Why cholesterol is bad for you We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info There are two types of cholesterol, often referred to […]

The number of Americans newly diagnosed with monkeypox has decreased by about 50% since early August, White House and other federal health officials announced Thursday. Although the overall picture is improving, there are still some areas in the United States seeing increasing infection numbers. For this and other reasons, the Centers for Disease Control and […]

Warning labels on alcoholic products need to be updated to spell out details of potential harm in order to make them more effective, say two US researchers. The current labeling, which has not changed for 30 years, focuses on risks during pregnancy and with operating machinery and includes a vague statement that alcohol “may cause […]

Recent efforts have been working to do away with race-based algorithms in medicine—such as an adjustment for Black race in equations that estimate individuals’ kidney function. New research published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN) examines the impact of using these new equations on kidney transplant waitlist access. Assessing individuals’ […]

PARIS — Adding pembrolizumab (Keytruda) to chemoradiotherapy did not significantly improve event-free survival, compared with CRT plus placebo as first-line therapy for patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell cancers (HNSCC), reported investigators of the KEYNOTE-412 trial. Among 804 patients with newly diagnosed, pathologically proven, unresected locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinomas who were […]

Nightmares in your 40s or 50s may be a dementia warning sign, study claims The University of Birmingham researchers said their findings were ‘important’  They could help spot patients in the ‘earliest stages’ of dementia, team claimed Dementia affects roughly 850,000 people in Britain and 6million in the US  Dementia may be lurking around the […]

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have identified how some cancer cells cheat treatment-induced cell death. In doing so, they persist and lead to cancer recurrence. The findings may serve as the basis for drugs that prevent relapses by inhibiting cancer cells from gaining these persistence traits. The research was published today in Cell. […]

Tumor cells are notoriously good at evading the human immune system; they put up physical walls, wear disguises and handcuff the immune system with molecular tricks. Now, UC San Francisco researchers have developed a drug that overcomes some of these barriers, marking cancer cells for destruction by the immune system. The new therapy, described in […]

Elimination of transformed cells that can initiate cancer is necessary to maintain tissue integrity. In a new study, scientists from Tokyo University of Science show how this mechanism is regulated by the cellular process "autophagy." They found that intact autophagic vacuoles are indispensable in mediating competitive elimination of cancer cells. Conversely, perturbation of autophagy prevents […]

Radiotherapy boost for women with early-stage breast cancer offers reduced risk of the disease returning Early stage breast cancer involves removing the milk ducts to stop its spread  Scientists believe radiotherapy now reduces the risk of the cancer returning  Some women with aggressive cells are offered a three-week course of radiation Fewer than 3pc of […]