Debate on duration of colon cancer adjuvant chemotherapy takes centre…
Professor Alberto Sobrero, Head of the Medical Oncology Unit at Ospedale San Martino in Genova, Italy LUGANO-MADRID, 11 September, 2017 – The debate on whether...
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Sanford Health to study alternatives to opioids
Credit: Sanford Health Sanford Health is one of three sites in the U.S. to launch a study to determine if non-opioid medications are as effective...
Child abuse injuries more likely to be severe if caregiver is male and unrelated to child
Credit: Children's National Health System CHICAGO — Efforts to prevent child abuse by people who care for children should extend to additional categories of caregivers...
Wired for gaming: Brain differences in compulsive video game players
SALT LAKE CITY – Brain scans from nearly 200 adolescent boys provide evidence that the brains of compulsive video game players are wired differently. Chronic...
Mosquito-borne viruses like Zika may be spread at lower temperatures,…
Credit: Image courtesy of study authors TAMPA, Fla. (May 9, 2017) — Transmission of mosquito-borne diseases, such as Zika, occur at lower temperatures than previously...
Tackling air pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Credit: University of Portsmouth The University of Portsmouth is helping to tackle air pollution and its harmful effects in Sub-Saharan Africa. Researchers from the University's...
Flip side of innovation: What causes doctors to scale back on the use of medical practices
Credit: The Dartmouth Institute All countries face the challenge of funding ever-new and expensive treatments, with increasing pressure on budgets, harmful deficit spending, and ever-higher...
CWRU researchers building digital pathology tools to predict cancer outcomes
Case Western Reserve University researchers have been awarded two grants totaling $3.16 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create analytic software for...
Old human cells rejuvenated in breakthrough discovery on ageing
Credit: University of Exeter A team led by Professor Lorna Harries, Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Exeter, has discovered a new way...
Study brings undiagnosed adults struggling with autism out of the…
Credit: Photo: Sally McCay For most of his life, Kevin Hughes has felt like an outsider. A loner as a child, the 65-year-old comedian struggled...
Yoga may lessen side effects in men undergoing prostate cancer treatment
PHILADELPHIA — Men with prostate cancer who are undergoing radiation therapy can benefit from yoga, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University...
New target could soothe the itch of inflammatory skin conditions
Credit: Holly Anderton/Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Existing medicines could offer a new way to treat inflammatory skin conditions, researchers at Melbourne's Walter and Eliza...
Trends in kids’ fitness not as bad as assumed
Global increases in childhood obesity are frequently assumed to go hand-in-hand with decreased motor performance in young children. But, according to a report in Frontiers...
Neutrons identify critical details in bacterial enzyme implicated in gastric cancer
Credit: ORNL Neutron analysis at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is helping researchers better understand a key enzyme found in a bacterium...
E-cigarettes may harm teens’ lung health
Credit: ATS Nov. 16, 2016–E-cigarette use among teenagers is growing dramatically, and public health experts are concerned that these devices may be a gateway to...
