First-line targeted therapy shows strong antitumour activity in advanced lung cancer — but the benefit depends on the right biomarker Few areas of cancer medicine have changed as dramatically in recent years as the treatment of advanced lung cancer....
Continue readingNew research challenges an old obesity idea and suggests body composition in young children may depend more on development than on low energy expenditure alone Few public-health topics attract as many intuitive explanations as obesity. One of the mos...
Continue readingA protein may help explain why triple-negative breast cancer spreads so quickly — but the finding points to one promising mechanism, not a single answer Among breast-cancer subtypes, few raise as much clinical concern as triple-negative breast cancer...
Continue readingDebate over donating frozen eggs to research is growing — but the supplied evidence does not, on its own, prove clear public backing for changing consent rules In sensitive areas of biomedicine, consent rules are never just paperwork. They determine...
Continue readingNew imaging tools are expanding how cancer is studied — but the evidence points more to a broader research leap than to a direct view inside living cells In cancer research, progress has always depended in part on learning how to see more clearly. Ev...
Continue readingAn AI tool may help find rare cancer cells linked to faster progression — but the advance still belongs more to research than routine care One of the most important ideas in modern oncology is also one of the least intuitive outside research settings...
Continue readingA brain scan may one day help predict psychiatric hospitalisation — but the evidence presented is still too thin Few areas of medicine live with as much predictive uncertainty as psychiatry. A patient may appear relatively stable in clinic and then,...
Continue readingHow pancreatic cancer begins: new research reinforces that the disease may start when a precancerous growth stops repairing and starts progressing Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most feared diagnoses in oncology. That is partly because it is so...
Continue readingSyphilis is rising again and can lead to stroke, hearing loss, and devastating pregnancy harms — but the supplied evidence does not confirm a broad heart-attack risk For a while, syphilis seemed like the kind of disease that belonged more to medical...
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