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Credit: Mueller / TUM Computer Tomography (CT) is a standard procedure in hospitals, but so far, the technology has not been suitable for imaging extremely...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Nov. 6, 2017-When cannabinoids activate signaling pathways in cancer cells they can stimulate a cell death...

Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute SALT LAKE CITY - People with an inherited syndrome called familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) have a 100% lifetime risk of developing...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Nov. 6, 2017 - Scientists are finding more evidence that commonly prescribed antidepressants aren't effective in people battling both depression...

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...

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...

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...

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..

Credit: Silvia Morbelli, et al., San Martino Hospital, University of Genoa, Italy. RESTON, VA - Italian researches have demonstrated a better way of determining the...

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 6, 2017 - IOS Press, an international publisher providing content for scientific, technical and medical communities, is proud to announce that...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)....