Tag: Treatments

ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2009) Dr. Bernard Thיbaud lives in two very different worlds. As a specialist in the Stollery Children's Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, he cares for tiny babies, many of whom struggle for breath after being born weeks before they are due. Across town, in his laboratory in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta, Dr. Thיbaud dons a lab coat and peers into a microscope to examine the precise effect of stem cells on the lungs.

Microfluidics chips allow scientists to study circulating cancer cells and determine their vulnerabilities.

In a new clinical trial for prostate cancer, scientists will capture rare tumor cells circulating in patients' blood, analyze them using a specialized microchip, and use the results to try to predict how well the patient will respond to a drug. The trial reflects a new phase of personalized medicine for cancer, enabled by microfluidics technologies that can isolate scarce cancer cells and detect very small changes in gene expression. Physicians ultimately hope these chips can become a routine part of clinical care for cancer. "We need to be able to profile the tumor at the time we are considering treatment," says Howard Scher, chief of the Genitourinary Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where the trial will take place.

Hair conditioning can save your hairstyle from many problems as frizz and deterioration. Whether you opt for a professional one or you do it at home, you'll be able to give some TLC to your strands.

Be aware of the endless possibilities provided by hair care, find out more about the basic hair conditioning treatments.

Dandruff is a stubborn hair problem that can easily spoil a great hairstyle by making it dull an lifeless. There are several medical and chemical methods to get rid of dandruff - however, these often prove to be too harsh with follicles and the scalp.

Before you try more severe solutions, you might experiment with the following homemade dandruff treatments.