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Medical News Today
It is common for cancer to unexpectedly recur after a patient is cleared of the disease. New research sheds light on why this happens, zooming in on the body's immune system.
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Live Science
In a rare case, a woman contracted a potentially deadly bacterial infection while on a 12-hour flight from Japan to Germany, according to a new report.
Called meningococcal disease, this bacterial infection is generally transmitted only through close contact, for example, by kissing or living in close quarters with someone who is sick, according to the World Health Organization.
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DARK Daily
Powerful interests arrayed against greater transparency in the performance of hospitals, physicians and medical laboratories have stopped a proposed Medicare program that would have allowed the public to see the results of hospital inspections. Stopped in its tracks was an effort by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to make hospital accreditation inspection reports available for public viewing.
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HealthDay News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the second gene therapy for use in the United States.
The new treatment, Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel), is for a kind of blood cancer called large B-cell lymphoma.
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University of California, San Diego News Office via Lab Manager
Two recent studies led by biologists at the University of California, San Diego have set the research groundwork for new avenues to treat influenza and anthrax poisoning.
Published a month apart in PLOS Pathogens, the studies from Professor Ethan Bier's laboratory used a series of experiments to identify key pathways and mechanisms previously unknown or overlooked in the body's defenses.
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American Friends of Tel Aviv University via ScienceDaily
A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that it is possible to repurpose the function of different mature cells across the body — and harvest new tissue and organs from these cells.
The research tracks the transformation of genetically manipulated cells into melanocytes, which are responsible for the production of skin pigment and essential to the body's auditory system.
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Cleveland Clinic via Medical Xpress
Researchers in the United States have uncovered differences in the bacterial composition of breast tissue of healthy women versus those with breast cancer.
The team learned that healthy breast tissue contains more of the bacterial species Methylobacterium, a finding that could offer a new perspective in the battle against breast cancer, which caused 571,000 deaths in 2015 and is the top cancer in women globally, according to the World Health Organization.
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The Washington Post
Antibiotics treat infections but can cause them, too. In fact, a study recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine documents an alarming rise in the number of hard-to-treat infections linked to antibiotics.
After analyzing the medical records of more than 38 million hospital patients, University of Pennsylvania researchers discovered that "multiply recurrent" Clostridium difficile infections increased by almost 200 percent between 2001 and 2012.
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Oregon State University via Infection Control Today
Loading nanofiber sutures with vitamin D induces the production of an infection-fighting peptide, new research shows. The discovery could represent an important advance in the prevention of surgical site infections, a multibillion-dollar challenge each year in the United States alone.
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Reuters
The prices of injectable cancer drugs — even older medicines around since the 1990s — are increasing at a rate far higher than inflation, researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
The study, led by Dr. Daniel Goldstein of Emory University in Atlanta, looked at 24 injectable cancer drugs approved since 1996 and found the average increase was 25 percent over eight years. After inflation, the average increase was 18 percent.
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