Ann Arbor, Mich. – Participation in recreational activities — including golfing, gardening or yard work, woodworking and hunting — may be associated with an increase in a person’s risk for developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a Michigan Medicine study finds. While many activities were associated with increased ALS risk,...
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TAMPA, Fla. — Penile squamous cell carcinoma is a rare malignancy with limited treatment options and poor prognosis, especially in advanced stages. Because of its rarity, few studies focus on better understanding and managing this disease. In a new article published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Moffitt...
BURTON, Ohio — The first signs that something was wrong with 11-year-old Connor Teare came when he was a toddler. His muscles were growing increasingly rigid and becoming more difficult to move. He went from leg braces to a walker and, finally, a wheelchair by the time he was 5....
New York, NY – A novel treatment for polycythemia vera, a potentially fatal blood cancer, demonstrated the ability to control overproduction of red blood cells, the hallmark of this malignancy and many of its debilitating symptoms in a multi-center clinical trial led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...
Cincinnati, Ohio – A multidisciplinary team of University of Cincinnati Cancer Center researchers have opened a Phase 2 clinical trial to test a new combination treatment for glioblastomas (GBM), the most deadly form of brain tumors. The team, led by UC’s Pankaj Desai, PhD, and Trisha Wise-Draper, MD, PhD, has...
Helsinki, Finland – A multidisciplinary team of scientists led by University of Helsinki report that a progressive neurodegenerative disease can be triggered by a viral infection. The mechanism relates to mitochondrial roles in antiviral defense mechanisms. The scientists report that a specific gene variant affecting the mitochondria disturb cellular antiviral...
Leeds, UK – The high-tech double-barrel nanopipette, developed by University of Leeds scientists, and applied to the global medical challenge of cancer, has – for the first time – enabled researchers to see how individual living cancer cells react to treatment and change over time – providing vital understanding that...
Bethesda, Maryland – Common inherited genetic factors that predict cancer risk in the general population may also predict elevated risk of new cancers among childhood cancer survivors, according to a study led by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The findings, published...
A new policy framework is the only way to ensure that progress made for the 30 million people living with a rare disease in Europe is not left to luck or chance during the next decade. The eight Rare 2030 recommendations, the result of the two-year participative Foresight Study led by EURORDIS-Rare...
A drug derived from the hydrangea root, used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine, shows promise in treating autoimmune disorders, report researchers from the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Immune Disease Institute at Children’s Hospital Boston (PCMM/IDI), along with the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. In the...