Oncology & Cancer
Novel technique can potentially improve success of ovarian cancer treatment, study reveals
Novel Technique Can Potentially Improve Success of Ovarian Cancer Treatment, Study Reveals
Oct 30, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Long-term side effects similarly low for weekly, conventional breast radiation, trial finds
In a 10-year study of women who received radiation therapy to treat early-stage breast cancer, those receiving fewer, larger individual doses experienced similarly low rates of late-onset side effects as those undergoing ...
Oct 29, 2018
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Diabetes
Liquid-biopsy microRNA biomarkers to predict risk for diabetic kidney disease
A recent study from the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, India and University of Lyon, France, brings new hope for using 'liquid-biopsy' exosomal microRNA biomarkers (miRNAs) from urine to predict risk for kidney ...
Oct 29, 2018
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Health
Medicaid expansion linked to reduced mortality among dialysis patients
In the first three years of Medicaid expansion due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the number of patients with end-stage kidney disease who died within a year of starting dialysis decreased in states that expanded Medicaid ...
Oct 26, 2018
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Pediatrics
Making the case for a comprehensive national registry for pediatric CKD
Even though chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global epidemic that imperils cardiovascular health, impairs quality of life and heightens mortality, very little is known about how CKD uniquely impacts children and how kids ...
Oct 19, 2018
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Pediatrics
Stressed about managing your child's behaviour? Here are four things every parent should know
Around one-quarter of Australian parents feel stressed by their child's behaviour every day and more than one-third are overwhelmed by it. These are some of the findings released today from our latest Royal Children's Hospital ...
Oct 17, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Early changes to synapse gene regulation may cause Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, involving memory loss and a reduction in cognitive abilities. Patients with AD develop multiple abnormal protein structures in their brains that are thought to ...
Oct 15, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Renal-replacement timing has no effect in kidney injury, sepsis
(HealthDay)—For patients with early-stage septic shock and severe acute kidney injury, 90-day mortality does not differ for patients randomly assigned to an early strategy for initiation of renal-replacement therapy versus ...
Oct 11, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Bolstering the liver's immune response to fight off malaria infection
A team of researchers with members from Oxford University in the U.K., the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. and Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands has developed a new approach to battling malaria—boosting ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Acute critical illness increases risk of kidney complications and death
Acute critical illness in people without previous renal disease puts them at risk of kidney complications as well as death, according to a study in published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Sep 10, 2018
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