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Normally, grenades are bad for your health. They explode, spreading shrapnel and other incendiaries into a thousand different directions, with only one purpose: causing maximum harm to anyone unlucky enough to be within the blasts’ radius. Fortunately, the grenade we’re talking about today does more good than bad, as it targets and kills cancer tumors. Researchers from the University of Manchester will present two studies at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in

Angioplasty is a procedure that can help to reduce the risk of stroke recurrence by restoring reduced or cut off blood flow to the brain. The procedure is extremely risky, but recently researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago may have found a way to ensure this operation is only conducted on patients who would benefit from it most. A stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain becomes restricted or completely blocked. During

Our bones are constantly regrowing. They attain peak mass sometime in our 20s before slowly getting weaker as we age. This increases many people’s risk of osteoporosis, a condition characterized by weak and brittle bones, and their subsequent risk of fractures from something as minute as a cough. To combat this decline in bone strength, researchers from France have developed an injectable foam that helps to repair bones. Injectable calcium phosphate cement (CPCs) are often

Researchers have developed a new test capable of identifying which patients are at greatest risk of suffering a relapse from testicular cancer. The test, which involves assessing three features of a testicular cancer tumor, could be used to help clinicians decide on the proper form of follow-up care. “Our research has led to the development of a test that can detect patients that will benefit from treatment up front and spare those who are at

Topical drugs are used for an array of conditions, but skin toxicity remains a major challenge in the design and use of new drug formulas. A team of researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) came up with a possible solution to the problem, demonstrating a novel formulation of a drug as a liquid salt. Topical drug toxicity often occurs because drugs have to be dissolved in organic solvents, many of which are