clinical practice

Calls to include a new breast cancer subtype in future clinical trials reveal fundamental disagreements about HER2’s role in the disease.

A medical art student’s master’s project will be used to help train junior physicians to perform lumbar punctures.

In an era of instant communication, we must be careful how word of new and untested treatments is shared.

The drugs lead to widespread, predictable changes in brain waves that can help anesthesiologists personalize anesthesia and develop anesthetic-based treatments.

H. Gilbert Welch, a health policy expert who has advocated against superfluous cancer screening, published another Dartmouth researcher’s work, according to the university administration.

Clinical analyses of patients’ gene sequences are helping to provide answers where none were available before.

A handful of infants in a neonatal intensive care unit who were diagnosed with rare diseases using whole-genome sequencing had shorter hospital stays and better health outcomes, researchers find.

Using precision genome editing to treat or prevent human disease may require several leaps of faith.

In Chapter 8, author John Parrington explores the intersection of precision genome editing and stem cell technologies.

Researchers explore the benefits of hearing loss and impairment.

A draft policy from the US National Institutes of Health suggests that clinical studies performed at multiple sites should be reviewed by a single institutional review board.

High costs are keeping patients from using stem cells harvested from umbilical cords.

Two teams report molecular diagnosis rates of 25 percent sequencing separate sets of patients with undiagnosed, suspected genetic conditions.

The National Institutes of Health is funding six extramural medical centers to help identify the causes of mysterious diseases.

Researchers find that positron emission tomography scans can help determine the degree to which some vegetative patients retain consciousness.

Considering “targeted therapeutics” in the face of intra-patient heterogeneity. 

Panelists at AACR discuss the health risks that cancer survivors must face.

World War I provided testing grounds for novel blood-transfusion techniques.

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