By VICTORIA ALLEN SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 17:00 EST, 28 December 2021 | UPDATED: 02:23 EST, 29 December 2021 A breakthrough could help thousands of women with the ‘Jolie gene’ to delay or avoid cancer surgery. It would allow doctors to predict when and if patients with a faulty gene develop breast and ovarian...
By SUSIE COEN AND SHAUN WOOLLER FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 17:00 EST, 2 January 2022 | UPDATED: 03:19 EST, 3 January 2022 Generations of women last night demanded an urgent inquiry into a drug they call the ‘silent Thalidomide’. A synthetic oestrogen known as Diethylstilbestrol (DES) was given to pregnant women to prevent miscarriage – and to dry up...
by Aubrey Whelan Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The highly-contagious omicron variant now accounts for most new cases in the United States. And with a surge in COVID-19 cases and intense demand for scarce at-home rapid tests—which don’t differentiate between variants—Americans experiencing COVID-like symptoms are scrambling to figure out whether they’ve contracted omicron, a previous variant,...
by American Academy of Neurology Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study suggests that even though men may be more likely to have cardiovascular conditions like heart disease and stroke and risk factors like diabetes, high blood pressure, and smoking in middle age than women, the negative impact of most of these conditions on thinking...
by Case Western Reserve University PET scan of a human brain with Alzheimer’s disease. Credit: public domain An international team led by Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine has made a significant breakthrough in understanding why Alzheimer’s disease progresses so rapidly in some people that they die within three years. The researchers found a...
by European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Over the past three decades, efforts to improve the results of standard treatment for patients with severe aplastic anemia have been largely unsuccessful. The phase III RACE trial, sponsored by the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), published on January 6,...
by Ingrid Fadelli, Medical Xpress Fig. 1: Voxels with correlated visual and linguistic semantic representations. Credit: DOI: 10.1038/s41593-021-00921-6 The human brain stores and organizes meaningful information in different regions and networks. While past neuroscience studies have examined some of these networks in great depth, the relationship and interactions between them is not yet entirely clear....
by Salk Institute Insulin and FGF1 both regulate blood sugar levels using independent pathways. Credit: Salk Institute The discovery of insulin 100 years ago opened a door that would lead to life and hope for millions of people with diabetes. Ever since then, insulin, produced in the pancreas, has been considered the primary means of...
by University of Oxford Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A publication by University of Oxford researchers describes a new minimally invasive and inexpensive blood test that can identify cancer in patients with non-specific symptoms. A University of Oxford study published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, outlines a new type...
by David J. Hill, University at Buffalo Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The sun is almost always shining during the day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and that makes the findings of a new study on breast cancer and sun exposure particularly noteworthy. In a new study by researchers from the University at Buffalo and the...
