Archive: 27/09/2018

Narrowing sexual health equity gap for Puerto Rican adolescents

Persistent and significant health disparities related to sexual health, including a higher teen birth rate and HIV prevalence, exist among Puerto Rican adolescents compared to other racial and ethnic adolescents. The Internet ...

Sep 27, 2018

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Non-small cell lung cancer patients see improved survival with durvalumab

Non-small cell lung cancer patients survive longer when their treatment includes durvalumab following platinum-based chemoradiotherapy, according to research led by Moffitt Cancer Center. New clinical trial data published ...

Sep 27, 2018

Fewer children in social care in Northern Ireland than rest of UK, according to new report

NEW research has uncovered massive differences in children's social care between the four countries of the UK, with Northern Ireland emerging as the territory where young people are much less likely to be fostered or taken ...

Sep 27, 2018

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DNA vaccine targets family of tumor antigens and shows promise for cancer immunotherapy

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have implemented a novel structurally designed synthetic DNA vaccine to simultaneously target multiple members of a family of proteins that are specifically overexpressed in several types ...

Sep 27, 2018

HPV vaccination can play critical role in global prevention of cervical and genital cancers

In low-resource countries without well-developed screening programs, expanding access to human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination is the best means of preventing cervical cancer and other diseases caused by HPV infection, ...

Sep 27, 2018