Despite the progress made in managing asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), poorly controlled symptoms for both respiratory diseases can lead...
A sugar-binding protein could fuel terrible inflammation and worsen sepsis, a disease that kills more than 270,000 people every year in the US alone, reports a...
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men in the U.S. For many patients, hormone therapy is a treatment option.
The healing process that follows a brain injury could spur tumor growth when new cells generated to replace those lost to the injury are derailed by...
Michael Green, M.D., Ph.D., noticed that when his patients had cancer that spread to the liver, they fared poorly – more so than when cancer spread...
Mothers and fathers of children diagnosed with cancer are affected financially in different ways. While mothers' incomes fall in the short term and then rise, the...
A cancer-specific L-type amino acid transporter 1 (LAT1) is highly expressed in cancer tissues.
As the covid-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it's expected to lose, many experts in the field of emerging infectious diseases are already focused...
One of the most promising areas of human cancer research is the study of signal transduction, or cell signaling.
Very low birthweight infants are at a high risk for anemia and often need blood transfusions to survive. Some doctors use a higher level and some...