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Researchers receive $24 million grant to extend the 'Study Of Healthy Aging in African Americans'

Researchers at UC Davis Health and Kaiser Permanente Division of Research have received a $24 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to continue the Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans (STAR) for an additional five years.

17 Jan 2024

Study: Breast cancer deaths continue to drop as treatments improve

Deaths from breast cancer dropped 58% between 1975 and 2019 due to a combination of screening mammography and improvements in treatment, according to a new multicenter study led by Stanford Medicine clinicians and biomedical data scientists.

17 Jan 2024

Decoding blood cancer secrets to optimize CAR T therapy

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR T, has dramatically improved the treatment of certain blood cancers. Initially approved for patients who had failed multiple lines of therapy, clinical trials have shown CAR T can be used as an earlier treatment option.

17 Jan 2024

Study highlights a potential new strategy to target triple-negative breast cancer

Cleveland Clinic researchers have successfully developed a therapeutic peptide that blocks aggressive cancer cells from multiplying rapidly.

17 Jan 2024

Men with enlarged breast tissue may be at greater risk of early death

Men with enlarged breast tissue, not caused by excess weight—a condition formally known as gynecomastia—may be at heightened risk of an early death before the age of 75, suggests the first study of its kind, published online in the open access journal BMJ Open.

17 Jan 2024

Study suggests gut phages may be involved in the development of asthma

Researchers investigated the relationship between early-life gut virome, specifically temperate phage taxa, and the development of asthma in childhood while considering the interaction with host genetics and the bacteriome.

17 Jan 2024

Study finds reduction in mortality rate among children born with Down syndrome and heart defect

Since 1990, the mortality rate for children born with Down syndrome and a congenital heart defect has more than halved.

17 Jan 2024

Chronic kidney and cardiovascular disease threaten burn victims' survival

Despite enormous medical advances, severe burns are still potentially life-threatening injuries. Clinical scores, which take relevant parameters into account, are available to doctors as a decision-making aid for therapeutic measures and to assess the probability of patient survival.

17 Jan 2024

Nicotine replacement products offer safe quit option for pregnant smokers

A new analysis of trial data on pregnant smokers, led by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, finds that the regular use of nicotine replacement products during pregnancy is not associated with adverse pregnancy events or poor pregnancy outcomes.

17 Jan 2024

$2.8M grant targets copper's role in deadly kidney cancer

Copper is an essential trace element required to produce energy in the body and allows humans to live in our atmosphere.

17 Jan 2024

Comprehensive analysis of more than 2 million SARS-CoV-2 samples detects co-infections and intra-host recombination

Researchers evaluated the prevalence of co-infection and intra-host recombination in over 2 million global SARS-CoV-2 cases and developed strategies for accurate identification and analysis of recombinant strains.

17 Jan 2024

Overcoming adherence challenges: Innovative patch enables controlled drug delivery

A breakthrough in transdermal drug delivery.

17 Jan 2024

Study shows promise of gene-based screening to fight colorectal cancer

Hereditary risk of colorectal cancer should be assessed in a more comprehensive way, shows a study led by researchers at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

17 Jan 2024

Study links teenage stress to cardiometabolic risk later in life

Young adults who reported higher stress during their teenage years to adulthood were more likely to have high blood pressure, obesity and other cardiometabolic risk factors than their peers who reported less stress, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.

17 Jan 2024

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Researchers receive $24 million grant to extend the 'Study Of Healthy Aging in African Americans'

Study: Breast cancer deaths continue to drop as treatments improve

Decoding blood cancer secrets to optimize CAR T therapy

Study highlights a potential new strategy to target triple-negative breast cancer

Men with enlarged breast tissue may be at greater risk of early death

Study suggests gut phages may be involved in the development of asthma

Study finds reduction in mortality rate among children born with Down syndrome and heart defect

Chronic kidney and cardiovascular disease threaten burn victims' survival

Nicotine replacement products offer safe quit option for pregnant smokers

$2.8M grant targets copper's role in deadly kidney cancer

Comprehensive analysis of more than 2 million SARS-CoV-2 samples detects co-infections and intra-host recombination

Overcoming adherence challenges: Innovative patch enables controlled drug delivery

Study shows promise of gene-based screening to fight colorectal cancer

Study links teenage stress to cardiometabolic risk later in life

Researchers uncover the role of inherited genetic variants in rare type of blood cancer

Are vacation days taken and working while on vacation associated with physician burnout?

Behavioral activation vs antidepressants: Which wins for heart failure patients with depression?

Evidence that 100% fruit juice consumption is associated with a BMI gain in children

What led to a decline in US breast cancer mortality between 1975 and 2019?

Study finds vaccination against COVID-19 consistently reduced the risk of long COVID symptoms

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

PhD researcher at LifeArc

Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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