With a vaccine for COVID-19 still a long way from being realized, Johns Hopkins immunologist Arturo Casadevall is working to […]
An app for patients and doctors to calculate cancer survival probabilities
A new app is able to calculate personalized survival probabilities for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. Doctors and patients […]
Roll up your sleeve and donate blood for cancer patients
Many people don’t realize that cancer patients are in constant need of blood supplies. Chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer […]
Patients with challenging cancers to benefit from genomic sequencing
More than 1,000 Victorian cancer patients are set to benefit from real-time genomic testing in the next three years, aiming […]
One in five patients suffer from anxiety after stroke, study suggests
A team of researchers, led by the University of York, reviewed almost a hundred global studies involving 22,262 survivors of […]
Connecting patients: Talking about congenital heart disease
Congenital heart disease (congenital heart defect) is one or more abnormalities in your heart’s structure that you’re born with. This […]
Coronavirus hits the UK: Two English patients have been diagnosed
First cases of coronavirus are diagnosed in Britain as two English patients from the same family test positive for the […]
Black patients have worse outcomes of lower spinal fusion surgery
Black patients undergoing lumbar (lower) spinal fusion surgery have worse outcomes – including higher complication rates, more hospital days, and […]
Knee replacement timing is all wrong for most patients
The timing of knee replacement surgery is critical to optimize its benefit. But 90% of patients with knee osteoarthritis who […]
Study finds group medical meetings help low-income patients with chronic pain, depression
A study by UMass Medical School integrative medicine expert Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH, finds that patients with chronic pain and […]