SAN ANTONIO -- When it comes to radiation therapy to treat brain cancer, hippocampal-avoidance whole-brain radiotherapy in conjunction with the drug memantine better preserved patients'...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A lack of affordable housing is linked with many health problems, including asthma, stress and alcoholism. Penn State researchers found that...
The NRG Oncology clinical trial BR001 tested the hypothesis that stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) could be used safely in oligometastatic patients with multiple metastases. Results...
Think of the protein BH3 like a finger that turns off a cancer cell survival switch. The problem is that most cancer cells have found...
Whole-brain radiotherapy can be delivered more safely to patients with brain metastases by avoiding the hippocampus according to a randomized phase III NRG Oncology trial...
Credit: Jason Shear/University of Texas at Austin. From "Fantastic Voyage" to "Despicable Me," shrink rays have been a science-fiction staple on screen. Now chemists at...
Credit: Judy Gallagher CC BY 2.0 A new study, based on 27 years of data from Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe, suggests that temperature...
Every year, museums bear the cost of repairing the damage caused to their artworks by visitors touching them. Why would people want to touch objects...
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 23, 2018-- A new systematic review of the literature not only confirmed that breastfeeding for...
Credit: York University News TORONTO, October 23, 2018 - New research from York University on fat tissue is providing an important clue as to how...
Credit: Drexel University For a number of innovative and life-saving medical treatments, from organ replacements and skin grafts to cancer therapy and surgery, success often...
Credit: © 2018 EPFL Neuroprosthetics - implants containing multi-contact electrodes that can substitute certain nerve functionalities - have the potential to work wonders. They may...
Learning about someone's political beliefs interferes with a person's ability to assess expertise, as people judge like-minded peers as being more expert in fields completely...
EuroEcho-Imaging is the annual congress of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) of the ESC. Wednesday 05 - Saturday 08 December 2018 Milan -...
Implementing a project entitled 'BrainPlay', an interdisciplinary team of researchers will explore the way in which play affects the human brain. Researchers from Charité -...
