Category: 6. Health

A recent study published in JAMA Oncology suggests that the ideal duration of hormone therapy for patients with localized prostate cancer may depend on a patients’ individual cancer risk, allowing physicians to tailor treatment plans and…

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a tick-borne zoonotic viral disease that presents a formidable challenge to global health given its high case-fatality rate, broad endemic geography, and lack of widely approved pharmacologic or…

Memories are avid travelers: After they form in the hippocampus, they pass through intermediate regions such as the thalamus before finally stabilizing in the cortex. Yet not all memories survive this journey and become consolidated….

For many families who lose someone to suicide, the same…

Scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Geneva University Hospital (HUG) have engineered a new CAR T cell therapy approach that can destroy glioblastoma cells. The new…

A new nationwide study has revealed striking differences in how brain and nervous system cancers affect Americans depending on where they live, as…

Introduction

Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma (ASPS) is a rare and enigmatic soft tissue sarcoma (STS) of indeterminate histogenesis, accounting for fewer than 1% of all STS diagnoses.^1,2 Since its initial characterization by Christopherson et al in…

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C. are uncovering how rare inherited genetic variants contribute to the development of brain and spinal cord tumors in…