Immunotherapy, particularly CAR T-Cell treatment for cancer, is extending the lives of many patients. But sometimes the therapy randomly migrates to places it shouldn't go, tucking into the lungs or other noncancerous tissue ...
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As researchers continue to make advances in new cancer prevention and treatment methods, it will not have much impact if the community is unaware and not engaged. For this reason, community outreach and engagement (COE) efforts ...
Apr 14, 2023
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With the goal of fostering awareness and identifying strategies to reduce bias within the medical genetics field and to improve health equity, members of the ACMG's Social, Ethical and Legal Issues (SELI) and Diversity, Equity ...
Apr 14, 2023
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Finding the right patients for clinical trials can be a struggle and require much time and effort. Clinical researchers have wondered whether screening the electronic health record (EHR) could improve the process. Could it ...
Apr 12, 2023
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The death of a parent can affect the health and well-being of children and adolescents, including higher risk of depression. A study published in PLOS ONE by Dröfn Birgisdóttir at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, and colleagues ...
Apr 12, 2023
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Early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease requires reliable and cost-effective screening methods. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now discovered that a type of sugar molecule in blood is associated ...
Apr 12, 2023
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As Americans, we've become accustomed to the nearly unique experience of seeing commercials for medicines like prescription drugs on television—only the U.S. and New Zealand allow this kind of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising.
Apr 11, 2023
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Pregnancy-associated cancers are associated with increased five-year mortality, according to a study published online April 6 in JAMA Oncology.
Apr 11, 2023
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Would-be physicians are often told that a winning medical school application requires stories about observing clinical care. Applicants' quests to get clinical experiences—through, for example, physician shadowing, global ...
Apr 11, 2023
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In a report published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, a team from Nationwide Children's Hospital describes a machine learning tool for timely identification of hospitalized children at risk for deterioration—a worsening ...
Apr 7, 2023
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