Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Border detection algorithm for melanoma; Predicting future suicide risk; Multiracial study gives new diabetes insights; Patient genetic variants linked to wound microbiomes.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Nuclear softening allows cells to move into dense tissue, encouraging injury repair; 3D X-ray reveals secrets from inside bones; Fantastic muscle proteins and where to find them.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Focused ultrasound may help thwart glioblastoma; Manipulating the macrophage for cancer therapy; FDA’s oncology center initiates patient voice program; FDA’s oncology center initiates patient voice program; Sedentary behavior predictive of cancer mortality.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: App helps to detect fluid in the lungs in HF patients; Connection between opioids and heart surgery; 3D map of heart’s neurons.
By targeting chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) to a senescence marker, researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have developed a CAR T cell that had beneficial effects in mouse models of both liver fibrosis and lung cancer.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: High-resolution 3D model reveals similarity in Alzheimer's, diabetes; New MRI test shows promise in detecting CTE in football players; Neuropointdx reports metabolic biomarker found in children with ASD.
On June 17, the FDA approved checkpoint blocker Keytruda (pembrolizumab, Merck & Co. Inc.) “for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with unresectable or metastatic tumor mutational burden-high (TMB-H) [?10 mutations/megabase (mut/Mb)] solid tumors, as determined by an FDA-approved test, that have progressed following prior treatment and who have no satisfactory alternative treatment options.”
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Improving diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension; A web-based COVID-19 assessment tool; Discovering pharmacological enzyme activators.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Osteoporosis treatment also may protect against pneumonia; Study finds similar short-term outcomes after common MI spine procedures; New biomaterial has potential to repair damaged bone with lower risk of inflammation; Diabetics face greater risk of bone fractures.
The disconnect between the need for sleep and the possession of a brain is what prompted Dragana Rogulja, an assistant professor of neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, and her team to take a look at multiple tissues in sleep-deprived flies and mice.
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