Oncology & Cancer
Oncologist explains new treatment for advanced melanoma called tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy
Melanoma is a dangerous form of skin cancer that has the potential to spread to other parts of the body.
Sep 24, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
US to donate 1 mn mpox vaccines to Africa: Biden
The United States plans to donate one million doses of the mpox vaccine to African nations facing an epidemic of the virus, President Joe Biden said Tuesday.
Sep 24, 2024
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Health
Abortion clinics—and patients—are on the move, as state laws keep shifting
Soon after a series of state laws left a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Missouri, unable to provide abortions in 2018, it shipped some of its equipment to states where abortion remained accessible.
Sep 24, 2024
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Jill Biden announces $500 million for women's health research
US First Lady Jill Biden on Monday announced the Pentagon will spend $500 million annually to advance women's health research, as part of a broader White House push.
Sep 24, 2024
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Medical research
Review of performance measures for pain finds those for acute pain treatment lacking
A review by the American College of Physicians (ACP) of performance measures designed to evaluate quality of care for those adults suffering from pain found three of six measures relevant to internal medicine physicians to ...
Sep 24, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Report: Suicide remains leading cause of death for young Aussies who've left the defense force
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has today released the seventh annual report on deaths by suicide among permanent, reserve and ex-serving members of the Australian Defense Force (ADF).
Sep 24, 2024
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Medical research
Fibrosis lacks treatments and methods of reversal: Study pinpoints a promising target for drug therapy
Medical science has long been on the hunt for a deeper understanding of the devastating scarring of the body's organs known as fibrosis, which leads to irrevocable loss of function.
Genetics
Neuroscientists discover complex genetic programs at the root of our movements
A UNIGE team has discovered the genetic programs that allow motor neurons to retract from the spinal cord. This discovery opens up prospects for combating neurodegeneration.
Sep 23, 2024
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Genetics
Study reveals new insights into intellectual disability genetics: Repetitious DNA
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have published a study in Nature Genetics that sheds light on a novel genetic variant associated with intellectual capacities and educational outcomes. This discovery ...
Sep 23, 2024
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Medical research
Small-molecule drug shows potential for hard to treat cancers
Experts from the University of of Dundee's Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD), working with Boehringer Ingelheim scientists, have developed a breakthrough small-molecule drug, a "protein degrader."
Sep 23, 2024
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