1+ min ago   (83+ words) Ovarian cancer remains one of the most lethal gynecologic malignancies, and for decades researchers have pursued an idea that sounds deceptively simple: train the patient’s own immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. A new analysis of the entire…...

7+ min ago   (90+ words) People living in prisons, jails and forensic mental health facilities carry some of the heaviest burdens of psychological distress in society, yet one of the most dangerous and under-recognised forms of that distress has largely escaped scientific attention. A new…...

16+ min ago   (55+ words) In the world of traditional Chinese medicine, few raw materials are as quietly ubiquitous as Cicadae Periostracum, the papery slough that cicadas abandon when they molt from nymph to adult. For centuries, this discarded exoskeleton has been prescribed for sore…...

28+ min ago   (75+ words) A transporter sitting in the walls of the brain’s blood vessels has turned out to be one of the most important gatekeepers of brain chemistry during development, according to a new study published in iScience. The protein, known as SLC38A2, shuttles…...

28+ min ago   (603+ words) When a dog develops mammary tumors, veterinarians almost never find just one. Roughly half to sixty percent of dogs diagnosed with canine mammary tumors carry multiple, physically distinct growths at the same time, a phenomenon known as synchronous tumor development....

44+ min ago   (571+ words) For patients diagnosed with small kidney cancers tucked dangerously close to the organ’s blood vessels, urine-collecting system, or neighboring bowel, treatment options have long been fraught with compromise. Surgery risks sacrificing precious kidney function, while conventional heat-based ablation risks burning…...

44+ min ago   (707+ words) Detecting dangerous bacteria in a patient’s sample can take hours or even days, and the fastest molecular tests demand expensive laboratory infrastructure and highly trained staff....

53+ min ago   (75+ words) Gastric cancer continues to rank among the most lethal malignancies worldwide, and a new study published in Medical Oncology has identified a molecular culprit that may explain how tumors in the stomach not only grow aggressively but also dismantle the…...

53+ min ago   (721+ words) A new qualitative study from China offers one of the most detailed maps to date of what patients with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome actually value about their health, and the picture that emerges is strikingly broader than the clinical targets that dominate…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago   (84+ words) Chronic kidney disease is one of the world’s most burdensome chronic conditions, a slow and often silent deterioration of renal function that affects hundreds of millions of people and frequently goes undetected until the damage is advanced. Staging the disease…...