Oncology & Cancer

Brain cancer vaccine effective in some patients

Most people with the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma die less than 18 months after diagnosis. But a multicenter clinical trial of a personalized vaccine that targets the aggressive cancer has indicated improved survival ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Impacts of COVID on the immune system

So you've had COVID and have now recovered. You don't have ongoing symptoms and luckily, you don't seem to have developed long COVID.

Oncology & Cancer

Personalized ovarian cancer vaccine shows promise in pilot trial

A new type of cancer vaccine has yielded promising results in an initial clinical trial conducted at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania. ...

Medical research

Researchers discover potential boost to immunotherapy

Mount Sinai researchers have discovered a pathway that regulates special immune system cells in lung cancer tumors, suppressing them and allowing tumors to grow. The scientists also figured out how to interrupt this pathway ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism

A two-pronged approach to keep rheumatoid arthritis in check

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune, inflammatory disease. Though the precise mechanism of the disease is only partially understood, people with RA produce antibodies that target their own tissues, contributing to ...

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