National Institutes Of Health
NCI resource improves research community’s access to clinical trial data, specimens
NCI has established a new resource designed to improve the research community’s access to specimens and data collected from cancer treatment trials.
Longer donor leukocyte telomere reduces infection-related mortality in aplastic anemia
Neoadjuvant androgen deprivation therapy with enzalutamide active in high-risk localized prostate cancer
NIH primary supporter of systematic reviews behind USPSTF recommendations
The NIH was the single largest financial contributor to the systematic reviews that led to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations, according to data recently published in JAMA.
US cancer deaths continue to decline
Cancer deaths continue to decline among men, women and children in the United States, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.
Diagnosing source of periodic fever in children entails collecting thorough history
NEW YORK — Frequent fevers and associated symptoms may point to an autoinflammatory or autoimmune disorder, such as periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, adenitis syndrome or PFAPA, the most common periodic fever syndrome of childhood, according to a presentation at the 2017 Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium.
Government, researchers, industry have ‘huge opportunities for alignment’ to advance cancer care
Combatting opioid crisis requires public-private partnership
The President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis recently met for its third public meeting to obtain recommendations from physicians and leaders in science and medicine on how to deal with the current opioid epidemic in the United States.
Multifaceted dry eye disease defined in long-awaited TFOS DEWS II report
Aptly published in the Dry Eye Awareness Month of July was the long-awaited Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society Dry Eye Workshop II report. Ten years have passed since the TFOS DEWS I report was published, and this new iteration discloses the results of years of intensive work by 150 experts from 23 countries, working in 12 subcommittees, who considered the wide-ranging, multiple aspects of dry eye disease.