Tree-dwelling, coconut-cracking giant rat discovered in Solomon Islands
Credit: Velizar Simeonovski, The Field Museum Remember the movie The Princess Bride, when the characters debate the existence of R.O.U.S.es (Rodents of Unusual Size), only...
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DNA-level biomarker can predict overall survival for rare brain tumors
COLUMBUS, Ohio - MGMT promoter methylation status -- information gathered at a DNA-level -- can help predict overall survival for patients with a rare form...
UA Cancer Center team identifies a switch that may help target dormant cancer cells
Credit: Dr. Cecil Fox, National Cancer Institute TUCSON, Ariz. - A study by scientists at the University of Arizona and the University of Pittsburgh may...
Uninsured cancer patients saw increased coverage for care following Medicaid expansion
Credit: Fumiko Chino, M.D. SAN DIEGO, September 26, 2017 - A new study finds that Medicaid expansion enacted as part of the Patient Protection and...
ACA Medicaid expansion cut disparities in cancer care for minorities, poor
Credit: Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- States that fully expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act cut their rates of uninsured cancer patients...
New system proposed for logging physician experience in robotic surgeries
MAYWOOD, IL - Loyola Medicine physicians have proposed a simple new system to improve the reporting of robotic surgeries performed by surgeons in training. The...
The Children’s Tumor Foundation and PLOS ONE are pleased to announce partnership
The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF) and PLOS ONE are collaborating on a new funding program in the area of neurofibromatosis (NF) research. The new initiative,...
Drug combo gangs up to take on triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center Society of Surgical Oncology, National Institutes of Health, A Sister's Hope Foundation, Saslow Family ANN ARBOR, Michigan --...
OUP offers free journals access through EAI in response to hurricanes, earthquake
New York, NY (September 22, 2017) - Oxford University Press (OUP) is partnering with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as they launch their Emergency...
BU researcher honored for work on reducing cancer health disparities
(Boston)--Julie Palmer, ScD, associate director of Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center, professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health, and associate director fo..
Doctors gain a greater understanding of skin cancer using tattoos
Credit: University of Huddersfield CANCER is on the rise and the need to be empathetic when giving a patient their diagnosis and throughout treatment is...
New approaches in targeted cancer therapy
Precision medicine, which custom-tailors therapies to the needs of individual patients, is becoming more and more important in cancer therapy. Today, molecular-biological diagnostics can precisely...
Photoacoustic imaging and photothermal cancer therapy using BR nanoparticles
Credit: KAIST Sangyong Jon, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at KAIST, and his team developed combined photoacoustic imaging and photothermal therapy for...
TMIST breast cancer screening trial begins to enroll nearly 165,000 women
The Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST), the first randomized trial to compare two types of digital mammography for breast cancer screening, is now open...
SBP scientist receives $10.8 million grant to advance potential drug for substance abuse
Credit: Kristen Cusato La Jolla, Calif., September 26, 2017 - Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) is pleased to announce the National Institute on...