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Cool heads prevail: Lowering temperature of tumor cells to 68F can halt hard-to-treat brain cancers from growing, study suggests Lowering the temperature of cancer cells in rats to 68°F halted tumor growth The target in rats was glioblastoma, a deadly, and treatment-resistant cancer  Hypothermia could potentially transform the standard of…

Soil-dwelling fungi that can cause lung infections are more widespread than most doctors thought, sometimes leading to missed diagnoses, according to a new study. Researchers studying fungi-linked lung infections realized that many infections were occurring in places the fungi weren’t thought to exist. They found that maps doctors use to…

Heather Meador and Anna Herber-Downey use dating apps on the job — and their boss knows it. Both are public health nurses employed by Linn County Public Health in eastern Iowa. They’ve learned that dating apps are the most efficient way to inform users that people they previously met on the sites…

Studying mice has filled encyclopedias with breakthrough medical discoveries. But when it comes to brain cancers, the little rodents have long exhibited fundamental limitations. Among them: the human cerebellum has 750 times as much surface area as a mouse, all of it laced with more types of progenitor cells that…

The recent approval of teplizumab-mzwv (Tzield, Provention Bio) for the delay of type 1 diabetes by the US Food and Drug Administration is expected to advance efforts to increase screening to cost-effectively identify those at risk for the condition who would be eligible to receive the new treatment. The anti-CD3…