Medicaid expansion may improve childhood cancer survival
Medicaid expansion may improve outcomes for children with cancer, finds a new analysis from the Brown School and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Feb 20, 2023
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Medicaid expansion may improve outcomes for children with cancer, finds a new analysis from the Brown School and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Feb 20, 2023
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The world's first international clinical guidelines to help prevent and treat heart complications in children undergoing cancer treatment have been created.
Jan 29, 2023
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Neuroblastoma is a tumor of the sympathetic nervous system that occurs mainly in young children. Every year, 25 children in the Netherlands receive this diagnosis. Surgery to remove the tumor tissue forms an important part ...
Dec 19, 2022
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Survivors of childhood cancer who consumed more total sugar, added sugar, and sugar-sweetened beverages had more aging-related health conditions than survivors who consumed less sugar, according to results presented at the ...
Nov 18, 2022
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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) can detect underlying early signs of cardiovascular problems in asymptomatic pediatric cancer survivors that other types of monitoring cannot, according to a study led by Nemours Children's ...
Oct 27, 2022
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Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have shown how a protein responsible for adapting to low oxygen conditions (hypoxia), causes increased expression of fetal hemoglobin (HbF) in adults. The finding has implications ...
Oct 12, 2022
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Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a rare disorder that causes neurocognitive and developmental deficits. However, musical and auditory abilities are preserved or even enhanced in WBS patients. Scientists at St. Jude Children's ...
Sep 23, 2022
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In Sweden, the key to the successful implementation of precision medicine in health care has been the bottom-up approach where academia and health care have joined forces to build a national infrastructure. Forty-two authors ...
Sep 22, 2022
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Infectious complications continue to affect survivors of childhood cancer many years after initial diagnosis, according to findings from a Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Sep 1, 2022
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Pathogenic variants in BRCA1/2 genes are associated with an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer in adults, and variants in mismatch repair (MMR) genes increase the risk of gastrointestinal and other cancers. Until ...
Aug 24, 2022
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