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Credit: Eoin Scanlan, Trinity College Dublin Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have uncovered a new class of compounds - glyconaphthalimides - that can be used...

CHAPEL HILL-- University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers and collaborators are working to predict, before treatment, whether an aggressive type of breast...

CHAPEL HILL - A University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center-led analysis has found that women who are 65 years or older with metastatic...

CHAPEL HILL - While new targeted treatments developed across the past two decades have led to dramatic survival improvements for women with HER2-positive metastatic breast...

In a study of an immune therapy for colorectal cancer that involved a single patient, a team of researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI)...

Leesburg, VA, Dec. 7, 2016 -- A retrospective observational study illustrates that patients who underwent CT examination for atraumatic headache in an initial emergency department...

Credit: Wes Agresta/Argonne National Laboratory Machine learning, a field focused on training computers to recognize patterns in data and make new predictions, is helping doctors...

SAN ANTONIO -- A sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) during surgery that showed no signs of cancer was associated with a low risk for breast...

Boston, MA - Having an optimistic outlook on life--a general expectation that good things will happen--may help people live longer, according to a new study...

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 7, 2016 - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) have discovered molecular changes in the...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Inherited pathogenic variants in protein coding genes BARD1 and RAD51D increase a woman's likelihood of developing breast cancer, according to research conducted...

Impaired Sound Processing May Explain Persistent Hearing Deficits in People With Cochlear Implants Cochlear implants have restored hearing in hundreds of thousands of people around...

GLENVIEW, IL, Dec. 7, 2016 - Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a major risk for patients suffering from venous thromboembolism (VTE) and can often be fatal....

Iron accumulation in myocardial cells, potentially resulting in heart failure or fatal arrhythmia, is one of the complications most feared by patients with thalassemia major,...

Credit: Multiscale Materials Laboratory/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 7, 2016) - Bringing order to disorder is key to making stronger and greener cement, the paste...