Learning that your child has cancer is overwhelming, and talking to them about it can feel just as difficult. But experts stress that open and honest communication is key to…
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Gastroenterology
Gut microbes that convert sugar into vital short-chain fatty acids point the way to novel therapeutics
A Kobe University team found that glucose is excreted into the small intestine, where bacteria transform it into short-chain fatty acids. Credit: Kobe University Gut microbes that were thought to…
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain You’ve probably heard the phrase, “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it,” and now, science backs it up. A first-of-its-kind study from Northwestern…
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Oncology & Cancer
Certain genetic alterations may contribute to primary resistance of certain cancers to KRAS G12C inhibitors
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The KRAS G12C mutation is found in approximately 3% of all colorectal cancer cases and 1% to 2% of pancreatic adenocarcinoma cases, according to Hao Xie,…
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Addiction News
Hallucinogen use linked to 2.6-fold increase in risk of death for people needing emergency care
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People seeking emergency care for hallucinogen use were at a 2.6-fold higher risk of death within five years than the general population, according to a study…
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Higher fish consumption is associated with slower disability progression in multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study published online Feb. 25 in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. Eva…
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Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels For terminally ill cancer patients, the final days of life are immensely personal, having the choice to continue cancer treatments, or to stop treatments and…
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MethyLYZR enables tumor class prediction on sparse data without model retraining. Credit: Nature Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03435-3 A team of researchers at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Kiel Campus,…
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