Bladder cancer is a painful and sometimes life-threatening condition that patients can find difficult to talk about, with many becoming home bound as they manage with debilitating side effects such as incontinence. Bladder cancer mainly starts between the ages of 50 and 80 years old; affecting men at a ratio of 3:1, and is increasing…
The researches find that The Immune system. Their role is to detect virus-infected cells and destroy them. When an infection is detected, a small subset of the most effective killer cells is identify and selectively expanded as a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now been able to show for the first…
One important infection, however, have been tackling neither by disinfectants nor vaccines. That disease was influenza. During each of the years 1915 and 1916; some thirty odd thousand soldiers were admitted to army hospitals; suffering from influenza. In 1917, describing an outbreak of disease constituting “almost a small epidemic”. However, the situation suddenly and unexpectedly…
Trauma Care, In an effort to treat wounded soldiers as fast as possible, the US Department of Defense has awarded four-year contracts worth a total of US$7.2 million to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPMC) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop an autonomous trauma care system that can fit in a rucksack.…
The study find that the breast MRI to mammography in screening breast cancer survivors for new cancers results in higher cancer detection rates, but also more biopsies that are benign; because according to a large study published in the journal Radiology. Annual screening with surveillance mammography is recommend for the millions of breast cancer survivors in…
An international study led by Eurac Research draws up the criteria for correctly assessing victims the chances of survival. It is difficult for doctors to accurately assess avalanche victims who arrive at hospital suffering cardiac arrest: has the patient effectively suffocated, or is there a realistic prospect of survival if the patient is properly rewarm.…
Teen team, Among individuals expose to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), team sports participation in adolescence is associated with better adult mental health, according to a study published online May 28 in JAMA Pediatrics. To evaluate, among those expose to ACEs, whether team sports participation during adolescence is associate with better mental health in adulthood and…
Entrectinib and Crizotinib are both active against ROS1+ non-small cell lung cancer. But which is best? The answer seems easy: Just compare the drugs’ clinical trial results. However, not all trials are created equal; so these differences in trial designs can lead to irrelevant comparisons; so like comparing athletes’ running times without noting that one…
The researches find that the gastroesophageal reflux disease(GERD) in only approximately half of patients with severe obesity; according to results from a nationwide cohort study with long follow-up. “This is a lower success rate than in previous studies; therefore indicating that the treatment effect may have been overstated;” write Dag Holmberg, a PhD student at Karolinska…
The researches find that the Radio Tracer has proven effective in non-invasively identifying nearly 30 types of malignant tumors; according to research published in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Because Using 68Ga-FAPI positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT); therefore researchers were able to image a wide variety of tumors with very high…
Gut microbiome; a team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Korea and Australia; but have found a possible link between the gut microbiome in infants and development of allergies. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes their study of a certain antibody response in young mice and what they…
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disorder that leads to significant; but health issues as well as high treatment costs. In this themed issue of Clinical Therapeutics, experts review multiple aspects of RA detection and intervention; with the overall goal of moving the field closer to developing effective preventive measures. Identifying people before…