Rectal cancer researchers have pulled off a daunting feat, demonstrating in a large clinical trial that patients do just as well without radiation therapy as with it. The results, revealed Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and in a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, could give […]
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Every three to five days, all of the cells lining the human intestine are replaced. That constant replenishment of cells helps the intestinal lining withstand the damage caused by food passing through the digestive tract. This rapid turnover of cells relies on intestinal stem cells, which give rise to all of the other types of […]
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Biden’s trip abroad and challenge at home President Biden left this afternoon for Japan to attend the annual Group of 7 summit meeting, which begins tomorrow in Hiroshima. Leaders of the major industrial democracies will discuss efforts to keep the global economy stable. But the major potential threat to that stability this year could come […]
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Paula Hammond, a leading innovator in nanotechnology and head of MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2023-2024 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. Hammond, an MIT Institute Professor, was honored for her work designing novel polymers and nanomaterials, which have extensive applications in fields including medicine and energy. […]
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Thousands of patients are facing delays in getting treatments for cancer and other life-threatening diseases, with drug shortages in the United States approaching record levels. Hospitals are scouring shelves for supplies of a drug that reverses lead poisoning and for a sterile fluid needed to stop the heart for bypass surgery. Some antibiotics are still scarce […]
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When I learned that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force once again changed its recommendation for when women should begin screening for breast cancer — this time recommending women start at age 40 rather than 50 — I had just finished operating on a 48-year-old African American woman with aggressive breast cancer. My patient had […]
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WASHINGTON — President Biden will announce on Monday that he will nominate Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, a cancer surgeon who became the director of the National Cancer Institute in October, to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health, filling a position that has been vacant for more than a year. Dr. Bertagnolli […]
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Immune checkpoint blockade therapies have been revolutionary in the treatment of some cancer types, emerging as one of the most promising treatments for diseases such as melanoma, colon cancer, and non-small cell lung cancer. While in some cases checkpoint blockade therapies elicit a strong immune response that clears tumors, checkpoint inhibitors do not work for […]
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Genomic studies of cancer patients have revealed thousands of mutations linked to tumor development. However, for the vast majority of those mutations, researchers are unsure of how they contribute to cancer because there’s no easy way to study them in animal models. In an advance that could help scientists make a dent in that long […]
Read MoreAde Osadolor (L), a Texas native and a member of the Students Demand Action National Advisory Board, and Erica Leslie Lafferty, whose mother was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, attend a rally with fellow Congressional Democrats and gun control advocacy groups outside the U.S. Capitol on May 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. Organized […]
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Alarmed by an increase in breast cancer diagnoses among younger women and persistently high death rates among Black women in particular, health experts on Tuesday offered a stark revision to the standard medical advice on mammograms. Women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds who are at average risk for breast cancer should start getting regular […]
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of experts that issues guidelines about preventive care, has recommended all women start routine breast cancer screening at 40, instead of at 50, the previous recommendation. The panel continues to advise spacing the screenings at two-year intervals, although some other medical organizations endorse annual mammograms. Here’s more […]
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Why It Matters: A Potential Warning Sign Shu Jiang, the study’s lead author and an associate professor of public health sciences at Washington University, said the findings might provide an individualized and dynamic tool for assessing a woman’s breast cancer risk. “I hope they can get this into clinical use as soon as possible — […]
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MIT engineers have designed a new nanoparticle sensor that could enable early diagnosis of cancer with a simple urine test. The sensors, which can detect many different cancerous proteins, could also be used to distinguish the type of a tumor or how it is responding to treatment. The nanoparticles are designed so that when they […]
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In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Human Genome Project enabled the first count of human genes. The result was, to be candid, a little embarrassing. Just 20,000 genes coded the marvel that is a human being, fewer than the standard lab mouse (closer to 30,000 genes) and a fraction of the genes that comprise the lowly […]
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Cancer drugs that stimulate the body’s immune system to attack tumors are a promising way to treat many types of cancer. However, some of these drugs produce too much systemic inflammation when delivered intravenously, making them harmful to use in patients. MIT researchers have now come up with a possible way to get around that […]
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Nearly 20 percent of today’s electricity in the United States comes from nuclear power. The U.S. has the largest nuclear fleet in the world, with 92 reactors scattered around the country. Many of these power plants have run for more than half a century and are approaching the end of their expected lifetimes. Policymakers are […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty Johnson & Johnson is offering up to $8.9 billion to settle allegations that its baby powder causes cancer. The proposed agreement would be paid over the next 25 years “to resolve all the current and future talc claims,” Johnson & Johnson said. More than 60,000 alleged victims […]
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We are navigating a dynamic period as it relates to business, the global economy, and geopolitics. Business leaders and investors alike need to determine their investment strategy to navigate this ongoing uncertainty. Throughout history and different economic cycles, capital investments in technology have endured because the innovation they create transforms society and businesses, even during […]
Read MoreSkip to content Toggle Menu Open Navigation Close Navigation sponsored: AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File FILE – President Joe Biden speaks on the cancer moonshot initiative at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Sept. 12, 2022, in Boston. Federal health officials on Monday outlined a new framework aimed at helping to implement the White House […]
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Biologics, a class of therapeutics derived from living organisms, offer enormous advantages to patients battling challenging diseases and disorders. Treatments based on biologics can boost the immune system to stem attacks from infections or target specific pathways to block the formation of tumors. “These drugs, which have been around for just the last 20 years, […]
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Simoni, who now works as a trauma nurse, clinical nurse researcher, and epidemiologist, (while now also pursuing a PhD in a nursing), sought out more information but found no data linking post-9/11 veterans and heightened cancer rates. Simoni, then still in nursing school, approached her advisor, asking if she could undertake a study to further […]
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For example, we know that there are circuits in the brain that control and monitor breathing, and we know that these circuits connect to other regions of the brain that imbue pain with its negative emotional tone. So, even if we don’t understand all the details, we can devise experiments to test the hypothesis that […]
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Using an RNA sensor, MIT engineers have designed a new way to trigger cells to turn on a synthetic gene. Their approach could make it possible to create targeted therapies for cancer and other diseases, by ensuring that synthetic genes are activated only in specific cells. The researchers demonstrated that their sensor could accurately identify […]
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In July, Jennifer O’Brien got the phone call that adult children dread. Her 84-year-old father, who insisted on living alone in rural New Mexico, had broken his hip. The neighbor who found him on the floor after a fall had called an ambulance. Ms. O’Brien is a health care administrator and consultant in Little Rock, […]
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Inside a dark room at Bács-Kiskun County Hospital outside Budapest, Dr. Éva Ambrózay, a radiologist with more than two decades of experience, peered at a computer monitor showing a patient’s mammogram. Two radiologists had previously said the X-ray did not show any signs that the patient had breast cancer. But Dr. Ambrózay was looking closely […]
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WASHINGTON — President Biden had a cancerous lesion removed from his chest during his physical last month, the president’s doctor said Friday. The existence of the lesion was included in the summary of Mr. Biden’s physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in mid-February. On Friday, Dr. Kevin C. O’Connor, the president’s longtime physician, […]
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Spencer, a golden retriever who became the Boston Marathon’s official race dog, died at home in Holliston, Mass., on Feb. 17. He was 13 years and 6 ½ months old. Rich Powers, his owner, said the cause was an inoperable cancer. Spencer gained worldwide fame as an enthusiastic spectator along the Boston Marathon course. Rain, […]
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Republicans in new poll list fentanyl, other opioids as top public health threat | The Hill Skip to content A teacher in New Jersey was treated by a school nurse for an apparent overdose after students discovered him on the floor of the classroom, police said. (Getty Images) Republicans listed fentanyl and opioids as the […]
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But Orli just wants a firm promise that she’ll regain autonomy, and at the very least a return to where we were on Dec. 30, before this latest indignity. It is not the first time we have been in what rabbis call the meitzar, the biblical narrow place — a place of compression. The meitzar is […]
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While this is not an exhaustive list, here are some common chemicals named in the recent state bans, as well as ones that are frequently flagged by researchers and consumer advocacy groups. These chemicals appear on the ingredients lists of products containing them. Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) What it is: BHA is commonly used as a […]
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