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Medical Xpress / Diagnostic test could help doctors refine prostate cancer treatment
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men—in 2013, it affected more than 1 million men across the world. The cancer does not behave the same way in every patient, and doctors have long faced a difficult balancing act ...
Medical Xpress / AI gets more diagnoses right than generalist doctors in medical challenge
One of the many challenging parts of being a doctor is diagnosing exactly what is wrong with a patient. This is because numerous illnesses often have overlapping symptoms, which can make the diagnostic journey a long one.
Medical Xpress / The tendency to imitate others is shared across 22 countries, study finds
People often imitate some of the actions and gestures of others they are observing, without deliberately trying to do so. This tendency, known as automatic imitation, has long been assumed to be universal.
Medical Xpress / How psilocybin reshapes brain circuits
A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals how psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in "magic mushrooms," reshapes neural connections in the brain.
Medical Xpress / How cancers evade chemotherapy by entering a 'zombie-like state'
Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have made a breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells can evade the cell-killing effects of chemotherapy and enter a "zombie-like state," called premature senescence, that can attract ...
Medical Xpress / A precision T-cell therapy stalls treatment-resistant cancers in clinical trial
Early results of the first clinical trial to evaluate the drug invikafusp alfa (invika) in humans indicate that the treatment may be capable of managing cancers that have rebuffed most other interventions, including standard ...
Medical Xpress / Children who eat more ultraprocessed foods show stronger brain responses to appetizing foods
Children who eat more ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) show stronger responses in the brain's reward network when viewing images of appetizing foods—and these brain responses are linked to increases in body fat one year later.
Medical Xpress / Reprogramming tumor microenvironment could improve prospects for treatment of pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat cancers. One reason for its resistance to therapy is the dense tissue surrounding the tumor that acts as a protective barrier and suppresses the immune ...
Medical Xpress / Melanoma vaccine reduces death or cancer recurrence by 42%
In a world-first international trial, adding intismeran, a type of personalized therapeutic cancer vaccine made from each patient's own tumor, to pembrolizumab immunotherapy after surgery for high-risk melanoma reduced the ...
Medical Xpress / Cancer cells' own carbon monoxide fuels anticancer drug production in lab tests
What if we could use a cancer's own byproduct to make drugs that destroy tumor cells from the inside? That is what Katsunori Tanaka and his team have done at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan.
Medical Xpress / Six-gene scoring system could help predict leukemia survival
The activity of six different genes can help determine survival in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to a study published in Science Advances. The findings by researchers at the Center for Genomic Regulation ...
Medical Xpress / What can people who remember everything teach us about the brain?
Without looking back at an appointment calendar or diary or searching Google, what can you recall about the day of Nov. 5, 2021? Unless that date happens to hold an anniversary or other special meaning, probably not too much.
