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February 7, 2026

Texas team debuts battery-less pacemaker

Credit: Rice Integrated Systems and Circuits/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 5, 2017) - A wireless, battery-less pacemaker that can be...

CONNECT registry shows only 9 percent compliance with genetic testing guidelines for AML

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Guidelines by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recommend testing for seven known genetic...

CRISPR tech leads to new screening tool for Parkinson’s disease

Credit: UCF, College of Medicine A team of researchers at the University of Central Florida is using breakthrough gene-editing technology...

Pictorial warning labels on tobacco products could help improve communication of risks to smokers

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - In recent years, smoking rates among adults in America have steadily declined; yet tobacco use...

Study evaluates overall geriatric health during androgen deprivation therapy

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Androgen drives many prostate cancers. But the body uses androgen for muscle growth and...

Diabetes drug prevents stiffening of heart muscle in obese mouse model

Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health Overconsumption of a Western diet high in fats and refined sugars has contributed...

Adding abiraterone to standard treatment improves prostate cancer survival by 40 percent

Adding abiraterone to hormone therapy at the start of treatment for prostate cancer improves survival by 37 per cent, according...

Immunotherapy drug effective for metastatic triple negative breast cancer

The immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab--already FDA-approved for other forms of cancer-has been found to be effective in patients with metastatic triple...

Penn effort to expand trials of olaparib leads to new treatment options for patients with advanced BRCA-related breast cancer

Credit: Penn Medicine CHICAGO -- Six years ago an international team of physician scientists known as BRCA-TAC led a charge...

Nothing to fear for ‘good Samaritan’ doctors who assist medical emergencies

Experts at this year's Euroanaesthesia congress in Geneva (3-5 June) will look at what can happen when doctors are called...

Cardiac arrest on plane journeys: New guidelines proposed

New guidelines to deal with the in-flight emergency of cardiac arrest in a passenger or crew member are being proposed...

Pregnancy after breast cancer does not increase chance of recurrence

ASCO Perspective "These data provide reassurance to breast cancer survivors that having a baby after a breast cancer diagnosis may...

Emergency medicine in space: Normal rules don’t apply

Experts at this year's Euroanaesthesia congress in Geneva (3-5 June) will discuss the unusual and challenging problem of how to...

Global study sets new risk-based standard to personalize chemotherapy for colon cancer

ASCO Perspective "In this case, less is more. We're now able to spare many patients with colon cancer unnecessary side...

Vapor from novel tobacco hybrid device minimally impacts human cells

New laboratory data reveal that vapour from a novel hybrid tobacco heating product (THP) iFuse and two standard THPs produced...

Development of a novel vaccine for Zika

New Orleans, LA - June 4, 2017 - Research presented by Farshad Guirakhoo, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, GeoVax, Inc., at...

Zika virus successfully diagnosed from semen

New Orleans, LA - June 4, 2017 -Research presented at ASM Microbe 2017 by experts at the Fertility and Cryogenics...

Increasing susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus in the United States

New Orleans, LA - June 4, 2017 - Findings from a study that looked at susceptibility trends of Staphylococcus aureus...

Two combination therapies shrink melanoma brain metastases in more than half of patients

CHICAGO - High response rates to a pair of combination therapies point to potentially new options for a group of...

New disposable, wearable patch found to effectively detect sleep apnea