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After a person suffers a stroke, the clock starts ticking for doctors. Every minute that blood flow to the brain remains blocked, more brain tissue risks permanent damage or death. One way to restore circulation is through ...

When a patient arrives in the emergency department with severe abdominal pain, every minute counts. Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine are investigating ways to streamline the work of radiologists ...

Researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed an imaging biomarker, the Tumour Heterogeneity Index (THI), which enables noninvasive assessment of breast cancer patients' response to AKT inhibitors ...

A previously unknown mechanism helps cancer cells selectively produce proteins that drive tumor growth—such as KRAS—in common cancers, according to new research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The ...

The relationship between creativity and mental health has attracted the interest of many psychologists over the past decades. Some past studies have found that creativity is sometimes linked to mental health difficulties, ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago have identified a mechanism to make immune cells reprogrammed by radiation therapy attack tumors rather than protect them. The study, published in Cancer Cell, shows that radiation ...

A patient has undergone pioneering stem-cell therapy to treat Parkinson's disease, the Japanese drugmaker behind the treatment said on Friday, in a world first following its conditional approval in the country.

The brain can sometimes trick itself into feeling like it has an extra appendage or that the body extends farther into space than it actually does. This can happen when signals in the brain get crossed due to a mix of visual ...

For many new mothers, sleeping uninterruptedly every night is challenging or unfeasible. One reason for this is that their newborn's crying can easily wake them, even when another caregiver is present and could tend to their ...

Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers identified a potential therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer after showing that tumor growth can be slowed and immune suppression can be reduced in preclinical trials by blocking a particular ...

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common malignant primary brain tumor in adults and is one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of cancer. It is difficult for surgeons to fully remove GBM because it often has microscopic ...

A new study from Mayo Clinic suggests checkpoint immunotherapy may reshape the immune environment within lymph nodes after melanoma has spread to them. Researchers found that treatment reorganized several types of immune ...