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Pregnancy possible after chemotherapy for breast cancer patients, but many no longer wish
(European Society for Medical Oncology) Chemotherapy is known to have a negative impact on the reproductive potential of young breast...
Scientists find brain signal that might help us judge the holiday buffet
Credit: Dave Schmelick/JHU At holiday buffets and potlucks, people make quick calculations about which dishes to try and how much...
Large regional differences in endoscopic sinus surgery in Finland
Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a common disease that is usually treated with intranasal medication and nasal saline lavage. Endoscopic sinus...
Cleveland Clinic shows better cardiorespiratory fitness leads to longer life
Friday, October 19, 2018, CLEVELAND: Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that better cardiorespiratory fitness leads to longer life, with no...
Src regulates mTOR, a major player in cancer growth
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital has revealed...
Securing access to optimal cancer care through innovation, integration and sustainability
MUNICH, Germany - Securing access to optimal cancer care for all patients can only be achieved through integrated, sustainable translation...
New drug could sustain oxygen-starved hearts
Running low on oxygen is a major danger for any of your body's tissues, but the heart is particularly sensitive...
A single missing gene leads to miscarriage
Credit: RUB, Kramer A single gene of the mother plays such a crucial role in the development of the placenta...
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...
Juul e-cigarettes pose addiction risk for young users, Stanford study finds
Teens and young adults who use Juul brand e-cigarettes are failing to recognize the product's addictive potential, despite using it...
Healthy diets linked to better outcomes in colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer patients who followed healthy diets had a lower risk of death from colorectal cancer and all causes, even...
