Targeted radiotherapy for breast cancer offers good quality of life and fewer side effects
Barcelona, Spain: Quality of life for women treated with a more targeted radiotherapy treatment - called accelerated partial breast irradiation...
Shorter courses of prostate cancer radiotherapy are safe and effective
Barcelona, Spain: Radiotherapy given in high doses over a shorter period of time is safe and effective for prostate cancer...
Researchers describe role of novel mutations in fosfomycin resistance
Madrid, Spain: Researchers identified novel chromosomal mutations and described their role in the development of resistance of Escherichia coli (E....
Multiple sclerosis may be linked to sheep disease toxin
Exposure to a toxin primarily found in sheep could be linked to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans,...
Addition precautions at hospital don’t help prevent spread of resistant bacteria
Madrid, Spain: Contact precautions, used in addition to the standard precautions, the basic level of infection control applied to all...
Avoid piperacillin-tazobactam when treating BSI cause by ceftriaxone-resistant pathogens
Madrid, Spain: The antibiotic combination treatment piperacillin-tazobactam was significantly less effective than meropenem when treating potentially fatal bloodstream infections (BSI)...
Correcting tiny differences in patient’s position for radiotherapy could increase survival chances
Barcelona, Spain: Very small differences in the way a patient lies during radiotherapy treatment for lung or oesophageal cancer can...
Seven-day antibiotic course delivers similar outcomes to 14-days for Gram-negative bacteraemia
Madrid, Spain: A seven-day course of antibiotic treatment for Gram-negative bacteraemia (GNB), a serious infection that occurs when bacteria get...
6-day antibiotic cellulitis therapy results in faster, greater relapse than 12-day course
Madrid, Spain: Cellulitis treated with a six-day course of intravenous antibiotic flucloxacillin resulted in greater rates of relapse at 90...
Gene linked to fatal outcomes in P. aeruginosa BSI may be used as marker, target
Madrid, Spain: Researchers discovered an easily measured gene linked to a high fatality rate, which could be used as a...
Compound improves stroke outcome by reducing lingering inflammation
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 20, 2018) - An experimental compound appears to improve stroke...
Faster walking heart patients are hospitalized less
Ljubljana, Slovenia - 20 April 2018: Faster walking patients with heart disease are hospitalised less, according to research presented today...
In many countries, bone health may be at risk due to low calcium intake
Credit: IOF The new interactive Global Map of Dietary Calcium Intake in Adults, launched today by the International Osteoporosis Foundation...
Russian scientists learned to perform the diagnose by analyzing saliva
Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Nature endowed the human with an unique protective system, the immunity. It is...
Immune diversity among the KhoeSan population
AURORA, Colo. (April 20, 2018) - A new study of the KhoeSan of Southern Africa has improved the understanding of...
New microscope reveals biological life as you’ve never seen it before
Credit: Boston Children's Hospital Astronomers developed a "guide star" adaptive optics technique to obtain the most crystal-clear and precise telescopic...
A new collaboration to maximize the benefits of radiation oncology
Despite being very effective and widely used, radiation oncology treatment still suffers from a lack of collective knowledge on how...
HKU medical chemists discover peptic ulcer treatment metallodrug effective in ‘taming’ superbugs
Credit: The University of Hong Kong Antimicrobial resistance posed by "superbugs" has been a major public health issue of global...
How do people die in Switzerland today?
Today, almost two thirds of deaths in Switzerland are not unexpected. How does the cultural context specific to each linguistic...
A CNIC-coordinated project is set to receive €1 million in funding over the next 3 years
(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares) An international research effort led by the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III will...
