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   (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   (740+ words) In the world of paediatric medicine, haematopoietic stem cell transplantation is often the last and best hope for children with leukaemia, inherited immune deficiencies, bone marrow failure syndromes and a range of other life-threatening disorders....

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (788+ words) A benign tumor growing on the vestibular nerve deep inside the skull is daunting enough on its own, but a new study suggests that for many patients, the financial aftermath of treatment is less catastrophic than feared....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (582+ words) Exercise is one of the most powerful medicines for the heart, enlarging cardiomyocytes in a healthy way and shielding the organ from the devastating damage that follows a heart attack. Yet the molecular arithmetic behind this benefit has remained stubbornly…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (603+ words) When a dog develops mammary tumors, veterinarians almost never find just one. Roughly half to sixty percent of dogs diagnosed with canine mammary tumors carry multiple, physically distinct growths at the same time, a phenomenon known as synchronous tumor development....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (532+ words) Hidradenitis suppurativa is one of dermatology’s most misunderstood and underappreciated diseases. The chronic inflammatory skin condition, which causes painful nodules, abscesses, and draining tunnels known as sinus tracts, most often develops in intertriginous areas such as the armpits, groin, and…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (55+ words) Immune checkpoint inhibitors have rewritten the outlook for some patients with gastrointestinal cancers, turning once uniformly fatal diagnoses into manageable chronic conditions for a fortunate minority. Yet for every dramatic response there are many more patients whose tumours barely flinch,…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (75+ words) Gastric cancer continues to rank among the most lethal malignancies worldwide, and a new study published in Medical Oncology has identified a molecular culprit that may explain how tumors in the stomach not only grow aggressively but also dismantle the…...

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....