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Pioneering blood test can detect if breast cancer will return almost a YEAR before secondary tumours appear on hospital scans The pioneering ‘liquid biopsy’ is almost 80 per cent accurate, tests have found It analyses a patient’s blood for DNA fragments released by their own tumours Charities have praised the ‘extremely exciting’ results of the […]
Yale investigators have shown that the combination of a vaccine and a medicated cream is a promising strategy to dramatically reduce the recurrence of genital herpes. Their study, co-led by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, was published in the journal npj Vaccines. Herpes simplex virus (HSV) […]
Does a vegan diet REALLY starve cancer? New study claims meat proteins feed tumors in mice – but experts say it’s not that simple for humans A new Duke University study in mice found that diets that cut out a protein in meat called methionine deprived their tumors of food and stopped growth Similar diets […]
Are you enjoying the summer? Out grilling, swimming and hiking? Beware: those sunny days may come with a cost. When the sun’s rays touch your skin, they don’t stop there. Ultraviolet (UV) light enters your cells, and photons—tiny particles of light—landing on the proteins and DNA in your cells. With just the right amount of […]
horseblogbanner.jpg Last week, the ASPCA announced a grant of $250,500 to 12 equine rescue groups to assist their efforts to rehabilitate and retrain retired racehorses. Launched in 2010, the ASPCA Rescuing Racers Initiative has awarded over $2 million to prepare horses for new homes or careers once they retire from racing. “The ASPCA Rescuing Racers […]
An international study led by researchers from the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA has found that people who are born with a genetic disease that greatly increases the risk of developing schizophrenia have distinctive defects and deficiencies in the white matter of their brains. Researchers compared the brains […]
Cancer-stricken mother is desperately fundraising for an unproven treatment not available on the NHS which she claims shrunk her ‘incurable’ tumours by 90% Katherine Oliver, from London, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003 Despite treatment, the disease returned four times over the next 13 years Paid £50,000 for 10 rounds of treatment in […]
Early identification of Candida auris, a potentially deadly fungus that causes bloodstream and intra-abdominal infections, is the key to controlling its spread. Its emergence has highlighted gaps in fungal identification capacity in the U.S. and around the world, and physicians should be on alert for risk factors. A commentary is published in Annals of Internal […]
When it comes to how people view the group size of a collaboration, new University of Toronto research finds there’s such a thing as too many—and too few—cooks in the kitchen. The research, published in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science, looks at what people expect from collaborations of different sizes. “People have an […]
Building on their research showing that an exciting new form of immunotherapy for cancer has activity in patients with glioblastoma, the most common and most deadly form of brain cancer, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have created a new method that could make immune therapy more effective again brain tumors and expand its use against […]