Archive: 23/05/2014
Bacterial adaptation contributes to pneumococcal threat in sickle cell disease patients
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers have identified differences in the genetic code of pneumococcal bacteria that may explain why it poses such a risk to children with sickle cell disease and why current vaccines don't provide ...
May 23, 2014
Promising high-dose radiation therapy for neuroblastoma
The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital has become the first in Illinois to offer pioneering, targeted, high-dose, intravenous radiation therapy for relapsed neuroblastoma and other difficult-to-treat ...
May 23, 2014
Can smoking medical marijuana reduce PTSD symptoms?
Clinical research from New Mexico supports a conclusion that smoking cannabis [marijuana] is associated with PTSD symptom reduction in some patients. The study, published in the newest special issue of Journal of Psychoactive ...
May 23, 2014