An island haven for frogs in a sea of extinctions
An international team of researchers has a plan to keep New Guinea's frogs safe from the species-destroying chytrid fungusCredit: Stephen J. Richards New Guinea is...
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LGBTQ adolescents experiencing weight-based bullying found to have increased substance use
Teens experiencing weight-based bullying also reported poorer mental health and lower perceived health Hartford, CT - Weight-based victimization among sexual and gender minority youth is...
Quality — not quantity — of sleep linked to better health in teens
Credit: University of British Columbia With summer break and longer days ahead, parents of young teens may be wondering whether to let good sleep habits...
International clinical trial of new drug for men with advanced prostate cancer yields strong result
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - Today the New England Journal of Medicine published the first results of a phase III international clinical study called TITAN...
No benefit from pazopanib in advanced kidney cancer after surgery to remove metastases
The results of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group's phase three trial, E2810, are being orally presented at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Society...
A more accurate, low-cost 39 GHz beamforming transceiver for 5G communications
-Credit: IEEE Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and NEC Corporation, Japan, present a 39 GHz transceiver with built-in calibration for fifth-generation (5G)...
NCI-MATCH trial finds the combination of dabrafenib and trametinib effective
Findings from Arm H show that in a heavily pre-treated cohort of 17 distinct tumor types -- several rare -- with BRAF mutations, the combination...
Tuning the topological insulator Sb2Te3: Just add iron
Iron-doping of the topological insulator Sb2Te3 results in useful electronic and magnetic propertiesCredit: FLEET/UOW Iron-doping of the topological insulator Sb2Te3 results in useful electronic and...
Featured research findings from Nutrition 2019
Conference press materials now available Press materials are now available for Nutrition 2019, the flagship meeting of the American Society for Nutrition, to be held...
POLO trial for advanced pancreatic cancer: a new standard of care
Olaparib doubled progression-free survival for patients with BRCA mutationsCredit: Robert Kozloff, UChicago Treatment with the drug olaparib significantly reduced the risk of disease progression or...
Combination checkpoint blockade effective in pre-surgical setting for early-stage lung cancers
Nivolumab plus ipilimumab meet primary endpoint of MD Anderson NEOSTAR Phase II trialCredit: MD Anderson Cancer Center CHICAGO - Neoadjuvant, or pre-surgical, treatment with nivolumab...
NRG Oncology trial sets new standard regimen for women with uterine carcinosarcomas
Results from the phase III NRG Oncology clinical trial GOG 0261 comparing paclitaxel plus carboplatin (PC) to paclitaxel plus ifosfamide (PI) in women with stage...
Suggested benefit in PCV chemoradiotherapy for both IDH-mutant WHO-defined molecular subgroups
Analyses of NRG Oncology/RTOG 9802 Suggests both IDH-mutant WHO-defined molecular subgroups of high-risk low-grade gliomas may benefit from the addition of PCV chemotherapy to radiotherapy...
Patients who received PBI without chemotherapy experienced less fatigue, slightly poorer cosmesis
Patients who received partial breast irradiation without chemotherapy experienced less fatigue, slightly poorer cosmesis on NRG Oncology trial Patient-reported outcome (PRO) data indicates that partial...
Losing muscle to fat: misdirected fate of a multipotent stem cell drives LGMD2B
Credit: Children's National Research led by faculty at Children's National published online June 3, 2019, in Nature Communications shows that the sudden appearance of symptoms...
