Genetics
Genetic changes identified as key to childhood lupus
Australian and Chinese researchers have jointly discovered a genetic key to the development of the devastating autoimmune condition childhood lupus.
Jun 3, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Chromatin openness sheds new light on prostate cancer plasticity
Treatment resistance caused by cancer cell plasticity constitutes a major challenge in the treatment of prostate cancer. A recent study from the University of Eastern Finland Institute of Biomedicine published in Nucleic ...
Jun 3, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Immunotherapy significantly increases the number of patients free from bowel cancer: Clinical trial
An immunotherapy drug given before surgery instead of chemotherapy meant that over ten times more patients with a certain genetic profile were cancer-free after surgery, according to clinical trial results presented by researchers ...
Jun 2, 2024
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Medications
Drug resistance discovery could 'move the field forward' for breast cancer treatment
Research recently published in Drug Resistance Updates has revealed a previously unknown biological process through which breast tumor cells develop resistance to standard treatment, which could open the door for cancer scientists ...
May 29, 2024
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Medical research
PKMYT1, a potential 'Achilles heel' of treatment resistant ER+ breast cancers with the poorest prognosis
Up to 80% of breast cancer deaths occur in patients with tumors that express estrogen receptor-alpha. Although these estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancers often initially respond to standard treatment that combines ...
May 24, 2024
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Addiction
Virtual medicine: How telehealth has improved the lives of people with substance disorders
From the driver's seat of his parked truck, Lewis recalled what it felt like to take opioids.
May 20, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
FDA approves new drug for deadly lung cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new drug to treat patients with an advanced form of deadly lung cancer.
May 17, 2024
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Addiction
Study uses machine learning to predict opioid use disorder treatment interruptions
University of Florida researchers have developed a system designed to identify patients at high risk of discontinuing buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder.
May 16, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Antiseizure medications can produce life-threatening reactions
Molecular tests and other screening tools can lessen the risk of potentially fatal reactions to antiseizure medications that millions of Americans take for epilepsy and other conditions, but skin rashes still require speedy ...
May 15, 2024
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Medications
Clinical trial: New drug makes exercise, everyday tasks easier for people with common heart condition
People with a common heart condition were able to use significantly more oxygen while exercising after taking an investigational drug in an international clinical trial, according to a study published today in the New England ...
May 13, 2024
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