• New Blood Test May Improve Liver Cancer Screening

  By Robert PreidtHealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, June 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental blood test may improve screening for the most common form of liver cancer, researchers at th

  2020-06-08

• Middle-Age Obesity Linked to Higher Odds for Dementia

  By Steven ReinbergHealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, June 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- If you've been looking for a good reason to slim down, consider this: Being obese at midlife appears to increase you

  2020-06-02

• Bypass of premature stop codons and generation of functional BRCA2 by exon skipping

  AbstractA pathogenic mutation in BRCA2 significantly increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancers making it imperative to examine the functional consequences of variants of uncertain cli

  2020-05-27

• Study reveals the effect of ancestry on molecular makeup of cancer

  Questions about the genealogical imprint of tumors have hovered over cancer research since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003. Is liver cancer different at a basic, molecular level in

  2020-05-17

• New two-in-one shot could make it easier for diabetics to control their blood sugar

  A Stanford research team has developed a way to boost the effectiveness of the insulin injections people with diabetes routinely take to control their blood sugar.Led by materials scientist

  2020-05-15

• Study: New combination treatment significantly improves degenerative joint diseases

  Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) is a fatal condition that is especially prevalent in the skin, cardiovascular and the musculoskeletal systems. There exists a wide gap between existing know

  2020-05-15

• A pre-specified model based on four kallikrein markers in blood improves predictions of adverse pathology and biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy

  AbstractBackgroundA pre-specified model based on four kallikrein markers in blood, commercially available as 4Kscore, predicts Gleason Grade (GG) 3 + 4 or higher prostate cancer on biopsy. However, sa

  2020-05-10

• Evaluation of the activity of a chemo-ablative, thermoresponsive hydrogel in a murine xenograft model of lung cancer

  AbstractBackgroundMinimally invasive intratumoural administration of thermoresponsive hydrogels, that transition from liquid to gel in response to temperature, has been proposed as a potential treatme

  2020-05-05