Tag: Cancer

Technique rapidly measures cells’ density, reflecting health and developmental state

Measuring the density of a cell can reveal a great deal about the cell’s state. As cells proliferate, differentiate, or undergo cell death, they may gain or lose water and other molecules, which is revealed by changes in density. Tracking these tiny changes in cells’ physical state is difficult to do at a large scale, […]

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Morning Joe Stunned as Oncologist Says Biden Had Cancer for Years

The fact that the cancer had spread to the bone, Emanuel told hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, indicated that it has been in Biden for “for a very long time.” “We don’t know [how many years], obviously, and it is a little surprising to many of us oncologists that he wasn’t diagnosed earlier,” Emanuel […]

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Doctor Who Worked With Biden Says He Had Cancer for Years

The fact that the cancer had spread to the bone, Emanuel told hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, indicated that it has been in Biden for “for a very long time.” “We don’t know [how many years], obviously, and it is a little surprising to many of us oncologists that he wasn’t diagnosed earlier,” Emanuel […]

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F.D.A. Approves First At-Home Alternative to the Pap Smear

The Food and Drug Administration approved the United States’ first at-home cervical cancer screening tool on Friday, a decision that stands to give women an accessible alternative to Pap smears, which many find painful or traumatic. The new test, made by Teal Health, involves swabbing the vagina with a spongelike tool rather than inserting a […]

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Biologists identify targets for new pancreatic cancer treatments

Researchers from MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered that a class of peptides expressed in pancreatic cancer cells could be a promising target for T-cell therapies and other approaches that attack pancreatic tumors. Known as cryptic peptides, these molecules are produced from sequences in the genome that were not thought to encode proteins. Such […]

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Despite cancer and early race setback, Jack Tenold finishes 49th Bloomsday alongside his family

A little after 2 p.m., having been on his feet for 5 hours, Jack Tenold finally crossed the Bloomsday finish line, his wife, Tana, and their daughter’s family by his side. Jack has ran, or more recently walked, in every single Lilac Bloomsday Run since its inception in 1977. The 79-year-old fighting Stage 4 lung cancer went […]

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‘I Have Cancer,’ the TikTok Star Said. Then Came the Torrent of Hate.

By the time Sydney Towle graduated from Dartmouth College in 2022, she had a growing social media side hustle. On TikTok, where she posted videos, her fans watched her perform dance moves in her kitchen and lip-sync to popular songs. She modeled clothing and posed in bikinis on the beach. She gallivanted around Europe with […]

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Tina Knowles Just Shared Some Heartbreaking Health News, Fans Respond

Fans are pouring out their love and support for Tina Knowles who just announced her experience with a devastating health battle. The mother of Beyoncé and Solange spoke with Gayle King on “CBS Mornings” in an interview that aired Tuesday (April 22). Suggested Reading Two alligators bang on a door at a Florida home and […]

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Equipping living cells with logic gates to fight cancer

One of the most exciting developments in cancer treatment is a wave of new cell therapies that train a patient’s immune system to attack cancer cells. Such therapies have saved the lives of patients with certain aggressive cancers and few other options. Most of these therapies work by teaching immune cells to recognize and attack […]

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Engineers develop a way to mass manufacture nanoparticles that deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors

Polymer-coated nanoparticles loaded with therapeutic drugs show significant promise for cancer treatment, including ovarian cancer. These particles can be targeted directly to tumors, where they release their payload while avoiding many of the side effects of traditional chemotherapy. Over the past decade, MIT Institute Professor Paula Hammond and her students have created a variety of […]

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Iowa Republicans Want to Shield Pesticide Firms From Cancer Lawsuits

“It’s a common acceptance in rural Iowa that we’re probably being poisoned, but we don’t want to know about it because we’re not sure we can do anything about it,” Faux said. Over the last year, Faux has opposed S.F. 394 through his work at the Pesticide Action and Agroecology Network, a coalition that seeks […]

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Why the Right Still Embraces Ivermectin

Joe Grinsteiner is a gregarious online personality who touts the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin. In a recent Facebook video, he produced a tube of veterinary-grade ivermectin paste — the kind made for deworming horses. He gave the tube a squeeze. Then he licked a slug of the stuff, and gulped. “Yum,” Mr. Grinsteiner said in the […]

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What Ivermectin Can (and Can’t) Do

At least once a week, someone asks Dr. Skyler Johnson if ivermectin can treat their cancer. Patients have asked about the anti-parasitic drug for years, especially during the pandemic. But in recent months, Dr. Johnson, a radiation oncologist at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute, has fielded more and more questions about the medication. […]

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King Charles Briefly Hospitalized After Side Effects From Cancer Treatment

King Charles III was briefly hospitalized on Thursday after suffering side effects from his cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace said in a statement. The palace said Charles, 76, had since returned to his London residence, Clarence House, and that his public schedule for Friday would be canceled as a precaution. The king announced in February last […]

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Bobby Sherman, Former Teen Idol, Has Stage 4 Cancer, His Wife Says

Bobby Sherman, the Southern California heartthrob whose success on the television screen and music charts in the late 1960s and early 1970s cemented his teen idol status, has Stage 4 cancer. His wife, Brigitte Poublon, disclosed his diagnosis in a Facebook post on Tuesday, saying that the 81-year-old retired actor and singer was no longer […]

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Trump Cuts Imperil Cancer, Diabetes and Pediatric Research at Columbia

Cancer researchers examining the use of artificial intelligence to detect early signs of breast cancer. Pediatricians tracking the long-term health of children born to mothers infected with the coronavirus during pregnancy. Scientists searching for links between diabetes and dementia. All these projects at Columbia University were paid for with federal research grants that were abruptly […]

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Designing better ways to deliver drugs

When Louis DeRidder was 12 years old, he had a medical emergency that nearly cost him his life. The terrifying experience gave him a close-up look at medical care and made him eager to learn more. “You can’t always pinpoint exactly what gets you interested in something, but that was a transformative moment,” says DeRidder. […]

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Gabrielle Union’s Response to Husband Dwyane Wade’s Cancer Diagnosis Will Break Your Heart

Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade attend Out100 Celebration – Arrivals at NeueHouse Hollywood on December 11, 2024 in Hollywood, California.Photo: Olivia Wong/WireImage (Getty Images) Gabrielle Union is opening up about her husband Dwyane Wade’s scary cancer diagnosis and how it took a toll on their relationship. And she’s not holding back. Suggested Reading Gabrielle Union […]

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She Lobbied for Formaldehyde. Now She’s at E.P.A. Approving New Chemicals.

Formaldehyde, the chemical of choice for undertakers and embalmers, is also used in products like furniture and clothes. But it can also cause cancer and severe respiratory problems. So, in 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency began a new effort to regulate it. The chemicals industry fought back with an intensity that astonished even seasoned agency […]

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A protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy

About 60 percent of all cancer patients in the United States receive radiation therapy as part of their treatment. However, this radiation can have severe side effects that often end up being too difficult for patients to tolerate. Drawing inspiration from a tiny organism that can withstand huge amounts of radiation, researchers at MIT, Brigham […]

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Helping the immune system attack tumors

In addition to patrolling the body for foreign invaders, the immune system also hunts down and destroys cells that have become cancerous or precancerous. However, some cancer cells end up evading this surveillance and growing into tumors. Once established, tumor cells often send out immunosuppressive signals, which leads T cells to become “exhausted” and unable […]

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Is This Common Herbicide Harming Your Health?

As part of his pledge to “Make America Healthy Again,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants to build an “off-ramp” from the country’s reliance on insecticides and herbicides to grow food. “The chemicals pollute our bodies the same way that they pollute the soil,” Mr. Kennedy said in 2024. This week, Mr. Kennedy, […]

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President Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes He Might Not Know How to Govern

The Baltimore-based Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) has historically been a key event for the Pentagon to recruit high-caliber STEM talent. One Army recruiter told the servicemember news outlet that BEYA is one of the “most talent-dense events we do,” and that the branch “need[s] the talent.” BEYA, in turn, recognizes on its […]

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European Court Ruling Gives Hope in Italy Region Known for Toxic Waste

Until a few days ago, Antonietta Moccia, a 61-year-old housewife, had little hope that the Italian authorities would ever tackle the illegal waste disposal that had long plagued her town and others just north of Naples. Her daughter was diagnosed with a rare cancer at age 5 in an area where clusters of cancers have […]

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Is this the new playbook for curing rare childhood diseases?

“There is no treatment available for your son. We can’t do anything to help him.” When Fernando Goldsztein MBA ’03 heard those words, something inside him snapped. “I refused to accept what the doctors were saying. I transformed my fear into my greatest strength and started fighting.” Goldsztein’s 12-year-old son Frederico was diagnosed with relapsing […]

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ExThera Claimed Its Device Could Cure Cancer. But Patients Died.

The private jet took off from the Caribbean island of Antigua in April carrying three highly flammable tanks of compressed oxygen and a terminally ill cancer patient. Kim Hudlow had chartered the plane for her husband, David. She crouched by his side on the five-hour journey to Florida, frantically adjusting the valve on one of […]

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Cancer’s New Face: Younger and Female

More Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease is striking young and middle-aged adults and women more frequently, the American Cancer Society reported on Thursday. And despite overall improvements in survival, Black and Native Americans are dying of some cancers at rates two to three times higher than those among white Americans. These trends represent […]

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Why Are More Young Women Being Diagnosed With Breast Cancer?

Siobhan Donovan was a runner who ate her vegetables, didn’t smoke and drank alcohol only socially. She had no family history of cancer. So when she experienced some swelling in her breast near the end of what she called “a textbook-easy pregnancy” with her third child, she and her doctors expected nothing serious. They were […]

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Not Drunk, Not Dry: What it Means to Be ‘Soberish’

One day last year, Christine Mosley woke up with the kind of hangover that inspires self-reckoning. That day, she decided she would never drink again. A few days later, Ms. Mosley, 31, found herself with a cocktail in hand. For her at least, she said, “it’s really not that simple.” More recently, Ms. Mosley, a […]

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FDA Bans Red Dye 3 in Foods, Linking It to Cancer in Rats

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday banned the use of Red Dye No. 3 in food, beverages and drugs, more than three decades after the synthetic coloring was first found to cause cancer in male laboratory rats. The dye, a petroleum-based additive, has been used to give candy, soda and other products their vibrant […]

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