Biomarker may predict if immunotherapy is right choice for colorectal cancer patients
City of Hope physician-scientist and his colleagues are looking for ways to provide cancer patients with options that yield better ...
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A new method to select the right treatment for advanced prostate cancer
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified blood-based biomarkers that may determine which patients will benefit from continued hormonal ...
New prognostic test could enable personalised treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a new test that can reliably predict the future course of inflammatory ...
The unanticipated early origins of childhood brain cancer
Study identifies earliest traces of brain cancer long before the disease becomes symptomaticCredit: Maria C. Vladoiu, Ibrahim El-Hamami and Laura ...
A third of type one diabetes is misdiagnosed in the over 30s
More than a third of people over the age of 30 who are initially diagnosed with type 2 diabetes actually ...
Anti-stress brain chemical is related to PTSD resilience after trauma
Relationship between nociceptin receptor and less severe PTSD symptoms has implications for treatment, according to a new study in Biological ...
Test allows doctors to determine most effective treatment for women with breast cancer
A breast cancer test has been found that helps doctors make treatment decisions for some breast cancer patients, following research ...
Researchers identify ways to predict and avoid radiotherapy side effects
Results from REQUITE study Milan, Italy: Latest results from a project to discover what makes a cancer patient more likely ...
NIH’s All of Us Research Program to hold special symposium on May 6, 2019
Event will highlight progress toward building largest, most diverse health research program of its kind What: The All of Us ...
Brain area tied to emotions is larger in vets, service members with mild TBI and PTSD
'An intriguing structural finding'Credit: Kevin Walsh A new study finds that veterans and active-duty service members with combat-related PTSD and ...
Major findings help understand bacteria’s ‘superglue’
Understanding these superglue proteins could help in the battle against antibiotic resistanceCredit: La Trobe University The discovery, published today in ...
Using genomics to solve a 20-year case study
Andrew Dauber, M.D., MMSc., and his research team receive an award for the best novel insight published in Hormone Research ...
Dengue research in the Philippines evolving over time
Credit: Jacqueline Deen (CC BY 4.0) Communicable diseases including dengue continue to be major causes of morbidity and mortality in ...
New genetic test detects hundreds of harmful mutations among high-risk groups
Study suggests widespread screening may lower morbidity and mortality for Amish and Mennonites WILMINGTON, Del. (April 25, 2019) - Researchers ...
Bentham’s latest eBook: Applications of NMR Spectroscopy — Vol. 7
This eBook is edited by Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman and Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, published on April 3, 2019 Applications of NMR ...
Exploring proteomics and metabolomics through NMR studies
This eBook is edited by Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, published on April 3, 2019 Bentham Science's seventh volume of Applications of NMR ...
Six factors may predict invasive breast cancer recurrence after DCIS diagnosis
Bottom Line: Six factors were associated with invasive recurrence of breast cancer after a diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ ...
Rates of physician-patient discussions about lung cancer screening very low and declining
Bottom Line: Low rates of physician-patient discussions about lung cancer screening have declined further since 2012 and were not associated ...
Chemotherapy or not?
Research in artificial intelligence by Case Western Reserve scientists give hope to patients of lung and breast cancer; new discoveries ...
A video game aids in research on Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: © Virtual navigation tested on a mobile app is predictive of real-world wayfinding navigation performance. Coutrot, A et al. ...