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Growth in telehealth from 2016 to 2017 outpaces other venues of care
FAIR Health market indices and trending reports once again bring valuable visibility into patient migratory patterns and healthcare costs NEW...
Enhanced recovery after spine surgery: 15 new articles in the April Neurosurgical Focus
Credit: © 2019 AANS CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (APRIL 1, 2019). The April issue of Neurosurgical Focus (thejns.org/toc/foc/46/4) contains 15 new articles...
Just an hour of weekly walking staves off disability
All brisk walking, even short walks, help prevent disability in older adults with osteoarthritis CHICAGO --- Just one hour a...
New evidence about why clear margins in breast cancer surgery are such good news
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 1, 2019) - When a breast cancer tumor is removed...
New glioblastoma vaccine shows promising results in phase Ib clinical trial
A brain-cancer vaccine more than 20 years in the making suspends cancer growth in patients enrolled in early-stage trial. (PHILADELPHIA)...
CD40 combination therapy can shrink pancreatic tumors
Study results to be presented during a plenary session at AACR Annual Meeting ATLANTA - A new combination of immunotherapy...
Excess body weight before 50 is associated with higher risk of dying from pancreatic cancer
ATLANTA --Excess weight before age 50 may be more strongly associated with pancreatic cancer mortality risk than excess weight at...
Pancreatic Cancer Collective funds two AI teams to identify high-risk populations
Computational tools seek to identify pancreatic cancer earlier, provide more opportunities for timely, effective treatmentsCredit: Pancreatic Cancer Collective (ATLANTA -...
Immunotherapy combination effective for patients with rare neuroendocrine cancer
Credit: Hope Foundation for Cancer Research A combination of two common immunotherapy drugs shrinks rare, aggressive neuroendocrine tumors, according to...
Adding savolitinib to osimertinib beneficial for certain pretreated lung cancer patients
ATLANTA -- Adding the investigational MET inhibitor savolitinib to the EGFR inhibitor osimertinib (Tagrisso) yielded clinical responses in patients who...
Immune checkpoint inhibitor combo efficacious for patients with neuroendocrine carcinoma
ATLANTA -- A combination of the anti-CTLA-4 immunotherapeutic ipilimumab (Yervoy) and the anti-PD-1 immunotherapeutic nivolumab (Opdivo) showed clinical benefit among...
HER2-targeted CAR T-cell therapy shows promising antitumor activity in patients with sarcoma
ATLANTA -- A combination of chemotherapy and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells designed to target the protein HER2 was...
Mesothelin-targeted CAR T-cell therapy shows early promise in patients with solid tumors
ATLANTA -- A chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy that targets the protein mesothelin showed no evidence of major toxicity...
Fish slime: An untapped source of potential new antibiotics
ORLANDO, Fla., March 31, 2019 -- As current antibiotics dwindle in effectiveness against multidrug-resistant pathogens, researchers are seeking potential replacements...
Stunning discovery offers glimpse of minutes following ‘dinosaur-killer’ Chicxulub impact
LAWRENCE -- A study to be published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a scientific...
Gastrointestinal complaints in children could signal future mental health problem
A Columbia-led study finds adversity-induced disruptions in the body's gut microbes influence are linked to changes in brain function A...
Mount Sinai and Hasso Plattner Institute launch new institute for digital health
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) and the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) today announced an...
Supercomputers help supercharge protein assembly
XSEDE allocations on Stampede2 and Comet speed simulation of protein oligomersCredit: Taylor et al. Red blood cells are amazing. They...
66-million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor
Fossil site preserves animals killed within minutes of meteor impactCredit: Graphic courtesy of Robert DePalma The beginning of the end...
Three Konstanz researchers win prestigious Human Frontiers grants
Projects by Dina Dechmann, Alex Jordan and Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin are among 34 selected in global competition Dina Dechmann, Alex Jordan...
