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Friday, October 16th, 2009

Good News for Chemotherapy Patients, Exercise Greatly Reduce Fatigue after Chemotherapy Treatment

Everyone knows that a regular exercise regime can do wonders for the state of their overall well being, but a new study has revealed that a supervised exercise program may be just the ticket for those people who perhaps least feel like beginning one – those who are undergoing chemotherapy. For those undergoing chemotherapy to [...]

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

How New Strategy for Targeted Chemotherapy can Make it More Effective?

Researchers at the University of California in Irving have managed to discover a way to greatly improve the way chemotherapy is used to target specific organs and even specific cells. The researchers used liposomes, which are small spheres less than 100 nanometers in diameter, of naturally occurring lipid molecules as packages for the chemotherapeutic agent [...]