Women with dementia receive less medical attention
Women with dementia have fewer visits to the GP, receive less health monitoring and take more potentially harmful medication than men with dementia, new UCL...
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Detective work across dingo fence reveals new factor in woody shrub invasion
Credit: Ben Moore Extermination of dingoes and the consequent loss of small mammals - not just overgrazing by livestock - have led to a rapid...
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital experts to present at ASH
CLEVELAND: Researchers from the Angie Fowler Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer Institute at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (UH Rainbow) will present data...
Research shows patients ineligible for studies may benefit from trial participation
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Patients who potentially could benefit most from participation in clinical trials due to poor prognoses often are not included based...
CD19-targeting CAR T-cell immunotherapy yields high responses in treatment-resistant CLL
SEATTLE - In a small, early phase trial, a high percentage of patients who had exhausted most traditional treatments for chronic lymphocytic leukemia saw their...
After gene therapy, hemophilia B patients maintain near-normal levels of clotting factor
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers are reporting the highest and most sustained levels to date of the essential blood-clotting factor IX in patients with...
Study estimates global cancer cases, deaths in 2015
In 2015, there were an estimated 17.5 million cancer cases around the globe and 8.7 million deaths, according to a new report from the Global...
Biomarker may predict which formerly treated cancer patients will develop highly fatal form of leukemia
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Patients successfully treated for breast, colon and other cancers can go on to develop an often-fatal form of leukemia, sometimes...
Indigenous seafood consumption 15 times higher per capita than national averages
Credit: Lindsay Lafreniere Study highlights: Authors developed a global database of over 1900 Indigenous communities and estimated seafood consumption at 2.1 million metric tonnes per...
New aspect of atom mimicry for nanotechnology applications
Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology In nanotechnology control is key. Control over the arrangements and distances between nanoparticles can allow tailored interaction strengths so that...
Mechanism of probiotic health promotion revealed
Washington, DC - December 2, 2016 - In several clinical trials, the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus paracasei DG has been shown to promote health, but until...
Seafood consumption 15 times higher among Indigenous than non-Indigenous people
Credit: Colette Wabnitz Coastal Indigenous people eat on average 15 times more seafood per person than non-Indigenous people in the same country, according to new...
Evaluation of scientific rigor in animal research
The "reproducibility crisis" in biomedical research has led to questions about the scientific rigor in animal research, and thus the ethical justification of animal experiments....
What makes your voice yours?
Washington, D.C., December 2, 2016 -- What are the characteristics of the way you say, "hello," (or anything else for that matter) that makes you...
Team to build health informatics platform for patient care coordination
Credit: UT Dallas Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas will take part in a project that aims to design and construct a patient-focused...
