Medical research

Discovery points to new ways to kill aggressive cancer cells

Vanderbilt faculty and researchers are looking for the "Achilles' heel" of the cancer cells that survive initial chemotherapy. Michael King, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Joshua D. Greenlee, graduate ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

COVID-19 outbreak described in long-term care facility

(HealthDay)—Outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can have a considerable impact on long-term care facilities, according to a report published online March 27 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

US death toll from coronavirus rises to nine

The US death toll from the novel coronavirus rose to nine on Tuesday, all in the state of Washington and many of them residents of the same nursing home, officials said.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

WHO says world in uncharted territory as US virus toll rises

The world has entered uncharted territory in its battle against the deadly coronavirus, the UN health agency warned, as new infections dropped dramatically in China on Tuesday but surged abroad with the US death toll rising ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Authorities announce 2nd coronavirus death in US

Health officials in Washington state said Sunday night that a second person had died from the coronavirus—a man in his 70s from a nursing facility near Seattle where dozens of people were sick and had been tested for the ...

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