Health

October 26, 2026

Combining radionuclide therapy with a PARP inhibitor slows neuroendocrine tumor growth

Credit: S. Adant, J.M. Beauregard, N.K. Purohit, R.G. Shah, and G.M. Shah, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada DENVER, Colo. -...

Risk, benefit or cost: What stops patients from receiving a diagnostic test?

Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Diagnostic tests can help identify disease and disease probability in patients. "We try,...

ASTRO issues guideline for use of stereotactic radiation in early-stage lung cancer

Credit: American Society for Radiation Oncology/Adam Donohue ARLINGTON, Va., June 12, 2017 -- The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)...

Better outcome measures needed for clinical trials for Fragile X Syndrome

A group of researchers from several institutions in the USA, including Johns Hopkins Medicine, reports that its review of 22...

Promiscuous salamander found to use genes from 3 partners equally

Credit: Robert Denton, Ohio State University A promiscuous salamander has found a simple genetic formula for success: Mate with multiple...

E-cigarettes potentially as harmful as tobacco cigarettes, UConn study shows

New study finds more than 2 billion people overweight or obese

STOCKHOLM - Globally, more than 2 billion children and adults suffer from health problems related to being overweight or obese,...

Previously unpublished trial data explain effects and side effects of key MS drug

Alemtuzumab is a highly effective drug for multiple sclerosis, approved in more than 60 countries and used by more than...

Where cigarette smoking’s damage is done…down to your DNA

Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga (UNC Health Care) Scientists have known for decades that smoking cigarettes causes DNA damage, which leads to...

Fasting plasma glucose and insulin are determinants of dietary weight loss success

San Diego, CA and Copenhagen, Denmark, June 11, 2017 - Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, together with colleagues from...

Investigators examine the relationship between pain and opioid abuse

The drug overdose epidemic is largely driven by opioids, which continue to be prescribed for chronic pain despite recommendations to...

Chemical composition and microhardness of human enamel treated with fluoridated whintening agents

Aesthetic treatments are always widely sought by dental patients, especially dental whitening, in order to get whiter smiles. The big...

PET imaging of atherosclerosis reveals risk of plaque rupture

Credit: Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering DENVER, Colo. - A new study shows...

Targeted photodynamic therapy shown highly effective against prostate cancer

Credit: Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and the Clinic for...

Neuro-receptor PET could provide an early warning for alcoholic relapse

Credit: UZ/KU Leuven, Belgium DENVER, Colo. - Alcohol abuse disorder is a devastating and complicated disease affecting millions of people...

New grants for traumatic brain injury research announced by Julian Bailes, MD, at SNMMI17

Credit: SNMMI DENVER, Colo. - At the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Annual Meeting, Julian E. Bailes,...

Worldwide consensus on the terminology that supports research into sedentary behavior

OTTAWA, ON - June 10, 2017 - A worldwide network of scientists examining the links between sedentary lifestyles and health...

Three-year study says new contact lens therapy slows myopia progression in children by 59 percent

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, 10 June 2017 -- A pioneering contact lens therapy has considerable potential to impact the rising prevalence of...

Mass. General study finds potential mechanism for BCG vaccine reversal of type 1 diabetes

Interim results from a FDA-approved clinical trial testing the generic vaccine bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) to reverse advanced type 1 diabetes...

Is the finger-stick blood test necessary for type 2 diabetes treatment?