Health Problems Archives - Page 177 of 189

04/20/2018

Elderly less likely to benefit from simultaneous radio- and chemotherapy for lung cancer

An analysis of elderly patients treated in a phase II trial of radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy in non-small cell lung

04/20/2018

Faster walking heart patients are hospitalized less

Faster walking patients with heart disease are hospitalised less, according to research presented today at EuroPrevent 2018, a European Society

04/20/2018

3-D human ‘mini-brains’ shed new light on genetic underpinnings of major mental illness

Major mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, severe depression and bipolar disorder share a common genetic link. Studies of specific families

04/19/2018

Young victims of cyberbullying twice as likely to attempt suicide and self-harm

Children and young people under 25 who are victims of cyberbullying are more than twice as likely to self-harm and

04/19/2018

Team develops new approach to study long non-coding RNAs

Until recently, scientific research concentrated almost exclusively on the 2 percent of the genome’s protein coding regions, virtually ignoring the

04/19/2018

Decision making predicts future drug addiction in recreational users

Activity in decision-making brain regions of people who use recreational stimulants predicts who will discontinue use and who will develop

04/19/2018

Erectile dysfunction drugs may help treat many other conditions

A new British Journal of Pharmacology review examines how phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitors, which were originally approved to treat erectile dysfunction,

04/19/2018

Economic evaluations of genomic testing may have misleading conclusions

Research led at the Yale School of Public Health have found that the majority of published papers analyzing the cost-effectiveness

04/19/2018

Study may explain why some triple-negative breast cancers are resistant to chemotherapy

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive form of the disease accounting for 12 to 18 percent of breast cancers.

04/19/2018

Novel discoveries on aggressive NK-cell leukemia pave the way for new treatments

An international research consortium led by researchers from the University of Helsinki, Finland, has discovered new information related to a