Oncology & Cancer
New test to predict relapse of testicular cancers
Scientists have developed a new test to identify patients who are at risk of suffering a relapse from testicular cancer.
Oct 15, 2015
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Neuroscience
Exclusive breastfeeding and the effect on postpartum multiple sclerosis relapses
Women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who intended to breastfeed their infants exclusively for two months had a lower risk of relapse during the first six months after giving birth compared with women who did not breastfeed ...
Aug 31, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Calculating leukemia progression
A new computational study published in the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications has shown how mutations that give rise to drug resistance occur in a form of cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia ...
Aug 4, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers define unique group of high-risk lymphoma patients
The goal for many cancer patients is to reach the five-year, disease-free mark, but new research from UR Medicine's Wilmot Cancer Institute suggests that two years might be a more practical survival goal for people with follicular ...
Jun 29, 2015
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Neuroscience
Cocaine changes the brain and makes relapse more common in addicts
Cocaine use causes 'profound changes' in the brain that lead to an increased risk of relapse due to stress - according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Apr 28, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
New drug combination shows promise for breaking breast cancer resistance
Researchers from The University of Manchester working with drug development company Evgen Pharma, have developed a new combination of drugs which could overcome treatment resistance and relapse in breast cancer.
Apr 20, 2015
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Addiction
Opioid relapse rates fall after jail release, according to pilot study
It has been called a pioneering strategy for treating opioid addiction, and has already been adopted in a small yet growing number of jails and prisons in the United States. Now, a clinical trial published in the journal ...
Apr 14, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists trace genomic evolution of high-risk leukemia
By genomic sequencing of leukemia cells from relapsed patients at different stages, scientists have discovered key details of how acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cells mutate to survive chemotherapy. These mutations enable ...
Mar 19, 2015
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Pediatrics
New approach to childhood malnutrition may reduce relapses, deaths
Children treated for moderate acute malnutrition—a condition suffered by an estimated 35 million children worldwide—experience a disturbingly high rate of relapse and even death in the year following treatment and recovery.
Feb 11, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A new way of improving tuberculosis treatment rejected
Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people across the world every year. The existing treatment is effective but long. Many patients abandon it before completion, increasing the risk of a relapse and favouring the emergence of ...
Jan 16, 2015
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