1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (53+ words) Triple-negative breast cancer is the form of the disease that clinicians fear most. Lacking the three molecular targets — the estrogen receptor, the progesterone receptor and the HER2 protein — that anchor modern targeted therapies, it leaves patients with fewer options and a…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (668+ words) A detailed immunological portrait of one of the world’s most underappreciated parasitic diseases has emerged from southwestern Iran, where researchers have mapped, with unusual precision, how the human immune system responds to infection with the intestinal worm Strongyloides stercoralis....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (583+ words) Cancer immunotherapy has transformed the treatment landscape for many patients with solid tumors, delivering durable responses in diseases that once resisted nearly every therapeutic approach....

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (518+ words) Muscle strains are among the most common injuries in sport, striking everyone from weekend joggers to elite professionals, and they carry one of the highest re-injury rates of any athletic condition....

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (657+ words) A striking molecular portrait of treatment failure in leishmaniasis has emerged from Thailand, where researchers tracked the parasite Leishmania (Mundinia) martiniquensis inside a single patient before therapy and again after clinical relapse following amphotericin B treatment....

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (574+ words) One of the most persistent questions in modern lung cancer care has just received a sobering answer....

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (93+ words) Eating disorders affect millions of people in the United States, yet the movement to improve treatment and awareness for these conditions has long remained in the shadow of other health advocacy campaigns. A new qualitative study published in the Journal…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (76+ words) Alzheimer’s disease has long been defined by what pathologists see under the microscope: plaques of misfolded amyloid-beta protein accumulating between neurons, and tangles of hyperphosphorylated tau protein spreading through the brain’s memory circuits. In recent years, however, diagnosis has shifted…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (602+ words) In a finding that could reshape how scientists monitor the internal clocks of plants, researchers in Japan have demonstrated that detached fruits give off a measurable rhythm in the electrical charge of the air around them — a rhythm that rises…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (605+ words) A single blood draw may one day help clinicians gauge not only whether a patient is declining cognitively, but also which biological processes are driving the damage....