Blog Alert for Health News from Medical News Today, Jul 21, 2013

New Posts to Health News from Medical News Today on Jul 21, 2013:

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1) Cell phone game joins fight against cancer
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~3/Pnxb4HV73E8/263660.php

Featured Article
Main Category: Cancer / Oncology

Article Date: 21 Jul 2013 - 1:00 PDT

Anyone fancy a game of cancer hunting? The charity Cancer Research UK has announced a partnership with an England-based software agency to develop a game in which the general public can analyze cancer data while playing. Scientists hope the game will help them recognize new causes of cancer.

Scientists from the charity are using cancer patients' genetic fingerprints to find ways to treat the disease in a much more focused way, but they have encountered a snag: their research is producing "terabytes upon petabytes of data requiring analysis."

To analyze the data - which must be looked at by a human eye rather than by a machine - Cancer Research UK is working with a company called Guerilla Tea to develop a game called GeneGame. The potential of having thousands of eyes on the data means it can be [...]

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2) Brain tumor cells and blood vessels targeted by nano drug that can cross the blood-brain barrier
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~3/FL8a0emdMTQ/263601.php

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology

Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience

Article Date: 21 Jul 2013 - 0:00 PDT

An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood-brain tumor barrier, kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James).

The laboratory and animal study also shows how the agent, called SapC-DOPS, targets tumor cells and blood vessels. The findings support further development of the drug as a novel treatment for brain tumors.

Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer, with a median survival of about 15 months. A major obstacle to improving treatment for the 3,470 cases of the disease expected in [...]

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3) Saving 2 lives with a single donated liver
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~3/PZi9ehrcCfQ/263602.php

Main Category: Transplants / Organ Donations

Also Included In: Liver Disease / Hepatitis;  Pediatrics / Children's Health

Article Date: 21 Jul 2013 - 0:00 PDT



Split liver transplantation carries no increased risk of failure in either recipient, allowing surgeons to safely save two lives from a single donated organ (graft), according to new research from Boston Children's Hospital published online in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Due to their regenerative nature, livers donated by a deceased adult or adolescent can be surgically split into two unequally sized portions; the smaller segment is allocated to a young child awaiting transplant and the larger portion to an adult.

"Infants waiting for a donor liver have the highest waitlist mortality of all liver transplant candidates, and dozens of children die each year waiting for size-appropriate organs to become [...]

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