The blood test looks for microscopic traces of cancer in the bloodstream 1,600 bowel cancer patients are being recruited to the UK study By SHAUN WOOLLER HEALTH EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL UPDATED: 11:50 EDT, 30 March 2023 A blood test that detects traces of cancer cells could spare thousands of patients gruelling chemotherapy every year. Researchers at a leading NHS hospital...
by Noah Brown, Massachusetts General Hospital Credit: Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.02.033 Aging (senescent) cells, which stop dividing but don’t die, can accumulate in the body over the years and fuel chronic inflammation that contributes to conditions such as cancer and degenerative disorders. In mice, eliminating senescent cells from aging tissues can restore tissue balance and lead to an increased healthy...
Good News Network by Andy Corbley, March 30, 2023 Andy Corbley –Mar 30, 2023 A large trial showed that a single injection of a patient’s own stem cells into their heart was able to reduce inflammation and risk of heart attack and stroke by 58% if they had heart failure. 6 million Americans have clinical...
by Kelley Luckstein, Mayo Clinic Credit: Shutterstock Patients who have multiple tumors in one breast may be able to avoid a mastectomy if the tumors can be removed while leaving enough breast tissue, according to research led by the Alliance in Clinical Trials in Oncology and Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. Patients would receive breast-conserving therapy: a lumpectomy...
by Justin Jackson , Medical Xpress Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics proposes ATRIP gene variants as a breast cancer susceptibility gene candidate based on a study of women without any of the known breast cancer-associated gene variants. The team of Canadian and Polish researchers led by the University of Toronto...
by Kristin Osborne, University of Washington Researchers at the University of Washington have developed GlucoScreen, a system that could enable people to self-screen for prediabetes. It uses a modified version of a commercially available test strip (white rectangle on the right) with any smartphone—no separate glucometer required. Leveraging the phone’s built-in capacitive touch sensing capabilities, GlucoScreen transmits...
by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Illustration of the link between short telomeres and squamous cancer. Credit: Jennifer Fairman Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say their 20-year study of more than 200 people with premature aging syndromes caused by abnormally short telomeres, or shortened repetitive DNA sequences at the ends of chromosomes, may upend long-held scientific...
University of Oslo. Credit: Cecilie Bakken Hostmark, UiO The word “brainwashing” usually triggers negative associations. But our brain health for sure depends on it. Scientists at the University of Oslo have recently made new and important discoveries about how and why this happens when we are sleeping. The blood vessels in the brain constrict and dilate in certain patterns...
by Lancet Credit: CC0 Public Domain Monthly prophylactic injections of fitusiran are effective in reducing bleeds in patients with hemophilia A or B, according to randomized controlled trials publishing simultaneously in The Lancet and The Lancet Haematology journals. Hemophilia is a lifelong, inherited bleeding disorder, which mostly affects men and results in patients with hemophilia A or B missing partially...
This finding, detailed in a paper in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, and highlighted in a broader piece in the journal, could help lead to ways to control the retinoic acid response and therefore be used as a therapy or for vaccine development against infection or even to treat GI tumors. The study, conducted in mice, centers on...
