Oncology & Cancer
Melanoma is killing fewest Americans in decades
Advances in treatment have led to the largest yearly declines in deaths due to melanoma ever recorded for this skin cancer, results of a new study suggest.
Mar 19, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A scientist's perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic
Since the first case of coronavirus (COVID-19) was identified in December 2019, the respiratory virus has swept across the globe. Cases have been confirmed on every continent but Antarctica, prompting the World Health Organization ...
Mar 18, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Coronavirus: Three lessons from the AIDS crisis
As my governor closes all the public schools and public libraries here in Seattle, I'm thinking about 1981—the year when newspapers in New York and Los Angeles reported that a strange new virus was killing healthy young ...
Mar 16, 2020
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Medications
Opioid changes may lead to more overdoses in NZ
A change in the supply of pharmaceutical morphine could inadvertently lead to more overdoses by people who inject opioids such as morphine and heroin, a University of Auckland expert warns.
Mar 12, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing us to ask some very hard questions. But are we ready for the answers?
The global coronavirus pandemic poses immediate, wide-ranging ethical challenges for governments, health authorities, health workers and the public.
Mar 12, 2020
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Medical research
S1P and its receptor: New approaches to cancer?
In 1998, when Timothy Hla, Ph.D., and his colleagues identified and cloned the receptor for sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P), it generated a lot of excitement. S1P, a lipid originally discovered in the 1960s, was known to play ...
Mar 11, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Team finds cancer drug resistance genes and possibly how to limit their effects
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered a gene associated with about half of glucocorticoid resistance in children with the most common pediatric cancer. Researchers have also identified a drug that ...
Mar 9, 2020
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HIV & AIDS
New Zealand's needle exchanges helped reduced HIV transmissions
New Zealand has avoided the high HIV rates seen among high-risk groups in other countries, a new study shows.
Feb 27, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Existing drugs may offer a first-line treatment for coronavirus outbreak
The number of people infected with the new coronavirus continues to skyrocket, with more than 80,000 cases worldwide as of the end of February. But there's no vaccine or cure in sight, meaning that doctors can do little more ...
Feb 27, 2020
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Medical research
Claws of health? Lobster blood could play role in new drugs
Maine lobsters have long delighted tourists as the state's most beloved seafood. But one company thinks the crustaceans can save human lives by providing their blood for use in new drugs.
Feb 19, 2020
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