UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital experts to present at ASH
CLEVELAND: Researchers from the Angie Fowler Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer Institute at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital...
Research shows patients ineligible for studies may benefit from trial participation
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Patients who potentially could benefit most from participation in clinical trials due to poor prognoses...
CD19-targeting CAR T-cell immunotherapy yields high responses in treatment-resistant CLL
SEATTLE - In a small, early phase trial, a high percentage of patients who had exhausted most traditional treatments for...
After gene therapy, hemophilia B patients maintain near-normal levels of clotting factor
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers are reporting the highest and most sustained levels to date of the essential blood-clotting...
Study estimates global cancer cases, deaths in 2015
In 2015, there were an estimated 17.5 million cancer cases around the globe and 8.7 million deaths, according to a...
Biomarker may predict which formerly treated cancer patients will develop highly fatal form of leukemia
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Patients successfully treated for breast, colon and other cancers can go on to develop an...
Indigenous seafood consumption 15 times higher per capita than national averages
Credit: Lindsay Lafreniere Study highlights: Authors developed a global database of over 1900 Indigenous communities and estimated seafood consumption at...
New aspect of atom mimicry for nanotechnology applications
Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology In nanotechnology control is key. Control over the arrangements and distances between nanoparticles can allow...
Mechanism of probiotic health promotion revealed
Washington, DC - December 2, 2016 - In several clinical trials, the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus paracasei DG has been shown...
Seafood consumption 15 times higher among Indigenous than non-Indigenous people
Credit: Colette Wabnitz Coastal Indigenous people eat on average 15 times more seafood per person than non-Indigenous people in the...
Evaluation of scientific rigor in animal research
The "reproducibility crisis" in biomedical research has led to questions about the scientific rigor in animal research, and thus the...
What makes your voice yours?
Washington, D.C., December 2, 2016 -- What are the characteristics of the way you say, "hello," (or anything else for...
Team to build health informatics platform for patient care coordination
Credit: UT Dallas Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas will take part in a project that aims to...
Overcoming the limitations of optical microscopy
Credit: Copyright: Benjamin Judkewitz, Charité. Having played a central role in the advent of modern life sciences, optical microscopy is...
Cataracts linked to increased odds of depression in older adults
December 2, 2016 - Older adults with cataracts are more likely to have symptoms of depression, reports a study in...
Treatment significantly reduces chemotherapy-induced hearing loss in children
Investigators from Children's Hospital Los Angeles and 37 other Children's Oncology Group hospitals in the U.S. and Canada have determined...
NASA’s AIM observes early noctilucent ice clouds over Antarctica
Credit: NASA/HU/VT/CU-LASP/AIM/Joy Ng, producer Data from NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, spacecraft shows the sky over...
Alpha blockers more effective for large kidney stones
Credit: University of Michigan Health System Nearly one in 11 Americans will have a kidney stone in their lifetime, causing...
Novel anti-PSMA imaging agent quickly identifies prostate cancer lesions
Credit: Neeta Pandit-Taskar, M.D., and Michael J. Morris, M.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New research demonstrates that a novel...
Controlling chain conformations to enhance electronic devices
Controlling the way fluorinated polymer chains twist and turn may enable fast and flexible electrical circuits, according to collaborative research...