Category: Health Newsfeed
July 31, 2018 – Choosing a Doctor
July 30, 2018 – End of Life Care and Geography
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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 …
July 23, 2018 – Resistant Cancer
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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 …
July 27, 2018 – Inflammation and the Brain
July 26, 2018 – Overreaction
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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 …