Archive: 16/11/2016
Glowing tumors help Penn surgeons cut out brain cancer with precision
An experimental cancer imaging tool that makes tumors glow brightly during surgery has shown promise again in a new Penn Medicine clinical study, this time in patients with brain cancer. The fluorescent dye technique, originally ...
Nov 16, 2016
Nurse-led monitoring improves the care of patients prescribed mental health medicines
New research has found that nurse-led medicines' monitoring can prevent serious adverse side effects of medicines prescribed to people with mental health problems and previously unnoticed health problems in patients can also ...
Nov 16, 2016
Food or nutrient restriction offers insight into cancer prevention and metabolic disease
Could limiting food intake be a valid treatment strategy for certain types of cancers? New research in The FASEB Journal suggests "maybe." In a report appearing online in The FASEB Journal, scientists show that food restriction ...
Nov 16, 2016
Smoking electronic cigarettes kills large number of mouth cells
A large number of mouth cells exposed to e-cigarette vapor in the laboratory die within a few days, according to a study conducted by Université Laval researchers and published in the latest issue of Journal of Cellular ...
Nov 16, 2016
Does interleukin-10 reduce age-related insulin resistance?
New research published online in The FASEB Journal suggests that the anti-inflammatory molecule IL-10 may do more than just reduce inflammation. In the report, scientists use mice to show that the molecule may also help reduce ...
Nov 16, 2016
What makes patients more likely to land back in the hospital? Social factors play key role
No patient who just got out of the hospital wants to end up there again soon. Whoever's paying their hospital bills doesn't want that either.
Nov 16, 2016