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New test rapidly diagnoses Zika
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection...
Preventing Zika from being transmitted to fetus is goal of new NIH grant to Hawaii
New funding awarded to the University of Hawaii (UH) may lead to solution to a compelling dilemma -- a way...
DNA-level biomarker can predict overall survival for rare brain tumors
COLUMBUS, Ohio - MGMT promoter methylation status -- information gathered at a DNA-level -- can help predict overall survival for...
UA Cancer Center team identifies a switch that may help target dormant cancer cells
Credit: Dr. Cecil Fox, National Cancer Institute TUCSON, Ariz. - A study by scientists at the University of Arizona and...
Uninsured cancer patients saw increased coverage for care following Medicaid expansion
Credit: Fumiko Chino, M.D. SAN DIEGO, September 26, 2017 - A new study finds that Medicaid expansion enacted as part...
ACA Medicaid expansion cut disparities in cancer care for minorities, poor
Credit: Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- States that fully expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act cut their...
New system proposed for logging physician experience in robotic surgeries
MAYWOOD, IL - Loyola Medicine physicians have proposed a simple new system to improve the reporting of robotic surgeries performed...
The Children’s Tumor Foundation and PLOS ONE are pleased to announce partnership
The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF) and PLOS ONE are collaborating on a new funding program in the area of neurofibromatosis...
Drug combo gangs up to take on triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center Society of Surgical Oncology, National Institutes of Health, A Sister's Hope Foundation, Saslow...
OUP offers free journals access through EAI in response to hurricanes, earthquake
New York, NY (September 22, 2017) - Oxford University Press (OUP) is partnering with the National Library of Medicine (NLM)...
BU researcher honored for work on reducing cancer health disparities
(Boston)--Julie Palmer, ScD, associate director of Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center, professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public...
Doctors gain a greater understanding of skin cancer using tattoos
Credit: University of Huddersfield CANCER is on the rise and the need to be empathetic when giving a patient their...
New approaches in targeted cancer therapy
Precision medicine, which custom-tailors therapies to the needs of individual patients, is becoming more and more important in cancer therapy....
Photoacoustic imaging and photothermal cancer therapy using BR nanoparticles
Credit: KAIST Sangyong Jon, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at KAIST, and his team developed combined photoacoustic...
TMIST breast cancer screening trial begins to enroll nearly 165,000 women
The Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST), the first randomized trial to compare two types of digital mammography for breast...
SBP scientist receives $10.8 million grant to advance potential drug for substance abuse
Credit: Kristen Cusato La Jolla, Calif., September 26, 2017 - Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) is pleased to...
Focus screening efforts to ‘save thousands of lives’ from digestive cancers — say experts
Credit: UEG (Prague, 26 September, 2017) Experts from United European Gastroenterology (UEG), presenting at the European Digestive Cancer Days (EDCD)...
Treating citrus greening with copper: Effects on trees, soils
Citrus greening is a major challenge for Florida growers. The disease destroys the production, appearance, and economic value of citrus...
NSF grant supports biochemistry research and mentoring outreach
Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett The National Science Foundation recently awarded a $680,000 grant to Wake Forest University Associate Professor...
Discovery: Bernie Sanders spider
Credit: Agnarsson lab A scientist at the University of Vermont and four of his undergraduate students have discovered 15 new...
