Archive: 04/08/2017

Discovering potential targeted treatments for bile duct cancer

An international study on bile duct cancer or cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), a rare but highly lethal form of liver cancer, has discovered that tumours in the bile duct may be made up of different cancer subtypes. This finding ...

Aug 4, 2017

Fun sex is healthy sex—why isn't that on the curriculum?

Damn—we forgot to teach our kids how to have fun sex.

Aug 4, 2017

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Why anecdotes aren't strong evidence when it comes to quitting smoking

In the early 1990s, I was the guest of the local health service in Broken Hill, New South Wales, during a national week promoting quitting smoking. I went on the local radio and the host invited ex-smokers to call in and ...

Aug 4, 2017

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Watching children learn how to lie

For the liar, telling a lie has obvious costs. Keeping track of the lies one tells and trying to maintain the plausibility of a fictional narrative as real-world events intrude is mentally taxing. The fear of getting caught ...

Aug 4, 2017

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Countering atopic dermatitis immune reactions

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-G is a protein that interacts with specific cell receptors to inhibit immune responses. The protein is best known for its role in protecting the fetus from attack by its mother's immune system. ...

Aug 4, 2017

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Obstetric providers need greater support for new prenatal screening test

A new study shows most New Zealand obstetric providers need more support when providing a revolutionary genetic prenatal screening test because of its complexity and because it is not publicly funded.

Aug 4, 2017

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Newborn baby development has been vastly underestimated, study shows

Newborn babies may be adorable, demanding and helpless but we tend not to think of them as particularly social creatures as they come to terms with what this exciting and terrifying new world outside the womb means for them.

Aug 4, 2017

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Investigators match novel cancer mutations with potential therapies

Research led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators may have solved a mystery about why a targeted therapy stops working in a small group of breast cancer patients.

Aug 4, 2017

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HDAC3 role in B-cell development

Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are enzymes that modulate gene expression and have important roles in development and disease. HDAC inhibitors are active against lymphoma, and understanding the roles of specific HDACs is important ...

Aug 4, 2017

Expert discusses effects of alcohol misuse, obesity and viral hepatits on liver disease

Liver disease has become one of the most common causes of premature death in the UK, with a cost not just in lives but also to health services and society.

Aug 4, 2017

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