Oncology & Cancer

Case for liquid biopsies builds in advanced lung cancer

For patients with advanced lung cancer, a non-invasive liquid biopsy may be a more effective and suitable alternative to the gold standard tissue biopsy to detect clinically relevant mutations and help guide their course ...

Medications

Beware whole body cryotherapy claims, FDA warns

(HealthDay)—Whole body cryotherapy—a trendy treatment that has been used for everything from arthritis pain to Alzheimer's—may pose serious health risks, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns.

Oncology & Cancer

New liquid biopsy techniques at the bleeding edge of cancer

(Medical Xpress)—There's many buzzwords being thrown around in medicine these days. In cancer treatment, blanket terms like "precision medicine" and "immunotherapy" hint at the promise of a rapidly changing technology base, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Trichloroacetic acid beats cryotherapy for plantar warts

(HealthDay)—Trichloroacetic acid (TCA) is more effective than cryotherapy with liquid nitrogen for the treatment of plantar warts, according to a study published online April 4 in the Journal of Dermatology.

Dentistry

Saliva liquid biopsy

Today at the 45th Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Association for Dental Research, researcher David Wong, University of California - Los Angeles, USA, will present a study titled "Saliva Liquid Biopsy." The AADR ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Babies have a grasp of the physics of liquids

We are born with a basic grasp of physics, just enough not to be surprised when we interact with objects. Scientists discovered this in the past two decades. What they did not know yet was that, as early as five months of ...

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