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Study: Teen girls who stay up late are more likely to gain weight

Teen girls--but not boys--who prefer to go to bed later are more likely to gain weight, compared to same-age girls who go to bed earlier, suggests a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.

17 Sep 2019

Cancer patients identify 'bad luck' or fate as third most likely cause of disease

What role does fate play when it comes to the 145,000 people diagnosed with cancer each year in Australia and 125,000 people in Vietnam?

16 Sep 2019

Machine-learning derived model can help predict risk of heart failure for diabetes patients

Heart failure is an important potential complication of type 2 diabetes that occurs frequently and can lead to death or disability.

16 Sep 2019

Children's Tumor Foundation harnesses interest in rare disease research through NF Innovation Week

Neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body and which affects 1 in 3,000 people - that's over 2.5 million worldwide - has no cure and few workable treatment options.

15 Sep 2019

B-cell subtypes play essential role in immune response to melanoma

When it comes to further developing modern immunotherapies, cancer research has so far concentrated on T-lymphocytes.

13 Sep 2019

Distinctive characteristics in lung cancers could be key to personalized therapies

Melbourne researchers have discovered that the key to personalized therapies for some types of lung cancers may be to focus on their differences, not their similarities.

13 Sep 2019

Artificial intelligence helps improve diagnosis of head and neck cancers

Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the German Cancer Consortium have successfully solved a longstanding problem in the diagnosis of head and neck cancers.

12 Sep 2019

Metastatic colorectal cancer patients with certain BRAF mutations may respond to anti-EGFR therapy

Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer harboring a subset of non-V600 mutations in the BRAF gene, known as class 3 BRAF mutations, were more likely to respond to anti-EGFR treatment.

12 Sep 2019

LMRI scientists discover cause of debilitating eye disease

Scientists at the Lowy Medical Research Institute have discovered one cause of a progressive, debilitating eye disease called macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel).

11 Sep 2019

First genetic cause for a rare eye disease discovered

John A. Moran Eye Center physician-researcher Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD, and his patients at the University of Utah played a key role in the recent discovery of the first genetic cause for a rare eye disease.

11 Sep 2019

Brain changes may help track people most likely to develop dementia

Even before dementia diagnosis, people with mild cognitive impairment may have different changes in the brain depending on what type of dementia they have, according to a study published in the September 11, 2019, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

11 Sep 2019

NIH partners with Apple and Harvard for long-term study of women's health

The National Institutes of Health, Apple, and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health announced their research partnership for a major long-term study of women's health.

11 Sep 2019

Two uveitis drugs perform similarly in a head-to-head clinical trial

Methotrexate and the more expensive mycophenolate mofetil performed similarly in a head-to-head clinical trial that compared the two drugs for treating noninfectious uveitis, an eye disease that accounts for up to 15% of blindness in the U. S.

11 Sep 2019

Lung-MAP study: Majority of cancer patients don't understand genomic test results

A majority of cancer patients don't understand key aspects of the genomic test results they receive as participants in biomarker-driven clinical trials, according to a first-of-its-kind pilot study conducted under the Lung Cancer Master Protocol.

10 Sep 2019

NIAID experts call for innovative research on STIs

Sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, pose a significant public health challenge. Globally, more than one million new STI cases are diagnosed each day.

10 Sep 2019

Oral antibiotics that kill gut microorganisms can alter immune response to flu vaccines

The normal human gut microbiome is a flourishing community of microorganisms, some of which can affect the human immune system. In a new paper published this week in Cell, researchers found that oral antibiotics, which can kill gut microorganisms, can alter the human immune response to seasonal influenza vaccination.

8 Sep 2019

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Study: Teen girls who stay up late are more likely to gain weight

Cancer patients identify 'bad luck' or fate as third most likely cause of disease

Machine-learning derived model can help predict risk of heart failure for diabetes patients

Children's Tumor Foundation harnesses interest in rare disease research through NF Innovation Week

B-cell subtypes play essential role in immune response to melanoma

Distinctive characteristics in lung cancers could be key to personalized therapies

Artificial intelligence helps improve diagnosis of head and neck cancers

Metastatic colorectal cancer patients with certain BRAF mutations may respond to anti-EGFR therapy

LMRI scientists discover cause of debilitating eye disease

First genetic cause for a rare eye disease discovered

Brain changes may help track people most likely to develop dementia

NIH partners with Apple and Harvard for long-term study of women's health

Two uveitis drugs perform similarly in a head-to-head clinical trial

Lung-MAP study: Majority of cancer patients don't understand genomic test results

NIAID experts call for innovative research on STIs

Oral antibiotics that kill gut microorganisms can alter immune response to flu vaccines

Small-cell clones in epithelial tissues organize differently than their normal-sized counterparts

New program aims to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions for older adults

Large-scale study maps the genetic underpinnings of early TB progression

NIH trial aims to improve drug discovery for ischemic stroke

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