After decades of failure in Alzheimer's disease research, scientists are buoyed by new findings that could mark a turning point in the field, offering hope that treatment may someday slow the grim deterioration of the brain.
Dec 5, 2022
0
8
Immune checkpoint inhibitors activate the body's immune system against tumors. Although this cancer treatment has shown remarkable success, the patient's chance of responding to the treatment remains unpredictable. Scientists ...
Dec 5, 2022
0
36
Does stress during pregnancy impact children's cell aging, and does race matter? The answer is yes, according to a new UC San Francisco study published Dec. 2 in Psychological Medicine.
Dec 2, 2022
0
247
Long COVID patients can experience many of the same lingering negative effects on their physical, mental, and social well-being as those experienced by people who become ill with other, non-COVID illnesses, new research suggests.
Dec 1, 2022
0
50
Eisai Co. unveiled much-anticipated findings on its experimental Alzheimer's drug, providing tinder for the hot debate over whether its modest efficacy is worth potential risks that include serious brain bleeding.
Nov 30, 2022
0
11
About a third of women of reproductive age in the U.S. now live more than an hour from the closest abortion facility after the Supreme Court earlier this year struck down the constitutional right to abortion, a study found.
Nov 21, 2022
0
2
A toddler is thriving after doctors in the U.S. and Canada used a novel technique to treat her before she was born for a rare genetic disease that caused the deaths of two of her sisters.
Nov 12, 2022
0
5
Prior research has established that crowding in emergency departments can lead to worse outcomes for patients receiving emergency care. Patients in a crowded emergency department become sicker and are more likely to die than ...
Nov 7, 2022
0
3
A third of American women of reproductive age now face excessive travel times to obtain an abortion, according to a new geospatial analysis by researchers in San Francisco and Boston that is one of the first to model the ...
Nov 1, 2022
1
45
U.S. deaths from heart disease spiked in 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic after a steady decline from 2010 to 2019, reversing a public health success, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American ...
Oct 31, 2022
0
0
