Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Microfluidic provides model for testing therapies on pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; Cutting off AML’s metabolic escape route; NGF: PDAC’s VEGF?; Revving up cisplatin by targeting Rev7.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Mobile smartphone tech tied to better clinical outcomes for OHCA; Lung scans for earlier COVID-19 detection; Cholesterol meds affects the organs differently.
Under the right circumstances, a single mouse can be as good as a group of eight or 10 animals in predicting whether a tumor will respond to a drug, researchers reported at the 2020 EORTC-NCI-AACR (ENA) Molecular Targets meeting on Saturday. The single-animal approach “allows incorporation of more tumor models within the same resource constraints,” Peter Houghton told reporters at a press conference previewing ENA highlights.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Software developed to objectively calculate white matter hyperintensities; CSF biomarkers point to underlying cause of neural damage in COVID-19; Scientists discover how cryptochrome mutation leads to sleep disorder; Physical labor significantly increases the risk of dementia.
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, professor and chair of the department of genetics and genome sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, set a positive tone in his opening talk at the 2020 annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). "This is guaranteed to be the best-ever virtual ASHG annual meeting," he told the audience. The opening plenary abstract session, for one, did not disappoint. It began with the definition of a new disease, identified through a new approach, and possibly leading to a new way to think about rheumatic diseases.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: A case for pooled testing of SARS-CoV-2; FIT as effective as colonoscopy in ruling out suspected colorectal cancer; Looking to comparative genomics analysis to explain COVID-19 susceptibility.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Younger knee replacement patients more likely to require reoperation; New research predicts whether rheumatoid arthritis patients will respond to treatment; Steroid inhalers/pills for asthma linked to heightened risk of brittle bones and fractures.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Study hints cystectomy not the only answer to muscle-invasive bladder cancer; Drugging resistant androgen receptors; ‘Don’t Eat Me’ signal doubles as ‘Don’t Find Me’; New algorithm may aid in oncology drug development.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Monitoring the hearts of breast cancer patients; Cardiamp demonstrates improvement in heart failure patients; Weight-reduction surgery in severely obese patients could ward off second heart attack.
A new tool for mobile devices can diagnose stroke as accurately as an emergency medicine specialist in just minutes, enabling patients to get brain-saving therapies in time for maximum benefit. According to researchers from Pennsylvania State University and Houston Methodist Hospital, the artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool could counterbalance physician biases, reducing both overuse of CT scans and underdiagnosis of mild and moderate stroke.
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