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Transforming Cancer Care: Aventa Genomics and the Future of Genomic Testing

In this interview, Chris Roberts of Aventa Genomics highlights the groundbreaking Aventa FusionPlus test, detailing its superior ability to detect gene fusions in cancer diagnostics and its pivotal role in advancing personalized oncology treatments.

From Aventa Genomics 16 Feb 2024

Antidepressant use during pregnancy linked to child brain development risks

A new study published in Nature Communications provides direct evidence that antidepressant use during pregnancy can impact a child's brain development and contribute to the risk of mental health disorders later in life.

16 Feb 2024

Prenatal Mediterranean diet reduces offspring obesity

The relationship between maternal MedDiet adherence during gestation and overweight offspring risk.

16 Feb 2024

Exploiting feminism to market unproven health tests to women

Being able to give birth, and predict breast cancer. These are areas where tests and treatments, often lacking scientific support, are marketed using feminist rhetoric.

16 Feb 2024

The role of odor and verbal cues in recalling memories

Whether odor vs word cues could prompt memory in MDD patients with deficits in specific AM recall.

16 Feb 2024

City of Hope cures oldest person of blood cancer and achieves HIV remission

City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, treated the oldest person to be cured of a blood cancer and then achieve remission for HIV after receiving a blood stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare genetic mutation.

15 Feb 2024

Miracle surgery saves man with rare brain bubble at NYU Langone

Ivor Parker and Karen Palaza have been together for 20 years and treat each day as if it were Valentine's Day.

15 Feb 2024

Gynecologic cancer patients and advocates unite at FWC Forum in San Diego

The Foundation for Women's Cancer (FWC) is pleased to host a Patient and Advocate Education Forum on Friday, March 15, 2024, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. PT, in San Diego, CA, at the San Diego Convention Center the day before the start of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) 2024 Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer.

15 Feb 2024

Study reveals limitations of AI in early sepsis detection

Proprietary artificial intelligence software designed to be an early warning system for sepsis can’t differentiate high and low risk patients before they receive treatments, according to a new study from the University of Michigan.

15 Feb 2024

Ultra-processed foods often score poorly on front-of-pack labeling, UCL study finds

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) contain more calories, fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt than minimally-processed foods - but not all UPFs are unhealthy, according to new research from UCL.

15 Feb 2024

Novel synthetic antibiotic effective against drug-resistant bacteria

A new antibiotic created by Harvard researchers overcomes antimicrobial resistance mechanisms that have rendered many modern drugs ineffective and are driving a global public health crisis.

15 Feb 2024

Innovative treatment increases survival of people with malignant mesothelioma, trial shows

An innovative treatment significantly increases the survival of people with malignant mesothelioma, a rare but rapidly fatal type of cancer with few effective treatment options, according to results from a clinical trial led by Queen Mary University of London.

15 Feb 2024