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Beth Hoffman, Ph.D., MPH., assistant professor of behavioral and community health sciences at University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health Image credit: University of Pittsburgh According to the American Heart Association, each year, more than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the U.S. When a person has a cardiac arrest, receiving CPR immediately from someone read more

“The primary thing for patients to understand is these trials overwhelmingly show that both proton therapy and traditional radiation are great treatment options,” Frank said. “That said, these results indicate a survival benefit for proton therapy in oropharyngeal cancer patients as well as reduced high grade toxicities during treatment and less feeding tube dependence. These read more

This may make the development of gene editing treatments for smaller disease populations financially feasible and commercially scalable Trevor Martin ‘There are almost 7,500 known genetic diseases, of which over 4,500 are believed to be caused by a mutation in a single gene,’ commented Trevor Martin, PhD, co-founder and CEO of Mammoth Biosciences of Brisbane, read more

This is the challenge addressed by a multicenter European study coordinated by Jacobo Sitt (Inserm) at Paris Brain Institute, with which Dragana Manasova was involved during her doctoral work. The researchers propose a novel approach: combining six assessment techniques, each capturing a distinct aspect of brain function: high-density electroencephalography (EEG) at rest and during an read more