1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (520+ words) A new study is challenging one of the most common assumptions in the fast-growing field of biological aging research: that the different blood tests used to measure how fast a person is aging are, at some level, measuring the same…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (431+ words) Photodynamic therapy, or PDT, has long been regarded as a precisely local cancer treatment: a photosensitizing drug is delivered to a tumor, light of a specific wavelength activates it, and the resulting reactive oxygen species destroy the illuminated cells....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (87+ words) Dizziness is one of the most common reasons people seek medical help, accounting for anywhere between one and fifteen percent of primary care visits worldwide, yet it remains one of the hardest symptoms to pin down. Patients frequently struggle to…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (69+ words) A centuries-old plant alkaloid best known for lowering blood sugar may have another, far more ambitious role: slowing the aging of the immune system itself. In a comprehensive review published in the journal Biogerontology, researchers from the Russian Clinical Research…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (55+ words) Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer, remains one of the world’s most lethal malignancies, and its treatment options have changed surprisingly little over the past two decades. Now, a review published in Medical Oncology argues that…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (69+ words) Small-cell lung cancer has long been one of oncology’s most punishing adversaries. It grows with astonishing speed, spreads early, and presents a treatment paradox that has frustrated clinicians for decades: at diagnosis, tumors melt away under platinum-based chemotherapy, yet relapse…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (55+ words) Pembrolizumab, one of the most widely prescribed cancer immunotherapies in the world, has long been dosed on the assumption that saturating the PD-1 receptor on T cells is the key to unlocking the immune system against tumours. A new translational…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (541+ words) A protein long considered a quiet passenger in the bloodstream has been caught playing a far more sinister role in liver cancer....

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (704+ words) A sweeping analysis of more than 635,000 cancer patients in South Korea has delivered one of the clearest signals yet that what lies beneath the scale matters far more than the number itself....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (55+ words) Immunotherapy has transformed the outlook for people with advanced bladder and kidney cancer. Drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors, which block molecular brakes such as CTLA-4, PD-1 and PD-L1 to unleash the immune system against tumours, have dramatically improved long-term…...