Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified new gene mutations unique to colon cancers in African Americans - the population with the highest incidence and death rates of any group for this disease.
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Studies reporting on the effectiveness of new therapies for chronic Hepatitis C virus are among the clinical science presented at the American College of Gastroenterology's 76th Annual Scientific Meeting, where investigators ...
Oct 31, 2011
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African Americans may be less responsive to asthma treatment and more likely to die from the condition, in part, because they have a unique type of airway inflammation, according to a study led by researchers at the University ...
Jan 10, 2017
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Lifetime discrimination is a chronic stressor that may increase the risk for hypertension also known as high blood pressure, in African Americans, according to new research published today in Hypertension, an American Heart ...
Jul 1, 2020
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For people who use cocaine, stopping or reducing cocaine use is associated with decreased levels of endothelin-1 (ET-1)—a protein that plays a key role in the development of coronary artery disease, reports a study in the ...
Jul 13, 2015
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LSU Health New Orleans research led by Stuart Chalew, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that HbA1c, a major metric of diabetes management, is markedly higher in black youth ...
Sep 14, 2023
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New research in JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network evaluates how an important analysis on local-regionally advanced colon cancer adjuvant chemotherapy impacted prescribing patterns.
Aug 7, 2023
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A new study in mice, led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, explains how prostate cancer senses a drop in testosterone levels due to common anti-hormone therapy and then begins making ...
Jun 12, 2023
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Delayed care is a crtically important factor in the survival of patients with head and neck cancer, and the patients who most often experience these delays are African American, according to two new studies at the Medical ...
Nov 6, 2018
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The opioid crisis has been a major issue for health care officials across the United States.
Feb 27, 2020
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