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Jakarta - Conjoined Indonesian twins, who were born with two heads but a single body, died of organ failure Tuesday morning, a state media report said. The babies' death was caused by the failure of vital organs, like the hearts and the lungs, the ...

IntroductionA major challenge in developing more effective therapeutic strategies for the treatment of breast cancer patients is confronting the heterogeneity of the disease, recognizing that breast cancer is not one disease but multiple disorders with distinct underlying mechanisms. Gene expression profiling studies have been used to dissect this complexity and our previous studies have identified a series of intrinsic subtypes of breast cancer that define distinct populations of patients with respect to survival. Additional work has also used signatures of oncogenic pathway deregulation to dissect breast cancer heterogeneity as well as to suggest therapeutic opportunities linked to pathway activation. Methods: We use genomic analyses to identify relationships between breast cancer subtypes, pathway deregulation, and drug sensitivity. For these studies, we use three independent breast cancer gene expression datasets to measure an individual tumor's phenotype. Correlation between pat

Peer relationships can be a real challenge for children with ADHD. Dr. Linda Sonna provides tips for helping your ADHD child develop and maintain friendships.

Hong Kong - A 37-year-old Filipino maid has died from swine flu, the first person without any underlying health problems to die from the virus in Hong Kong, a media report said Tuesday. The woman arrived in Hong Kong on June 28 and developed a sore t...

Six University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) students and two students from other universities are using satellite imagery to identify possible habitats in Alabama for the black-legged tick that carries and transmits Lyme disease. The students are interns with the NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center DEVELOP Program. DEVELOP is a competitive internship in which students work with NASA and partner-agency scientists to carry out innovative research projects.

Canadian scientists at the University of Alberta's Cross Cancer Institute are developing a new technology that integrates two existing medical devices -- medical linear accelerators, or 'linacs,' which produce powerful X-rays for treating cancer, and magnetic resonance imagers (MRIs), which are widely used to image tumors in the human body.

Striking differences in the risk factors for developing heart failure (HF) and patient prognosis exist between men and women. Men and women may also respond differently to treatment, raising concerns about whether current practices provide the best care and reinforcing the urgency for sex-specific clinical trials for HF, according to a review article published in the August 4, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

On 28th July Eric Page will take his place on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth for an hour from 10-11am as part of Antony Gormley's One & Other exhibition Eric will spend part of his hour on the Plinth wearing a 'THIVK you're still negative?' t-shirt to raise awareness of the work of Terrence Higgins Trust. THIVK is a year long campaign developed by the CHAPS partnership and launched by THT to get men to consider if they have HIV without realising.

Scientists in the US suggest that current tests for diagnosing ovarian cancer are not good enough and we need to develop better ways of detecting the disease much earlier.

Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a development-stage pharmaceutical company discovering and developing novel RNA interference (RNAi)-based therapeutics, announced data suggesting that QPI-1007 prevents progressive retinal ganglion cell (RGC) loss in an increased ocular pressure (IOP) rat model of glaucoma. The experiments performed by Prof.