Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children living in Africa, succumb every year to malaria, an age-old mosquito-borne scourge that worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Everyone wants to stay fit and healthy as they grow old. But as we age, our body degrades, our muscles shrink and strength declines. Some older people suffer from excessive muscle loss, a condition known as sarcopenia. University ...
Apr 20, 2022
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Lifelong smoker Mike James had quit the habit for nearly three years when, through fluky circumstances, he found out that he had a small tumor in his right lung.
Apr 14, 2022
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Researchers at Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine have devised an immunotherapy technique that combines chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy, or CAR-T cell therapy, with a cancer-killing virus to more effectively ...
Apr 13, 2022
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Adding the immunotherapy drug nivolumab to chemotherapy before surgery (neoadjuvant) for patients with operable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)—the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide—reduced the risk of recurrence ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Preliminary data from an artificial intelligence model could potentially predict side effects resulting from new combination therapies, according to results presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2022, held April 8-13.
Apr 8, 2022
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There may be a way in the future to enhance diabetes treatment—with better control of blood sugar and its use by the brain, and a lower risk for neurological problems—by attaching insulin to a specially designed nanomaterial.
Mar 29, 2022
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A team of scientists at the Yale Schools of Medicine and Public Health has identified a remdesivir-resistant variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in an immunocompromised patient who was being treated with ...
Mar 23, 2022
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A combination therapy that targets cancer cells from within and without caused tumors to shrink or stabilize in 75% of patients with recurrent or persistent estrogen receptor- (ER-) positive endometrial cancer, results from ...
Mar 20, 2022
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A new malaria study using a very large analysis of pooled individual patient data (IPD) from more than 70,000 patients of all ages, has been published today in BMC Medicine. Artemisinin-based combination therapy is the first-line ...
Mar 8, 2022
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