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Anchor lead: Places where physicians are not comfortable talking about end of life rendered their patients more likely to receive more expensive care before death, Elizabeth Tracey reports What accounts for an almost two-fold difference in spending on end of …
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Anchor lead: Modeling cancers over time may help predict resistance to treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports Using cells from head and neck cancers in conjunction with a mathematical model, Johns Hopkins researchers are able to develop a timeline over which cancer …
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Anchor lead: Some cells that are overreacting in the brain may be the culprit in Parkinson’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Your brain has what amounts to a specialized immune system, with two cell types, known as microglia and astrocytes, responsible …
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Anchor lead: A look at the development of resistance in cancer cells has already borne fruit, Elizabeth Tracey reports Sophisticated mathematical modeling along with analysis of head and neck cancer cells as they acquired resistance over time has produced at …
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Anchor lead: Why should a promising treatment for sepsis be studied more? Elizabeth Tracey reports Sepsis is a killer. This overwhelming infection is implicated in one in three deaths in the hospital, CDC data indicate, with one recent study touting …
