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(American Association for Cancer Research) Inflammatory and immune-regulatory mechanisms were found to be altered in animal models and in archived prostate cancer tumor samples of responders exposed to dust from the Worl...

The location of the pancreas in the human body. (Credit: Magic mine/Shutterstock) Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer -- a virtually incurable condition. But now, a serendipitous discovery is provid...

(Elsevier) The development of neural circuits in youth, at a particularly important time in their lives, can be heavily influenced by external factors -- specifically the frequent and regular use of cannabis. A new study...

(Bentham Science Publishers) Frontiers in Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery is a book series devoted to publishing the latest advances in anti-cancer drug design and discovery.

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) UCLA researchers have published a Cell study showing that the brains of pairs of animals synchronize during social situations. The level of synchronization actuall...

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) University of Alberta researchers have added a new genetic marker to the breast cancer map, helping to expand the list of genetic mutations clinicians can watch for...

(University of Bern) For the first time, Bernese researchers have been able to solve the structure of a transport protein and thus to describe the functional mechanism that plays a significant role in the survival of can...

(Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)) Women are more vulnerable to heat, while cold-related deaths are more common among men.

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Almost 1 in 4 medications were mismatched between the clinician's notes and the formal medication list in a patient's electronic medical record, according to study of ophthalm...

(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) ) In 2017, the majority (58%) of the almost 27 000 newly reported hepatitis B cases in the European Union and European Economic Area were classified as chronic i...

(Bentham Science Publishers) Bentham Science ongoing book series continues to bring more updates in the world of anti-cancer drug discovery.

(York University) Two studies published in the British Medical Journal show there is no statistical evidence that global cigarette consumption has fallen as a result of the World Health Organization's Framework Conventio...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Colorado study suggests that changes to the tissue ecosystem and not necessarily mutations allows growth of cancer.

(University of Texas at Arlington) Jingsong Zhou is investigating the theory that ALS affects the physiology of the whole body through defective cells in multiple organs.

(Florida State University) Researchers found that embryonic stem cells commit to a cell fate far more rapidly than anticipated.

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) Nearly 6% of athletes and non-athletes were found to have the neurodegenerative disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in the largest, and broadest, stu...

(Ohio State University) A low-carb diet may have benefits for people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes even if they don't lose any weight, a new study suggests.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Many elderly patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) -- who are often underrepresented in clinical trials to treat the kidney cancer -- are seeing overall survi...

(Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy) Researchers at CDDEP, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the University of Pennsylvania, RTI International, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) More than 5 million cancer survivors in the United States experience chronic pain, almost twice the rate in the general population, according to a study publish...

(Uppsala University) The majority of women who undergo surgery for suspected ovarian cancer do not have cancer. A novel blood test developed by researchers at Uppsala University and the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of...

(Virginia Commonwealth University) Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center have discovered that the loss of a protein called DBC1 in breast cancer cells leads to the dysregulation of normal anti-cancer functions, contribu...