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Gene found for rare and deadly childhood cancer
Reuters
Monday, August 25, 2008
Gene found for rare and deadly childhood cancer
WASHINGTON - Researchers have found a gene that causes most inherited forms of neuroblastoma, a rare and deadly form of childhood cancer, and say the discovery points to new treatments. Mutations in a gene called ALK were strongly linked to neuroblastoma, the researchers from the United States, Italy and Belgium reported on Sunday. They said several companies already are working on drugs that target this gene, which is also mutated in some cases of lung cancer and lymphoma.
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Poor treatment may cause “untreatable” TB: study
WASHINGTON - Poor treatment may be fueling the rise of an especially hard to treat form of tuberculosis called extensively drug resistant or XDR TB, doctors reported on Sunday. But they said their project, based at a remote Siberian prison, showed they could successfully treat nearly half the patients with XDR TB. It also suggested that better treatment of patients with other forms of multiple-drug-resistant TB would help prevent the infection from worsening into the XDR form.
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Maple Leaf expects meat recall to cost $19 million
TORONTO - Maple Leaf Foods Inc (MFI.TO) said on Sunday it expects a direct cost of about C$20 million ($19 million) from a recall of contaminated meat linked to an outbreak of food poisoning that has killed at least four people in Canada. Health authorities said on Saturday genetic tests had determined that a Toronto plant operated by Maple Leaf was the source of meat contaminated with listeria bacteria.
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