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News When a heart's viscosity is high, it could be a sign for potential problems. In that case, the heart has to work harder to pump sticky blood, McBride wrote ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Cardiovascular

News The pen will make it easier to surgically clear out all the cancer cells surrounding a tumor ... Contributed Author: Dennis Thompson, HealthDay News Topics: Oncology

News It couldn't be simpler, more convenient or cheaper: with electrical impedance tomography, a belt featuring electrodes is applied directly to the skin ... Contributed Author: Florian Aigner, Phys.org Topics: Medical ...

(University of California - Davis Health System) Researchers at UC Davis and other institutions have shown that mothers who take recommended amounts of folic acid around conception might reduce their children's pesticide...

(Deutsches Aerzteblatt International) Liver transplantation is the gold standard for treating early hepatocellular cancers. Because of the lack of donors, this option is, however, available to a limited degree only. Cura...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Immunosuppressive regulatory T-cells play an important role in the functioning of adipose tissue. This is the discovery of scientists from th...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study indicates that alternative options for cervical cancer screening, including self-sampling for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing, could improve the screening ...

(Deutsches Aerzteblatt International) Strokes without a definitive identifiable cause account for up to 50 percent of juvenile strokes. In juvenile strokes, the range of causes is wider and their frequency distribution d...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) Adding taselisib to letrozole before surgery significantly improved outcomes for patients with early breast cancer that was both estrogen receptor positive and HER2-negative (ER+/H...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) BWH investigators examine the relationships between body fat and body mass index, and the timing of food consumption, to time of day and to the body's circadian or body clock.

(University of Arizona) Sizable populations of inactive workers in ant colonies have puzzled scientists for a long time. However, new research by UA biologists shows that these ants are far from useless.

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press) "The Biology of the TGF-β Family" provides a comprehensive view of the different members of the TGF-β family, the signaling pathways they control, and how they influence developmen...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) The superiority of docetaxel based triplet therapy over standard care in patients with resectable esophago-gastric cancer has been confirmed in late-breaking results from the FLOT4...

(University Health Network) A task force consisting of researchers from around the world and led by a scientist at the Krembil Research Institute in Toronto has released a set of recommendations that advise against the u...

(Elsevier) The failure to change gloves is common among certified nursing assistants, and may be a significant cause of the spread of dangerous pathogens in nursing homes and long-term healthcare settings, according to a...

(Burness) PATH's Malaria Vaccine Initiative and the US Department of Defense's Walter Reed Army Institute of Research announced today that vaccinations are under way in a clinical trial to evaluate modifications to the v...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) Patients with high risk prostate cancer starting long-term hormone therapy may benefit from two new treatments, according to late-breaking results from the STAMPEDE trial presented...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) Pembrolizumab has shown a promising response rate in patients with pretreated metastatic gastric cancer, according to late-breaking results from the KEYNOTE-059 trial presented tod...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) M. Celeste Simon, PhD, who studies cancer cell metabolism, tumor immunology, and the influence of oxygen availability and deprivation on tumor growth, has been given a Nati...

(Deutsches Aerzteblatt International) In Germany in the summer and autumn of 2016, several cases of illness in children were observed that were accompanied by acute flaccid paralysis. In an article in the current issue o...