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Immunotherapy effective against 'untreatable' prostate cancer

Prostate cancer

Immunotherapy effective against 'untreatable' prostate cancer

6 Jun 2018 • 1 comment

A major trial has demonstrated, for the very first time, that the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab is effective in treating advanced prostate cancer that did not respond to other treatments. Immunothe...

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Change a-brewing as health-conscious Brits snub booze

Change a-brewing as health-conscious Brits snub booze

6 Jun 2018

London, June 6, 2018 (AFP) - Britain has celebrated its drinking culture for centuries but initiatives such as the "Dry January" campaign show body-conscious adults are now shunning alcohol in record...

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Health sector gives blockchain glowing prognosis

Health sector gives blockchain glowing prognosis

6 Jun 2018

Paris, June 6, 2018 (AFP) - Securing safe interchange of patient data, improving the conduct of clinical tests and medicine traceability, and lowering costs. These are just some of the potential...

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For the first time, immunotherapy cures late-stage breast cancer: study

Breast cancer

For the first time, immunotherapy cures late-stage breast cancer: study

5 Jun 2018

Paris, June 4, 2018 (AFP) - A woman with an aggressive form of breast cancer which defied chemotherapy and spread to other organs, was cured with an experimental treatment that triggered her immune...

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Breast cancer: Test means fewer women will need chemotherapy

Breast cancer

Breast cancer: Test means fewer women will need chemotherapy

4 Jun 2018 • 2 comments

About 70% of women with the most common form of early stage breast cancer can be spared the "agony of chemotherapy", researchers say. It follows trials of a genetic test that analyses the danger of a...

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Eating nuts daily could help control Type 2 diabetes and prevent complications, study suggests

Diabetes (Type 2)
Diabetes insipidus

Eating nuts daily could help control Type 2 diabetes and prevent complications, study suggests

31 May 2018 • 2 comments

Eating nuts every day could help control Type 2 diabetes and prevent its complications, according to new research from St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto. In the research, published...

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Six months of breast cancer treatment ‘could be as effective as 12 in some women’

Breast cancer

Six months of breast cancer treatment ‘could be as effective as 12 in some women’

31 May 2018 • 1 comment

Six months of targeted drug therapy could potentially be as effective as treatment lasting 12 months for women with a type of early stage breast cancer. This is according to unpublished clinical...

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A new approach to the treatment of prostate cancer

Prostate cancer

A new approach to the treatment of prostate cancer

31 May 2018

By understanding the production of specific human sex hormones, it can help develop new treatments for prostate cancer and polycystic ovary syndrome, a new study suggests. The study, led by...

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Severe eczema linked to cardiovascular problems

Cardiovascular diseases
Eczema

Severe eczema linked to cardiovascular problems

31 May 2018 • 1 comment

Severe eczema in adults is associated with a moderately increased risk of cardiovascular problems. This is the finding from a UK study published by The BMJ. The study, the largest to date to assess...

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Cancer death rate to be cut by 22,000 using artificial intelligence – PM

Cancer

Cancer death rate to be cut by 22,000 using artificial intelligence – PM

22 May 2018 • 6 comments

Artificial intelligence will be used to help stop 22,000 cancer deaths a year by 2033, Theresa May will say in a speech setting out how science can transform health. Medical records, along with...

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Lung cancer destroyed with tea leaf nanoparticles

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Lung cancer destroyed with tea leaf nanoparticles

21 May 2018 • 8 comments

A new study has shown that lung cancer cells can be destroyed using nanoparticles derived from tea leaves. These tiny particles, called "quantum dots," are 400 times thinner than a human hair, and...

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Scientists crack how primordial life on Earth might have replicated itself

Scientists crack how primordial life on Earth might have replicated itself

21 May 2018

Scientists have created a new type of genetic replication system which demonstrates how the first life on Earth – in the form of RNA – could have replicated itself. The scientists from the Medical...

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