New Genetic Finding Provides Clue for Personalizing Depression Treatment
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Medical University of South Carolina neuroscientists Dr. Makoto Taniguchi (left) and Dr. Christopher Cowan (right). Credit: Medical University of South Carolina, Sarah Pack. A team of scientists at t…
Millennials, Gen Xers Increase Risk of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer
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Millennials and Gen Xers are not following safe sun habits.According to a press release,1 a recent survey found that these demographics have few sun exposure regrets coupled with low skin cancer awareness.The random double-opt insurvey, conducted by Onepoll on behalf of DermTech, Inc., revealed tre…
Study Reveals Epigenetic Vulnerability of Acute Myeloid Leukemia
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Graphical abstract. Credit: Cancer Research (2023). DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-22-2129 Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive blood cancer that causes uncontrolled accumulation of white blood …
For Uninsured People with Cancer, Access to Care Can Be "Very Random"
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Eighteen months after April Adcox learned she had skin cancer, she finally returned to Charleston's Medical University of South Carolina last May to seek treatment.By then, the reddish area along her hairline had grown from a 2-inch circle to cover nearly her entire forehead. It oozed …
Researchers Find an Antibody That Targets Omicron & Other SARS-CoV-2 Variants
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Scripps Research and the University of Chicago has identified an antibody t…
Herbicide May Be Cause of Kidney Disease Epidemic
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The Way Bacteria Invade the Brain Offers a New Meningitis Treatment
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Bacteriologist taking a bacterial culture from a Petri dish. Image: Tim Sandle Many different types of bacteria can cause meningitis (consequently there is no universal meningitis vaccine). The disease can lead to brain damage, paralysis, or stroke. In some cases, it can be fatal. A new study has …
Local Anesthesia Before Breast Cancer Surgery Improves OS in Randomized Trial
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Peritumoral injection of a local anesthetic before breast cancer surgery significantly increased disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) in women with early breast cancer, a randomized trial from India showed. At a median follow-up of 68 months, the 5-year DFS rate was 86.6% with pe…
Novel Approach Prevents Liver Damage in Animal Models of Alagille Syndrome
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Alagille syndrome, a genetic disease estimated to affect 1 in 30,000 individuals, is caused by mutations in the gene JAG1 in most cases. The mutations affect multiple organs including the liver where it often results in cholestasis, a condition in which the flow of bile from the liver stops or slow…
Interventions in Minimal Residual Disease Lead to Long-Term Melanoma Control
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Cutaneous melanoma responds to targeted therapies (TT) and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in 3 phases, according to a recent review.1In the review, authors also found that TT and ICI can affect both melanoma cells and the tumor immune microenvironment, particularly in the middle of the 3 phases…