Oncology & Cancer
No radiotherapy an option for older breast cancer patients, study shows
Radiotherapy does not improve survival rates in older patients with early breast cancer, new research suggests.
Feb 15, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
As cancer deaths decline, access to care remains a challenge in some US communities
Cancer remains the second-leading cause of death in the U.S., but the number of people dying from cancer continues to decline. In the last three decades, the overall rate of death from cancer has decreased 33%. Data reported ...
Feb 3, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy leads to more children being able to walk at two years post diagnosis
Newborn screening (NBS) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), when combined with early treatment, results in better movement ability in affected children, including the ability to walk, when compared to children who are diagnosed ...
Jan 18, 2023
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Neuroscience
Alzheimer's progression in Down syndrome appears similar to other genetic, early onset forms of the disease
Amyloid plaques—protein clumps that are one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease—occur at roughly the same level in the brains of people with Down syndrome who have Alzheimer's as they do in people with forms of hereditary, ...
Dec 13, 2022
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Medications
COVID nasal sprays may one day prevent and treat infection
We have vaccines to boost our immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. We have medicines you can take at home (and in hospital) to treat COVID. Now researchers are trialing something new.
Nov 28, 2022
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Medical research
Atherosclerosis progression could be stopped if lipid screening and dyslipidemia intervention begin in adolescence
Consistently elevated lipids and dyslipidemia in early life were associated with worsening subclinical atherosclerosis, but simulated lipid treatment in late adolescence stopped atherosclerosis progression, a paper published ...
Nov 15, 2022
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Medical research
Acupuncture reduces aromatase inhibitor-related joint pain
Among women with early breast cancer who have aromatase inhibitor-related joint pain, pain at 52 weeks is reduced with true acupuncture (TA) compared with sham acupuncture (SA) or waiting-list control (WC), according to a ...
Nov 14, 2022
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Ophthalmology
A new device for early diagnosis of degenerative eye disorders
Researchers at an EPFL lab have developed an ophthalmological device that can be used to diagnose some degenerative eye disorders long before the onset of the first symptoms. In early clinical trials, the prototype was shown ...
Oct 28, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Metabolite from pomegranates improves the function of immune cells in their fight against cancer
Researchers from the Georg-Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, were able to identify a new approach for the therapy of colorectal cancer (CRC) as part of an interdisciplinary project of the LOEWE Center Frankfurt Cancer ...
Oct 20, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Study validates diagnostic assay for Asian cancers
A Singapore research team of clinicians and scientists has validated a cancer diagnostic assay designed with Asian-centric biomarkers that aims to enable early diagnosis and timely treatment delivery. These findings, published ...
Oct 14, 2022
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