Atherosclerosis is a tough problem—arteries get thicker and stiffer, which can lead to heart disease and stroke, but it is not known precisely how cholesterol […]
Researchers develop techniques to track the activity of a potent cancer gene
MYC is one of the most potent cancer genes, contributing to almost every kind of cancer—yet it is still not known how it causes tumors […]
Shedding light—literally—on resistance to radiation therapy
A new Johns Hopkins study offers promise towards someday being able to non-invasively examine changes in cancerous tumors to determine whether they’ll respond to radiation […]
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WHIPPANY, N.J., Feb. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Bayer today announced the completion of the rolling submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. […]
New York State health insurers now required to cover PSA blood test
A new law quietly went into effect in January that requires health insurers to cover the cost of routine screening for prostate cancer, a measure […]
Theories underpinning psychological practice ‘wrong’
A computer game devised by University of Manchester psychologists has called into question the theories which have been the basis of psychology for over a […]
Neuroscientists discover neural mechanisms of developmental dyslexia
Developmental dyslexia is one of the most widespread learning disabilities. Different therapeutic approaches and learning strategies are used to tackle the reading and writing difficulties […]
Hospital-to-home transition care may not help patients with heart failure
Providing additional health-care services for heart failure patients to help them transition from hospital to home does not improve their outcome, according to research led […]
Inhibiting cancer-causing protein could prevent scleroderma fibrosis
A protein known to play a role in cancer may also be increasing fibrosis in scleroderma patients. Scleroderma, a rare, chronic autoimmune disease, is marked […]
Two treatments help dialysis patients with depression, study finds
For almost 50 years, hemodialysis has extended lives of people with chronic kidney disease. But when a patient first learns that their kidneys have failed […]
Study outlines targeted treatment option for aggressive breast cancer
New findings put forth by the University of Maryland Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BIOE) and researchers from four other academic institutions outline a targeted therapeutic […]
Life’s transitions easier with a sense of a well-rounded ending, new study shows
We are more likely to have positive feelings about transitioning from one stage of life to the next if we have a “well-rounded ending”—or one […]
Five myths about mental health you might still believe
Mental health affects everyone in the workplace in some way—whether we know someone struggling, or have struggled ourselves. But, despite its commonality, the stigma and […]
New algorithm boosts accuracy, speed of lung tumour identification
Computing scientists at the University of Alberta have developed a neural network that outperforms other state-of-the-art methods of identifying lung tumours from MRI scans—an advance […]