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Medical Xpress / Study finds a U-shaped link between ovarian cancer diagnosis time and survival
Ovarian cancer is hard to diagnose early. Its symptoms, like bloating and abdominal pain, are vague and similar to other more common conditions. Early diagnosis improves outcomes for many cancers. However, prior research ...
Medical Xpress / Triple pre-surgery therapy may boost immunity against soft tissue sarcoma
Early results from preclinical studies and a clinical trial led by researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and Stanford Medicine suggest that combining targeted radiation therapy with an experimental ...
Medical Xpress / Hospital delirium linked to later dementia risk in healthy adults
Older adults who develop delirium during a hospital admission face a substantially higher risk of dementia in later years, even if they had no prior health conditions, according to a major new population study appearing in ...
Medical Xpress / TIE2 protein emerges as potential drug target to prevent development of dangerous blood vessel defects in brain
Researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a cell surface receptor protein called TIE2 as the missing link between two key signaling pathways that drive the growth of ...
Medical Xpress / Study builds a seven-factor scale of play, based on children's own words
If you need good play to have a good childhood, then we need to know what good play looks like. But studies of play often start from an adult perspective, leaving out kids' perspectives. To overcome this, scientists surveyed ...
Medical Xpress / Influencers promoting prescription drugs on social media pose public health risks
In today's world, attention is increasingly focused on social media and its influencers, a shift reflected in the industry's rapid growth and a global market projected to surpass $32 billion. The marketing teams of pharmaceutical ...
Medical Xpress / Vitamin D supplements may shift immune responses to gut bacteria in IBD
Vitamin D supplementation may help shape how the immune system responds to gut bacteria in people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a Mayo Clinic-led study published in Cell Reports Medicine.
Medical Xpress / Small RNAs offer new clues to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
For decades, scientists studying brain disorders have focused almost exclusively on proteins and the genes encoding them. Now, research from Thomas Jefferson University's Computational Medicine Center suggests that several ...
Medical Xpress / Implantable islet cells could control diabetes without insulin injections
Most diabetes patients must carefully monitor their blood sugar levels and inject insulin multiple times per day, to help keep their blood sugar from getting too high. As a possible alternative to those injections, MIT researchers ...
Medical Xpress / Teens who sleep past 8 a.m. eat more and move less, study suggests
When people think about ways to improve cardiovascular health, diet and exercise are often at the top of the list. But long-term health, especially in adolescents, might start with something more fundamental: sleep. A new ...
Medical Xpress / Are heart failure and atrial fibrillation the same disease? Study reveals shared genetic and molecular mechanics
New research from a multi-institutional team, published in Nature Cardiovascular Research, reveals that heart failure and atrial fibrillation share underlying genetic and molecular mechanisms, suggesting that the two cardiovascular ...
Medical Xpress / Single-cell study reveals how immune memory cells remember threats
Scientists at Cincinnati Children's have identified how certain immune cells are molecularly programmed to respond faster when the body encounters a familiar threat, shedding light on immune memory and its links to diseases ...
