A £6.9m clinical trial programme that aims to improve brain cancer treatment for patients in Yorkshire has been launched by a charity.
The project, funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research, involves changing the way drug effectiveness is tested in…
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Scotland Backs New Immunotherapy in Advanced Cervical Cancer – Medscape
- Scotland Backs New Immunotherapy in Advanced Cervical Cancer Medscape
- Three cancer drugs and eczema medication approved by NHS Scotland STV News
- Scotland approves new cancer drugs to expand treatment options Yahoo News UK
- New cancer treatments…
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Funding Cuts Challenge Malaria Vaccination Initiatives – Medscape
- Funding Cuts Challenge Malaria Vaccination Initiatives Medscape
- Johns Hopkins Expert Warns Of Rising Malaria Threat Despite Vaccinations NDTV
- New vaccine shows promise in preventing malaria in early trials Daijiworld
- Malaria at a Crossroads:…
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Health Care Barriers and Cancer Screening
HEALTH care barriers were linked to lower cancer screening adherence across five major cancer types in a large U.S. cohort, with lower screening rates seen as obstacle burden increased.
Health Care Barriers and Cancer Screening
Researchers…
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95% of people carry this virus and scientists may have just found how to stop it
Fred Hutch Cancer Center researchers have made a significant advance in the effort to block Epstein Barr virus (EBV), a widespread infection that affects about 95% of people worldwide and is linked to several cancers, neurodegenerative…
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Migraines in a heatwave: how weather affects headaches
Weather impacts various aspects of our health. For those who suffer from migraines, the summer heat and seasonal changes can trigger attacks that disrupt daily life. Dr. Oved Daniel, director of the Headache and Facial Pain Clinic at Tel Aviv…
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Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data
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Dubious data sets are being used to train artificial-intelligence models that are designed to predict people’s risk of stroke and diabetes, researchers report in a preprint1 on medRxiv. Some of the models seem to…
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Neurotrophic Keratitis: Hiding in Plain Sight
As a fourth-year optometry student, I distinctly remember giving a required presentation on neurotrophic keratitis (NK) during my cornea and contact lens clinic. The concept of corneal nerves malfunctioning was…
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New biomarker predicts prognosis and treatment response in colorectal cancer
Determining the presence of a protein in non-tumor cells within the cancer microenvironment could be one of the keys to establishing prognosis in patients with colon and rectal cancer. It may also help identify which patients…
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Study identifies new genes linked to severe pregnancy sickness
The USC research team that recently identified the hormone-encoding gene GDF15 as a key driver of pregnancy sickness has identified 9 additional genes linked to its most severe form, hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). Six of these…
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