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Early detection plays big role in nail melanoma prognosis

Karolina Jasko's nails were usually painted during her senior year of high school, so she didn't notice the black vertical line on her right thumbnail until a nail technician pointed it out - and at the time, she didn't think much of it.

26 Jul 2018

Organ transplant patients have higher risk for skin cancer

While anyone can develop skin cancer, regardless of age, race or gender, certain groups of people have a higher risk of getting the disease than others.

26 Jul 2018

Experts highlight the need to avoid overdiagnosis and 'excessive' treatment of thyroid cancer

More Americans are being diagnosed with thyroid cancer than ever before--over the past 25 years its incidence has tripled.

26 Jul 2018

Most smokers seem to be confused about actual benefits of lung cancer screenings

Regular cancer screenings can lower the chance of death from lung cancer. But they cannot reduce the risk of developing lung cancer for people who smoke.

26 Jul 2018

Research findings may offer new path to treat or prevent neurodegenerative diseases

Aging vessels connecting the brain and the immune system play critical roles in both Alzheimer's disease and the decline in cognitive ability that comes with time, new research reveals.

26 Jul 2018

Surrey researchers design more efficient, flexible x-ray detector

Detectors that are presently used for mammograms and for dose measurements in radiotherapy are often rigid, causing errors in screening, or dose delivery to surrounding healthy tissue.

26 Jul 2018

Study helps to explain why older adults experience dysphagia

As adults age, they all experience a natural loss of muscle mass and function. A new study finds that as the loss of muscle and function in the throat occurs it becomes more difficult for efficient constriction to occur while swallowing - which leads to an increased chance of food and liquids being left over in the throat.

26 Jul 2018

New research highlights value of free skin cancer screening program

While skin cancer can be deadly, it is also highly treatable when detected early. In fact, melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has a five-year survival rate of 95 percent when detected and treated before it spreads to the lymph nodes; conversely, the five-year survival rates for regional and distant stage melanomas are 64 percent and 23 percent, respectively.

26 Jul 2018

Simplified, standardized approaches may help open heart surgery patients live longer

Patients who undergo coronary artery bypass grafting; the most common heart surgery performed - may live longer and experience fewer complications when under the care of a highly focused surgical team that uses simplified and standardized approaches, according to research published today in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

26 Jul 2018

CNDA approves KEYTRUDA for treatment of advanced melanoma

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that KEYTRUDA, Merck's anti-PD-1 therapy, has been approved by the China National Drug Administration for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma following failure of one prior line of therapy.

26 Jul 2018

New drug offers hope to prevent attacks of hereditary angioedema

Hereditary angioedema is a chronic disorder that can sometimes be life-threatening. Now, a new drug therapy has been successfully tested in an international study headed by the University Hospital Frankfurt.

26 Jul 2018

MicroRNA panel could categorize indeterminate thyroid nodule samples into malignant and benign

A panel of 19 microRNAs identified using next-generation sequencing could categorize indeterminate thyroid nodule samples into malignant and benign.

26 Jul 2018

Older, overweight scuba divers urged to shed pounds to avoid underwater heart attack

Older, overweight scuba divers are being urged to shed pounds to avoid an underwater heart attack.That's the advice from a large study out today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a publication of the European Society of Cardiology.

26 Jul 2018

SUSU researchers reveal possibility of using human hair for early diagnostics of diseases

It is an often case that one's health and life depend on as quick a disease is found. That is why today the ways of quick and effective revealing of a disease is one of the most important directions in medicine.

26 Jul 2018

CellMax Life receives six U.S. patents for early cancer detection blood test

CellMax Life, enabling early cancer detection and management with affordable, non-invasive blood tests, announced today that six U.S. patents have been granted for its biomimetic platform CMx, which detects circulating tumor cells.

26 Jul 2018

New analytics platform predicts and monitors chronic autoimmune conditions

IQuity, a Nashville-based data analytics company that specializes in predicting, detecting and monitoring chronic disease, today announced the launch of a revolutionary data mining and analytics platform that will predict and monitor chronic diseases within large populations.

26 Jul 2018

Multi-center study results demonstrate best-in-class performance of Bladder EpiCheck urine test

Nucleix Ltd., a leading cancer detection and screening company, announced today that the multi-center European study results with its Bladder EpiCheck urine test for the detection of bladder cancer recurrence, were published in the European Urology Oncology journal.

26 Jul 2018

CERENOVUS announces launch of novel stent retriever for treating stroke patients

CERENOVUS, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, announced the first patients have been treated with its new EMBOTRAP II Revascularization Device since it became commercially available in the U.S. EMBOTRAP II is a next-generation stent retriever used to capture and remove life-threatening blood clots from the brain following an ischemic stroke.

26 Jul 2018

New mouse model shows great promise for Rett syndrome research

In an article released today from Jeannie T. Lee, MD PhD of Massachusetts General Hospital, there is hope on the horizon for future research specific to Rett syndrome, a rare childhood neurodevelopmental disorder.

26 Jul 2018

Study supports clinical role of biomarker test to rule out the need for CT scan in TBI patients

Banyan Biomarkers, Inc., a pioneer in developing biomarkers for traumatic brain injury (TBI), today announced the publication of the results for the ALERT-TBI study, an international, multicenter clinical trial utilizing the Banyan Brain Trauma Indicator.

26 Jul 2018

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Early detection plays big role in nail melanoma prognosis

Organ transplant patients have higher risk for skin cancer

Experts highlight the need to avoid overdiagnosis and 'excessive' treatment of thyroid cancer

Most smokers seem to be confused about actual benefits of lung cancer screenings

Research findings may offer new path to treat or prevent neurodegenerative diseases

Surrey researchers design more efficient, flexible x-ray detector

Study helps to explain why older adults experience dysphagia

New research highlights value of free skin cancer screening program

Simplified, standardized approaches may help open heart surgery patients live longer

CNDA approves KEYTRUDA for treatment of advanced melanoma

New drug offers hope to prevent attacks of hereditary angioedema

MicroRNA panel could categorize indeterminate thyroid nodule samples into malignant and benign

Older, overweight scuba divers urged to shed pounds to avoid underwater heart attack

SUSU researchers reveal possibility of using human hair for early diagnostics of diseases

CellMax Life receives six U.S. patents for early cancer detection blood test

New analytics platform predicts and monitors chronic autoimmune conditions

Multi-center study results demonstrate best-in-class performance of Bladder EpiCheck urine test

CERENOVUS announces launch of novel stent retriever for treating stroke patients

New mouse model shows great promise for Rett syndrome research

Study supports clinical role of biomarker test to rule out the need for CT scan in TBI patients

Advancing Menopause Care: Non-Hormonal Treatments for Vasomotor Symptoms

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

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