1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (625+ words) Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most formidable diagnoses in modern medicine, and a new case report is drawing attention for a strikingly inventive solution to one of its most stubborn clinical problems....

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, 10+ hour ago   (72+ words) Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha, or HIF1α, has long been celebrated as the master switch that allows cells to sense and survive low-oxygen conditions, a discovery that earned the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In the intestine, this transcription factor is far…...

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, 12+ hour ago   (55+ words) A blood test that could help clinicians diagnose autism spectrum disorder in toddlers has moved a significant step closer to real-world use, thanks to a new translational study published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. Researchers led by Juergen Hahn…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (54+ words) Scientists in Sweden have confirmed that a single immune-related protein, measured in the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord, falls steadily as Huntington’s disease advances — and that this decline mirrors how sick patients actually become. The protein,…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (739+ words) Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, a disease so aggressive that it is often discovered only after it has already spread, leaving patients with some of the bleakest survival statistics of any major malignancy....

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (69+ words) Praziquantel, a drug that has protected hundreds of millions of people against parasitic flatworm infections for decades, may harbor a second, entirely unexpected talent: easing the scarring that destroys livers in chronic disease. A new study published in the Journal…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (850+ words) A simple blood test can find cancer in dogs long before any outward sign of disease appears, according to the first interim results of the Cancer Lifetime Assessment Screening Study in Canines, or CLASSiC, published in Veterinary Oncology....

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (96+ words) A towering tree planted along the roadsides of Cameroon and Uganda, valued mostly as an ornament and a source of shade, has emerged as an unlikely candidate in the fight against one of the world’s deadliest diseases. In a study…...