full article]

Delays in implementing a comprehensive HIV/AIDS education program in Washington, D.C., public schools are putting students at risk and undermining the city’s efforts to fight the disease, according to a report released Wednesday by the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, the [click link for full article]

“Diabetes poses a serious threat to [the black] community. We must do everything possible to stop our loved ones from living and dying this way,” Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) writes in an opinion piece in the Louisiana Weekly. [click link for full article]

Weill Cornell Medical College has received two grants totaling $2.4 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help fight tuberculosis, an epidemic that infects one-third of the world’s people and kills nearly two million yearly — mostly in the poorest countries.The grants will support research towards developing innovative TB drugs that are more effective than current treatment options. [click link for full article]

Cellular processes, such as when to multiply, are often regulated by switches that control the frequency and timing of interactions between proteins. North Carolina State University scientists have discovered the way in which a specific protein-protein interaction prevents the cell from turning one of its switches off, leading to uncontrolled cell proliferation - one of the hallmarks of cancer. [click link for full article]

Immigrants to the U.S. were about one-third less likely to report a family history of cancer than those born in the U.S., according to an analysis of 5,010 people who responded to the 2005 Health Information Trends Survey, HealthDay/Washington Post reports. The report — by Heather Orom of the [click link for full article]

Tears in the aorta which affect thousands of people each year coast to coast, may soon be treated with a much less invasive technique that could dramatically improve patients’ chances of survival.A national study being directed by a vascular surgeon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is exploring a new minimally invasive method that could spare patients the trauma and risk of open chest surgery.Joseph V. Lombardi, M.D. [click link for full article]