Tag: cancer

Borrowing a natural recipe for sugar synthesisCredit: Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash Today, sugar has a villainous reputation. And while ...

Depression, anxiety may take same toll on health as smoking and obesity

Incidence of arthritis, heart disease, stroke -- but not cancer -- strongly swayed by psychological status, UCSF study shows An ...

Natalie Joseph, M.D., M.P.H., recognized for contributions to HPV vaccination

Credit: Boston Medical Center BOSTON- Natalie Joseph, MD, MPH, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), ...

NIH funds new study on a gene vital to circadian rhythms

Credit: Virginia Tech Circadian rhythms (from the Latin circa diem -- "around a day") based on the Earth's 24-hour rotation ...

Researchers develop first ever model for patient-specific treatment of appendix cancer

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - DEC. 17, 2018 - Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) have recently developed ...

10-year follow-up after negative colonoscopies linked to lower colorectal cancer risk

Kaiser Permanente study published in JAMA Internal Medicine OAKLAND, Calif., December 17, 2018 -- Ten years after a negative colonoscopy, ...

New epigenetic cervical cancer test has 100 per cent detection rate

A new test for cervical cancer was found to detect all of the cancers in a trial of 15,744 women, ...

Scientists report CRISPR restores effectiveness of lung cancer treatment

New study from Gene Editing Institute at Delaware's Christiana Care Health System embodies cautious, patient-focused approach to cutting-edge toolCredit: Christiana ...

New, rapid and robust method for single cell profiling

Many of the cell types in our bodies work in obscure ways, that science does not yet fully understand. That ...

Survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma face high long-term risk of solid cancers

New research refines existing evidence that survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma face an elevated risk of developing various types of ...

Whole-body PET/MRI provides one-stop shop for staging high-risk prostate cancer patients

Credit: The Journal of Nuclear Medicine New research on prostate cancer staging shows that PSMA-targeted PET/MRI performs equally as well ...

Loss of tight junction protein promotes development of precancerous cells

Tight junctions are multi-protein complexes that serve as barriers in epithelial tissues such as the skin or lining of the ...

Does work stress increase cancer risk?

In an International Journal of Cancer study of data on more than 280,000 people from North America and Europe, work ...

An integrated approach to finding new treatments for breast cancer