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Credit: University of Pennsylvania Cancer of the pancreas is a deadly disease, with a median survival time of less than...

Tropical forest reserves slow down global warming

Credit: Dan Bebber National parks and nature reserves in South America, Africa and Asia, created to protect wildlife, heritage sites...

$12.5M grant allows MUSC and SCSU to team up to tackle health disparities

Credit: Sarah Pack Marvella Ford missed out on a fundamental part of childhood: having grandparents to spoil and take care...

Peat bogs defy the laws of biodiversity

Alexandre Buttler, head of EPFL's Ecological Systems Laboratory (ECOS), and Luca Bragazza, a scientist at ECOS, along with a team...

Second University of Colorado vaccine approved by FDA for shingles

The Centers for Disease Control's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended new treatment practices Wednesday for shingles based on a...

Peatland plants adapting well to climate change, suggests study

Credit: University of Southampton They account for just three per cent of the Earth's surface but play a major role...

Advanced artificial limbs mapped in the brain

Credit: Irit Hacmun, Tel Aviv Targeted motor and sensory reinnervation (TMSR) is a surgical procedure on patients with amputations that...

TGen-USC study finds ‘Precision Medicine’ may not always be so precise

PHOENIX and LOS ANGELES -- Oct. 26, 2017 -- Precision Medicine in oncology, where genetic testing is used to determine...

UC San Diego Health researchers help launch second pancreas cancer ‘dream team’

Scientists and physicians at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, in partnership with colleagues at MD Anderson Cancer...

More early stage lung cancer patients survive the disease

Chicago, Oct. 26, 2017 - With the advancement of surgical and radiation therapy strategies for stage 1 non-small-cell lung cancer...

Three new lung cancer genetic biomarkers are identified in Dartmouth study

LEBANON, NH - Both environmental and genetic risk factors contribute to development of lung cancer. Tobacco smoking is the most...

TGen-USC study finds ‘precision ,edicine’ may not always be so precise

PHOENIX and LOS ANGELES -- Oct. 26, 2017 -- Precision Medicine in oncology, where genetic testing is used to determine...

Pregnancy poses no greater risk to breast cancer survivors

A recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute indicates that pregnancy does not incur a greater...

Cleveland Clinic leads development of new guidelines for radiation in breast cancer

Cleveland Clinic researcher Chirag Shah, M.D., led the development of updated guidelines for the appropriate and safe utilization of accelerated...

American College of Chest Physicians unveils new lung cancer screening guidelines at CHEST 2017

TORONTO (October 26, 2017) - Each year, more people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast and prostate cancers...

Details uncovered in development of immune cell implicated in cancer, autoimmune diseases

CHAPEL HILL - While the immune system is critical for fighting off invading micro-organisms, sometimes it can turn against the...

Mutation in fallopian tube lesions may help catch ovarian cancer years earlier

PHILADELPHIA -- Screening for tumor cells in the fallopian tubes of women at high-risk for ovarian cancer may help detect...

BU receives prestigious ACS award

(Boston) -- Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) is one of 12 sites nationwide selected to receive the American Cancer...

SU2C launches ‘cancer interception’ initiative to detect & treat cancer at earliest stages