Cancer is still one of the major causes of mortality in the globe. Researchers are continually exploring for novel medicines that have better anticancer efficacy, less side effects, and are less expensive. The capacity of certain bacteria to selectively grow inside hypoxic tumours, i.e., cel
Millions of individuals worldwide suffer from depression as a result of psychological stress. However, most antidepressant medications are sluggish, prone to resistance, and have severe side effects, necessitating the development of more effective therapy alternatives.
Surgery for children with kidney tumours has always been handled with extreme care. While there is a growing body of evidence that children who have extended lymph node sampling during surgery have better outcomes, some have questioned whether removing more lymph nodes as part of cancer stag
A startling 89 per cent of desmoplastic melanoma patients in a nationwide clinical study responded to immunotherapy (pembrolizumab) alone, indicating that many patients could avoid the potential side effects of combination therapies and achieve disease control with this course of treatment.
The use of antibiotics can be beneficial in treating bacterial infections, but they can also destroy the beneficial microorganisms that are found in the gut, which can have long-term health effects.
Chemotherapy treatments produce strong side effects. A new agent that accumulates in the tumour tissue and is activated there by ultrasound waves does not have this problem.
The study, conducted at MU's Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health Building, identified the western diet-induced microbial and metabolic contributors to liver disease, advancing our understanding of the gut-liver axis and, as a result, the development of dietary and microbial interventions for
By lowering high levels of circulating cholesterol with a bacterial protein, researchers at Houston Methodist demonstrated another link between high cholesterol and female infertility in sterile mice. One in five American women of reproductive age still cannot conceive after trying for a yea
A new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine has found a correlation between high-fat, high-sugar Western diets and the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the main cause of chronic liver disease.
Recent studies show that people with insomnia have a 69 per cent higher risk of having a heart attack than people without it over the course of an average nine-year follow-up, according to research being presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session Along With t