It’s unclear whether all patients with advanced rectal cancer need chemoradiotherapy, or whether some can forego the treatment and therefore
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Stroke survivors may benefit from magnetic brain stimulation
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a noninvasive brain stimulation technique; magnetic coils are placed on a person’s scalp, and
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Psychological therapies may help older adults with chronic pain
(HealthDay)—For older adults with chronic pain, psychological interventions have small benefits, including reducing pain and catastrophizing beliefs, according to a
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Some gut bacteria may protect against intestinal infection
Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have for the first time found evidence that the presence of
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Amplification of key cellular organizer may initiate cancer, study suggests
Cells begin to accumulate centrosomes—organelles that play a vital role during cell division—before they transform into cancer cells, according to
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Impaired brain pathways may cause attention problems after stroke
Damage to some of the pathways that carry information throughout the brain may be responsible for attention deficit in patients
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Community helminth control programs may reach more children than school programs
Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) infect nearly 1.5 billion people around the world and can contribute to stunted growth and development in
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Breast cancer prognosis may be worse if diagnosis follows ‘negative’ mammogram
(HealthDay)—About 15 percent of breast cancers are diagnosed in the interval between regularly scheduled mammograms, where the last mammogram showed
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Ecstasy may relieve the agony of PTSD: study
Better known to nightclubbers as ecstasy, the euphoria-inducing drug MDMA appears to alleviate Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in war veterans,
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Researchers find that lipid accumulation in the brain may be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease
A collaborative team of researchers at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, and Oxford University has found that elevated
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