Cardiology

Catheter-directed thrombolysis beneficial for pulmonary embolism

For patients with intermediate- to high-risk pulmonary embolism, catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) is associated with a lower risk for death and major bleeding than systemic thrombolysis and with a lower risk for death ...

Oncology & Cancer

AI effective in diagnosis of head and neck cancer, finds researcher

Studies in a new doctoral thesis indicate that an AI-supported method is effective in the diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN). In addition, machine learning (ML, a subfield of artificial intelligence) ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Another angle on Alzheimer's: CSF, proteomics, and metabolic enzymes

Currently there are no objective, easily assessed diagnostic markers for Alzheimer's disease, and no good therapeutic options. Taking an agnostic approach, proteomics expert Hanno Steen, Ph.D., and neurobiologist Judith Steen, ...

Oncology & Cancer

Multi-cancer blood test shows real promise in trial

An NHS trial of a new blood test for more than 50 types of cancer correctly revealed two out of every three cancers in more than 5,000 people who had visited their GP with suspected symptoms, in England or Wales. The test ...

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