Cancer is the third most common cause of death in people with spinal cord injury (SCI), with bladder cancer being the second most common cancer after lung cancer. It is not uncommon for bladder cancer in SCI patients to be discovered only as an advanced varia…
A lower likelihood of severe illness from COVID-19 and a desire for more data could be reasons why some parents have chosen not to get their children fully vaccinated, infectious disease expert Dr. Isaac Bogoch says.
Any cancer cell migrating from a tumor to set up shop elsewhere in the body will face a brutal attack from an immune system programmed to seek and destroy abnormal cells.
There are a significant number of babies and children at risk of polio, especially in areas of high deprivation and among Māori, with an outbreak a plane ride away, says Heather Battles
For more than 40 years, the U.S. considered itself "polio-free." Now, though, there is evidence in New York's wastewater that polio is circulating again, with implications for the rest of the country.
According to a recent study, the unconventional way mosquitoes analyse odours may help explain why they are so good at finding humans to bite. The findings of the study were published in the journal Cell. If you've ever sprayed yourself head to toe in bug rep…
Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine researchers have shown they can eradicate advanced-stage mesothelioma tumors in mice in just a few days with a treatment combining Rice's cytokine "drug factory" implants and a checkpoint inhibitor drug.
Clinical psychology PhD student Kayla Wall says up to 90 per cent of adolescents who menstruate experience pain, and as many as 25 per cent do not benefit from medication
There have been at least 90 countries that have reported more than 30,000 monkeypox cases across the world. India is one of them, and so far, a total of 10 confirmed cases have been detected in the country. | Latest News India
A study that assessed the brains of 99 World Trade Center (WTC) responders showed that WTC responders with cognitive impairment (CI) and post-traumatic stress
Dr John Mandrola gives some insight on his choices for important trials to look for at this weekend's European Society of Cardiology Congress in Barcelona
Twenty complex, antibiotic-resistant lung infections were treated by researchers using bacteria-eating viruses; there were no negative side effects, and more than half of the patients treated had favorable clinical results. Researchers from the University of …
Glaucoma can be described as a set of progressive optic neuropathies. They cause a gradual, irreversible loss of the field of view, which concludes in complete blindness. Evidence suggests that patients who have glaucoma face a greater risk of suffering from …
A 12-month, home-based exercise program improved exercise capacity and patient-perceived fitness in adults with COPD but did not affect dyspnea, according to new data published in Chest.“Home-based programs became increasingly popular in the last years …
Patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria experience more pleasure from scratching itches compared with patients with other skin conditions, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. Though pruritis is th…