Category: health

Pic Credit: Pexel A new medical innovation called the “growing implant” is transforming the treatment of bone cancer in children. The technique allows surgeons to remove cancer-affected bone while preserving the limb and enabling it to grow normally, improving long-term mobility and quality of life. Bone cancers such as osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma often affect children…

Hackensack Meridian Women’s Health Experts Highlight Uterus-Sparing Minimially Invasive Treatments Following Lupita Nyong’o Sharing Struggle with Fibroids In the wake of actress Lupita Nyong’o’s recent, candid social media post about her ongoing battle with 77 uterine fibroids, the conversation around this common but often silently endured condition is more relevant than ever. Her story highlights…

Colorectal Cancer Sylvester Expert Leads Prevention Efforts for High-Risk Colorectal Cancer Patients March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and an ideal time to focus on the third most common cancer in the U.S. Many people know the importance of early detection for effective treatment, but fewer are aware that the disease sometimes has a genetic…

Thane, Mar 13: In a high-risk neurosurgical procedure, KIMS Hospitals Thane successfully performed a complex excision of a ruptured brain arterio-venous malformation (AVM) in a 43-year-old woman who had experienced two life-threatening brain hemorrhages. The patient had been living with a right frontal AVM that had ruptured twice, most recently in July 2025, placing her…

 Researchers break decades-old bottleneck in chemotherapy drug manufacturing  An international team of researchers has achieved a breakthrough in the production of doxorubicin, a vital chemotherapy agent. The study identifies and resolves molecular “bottlenecks” that have limited the natural production of this drug for over 50 years.  Doxorubicin is a chemotherapy drug that was first approved for…

By- Jaya M. Satagopan, professor of biostatistics at the Rutgers School of Public Health, “I am really nervous about biostatistics. Any advice?” and “I am not a math person – how do I survive this course?” are questions Jaya M. Satagopan, a professor of biostatistics at the Rutgers School of Public Health, hears every semester. Rather…

Dallas,  Mar 13:  Heat generated by alternating magnetic fields  helps common antibiotics work better against prosthetic joint infections, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center found. The study, published in Scientific Reports, advances previous research at UT Southwestern that demonstrated the efficacy of AMF in eradicating biofilm from the surface of prosthetic joints such as those used in…

Mar 13 – The Lurie Autism Institute, a joint initiative of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Penn Medicine created to drive discovery, develop new treatments, and improve the lives of individuals and families affected by autism, is proud to announce that geneticist Huda Y. Zoghbi, MD, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Nancy Lurie Marks Prize…

When Steve Messier started researching how to best treat pain caused by knee osteoarthritis, there was no cure for the debilitating condition. More than 30 years later, that’s still the case—so the biomechanics expert and professor of Health and Exercise Science at Wake Forest University wants to prevent it. Through a series of clinical studies,…

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Mar 12th: Prelude Corporation (PreludeDx®), a leader in precision diagnostics for early-stage breast cancer, announced today the publication of results from a large, multi-institutional validation study of the AidaBreast™ test in Breast Cancer Research. The groundbreaking data demonstrated the test to be both prognostic for 10-year recurrence risk and predictive for radiation…