Medical research
Lessons for modern medicine from race-based X-rays
Until the late 1960s, X-ray machine operators were trained to give Black people higher doses of radiation than they did for white people.
Oct 19, 2022
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Harvard Medical School
Neuroscience
Study finds unexpected protective properties of pain
Pain has been long recognized as one of evolution's most reliable tools to detect the presence of harm and signal that something is wrong—an alert system that tells us to pause and pay attention to our bodies.
Oct 14, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Study shows how certain cancers neutralize T cells to subvert the immune system and help tumors grow
When cancer arises in the body, it starts with tumor cells that rapidly grow and divide and eventually spread. But what enables these nascent tumor cells to dodge the body's immune system, which is built to identify and fend ...
Sep 29, 2022
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Health
The business case for reducing gun violence
While gun violence in the United States continues to claim lives at an alarming rate, it is also taking a quiet toll on the U.S. economy, according to new research by Zirui Song, associate professor of health care policy ...
Sep 27, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Observations in macaques provide new insights into how mothers form attachments to their newborns
Neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone never expected to publish a study on maternal attachment and bonding in monkeys. However, in the course of her research on how visual object recognition develops in infant macaques, she ...
Sep 19, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Breast cancer findings 'suggest a new set of criteria for avoiding radiation'
Women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer often can choose to have a lumpectomy, which removes only cancerous tissue and a thin margin of surrounding healthy cells instead of the entire breast. Current cancer guidelines ...
Sep 16, 2022
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Radiology & Imaging
No labels? No problem! New tool overcomes major hurdle in clinical AI design
Harvard Medical School scientists and colleagues at Stanford University have developed an artificial intelligence diagnostic tool that can detect diseases on chest X-rays directly from natural-language descriptions contained ...
Sep 15, 2022
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Neuroscience
New research in mice offers clues into how the brain processes sensory information from internal organs
Most of us think little of why we feel pleasantly full after eating a big holiday meal, why we start to cough after accidentally inhaling campfire smoke, or why we are hit with sudden nausea after ingesting something toxic. ...
Aug 31, 2022
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Neuroscience
Research in mice reveals molecular mechanisms that underlie spatial mapping in the brain
Anytime we venture into a new place, our brain's built-in GPS immediately kicks in and begins to form a spatial map of our surroundings. Over days and even weeks, this map may be solidified as a memory that we can recall ...
Aug 24, 2022
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Immunology
New findings reveal how recovery progresses following inflammation triggered by injury or illness
Inflammation is the body's first line of defense, occurring as droves of immune cells rush to the site of injury or acute illness to make repairs and stem further damage.
Aug 22, 2022
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