1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (81+ words) In one of the most remote corners of Australia, a quiet revolution in child health is unfolding around campfires, swimming holes and shared meals. A new qualitative study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific describes how a week-long…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (617+ words) A landmark multi-institution study has revealed that the neighborhood a patient with metastatic breast cancer lives in may be written into the biology of the tumor itself....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (671+ words) Pediatric radiology is, by almost any measure, deeply meaningful work. Radiologists, technologists, nurses, and child life specialists spend their careers peering inside the bodies of sick children, catching diseases early, guiding treatment decisions, and supporting families through some of the…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (678+ words) Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium responsible for gonorrhea, remains the second most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted infection worldwide and has become a central figure in the escalating global antimicrobial resistance crisis....

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   (81+ words) Bladder cancer remains one of the most challenging malignancies in modern urology, and a newly published comprehensive review in the Journal of Translational Medicine argues that the field is standing at the threshold of a diagnostic revolution. The review, led…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (707+ words) Prostate cancer remains one of the most commonly diagnosed malignancies in the world, and a new large-scale analysis from Brazil is shedding fresh light on which patients are most at risk of dying from the disease....

1+ day, 10+ 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   (650+ words) A closely watched Phase 3 clinical trial has delivered a sobering verdict on one of the most anticipated treatment strategies in lung cancer medicine....

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (672+ words) For decades, surgeons have operated on the assumption that when it comes to removing lymph nodes in cancer surgery, more is better. A thorough lymph node dissection has long been considered the gold standard, ensuring accurate staging and reducing the…...