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Wednesday, 27 November 2024

Cost Concerns Lead to Cancer Treatment Delays, Nonadherence

TOPLINE: When patients deal directly with their insurance companies for answers about copayments and other issues, they are more likely to experience delays in cancer care and to be nonadherent. METHODOLOGY: Navigating the complexities of insurance coverage is difficult for cancer patients, and the clinical impact of managing these intricacies…

Researchers describe the origin and fate of liver myofibroblasts

Reviewed Hepatic fibrosis occurs when scar tissue replaces damaged cells in the liver. Over time, accumulating scarring distorts the liver, interferes with its blood supply and may progressively lead to worsening consequences, from cirrhosis to liver failure to liver cancer. In advanced cases, the only treatment is an organ transplant….

Meet Charley, the Chatbot That Can Help You Get an Abortion

Abortion access has been under threat for years, long before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Now, with the right to abortion governed by a patchwork of different state laws, figuring out where and how you can get abortion care has become confusing, stressful, and scary, sometimes…

As COVID infections rise, nursing homes are still waiting for vaccines

“COVID is not pretty in a nursing home,” said Deb Wityk, a 70-year-old retired massage therapist who lives in one called Spurgeon Manor, in rural Iowa. She twice contracted the disease and is eager to get the newly approved vaccine because she has chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which weakens her immune…

Predicting condensate formation by cancer-associated fusion oncoproteins

Many cancers are caused by fusion oncoproteins, molecules that aberrantly form when a rearrangement of DNA results in parts of two different proteins being expressed as one. Several fusion oncoproteins spontaneously form condensates inside cells that promote cancer development. New research by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital established a method…