Geriatric Medicine Doctors in Midlothian, VA Accepting Medicare

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Dr. Tahira Naviwala, MD Internal Medicine - Geriatric Medicine Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 14051 St Francis Blvd, Suite 2209, Midlothian, VA 23114 Phone: 804-288-2673    Fax: 804-639-8069

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TSRI scientists awarded grant to develop new therapeutic approaches for lung cancer

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have been awarded approximately $1.8 million from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to identify the signaling pathways that underlie lung cancer and to use this information to develop new therapeutic approaches.

NVHR supports IOM report on inadequate federal funding for chronic viral hepatitis

With today's release of a landmark study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Hepatitis and Liver Cancer: A National Strategy for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis B and C, finding that inadequate public-health resources are being allocated to national and local prevention, control, and surveillance programs, the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) today renewed its call for the Administration, Congress, and the entire health care system to take immediate and decisive action to implement the report's key recommendations.

AVEO to present data on tivozanib Phase 1b trial for breast cancer at SABCS Symposium

AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing cancer therapeutics, today announced that new clinical data from a Phase 1b trial evaluating the company's lead product candidate, tivozanib, a highly potent and selective inhibitor of VEGF receptors 1, 2, and 3, in combination with paclitaxel (Taxol), a standard chemotherapy regimen, will be presented during the 33rd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) being held December 8-12, 2010 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.

BMI concerns raised for childhood stem cell transplantation survivors

Childhood survivors of hematologic malignancies treated with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation should undergo long-term monitoring of their body mass index and lean body mass, US researchers recommend.

Brain's reward system in obese people operates differently in response to food and dopamine

As young people reach adulthood, their preferences for sweet foods typically decline. But for people with obesity, new research suggests that the drop-off may not be as steep and that the brain's reward system operates differently in obese people than in thinner people, which may play a role in this phenomenon.

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