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A rapid and effective antidote for anticoagulant bleeds
8/31/2016
A specially designed antidote to reverse acute, potentially life-threatening anticoagulant-related bleeding worked quickly, and was well-tolerated according to interim results of the ongoing...
Study may explain why people with type O blood more likely to die of cholera
8/31/2016
People with blood type O often get more severely ill from cholera than people of other blood types. New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may explain why.
Temporal Arteritis: Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment
8/31/2016
Learn all about temporal arteritis, a condition where the temporal arteries are inflamed. This article looks at the symptoms, causes, and treatment.
Peptide mutants help identify vulnerability in tumor cells
8/30/2016
Researchers from MIPT, the Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, the Institute for Energy Problems of Chemical Physics, and the Research Institute of Physico-Chemical Medicine have presented an...
Study finds links between physicians setting cancer care guidelines and drug industry
8/30/2016
Nearly nine out of 10 physicians and researchers who helped develop a leading set of cancer care guidelines in the United States reported financial ties to the pharmaceutical and medical device...
Targeting low-oxygen patches inside lung cancer tumors could help prevent drug resistance
8/29/2016
With the right treatment schedule, medications known as hypoxia-activated prodrugs (HAPs) could help prevent drug resistance in a subtype of lung cancer, according to a study published in PLOS...
Researchers identify possible pathway to reboot immune system after bone-marrow transplants
8/29/2016
New research has shown how a cell surface molecule, Lymphotoxin β receptor, controls entry of T-cells into the thymus; and as such presents an opportunity to understanding why cancer patients who...
Barcodes show the blood family tree
8/29/2016
By assigning a barcode to stem cells, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made it possible to monitor large blood cell populations as well as individual blood cells, and study the changes...
Oxygen can impair cancer immunotherapy in mice
8/26/2016
Researchers have identified a mechanism in mice by which anticancer immune responses are inhibited within the lungs, a common site of metastasis for many cancers.
Stem cell propagation fuels cancer risk in different organs
8/26/2016
Experiments reveal the crucial contribution of stem cells to the origins of cancer in different organs.