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Long-term benefit from anti-hormonal treatment is influenced by menopausal status: Study – World News Network
"Younger women generally have a higher risk of recurrence than older postmenopausal women, but most studies on anti-hormonal therapy have mainly included postmenopausal women. We therefore wanted to compare the long-term benefit from the treatment in both groups," says Linda Lindstrom, associate professor and research group leader at the Department…
Stimulating hypothalamus restores walking in paralyzed patients: Study – World News Network
Researchers at EPFL and Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), led by professors Gregoire Courtine and Jocelyne Bloch, have made significant advances in the treatment of spinal cord injuries (SCI). The scientists boosted the recovery of lower limb movements in two people with partial SCI by delivering deep brain stimulation (DBS) to…
Study finds critical relationship between stem cells, mechanical signals – World News Network
A new study by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the Institut Curie demonstrates how stem cells sense and adapt to their surroundings, with implications for inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer.
Brain stimulation effectiveness tied to learning ability, not age: Study – World News Network
As we age, our cognitive and motor functions degrade, reducing our independence and overall quality of life. Research efforts to mitigate or perhaps eliminate this have resulted in technologies that hold a lot of promise.
Here is how cancer cells fend off starvation, death from chemotherapy, finds study – World News Network
Laboratory experiments with cancer cells reveal two ways in which tumors evade drugs designed to starve and kill them, a new study shows. While chemotherapy successfully treats tumours and extends patients' lives, it is known that they do not work for everyone for long, since cancer cells rewire the mechanism…
How stress is fundamentally changing our memories, finds study – World News Network
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) revealed that stress alters how our brain encodes and retrieves aversive memories, and they developed a potential new method for restoring adequate memory specificity in persons suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).