Health

The benefits of a home rowing machine

(HealthDay)—Rowing is often called the best aerobic exercise because it offers a total body workout and is low-impact.

Oncology & Cancer

Two studies find resistance mechanisms in ALK+ and ROS1+ cancers

Targeted treatments have revolutionized care for lung cancer patients whose tumors harbor ALK or ROS1 alterations. Basically, cancers may use these genetic changes to drive their growth, but also become dependent on the action ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

'Super gonorrhoea' raises the stakes in the war against superbugs

There has been a lot of news over the past few weeks about the rise of superbugs and antibiotic overuse, including a nasty sexually transmitted infection in the United Kingdom. A British man is the first in the world to be ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

MRSA emerged years before methicillin was even discovered

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) emerged long before the introduction of the antibiotic methicillin into clinical practice, according to a study published in the open access journal Genome Biology. It was ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Targeted nanoparticles can overcome drug resistance in trypanosomes

Sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by tsetse flies and threatens millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is considered fatal if untreated, but as it ...

Oncology & Cancer

Predicting cancer's next move

Research led by Broad senior associate member Levi Garraway and published this week in Nature offers a new approach to studying drug resistance in cancer. The approach helped them identify which biological pathways could ...

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