Health officials are investigating the case of an Iowa resident who died of Lassa fever after traveling recently to West Africa. The Ebola-like virus is rarely seen in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for ...
Oct 29, 2024
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Scientists from the University of Leicester have discovered that tuberculosis disrupts glucose metabolism in the body.
Oct 21, 2024
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Duke-NUS alumnus Dr. Marjorie Hoang and her mentor, Professor Pierce Chow, have brought clarity to the complex decision-making process patients diagnosed with intermediate-stage liver cancer and their doctors face by creating ...
Oct 9, 2024
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Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have mapped pancreatic cancer tumor ecosystems using tissue from both the primary tumor, which is where cancer first starts to grow in the body, ...
Oct 4, 2024
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The accumulation of mutations in DNA is often mentioned as an explanation for the aging process, but it remains just one hypothesis among many. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with the Inselspital, ...
Sep 17, 2024
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An Alabama man died last month when a surgeon in Florida mistakenly removed his liver instead of his spleen during an emergency procedure, his family said.
Sep 5, 2024
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Gaining even a small amount of weight may lead to adverse metabolic responses in young South Asian men according to new research.
Aug 16, 2024
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Gene therapy could potentially cure genetic diseases, but it remains a challenge to package and deliver new genes to specific cells safely and effectively. Existing methods of engineering one of the most commonly used gene-delivery ...
Aug 8, 2024
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A team at Lawson Health Research Institute is the first in Canada to perform a transplant using a technique called abdominal normothermic regional perfusion (A-NRP), which could lead to more organs being available for transplant. ...
Jun 27, 2024
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While the liver is one of the body's most resilient organs, it is still vulnerable to the ravages of stress and aging, leading to disease, severe scarring and failure. A Duke Health research team now might have found a way ...
Jun 26, 2024
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