Understanding oncogenesis at the molecular level offers the prospect of tailoring treatments much more precisely for patients with advanced cases of this deadliest of skin cancers.
Understanding oncogenesis at the molecular level offers the prospect of tailoring treatments much more precisely for patients with advanced cases of this deadliest of skin cancers.
Seventeenth-century Tibet witnessed a blossoming of medical knowledge, including a set of 79 paintings, known as tangkas, that interweaved practical medical knowledge with Buddhist traditions and local lore.
New technologies and mind-sets are required for information delivery in the age of genomics.
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Worms As Therapy Re: Bob Grant’s article about worm therapy for autoimmune disease:[1. Bob Grant, “Opening a Can of Worms,” The Scientist, 25:42-47, February 2011.] A minireview by Hanada et al., (Biol Chem, 391:1365-70, 2010) of the RANKL/RANK syst
Drugs that target specific tumors are harbingers of a new era of genetically informed medicine.
Recent clinical trials have reignited the interest in simple anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin for controlling the inflammation associated with cancer. The results suggest that these drugs reduced the risk of relapse as well as cancer formation ac
Can tumors—which can originate from, and often resemble, chronically inflamed tissue—be curtailed using familiar anti-inflammatory agents, without their side effects?
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In August 1972, Uruguayan medical student Henry Engler’s education was interrupted. He was shot in the shoulder, arrested for being a Tupamaro antigovernment urban guerrilla, and imprisoned for 13 years—11 in solitary confinement. Engler says he j
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