Neuroscience
Brain networks can play role in weight-loss success
When it comes to weight loss, the old adage it's all in your head may be true.
May 03, 2022
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Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WUFBMC) encompasses Wake Forest University Health Sciences which includes the School of Medicine, North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Physicians. WUFBMC is a preeminent critical care, research, patient care, physician training and education center. Notable research centers include Biomolecular imaging, a primate center, brain tumor, cancer, alcohol, and aging.
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Health
Self-administered screening can provide benefits for patients and providers
Have you ever felt uncomfortable when asked about depression or any other sensitive personal issue when checking in for a medical visit?
Mar 08, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers identify biomarkers to predict patient response to immunotherapy treatment for melanoma
Melanoma, a type of skin cancer, is often curable when detected and treated in its early stages. However, the disease can rapidly spread to other organs in the body and become deadly. According to the American Cancer Society, ...
Feb 17, 2022
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Neuroscience
Scientists identify malfunctioning brain cells as potential target for Alzheimer's treatment
For the first time, scientists have identified a rare population of potentially toxic senescent cells in human brains that can serve as a target for a new Alzheimer's disease treatment.
Dec 10, 2021
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Surgery
Study shows Medicaid expansion increased access to bariatric surgery for obesity
Following the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion, access to bariatric surgery as a treatment for obesity increased by 31% annually for lower-income Medicaid-covered and uninsured white adults age 26 to 64 but not ...
Oct 08, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Radio-wave therapy is safe for liver cancer patients and shows improvement in overall survival
Researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine have shown that a targeted therapy using non-thermal radio waves is safe to use in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer. The therapy ...
Jul 30, 2021
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Medical research
Personalized immunotherapy response studied in body-on-a-chip cancer models
Wake Forest researchers and clinicians are using patient-specific tumor 'organoid' models as a preclinical companion platform to better evaluate immunotherapy treatment for appendiceal cancer, one of the rarest cancers affecting ...
Jul 19, 2021
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Medical research
National survey IDs gaps and opportunities for regenerative medicine workforce
Answering a charge from the National Science Board, the RegenMed Development Organization (ReMDO), through its RegeneratOR Workforce Development Initiative, has released the results of a national survey of regenerative medicine ...
Jul 16, 2021
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Neuroscience
Study finds association between head impacts and imaging changes in youth football players
With preseason football training on the horizon, a new study shows that head impacts experienced during practice are associated with changes in brain imaging of young players over multiple seasons.
Jun 15, 2021
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Medical research
Researchers find evidence that diet can alter the microbiome to affect breast cancer risk
When people think of microbiome, they typically think about the gut, but there's also a breast microbiome, and the role it plays in breast health and breast cancer isn't thoroughly understood. A microbiome is the collection ...
Jun 03, 2021
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