Monthly Archives: February 2012

(MedPage Today) — MedPage Today debuts a new regular feature, a roundup of clinical news you might otherwise have missed. This week we lead with a report that heated car seats can leave passengers with “toasted skin syndrome.”

(MedPage Today) — Primitive germline stem cells isolated from human ovaries produced oocytes in vitro, supporting the concept that women continue to produce eggs throughout their reproductive years, investigators reported.

(MedPage Today) — Looks like the male of the human species is not due for the scrapheap after all — and that’s just one of the pieces of good news in this week’s installment of Lab Notes.

These articles were published in the week of 20 – 24 February 2012:Bioinformatics and Biology InsightsComputational De…

Libertas is pleased to announce that during the week of 20 – 24 February 2012 production commenced for the following articles:Biomarker InsightsIncreased levels of circulating and tissue mRNAs of Oct-4, Sox-2, Bmi-1 …

(MedPage Today) — Primary care physicians’ referral of cancer patients varied substantially according to the type of cancer and patient, British investigators reported.

(MedPage Today) — The proportion of breast cancers in women in their 40s detected by mammography doubled from 1990 to 2008, coinciding with a significant reduction in stage at diagnosis and significant improvement in survival, a Seattle study showed.

(MedPage Today) — Prophylactic defibrotide appeared to lower the incidence of hepatic veno-occlusive disease in pediatric patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant, European researchers found.

(MedPage Today) — The diagnostic performance of virtual colonoscopy doesn’t appear to be diminished in older patients, researchers found in a trial analysis that has reignited contention over the technology.

(MedPage Today) — Half of patients with previously treated metastatic melanoma responded to the targeted agent vemurafenib (Zelboraf), data from a phase II trial showed.