Quality cancer care: Not just a matter of anti-cancer medicines
LUGANO, 26 April 2018 - ESMO, the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, shares concerns expressed in a scientific paper (1) and reflected in the...
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Curiosity is key to early childhood success in math and reading
Curious children are better able to grasp basic math and reading. This is according to a group of researchers from the University of Michigan, led...
Smartphone app keeps an ‘eye’ on daily tuberculosis therapy
Johns Hopkins researchers report success with a smart phone video-based app that substitutes for a daily in-person visit by a health care worker required for...
Who is using guns for suicide?
(Boston)--The average profile of an American using a gun for suicide is a married, white male over the age of 50 who is experiencing deteriorating...
Loss of brain synchrony may explain working memory limits, says study
A new study from City, University of London and MIT may have revealed the reasons behind our memory limitations. The researchers found that trying to...
Meningococcal meningitis: Stomach pain should be seen as a warning sign
© Monet, Fotolia Patients with meningococcal infection generally develop symptoms including a high temperature, vomiting and a stiff neck... but they might also just have...
A biochemical process in plants is imitated to curb the reproduction of colon cancer tumor cells
Plants have provided a new avenue in curbing tumor growth. On this occasion, it doesn't involve miracle species or the like, but rather the results...
Mid-life chronic inflammation may be linked to frailty later
A study of nearly 6,000 Americans followed for 24 years from middle to late adulthood found that having chronic inflammation in middle age may be...
New metric defines areas of highest prostate cancer burden
Credit: Russell McIntire, Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) (PHILADELPHIA) - To catch prostate cancer at earlier stages, when it's more easily treated, many...
Probiotics useful in the fight against infection prevention
NEW YORK (April 26, 2018) - Probiotics may be a relatively safe, simple, and low-cost solution for preventing Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) in hospital settings,...
Biomarkers and efficacy of vaccine responses among patients treated with new MS drug
LOS ANGELES - In March 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ocrelizumab as the first treatment for both relapsing (RMS) and progressive forms...
Study could spawn better ways to combat crop-killing fungus
Credit: Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University About 21 million years ago, a fungus that causes a devastating disease in rice first became harmful to the food that...
Kids exposed to general anaesthestic have poorer development, literacy and numeracy scores
The new finding published today in Pediatric Anesthesia, is based on a data-linkage study of over 210,000 children in New South Wales, Australia. The 211,978...
Accepted or rejected? Uncovering how fate of B cell is determined
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - When a pathogen evades or overcomes our innate immune defenses, the adaptive immune system kicks into action. There are two...
New methods for genetics analyses and diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease
The two most common types of inflammatory bowel diseases are ulcerous colitis and Crohn's disease. These are diagnosed by camera inside the gut, and by...