New research on the first procedure-free gastric balloon shows it is safe and results in…
Month: June 2016
Radiation therapy with pembrolizumab, bevacizumab safe for glioma patients
Researchers will present preliminary results from a phase 1 study testing whether the addition of…
Why immune-boosting therapy doesn’t work for everyone with widespread melanoma
Patients who don’t respond to treatments that use their own immune cells to destroy tumors,…
When it comes to making patients safer, is a hospital’s ‘safety culture’ that important?
If you work in a hospital these days, you’ve probably gotten the invitation: Take a…
Cancer patients miss appointments, prescriptions due to inability to afford care
26 percent of a survey of adult cancer patients reported they paid more for medical…
Counseling patients at risk for cancer over the phone reduces costs, access burdens, study finds
Delivering genetic test results to patients at risk for cancer-causing genetic mutations over the phone…
Social adversity early in life may affect the expression of stress-related genes
New research suggests that early severe social deprivation may impact DNA modifications that affect the…
Personality changes can affect fish body shape, locomotion
Fish that are bred to be bolder or more shy show corresponding changes to their…
Constructing shale gas sites
Extracting gas from shale rock not only causes environmental disturbances below ground, the surface infrastructure…
Therapeutic antibody eculizumab caught in action
Scientists have used X-rays to understand how the therapeutic antibody eculizumab prevents our immune system…