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Medical Xpress / Cancer vaccine sustains 49% melanoma reduction after 5 years
The combination of a vaccine and a drug, which both harness the immune system to attack cancer cells, has proven successful in cutting the risk of skin cancer recurrence and death by 49%, a new study shows. This reduction ...
Medical Xpress / Breast cancer risk models fall short for women with family history, study finds
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin, St James's Hospital, and collaborating institutions have carried out the most comprehensive review to date of tools used to estimate breast cancer risk in women with a family history ...
Medical Xpress / Mental health disorders become top global disability cause as cases near 1.2 billion
Mental health disorders are now the leading cause of disability worldwide, according to a major new study.
Medical Xpress / How aging reshapes sensorimotor learning: Older adults may lose explicit strategy but gain implicit adaptation
When most humans reach late adulthood, their ability to coordinate movements and maintain balance, broadly referred to as motor control, tends to gradually decline. While these changes in motor control are widely documented, ...
Medical Xpress / First comprehensive look at breast cancer in Native American women reveals key genetic differences
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have published the first known detailed study of breast cancer tissue from Native American women. The study, published in npj Precision Oncology, reveals important molecular differences ...
Medical Xpress / Experimental pill promises new hope for deadly pancreatic cancer
A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers reported Sunday, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer.
Medical Xpress / Microplastics altered allergy-related immune responses after 14 days in mouse lungs
Microplastics (MP) are the subject of intensive medical research, but little is yet known about their effects on the immune system. A study led by the Medical University of Vienna now shows that tiny particles of polyethylene ...
Medical Xpress / How stress hormone shapes brain development: New clues to why early plasticity fades
Researchers have discovered a new way that brain plasticity is controlled in early life, offering insight into the little-understood phenomenon of critical-period closure. In the months or years after birth, critical periods ...
Medical Xpress / One-time gene editing treatment lowers 'bad' cholesterol by up to 62%
Patients in London have received a pioneering new gene editing therapy that lowers "bad" cholesterol after a single infusion, as part of a study involving UCL scientists.
Medical Xpress / New T-cell engager shows promise for advanced solid tumors
As part of a clinical study, the Early Clinical Trial Unit (ECTU) at NCT/UCC Dresden tested the cancer immunotherapy IMA401 for the first time in patients with advanced solid tumors. IMA401 is a so-called bispecific T-cell ...
Medical Xpress / Cryoprobe boosts lung biopsy accuracy by nearly 10 points over forceps
In a new study published in JAMA, the diagnostic yield of transbronchial lung biopsy was significantly higher when using a cryoprobe versus forceps in a group of patients with pulmonary nodules or masses, recent lung transplant, ...
Medical Xpress / Inside Alzheimer's neurons, tau may set off a genetic chain reaction that ends in cell death
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive decline in mental functions and memory loss. Along with frontotemporal dementia and some other neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer's disease ...
