News tagged with cachexia
With muscle-building treatment, mice live longer even as tumors grow
In the vast majority of patients with advanced cancer, their muscles will gradually waste away for reasons that have never been well understood. Now, researchers reporting in the August 20 issue of Cell, have found some n ...
Aug 19, 2010 |
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Diabetes drug shows promise in fighting lethal cancer complication
Insulin resistance, the hallmark of type 2 diabetes and a condition often associated with obesity, is paradoxically also an apparent contributor to muscle wasting and severe fat loss that accompanies some cancers, according ...
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Muscle wasting in cancer does not spare the heart
The wasting disease associated with some cancers that is typically seen affecting skeletal muscles can also cause significant damage to the heart, new research in mice suggests.
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Ghrelin mitigates liver fibrosis in animal models; regulates human fibrosis
Spanish researchers determined that rats treated with recombinant ghrelin displayed a reduction in liver fibrosis. Ghrelin, a stomach hormone, reduced the amount of fibrogenic cells by 25% in the treated rodents. Research ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 01, 2010 |
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Promising pharmaceutical agents emerge as sports doping products
Researchers from the German Sport University Cologne in Germany found that non-steroidal and tissue-selective anabolic agents such as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs) are being sold on the black market for their ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 19, 2009 |
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A taste of help to keep cancer patients' pounds up
(AP) -- The statistic is shocking: Severe malnutrition and weight loss play a role in at least one in five cancer deaths. Yet nutrition too often is an afterthought until someone's already in trouble.
May 18, 2009 |
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Excessive weight loss can be a bad thing
Doctors are not doing enough to pick up on problems with excessive weight loss, says a Saint Louis University physician who helped draft recent guidelines to diagnose the condition called "cachexia" (kuh-kex-ee-uh).
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Explaining chemotherapy-associated nausea
A new study from the Monell Center increases understanding of the biological mechanisms responsible for the nausea and vomiting that often afflict patients undergoing chemotherapy. The findings could lead to the development ...
Jan 30, 2008 |
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Fish oil may help kidney disease sufferers
Fish oil, it's been touted as an answer to Alzheimers, arthritis and even weight-loss but now a Queensland University of Technology researcher will test its health benefits in people with chronic kidney disease.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 30, 2007 |
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