Public health authorities seek to increase vaccine uptake, especially among those who are hesitant. But there is little evidence as to the best way to achieve this. New research suggests that rather than direct incentives, ...
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Imatinib, better known as Gleevec, was hailed as a "miracle" cancer drug when it entered the market in the early 2000s. Though it has been highly successful at treating early-stage chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)—a rare ...
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Patients dying of alcohol-related liver disease had frequent interactions with secondary care services prior to their death, and a new study has found that these opportunities to address their high-risk drinking behavior ...
May 31, 2022
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As an approach to personalized medicine, a new Nature Communications study proposes that "mutational footprints" of DNA repair are a promising predictive genetic marker for determining which tumors will respond to certain ...
May 26, 2022
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Vaccination after infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is associated with a decrease in the likelihood of long COVID symptoms, finds a large study of UK adults published by The BMJ today.
May 18, 2022
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Though the mutations accumulated by cancer cells occur more or less randomly, certain regions of genes essential to cancer growth appear to be more frequently mutated than others in established tumors. Now, a study led by ...
May 11, 2022
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Computational scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have created a tool to find genes and genetic variants that predispose people to rare diseases. Finding genes and genetic variants that contribute to rare ...
May 11, 2022
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Canada has found evidence showing that actors and actresses who win an Academy Award live a few years longer than other actors who do not win such an award. The ...
Exploring how brain areas communicate with each other is the focus of a long-standing research collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Champalimaud Research. The cross-continental ...
Mar 1, 2022
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The time a person spends on different smartphone apps is enough to identify them from a larger group in more than one in three cases say researchers, who warn of the implications for security and privacy.
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