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October 10, 2025

HER2+ early breast cancers where shorter-course trastuzumab could be an option

Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Munich, Germany, 19 October 2018 - Women with HER2-positive early breast cancer with...

The terrible yet unrecognized toll violence takes on children

Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Joy D. Osofsky, PhD, Paul J. Ramsay Chair and Professor of...

Making the case for a comprehensive national registry for pediatric CKD

Credit: Children's National Health System Even though chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global epidemic that imperils cardiovascular health, impairs...

Invasive forage grass leads to grassland bird decline

Credit: Scott Maresh Nelson, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - The prairies of North America once covered vast stretches of...

Researchers discuss the role of evidence-based medicine in healthcare decision making

A special issue of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)'s Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making explores the...

Patients at risk of coverage denial

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital analyzed a national sample of Emergency Department visits between 2011-15 to determine what proportion...

Link found between chronic inflammation and risk for Alzheimer’s disease

(Boston)--While it is widely shown that possessing the ApoE4 gene is the major genetic risk factor of Alzheimer's disease (AD),...

UTA researchers find genomic evidence of rapid adaptation of invasive Burmese pythons in Florida

Credit: UTA Florida has become a haven for invasive species in the United States, but perhaps the most well-known of...

Pod-based electronic cigarette use among California youth

Bottom Line: Adolescents and young adults who used new pod-based electronic cigarettes commonly did so along with other e-cigarettes and...

Electronic medical records show promise in reducing unnecessary testing

Upon implementing electronic medical record-based interventions, Boston Medical Center reduced unnecessary diagnostic testing and increased the use of postoperative order...

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center receives $3 million NIH grant for health disparities research

Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a three-year, $3,194,947 grant from...

La Jolla Institute receives $ 4.5 million Cancer Moonshot award

Credit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA, CA--Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and UC San Diego...

Epidemic in turf management: Herbicide resistance in annual bluegrass

Credit: Photo by J. Brosnan, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Annual bluegrass is one of the most common weeds of...

Genetic breakthrough by CU Denver scientists will aid whitebark pine conservation efforts

Credit: Diane Tomback, Ph.D. A University of Colorado Denver-led research team for the first time developed reliable genetic markers known...

New fly species found in Indiana may indicate changing climate, says IUPUI researcher

Credit: School of Science at IUPUI INDIANAPOLIS -- A new type of blow fly spotted in Indiana points to shifting...

$5 million NSF grant will help researchers show the impact of their work

Credit: UM Connector The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Missouri a $5.2 million grant over five years...

Montana State researchers win $1.5 million for developing carbon dioxide tech

Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN -- A special ceramic slurry and a conveyor belt whose surface is minus...

$5.1 million grant will fund research to develop a stem cell-based therapy for blinding eye condition

Credit: Saravanan Karumbayaram/UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center Scientists at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine...

Cancer-associated mutations are common in normal human esophagus

Unexpectedly, a new study finds that cancer-associated genetic mutations are surprisingly common in aged, healthy esophageal epithelium tissue. The results...

Mutant cells colonize our tissues over our lifetime