Archive: 15/08/2016
Leptomeningeal metastases are more common in NSCLC patients with EGFR mutations
Leptomeningeal metastases (LM), a devastating complication and predictor of poor survival in lung cancer patients, was found to be more prevalent in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with epidermal growth factor ...
Aug 15, 2016
Pulmonary complications in adult survivors of childhood cancer
A team of researchers from nine leading academic hospitals and research centers have published a paper in the early online edition of the journal Cancer that describes pulmonary outcomes among childhood cancer survivors. ...
Aug 15, 2016
New charts provide picture of drug use in the United States
An extensive and easy-to-use collection of charts that present findings from decades of government survey data of drug use in the United States is now available on the website of Rice University's Baker Institute for Public ...
Aug 15, 2016
Automating genetic analysis helps keep up with rapid discovery of new diseases, study finds
When Shayla Haddock was born in 1997, her parents immediately realized something was wrong. The sixth of seven children, Shayla had unusual facial features. She had club feet and shorter-than-normal limbs. She was smaller ...
Aug 15, 2016