Depressed with a chronic disease? Consider alternative therapies
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Nov. 6, 2017 - Scientists are finding more evidence that commonly prescribed antidepressants aren't effective in people battling both depression...
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US-born workers receive disability benefits more often than workers from abroad
No matter where they came from, people born outside the United States but working here are much less likely to receive Social Security Disability Insurance...
New research targets cancer’s ‘Achilles’ Heel’
Credit: Northwestern University Northwestern Engineering's Vadim Backman has developed an effective new strategy for treating cancer, which has wiped out the disease to near completion...
Age-old malaria treatment found to improve nanoparticle delivery to tumors
Credit: Houston Methodist A new study shows that a 70-year-old malaria drug can block immune cells in the liver so nanoparticles can arrive at their...
Flavonoid derivatives targeting NF-kappaB
Nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) has been reported to regulate various genes involved in cancer and inflammation. Accordingly, drugs inhibiting NF-kappaB may possess both anti-inflammatory and antica..
FDG PET shows tumor DNA levels in blood are linked to NSCLC aggressiveness
Credit: Silvia Morbelli, et al., San Martino Hospital, University of Genoa, Italy. RESTON, VA - Italian researches have demonstrated a better way of determining the...
IOS Press acquires StemBook
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 6, 2017 - IOS Press, an international publisher providing content for scientific, technical and medical communities, is proud to announce that...
ESMO Asia 2017 Congress
LUGANO-SINGAPORE, Nov. 6, 2017 - The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, is pleased to announce the third...
Younger women with advanced breast cancer needlessly excluded from treatment trials
Lisbon, Portugal: Pre-menopausal women with the most common type of advanced breast cancer are usually excluded from medical research unnecessarily, according to an expert panel...
Liquid biopsy spots aggressive pediatric brainstem cancer earlier without surgery
Credit: Children's National Health System SAN FRANCISCO -- A particularly aggressive form of pediatric cancer can be spotted reliably by the genetic fragments it leaves...
New techniques give blood biopsies greater promise
Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Koch Institute at MIT, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed an accurate, scalable...
Study reveals large disparities in survival for patients with HPV-associated cancers
A new study found large disparities by sex, race, and age in survival for patients diagnosed with different cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV)....
Biologics do not increase the risk of second malignancy in rheumatoid arthritis patients
SAN DIEGO - Treatment with biologics does not increase the risk of a second malignancy in rheumatoid arthritis patients who have a history of cancer,...
Colon cancer breakthrough could lead to prevention — and the foods that can help
Credit: University of Warwick Colon cancer, Crohn's, and other gut diseases could be better treated or prevented, thanks to a new link between inflammation and...
Can environmental toxins disrupt the biological ‘clock’?
Credit: Rensselaer Troy, N.Y. - Can environmental toxins disrupt circadian rhythms - the biological "clock" whose disturbance is linked to chronic inflammation and a host...
