Skin cancer: More people die from types that aren't melanoma, says surprise new finding
If you mention skin cancer, most people think of melanoma—the deadliest skin cancer. The other ones are pretty benign, right?
Oct 13, 2023
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If you mention skin cancer, most people think of melanoma—the deadliest skin cancer. The other ones are pretty benign, right?
Oct 13, 2023
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Conventional wisdom lays out two major roles for the major histocompatibility complex (MHC): Class I MHC (MHC-I) displays peptide fragments of proteins from within the cell on the cell surface and elicits a response from ...
Oct 12, 2023
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered that a molecule made by Streptococcus pyogenes—the bacterium that causes strep throat and other infections—could help explain several long-standing medical mysteries, ...
Oct 6, 2023
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Roughly 40% of older Black adults live with a disability, compared to only one-third of older adults overall.
Oct 4, 2023
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A review in the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics has surveyed current early detection methods for Alzheimer's disease, a prevalent neurodegenerative condition affecting millions of people worldwide.
Sep 13, 2023
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An international team of researchers, in collaboration with the University of St Andrews, have made a technology breakthrough for one of the most important forms of light imaging, optical coherence tomography (OCT), which ...
Jul 10, 2023
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It was previously believed that herpesviruses use certain body cells to replicate and other body cells to remain dormant, that is to remain inactive for a longer period of time. This dogma is now being questioned using the ...
May 30, 2023
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Their popularity makes celebrities easy to spot. Strangers, however, can also get mistaken for celebrities, resulting in cases of false "celebrity sightings." In attempting to explain the contradiction, a University of California, ...
Mar 8, 2023
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Excess weight or obesity boosts risk of death by anywhere from 22% to 91%—significantly more than previously believed—while the mortality risk of being slightly underweight has likely been overestimated, according to ...
Feb 24, 2023
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For people focused on healthy eating in the new year, advice from specialists (and, problematically, non-specialists) can be hard to decipher, never mind follow. But one diet in particular has withstood the test of time and ...
Jan 20, 2023
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