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Researchers from Research Institute of the MUHC and McGill University have identified environment surrounding breast cancer cells plays a crucial role in determining whether tumor cells grow and migrate or whether they fade away. The study, published in Nature Medicine, show that a tumor needs the support of the micro environment. The study show different patients have distinct tumor micro environments at a gene level. The gene profile of these distinct micro environments can be used to determine clinical outcome.

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Three groups of scientists have independently identified two genetic variations in chromosome 15 as a major reason for developing lung cancer. They however hold differing opinion as to whether the variation causes the disease directly or by increasing addiction to cigarettes.

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The air pollution emitted by brick kilns in Rawalpindi is causing serious health problems like asthma, lung cancer and in some cases serious eye infections among its inhabitants. There are nearly 50 brick kilns in the Rawalpindi and Islamabad jurisdiction. But the state authority is silent over the issue.

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A state air-quality official said a recently released study shows the levels of air pollution-related cancer risks around the BNSF Railway yard in San Bernardino are on a high. It can be mentioned that San Bernardino has a whole bunch emission of sources in one place.

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A working class suburb of Chile’s capital began handing out free Viagra to senior citizens on Wednesday because “an active sexuality improves the overall quality of life”, according to Lo Prado Mayor Gonzalo Navarrete.

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In a move that has stunned HIV experts, German scientists reported yesterday that they had engineered an enzyme that attacked the DNA of the HIV virus, and cut it out of the infected cell.

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James Dodd of Hanford, who once weighed 444 pounds, had weight-reduction surgery in Mexico after his insurance company refused to fund it. He says medical care in Mexico, if researched well, is equivalent to care in the U.S. at a fraction of the cost.

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A new, non-surgical procedure called radio-frequency ablation (RFA) offers new hope for patients with inoperable kidney and liver tumors. RFA uses heat to “vaporize”

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Patients infected with both hepatitis B and HIV should not take the hepatitis-fighting drug Baraclude on its own, new research confirms.

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GenVec, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNVC), announced today that the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has begun a Phase I clinical trial to test a novel vaccine known as Ad35HIV-EnvA to prevent HIV-1 infection.

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