Study reveals why immunotherapies don't work on hardest-to-treat breast cancers Thanks to advances in cancer therapies, most forms of breast cancer are highly treatable, especially when caught early. Dec 15, 2022 0 54
AI model helps diagnose severity of COVID-19 pneumonia Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed a new AI model that can rapidly assess the severity of COVID-19 pneumonia. Dec 15, 2022 0 46
Critical care medicine organizations urge House leadership to stop Medicare payment cuts Today, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA), and Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) sent a formal communication to Speaker of the House of Representatives ... Dec 15, 2022 0 33
Can stem cells improve shoulder surgery? In the annals of shoulder surgery, NFL quarterback Drew Brees is an anomaly. In 2005, Brees was tackled and the rotator cuff tendon in his throwing shoulder was severely torn, a potentially career-ending injury. But after ... Dec 15, 2022 0 42
Speech pathology researcher explains the science and the misconceptions around stuttering What comes to mind when you think of someone who stutters? Is that person male or female? Are they weak and nervous, or powerful and heroic? If you have a choice, would you like to marry them, introduce them to your friends ... Dec 15, 2022 0 0
Get well or get back to work? Why some European countries want sick staff to return while others leave them to recover When an employee is off work sick in Italy, they are paid a benefit that could be translated literally into English as "compensation for illness." Similarly, if that person was working in Spain, their situation would be described ... Dec 15, 2022 0 0
Why do we like what we like? The neuroscience behind the objects that please us We humans, like other cognitive systems, are sensitive to our environment. We use sensory information to guide our behavior. To be in the world. Dec 15, 2022 0 7
Deployment still affects veterans ten years later, finds PTSD research Ten years later, a group of veterans still struggle daily with the effects of their deployment to Afghanistan. Sanne van der Wal, a Ph.D. candidate at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), conducted research into the ... Dec 15, 2022 0 4
Poor gut health may drive multiple sclerosis—better diet may ease it Researchers from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School's Department of Neurology have traced a previously observed link between microscopic organisms in the digestive tract—collectively known as the gut microbiome—and ... Dec 15, 2022 0 55
Patterns of lifespan weight gain/loss may predict dementia risk Dementia is a growing global public health concern currently affecting 50 million people and is expected to rise dramatically to more than 150 million cases worldwide by 2050. Obesity, commonly measured by body mass index ... Dec 15, 2022 0 39
