Month: October 2018

Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Not much is known about how bipolar disorder (BD) affects people throughout ...

Short-term ADT with RT improves survival over RT alone up to 10 years

The long-term follow up of the NRG Oncology trial RTOG 9408, studying the addition of short-term androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) to ...

More than just anatomy: sex differences in the lower urinary tract

The biological differences between women and men go beyond basic anatomy. Researchers must consider sex differences down to the cellular ...

Immunotherapy improves survival in metastatic or recurrent head and neck cancer

Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Munich, Germany, 22 October 2018 - Immunotherapy with pembrolizumab improves survival in patients ...

Patients with HPV-positive oropharynx cancer should receive chemoradiation

Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Munich, Germany, 22 October 2018 - Patients with human papilloma virus (HPV)-positive throat ...

Low-income obesity patients lose weight in new study

DURHAM, N.C. -- With the help of a free phone app, low-income obese patients with signs of cardiovascular risk lost ...

New technique reveals limb control in flies — and maybe robots

Credit: Pavan Ramdya, EPFL One of the major goals of biology, medicine, and robotics is to understand how limbs are ...

Aspirin alone a good clot buster after knee surgery

Credit: Michigan Medicine/Manifest When it comes to preventing blood clots after a knee replacement, good old aspirin may be just ...

Yale-NUS researchers discover drug cocktail that increases lifespan

Credit: Image provided by Dr Jan Gruber. A team of researchers led by Principal Investigator Dr Jan Gruber from Yale-NUS ...

Journalism study evaluates emotions on the job

Credit: QUT Media A QUT journalism academic says the current freelancer-heavy market for media professionals could be preventing photographers and ...

A topical gel to protect farmers from lethal effects of pesticides

Credit: PK Vemula lab Farmers are exposed to toxic pesticides, through skin contact and inhalation, during the spraying of pesticides. ...

Social stigma contributes to poor mental health in the autistic community

Stress related to social stigma may be the reason why autistic people experience more mental health problems than the general ...

New agent against anthrax

A team led by Professor Arne Skerra at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed an innovative strategy for ...

Researchers discovered a new mechanism of action in a first-line drug for diabetes

Credit: Lehtonen Lab / University of Helsinki For decades, metformin has been the first-line drug in the treatment of type ...

Wishful thinking is rewarded

We make judgements quite rationally or "by the gut". Not only experience and relevant information play an important role, but ...

Barriers to early clinical trial access for adolescents and young adults still exist

Munich, Germany, 21 October 2018 - Young cancer patients at the crossroads of childhood and adulthood seem to be stuck ...

Immune therapy generates promising results in hard-to-treat ankylosing spondylitis

Results from a phase 3 clinical trial indicate that patients who have not benefited from standard therapy for ankylosing spondylitis ...

Bioelectronic medicine treatment effective for lupus, pilot clinical trial shows

CHICAGO, IL -- A bioelectronic medicine device was effective in reducing pain and fatigue in patients with lupus, according to ...

First immunotherapy success for triple-negative breast cancer

There is new hope for people with an aggressive type of breast cancer, as an immunotherapy trial shows for the ...

High stroke impact in low- and middle-income countries examined at 11th World Stroke Congress