The global burden of COPD is high, and prevalence of nonsmokers with COPD has been increasing. In a study to
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High-dose vitamin D shows benefit in patients with advanced colorectal cancer
Results of a small clinical trial suggest that supplementing chemotherapy with high doses of vitamin D may benefit patients with
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My Vagina Felt Like It Was on Fire for a Year—but Doctors Kept Telling Me It Was Just a Yeast Infection
If my life had a theme song, it would be the one where Alicia Keys belts, “This girl is on
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Low dose photodynamic therapy shows promise in the treatment of cancerous tumors
A new study reveals the mechanisms whereby low dose photodynamic therapy affects the microstructure of vessels. Using co-cultures of pericytes
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What and where in the processing of body-part information
The brain tracks the location of body limbs in space. This is called proprioception or body localization. Additionally, the brain
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Forever young: study uncovers protein that keeps skin youthful
Beauty might only be skin deep, but for those wondering how to keep that skin young, scientists may have found
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Population mortality affects long-term follow-up of AlloHCT
(HealthDay)—For older patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT), a considerable part of total nonrelapse mortality (NRM) is attributable to
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Pancreatic cancer treatments show promise in studies
University of Pennsylvania researchers are reporting early but encouraging results from two small ongoing studies of experimental treatments for metastatic
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Researchers discover why men are more likely to develop liver cancer
Researchers in Spain have discovered that a hormone secreted by fat cells that is present at higher levels in women
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Slight decline in hepatitis C diagnoses in Europe
European surveillance data show a 10 percent decrease in newly reported hepatitis C cases between 2016 and 2017. However, with
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