The night before Brian Gorzney planned to check into rehab for alcohol use, he began vomiting blood. First at 2 a.m. Then 5. And again at 11. When he arrived at the rehab facility in North Kansas City, Missouri, they sent him directly to the adjoining hospital. There, Gorzney, then 50, and his family learned […]
In 2019, 409,000 people died from malaria. Cases of malaria have been falling but have recently stalled. The RTS,S/AS01 vaccine is the first and only vaccine that targets the parasite P. falciparum, which is particularly deadly and prevalent. The vaccine represents decades of work and is a major breakthrough. In an announcement, the World Health […]
By Reuters Staff BERLIN (Reuters) – CureVac NV said on Tuesday it will give up on its first-generation COVID-19 vaccine candidate and instead focus on collaborating with GSK to develop improved mRNA vaccine technology. The German biotechnology company’s shares were off about 8% after earlier plunging as much as 13%, hitting their lowest since going […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Over the past 30 years in the Netherlands, the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) has tripled in adults younger than age 50, from 0.34 cases per 100,000 in 1989 to 0.92 per 100,000 in 2018, new research indicates. The rising trend was most prominent in young women, with an average […]
Have you ever seen skin glow quite like it? That’s the question we’re all asking ourselves upon seeing Hailey Bieber's latest Instagram Story, in which the model is seen, face to the sun, with ludicrously luminous skin. "Glossy skin and berry-stained lips all fall please," she captioned the post, showing off her own take on […]
How cancers metastasize remains poorly understood. The process begins when cancer cells break off from a tumor and invade blood and lymphatic vessels, the body’s alleyways. But studying invasion—typically a microscopic process—is challenging. However, some types of tumors can invade blood vessels and form larger masses. By focusing on kidney cancer, a tumor that bulldozes […]
A pathway helping the breast cancer protein BRCA1 repair damaged DNA has been identified by University of Queensland researchers in a study that will inform future targeted therapies. Professor Robert Parton, Professor Alpha Yap and Dr Kerrie-Ann McMahon from UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) identified an association between two proteins that are lost in […]
“As a pediatrician, one of the most common questions I hear from parents is, ‘How do I choose the right formula for my baby?’” Dr. Jen Trachtenberg, board-certified pediatrician, and parenting expert tells SheKnows. Breast milk provides the optimum nutrition for your baby, but many women cannot or choose not to breastfeed. In that case, […]
Cancerous tumors are made up of many more components than just malignant cells from the tissue of origin. Immune cells can be recruited to the tumor site and form what is known as the tumor microenvironment. A subset of these are called tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). In an article published in Annals of Surgery, a team […]
