UAB to bring proton therapy for advanced cancer treatment to…
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The University of Alabama at Birmingham will partner with Proton International to bring proton therapy, one of the most technically...
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Factors affecting the health of older sexual & gender minorities
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 18, 2017–A special issue of LGBT Health includes the latest research, clinical practice innovations, and...
Baffling lab mystery leads to potential new anemia treatment
A bizarre result of a routine lab experiment has led researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine to an unexpected new way to...
T-cells engineered to outsmart tumors induce clinical responses in…
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON-(Jan. 16, 2018)-Tumors have come up with ingenious strategies that enable them to evade detection and destruction by the immune...
Expanding role of hospitalist PAs achieves similar clinical outcomes, costs less
Credit: Physicians Inpatient Care Specialists More and more medical centers are relying on hospitalists — hospital-based internal medicine specialists who coordinate the complex care of...
Unique sensory responses to the pediatric HIV medication Kaletra
Credit: Sabina Louise Piece/Monell Center PHILADELPHIA (Dec. 13, 2017) – Bad taste can lead to rejection of life-saving medicines by infants and young children, who...
Pediatric medication poisonings more likely in poor, rural areas
IMAGE: Children younger than 5 who live in economically disadvantaged areas had a greater risk of medication poisoning that resulted in referral to a health...
‘Buying time’ for natural killer cells could enhance…
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research A team of researchers from Australia and France have uncovered new insights into how to prolong...
New guidelines on clinical trial design for patients with brain…
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Clinical trials of new anti-cancer therapies have often excluded patients whose disease has spread to the brain or central...
SLU surgeons study ‘awake aneurysm surgery’ for better…
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS — In a first time study published in the August edition of the Journal of Neurosurgery, Saint Louis University...
Discovered in plants a mechanism that corrects defects in protein…
Credit: Ernesto Llamas Various human nervous system diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's diseases, are associated with the ..
Researchers develop spectroscopic ‘science camera’ system…
Credit: Micro and Nanotechnology Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The latest versions of most smartphones contain at least two and sometimes three built-in cameras....
NIH launches initiative to develop long-acting HIV treatment and prevention tools
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, launched a major initiative to advance novel approaches to...
FDA approves personalized cellular therapy for advanced leukemia developed by University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – In a landmark decision for the field of cancer immunotherapy, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a...
Sensor sees nerve action as it happens
DURHAM, N.C. – Researchers at Duke and Stanford Universities have devised a way to watch the details of neurons at work, pretty much in real...
