10
Jan 2020
A Cambridge University study of 200,000 patients identified 352 genetic mutations that can influence whether a person is likely to develop the disease. The findings could help to identify which women are predisposed to developing the disease and thereby allow them to be monitored more closely. Breast cancer is the most common type of the…
10
Jan 2020
Increasingly effective cancer treatments may be on the horizon following research into how tumour-killing cells are switched on. In recent years, doctors have been using CAR T-cell therapy on blood cancer patients whereby tumour cells have been directly targeted by some immune cells. It has been known during this time that CD4+ T cells, also…
10
Jan 2020
Researchers at Ohio State University say injecting patients with supercharged white blood cells could be the key to fighting sepsis. Scientists who conducted the research were able to ‘significantly’ reduce bacteria in the blood of mice within a day of them receiving the experimental treatment. The bacteria was destroyed through a second dose of the…
07
Jan 2020
People often make promises. If a promise has been made and relied upon by the person to whom it was made and is later broken, it may be possible to bring a claim. For example, if an adult child gives up work to look after a parent on the promise of financial benefit that is…
07
Jan 2020
A study in the journal Nature has suggested that artificial intelligence is more accurate than doctors in diagnosing breast cancer from mammograms. During the study, a team of international researchers designed and trained a computer model on x-ray images from nearly 29,000 women and the algorithm outperformed six radiologists in reading mammograms. Currently the system…
07
Jan 2020
The study led by the University of San Francisco Memory and Aging Center, found that the build-up of a harmful protein in the brain can predict atrophy in Alzheimer’s disease patients at least one year in advance. Whilst previous studies have shown that two tell-tale plaques, amyloid beta and tau, develop clumps which smother and…
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