Health

Vitamin supplements versus a balanced diet? No contest

Global consumers spent more than $177 billion dollars on dietary supplements in 2023, with at least a quarter of that—roughly $45 billion or more—purchased by Americans, according to a study by Grand View Research, a ...

Genetics

A protein found in human sweat may protect against Lyme disease

Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks, affects nearly half a million people in the United States every year. In most cases, antibiotics effectively clear the infection, but for some patients, symptoms linger ...

Medications

Understanding what causes trastuzumab's cardiotoxicity

A new meta-analysis published in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology helps shed light on how changes in mitochondria-related gene expression may cause the cardiotoxicity associated with the cancer therapy trastuzumab.

Oncology & Cancer

Scientists map the evolution of urinary tract cancer cells

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have performed the most comprehensive analysis to date of cancer of the ureters or the urine-collection cavities in the kidney, known as upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC). The study, ...

page 4 from 40