NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While pancreatic cancer mortality is still higher among blacks than whites in the US, rates are decreasing among blacks and increasing among whites,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the neoadjuvant treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer, administering trastuzumab concurrently with anthracyclines offers no advantage over sequential administration, according to the results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared to single-agent platinum chemotherapy, platinum-combination chemotherapy improves survival in patients with recurrence of ovarian cancer, a meta-analysis has shown. The researchers say…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a randomized trial conducted in Italy indicate that conventional external radiotherapy (RT) after breast conserving surgery for early breast cancer is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In hospitalized cancer patients, the common problem of hyponatremia can be corrected by administration of the orally active V2 receptor antagonist, tolvaptan. The…
Martin Lee, author of Smoke Signals, and director of Project CBD, explains his motivations for pursuing cannabinoid research and his interest in the social history of marijuana. He explains the challenge…
By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) –In mice, treatment with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) or lymphotoxin makes the blood-brain barrier (BBB) selectively permeable at metastasis sites,…
Nancy Simonian, MD, CEO, Syros Pharmaceuticals details the research of Richard A. Young of the Whitehead Institute and his discovery of super-enhancers, large groups of transcriptional enhancers that drive expression…
Medical errors may contribute to illness and even death for hospitalized patients. Many of these errors come from miscommunication during the handoff, that’s when patient information is communicated…
Nancy Simonian, MD, CEO, Syros Pharmaceuticals elaborates on the breakthrough discovery of super-enhancers, large groups of transcriptional enhancers that drive expression of genes that define cell identity. By identifying…
By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Median survival of patients with metastatic gastric cancer has not improved, despite increased use of chemotherapy, researchers from The…
HIV infection attacks the immune system. In many parts of Africa, patients with HIV infection, also have vitamin deficiencies. A new study examined whether giving a multivitamin and…
