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Surprising results from two new studies may reopen debate about the value of Avastin for breast cancer. The drug helped make tumors disappear in certain women with early-stage disease, researchers found....

Researchers found that people who ate baked or broiled fish at least once a week had more gray matter in areas of the brain that are at risk for Alzheimer’s disease.

(MedPage Today) -- The narrowing and disappearance of small airways before the onset of emphysema accounts for the greater peripheral airway resistance seen in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, researchers found.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A simple blood test could someday quantify a smoker's lung toxicity and danger of heart disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

Falls may be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease, researchers report.

In a study of 125 older adults who appeared physically and cognitively healthy, two-thirds of those with large deposits of Alzheimer's-associated plaque in their brains suffered falls.

(MedPage Today) -- In both untreated and previously treated hepatitis C patients, an investigational drug improved outcomes in a hard-to-treat type of the disease, researchers reported.

(MedPage Today) -- The prognosis of chronic granulomatous disease may depend more on immune cells' residual production of reactive oxygen intermediates than the specific mutation that caused the disease, researchers found.

(MedPage Today) -- Survival rates were high after kidney transplant in a cohort of HIV-infected patients with end-stage renal disease, researchers reported.

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) In a study that sheds new light on the causes of Parkinson's disease, researchers report that brain cells in Parkinson's patients abandon their energy-producing machinery, the mitochondria.

(University of Michigan Health System) A cell type that causes significant scarring in lung disease appears to have a similar effect in Graves' disease, researchers have found.

The cells, called fibrocytes, are present at a higher than normal frequency in patients with Graves' disease, according to a new study, the first to associate fibrocytes with this autoimmune disease.