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UAB to bring proton therapy for advanced cancer treatment to…
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The University of Alabama at Birmingham will partner with Proton International to bring proton therapy,...
Factors affecting the health of older sexual & gender minorities
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 18, 2017–A special issue of LGBT Health includes the latest...
Baffling lab mystery leads to potential new anemia treatment
A bizarre result of a routine lab experiment has led researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine to...
T-cells engineered to outsmart tumors induce clinical responses in…
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON-(Jan. 16, 2018)-Tumors have come up with ingenious strategies that enable them to evade detection...
Expanding role of hospitalist PAs achieves similar clinical outcomes, costs less
Credit: Physicians Inpatient Care Specialists More and more medical centers are relying on hospitalists — hospital-based internal medicine specialists who...
Unique sensory responses to the pediatric HIV medication Kaletra
Credit: Sabina Louise Piece/Monell Center PHILADELPHIA (Dec. 13, 2017) – Bad taste can lead to rejection of life-saving medicines by...
Pediatric medication poisonings more likely in poor, rural areas
IMAGE: Children younger than 5 who live in economically disadvantaged areas had a greater risk of medication poisoning that resulted...
‘Buying time’ for natural killer cells could enhance…
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research A team of researchers from Australia and France have uncovered new...
New guidelines on clinical trial design for patients with brain…
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Clinical trials of new anti-cancer therapies have often excluded patients whose disease has spread...
SLU surgeons study ‘awake aneurysm surgery’ for better…
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS — In a first time study published in the August edition of the Journal...
Discovered in plants a mechanism that corrects defects in protein…
Credit: Ernesto Llamas Various human nervous system diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's diseases, are...
Researchers develop spectroscopic ‘science camera’ system…
Credit: Micro and Nanotechnology Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The latest versions of most smartphones contain at least two...
NIH launches initiative to develop long-acting HIV treatment and prevention tools
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, launched a major initiative...
FDA approves personalized cellular therapy for advanced leukemia developed by University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – In a landmark decision for the field of cancer immunotherapy, the U.S. Food and Drug...
Sensor sees nerve action as it happens
DURHAM, N.C. – Researchers at Duke and Stanford Universities have devised a way to watch the details of neurons at...
UTMB researchers find first direct evidence that A. aegypti mosquito transmits Zika virus
GALVESTON, Texas – In collaboration with colleagues from Mexico, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers were the first...
Multimodal intervention can reduce PIVC insertion in the emergency department
Credit: Kirsty Challen, BSc, MBChB, MRes, PhD, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, United Kingdom. DES PLAINES, IL–Peripheral intravenous cannula (PIVC) insertion in...
PCORI Board approves $97.9 million to Support Patient-Centered…
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $97.9 million to fund 11 studies comparing different approaches...
Computational method identifies existing drugs with virus-fighting potential
Credit: Isabel Odriozola, Flickr A new, computer-based screening method could reveal the virus-fighting potential of drugs originally developed to treat...
Potential treatment for pregnant women who suffer from preeclampsia found in a vitamin
Credit: None Scientists in Japan and the US have found that vitamin B3 nicotinamide may help treat pregnant women who...
