Tag: Medicine/Health

Lauren Sciences LLC, the private New York biotechnology company developing transformative V-Smart® Nanomedicines for brain diseases, today announced it was ...

Genetic variant linked to increased stroke risk in childhood cancer survivors treated with CRT

ATLANTA -- A common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was associated with increased risk for developing stroke in childhood survivors who ...

Maintenance therapy with rucaparib shows clinical responses in a subgroup of patient with pancreatic cancer

ATLANTA -- Maintenance treatment with the PARP inhibitor rucaparib (Rubraca) was well tolerated and provided clinical responses among patients with ...

Prostate cancer incidence and mortality have declined in most countries

ATLANTA -- Prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates are decreasing or stabilizing in most parts of the world, with the ...

Surgery associated with increased survival for patients with HER2+ stage 4 breast cancer

ATLANTA -- Surgery was associated with higher survival rates for patients with HER2-positive (HER2+) stage 4 breast cancer compared with ...

PARP inhibitors can shrink tumors in pancreatic cancer patients with specific mutations

Data presented in a news conference at AACR Annual Meeting ATLANTA - Switching pancreatic cancer patients to the PARP inhibitor ...

Acute flaccid myelitis requires galvanized research response

NIH experts review puzzling muscle paralysis condition in childrenCredit: CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Yiting Zhang WHAT: Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) presents ...

Gut microbiome directs the immune system to fight cancer

Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys LA JOLLA, CALIF. - April 2, 2019 - The advent of immune checkpoint inhibitors--which "release the ...

Jonas Bergh receives first ESMO Breast Cancer Award

ESMO Breast Cancer Congress, May 2-4, 2019, Berlin, GermanyCredit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Lugano, Switzerland, 2 April 2019 ...

Wearable sensors mimic skin to help with wound healing process

Credit: Matthew Brown BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York, have developed skin-inspired electronics to ...

New research shows 73 percent of allergists prescribe under-the-tongue allergy tablets

Four FDA-approved tablets available for battling allergies ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL - (APRIL 2, 2019) - Allergy shots (subcutaneous immunotherapy or ...

Israel’s Ocular discovery partners with all India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

The partnership reflects the expanding synergism of Indo-Israel medical collaborationCredit: Ocular Discovery New Delhi, India - April 2, 2019 - ...

Despite risk of birth defects, HIV drug should be considered for women in South Africa

Dolutegravir may reduce deaths in women, HIV transmission to children and men Although a woman's use of the HIV drug ...

Experts discover historic roots of Medicare for All, public option and free-market proposals

When it comes to health care proposals, 'everything old is new again' As political leaders debate the future of the ...

BU finds Medicare Advantage networks are broad and getting broader

Share of Medicare Advantage plans with broad networks increased from 80.1 percent in 2011 to 82.5 percent in 2015, and ...

Laser technology helps researchers scrutinize cancer cells

Credit: Caltech Devising the best treatment for a patient with cancer requires doctors to know something about the traits of ...

LOXO-195 promising against tumors with acquired resistance to first-generation therapeutics

ATLANTA -- The investigational anticancer therapeutic LOXO-195 (now known as BAY 2731954), which targets a family of proteins called TRKs, ...

Evidence for link between ‘leaky gut’ and autoantibody production in HIV-positive patients

Investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina report in Microbiome that autoantibody production in HIV-positive patients who have undergone ...

Research brief: Largest study of childhood cancer after IVF