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 […]
Could the COVID-19 vaccine mess with your period? That’s what some vaccine recipients are saying, although there’s no confirmation that this is an actual side effect of the shot. Kathryn Clancy, an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is leading a research study to see if people who menstruate have noticed anything […]
More than a dozen children in New York City have been hospitalized with an unusual inflammatory syndrome possibility related to COVID-19. The syndrome, which doctors are still working to understand, has been previously reported in children in the United Kingdom and other European countries. On Monday (May 4), the New York City Health Department alerted […]
