About 200 hotel workers in Baltimore walked off the job this morning to join a massive nationwide strike against three major hotel chains, such as Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott. ...
In an interview with NBC News last Thursday, Trump claimed “I was always for IVF. Right from the beginning, as soon as we heard about it,” the Republican nominee said in an interview with NBC News in... ...
Argonne will lead the Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA) in partnership with Berkeley Lab and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. ESRA focuses on transformative battery advancements, workforce training and reshaping the future of energy storage.
Omar Sinanan, CEFP, FMP, has been appointed Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Chief of Campus Operations, a new position that oversees day-to-day operations of the Philadelphia campus, including facilities management and leadership of operational teams such as public safety.
University of Pittsburgh researchers are the first to trace one of those pollutants, nitrogen, along the U.S. beef supply chain at the county level. They found high spatial disconnect between where beef is eaten and where nitrogen’s impacts are felt.
For many doctors and researchers, immunotherapy that uses someone’s own immune system to target and attack cancer cells is the next and best frontier of cancer treatment. Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR-T cell therapy, is one type of immunotherapy. Sometimes likened to a “smart drug” or “living drug,” CAR-T cell therapy relies on genetically modified immune cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells.
A recent surgeon general’s advisory outlining an urgent need to support increasingly stressed-out parents highlights an important and growing issue, says a Virginia Tech expert. Rosanna Breaux, a psychologist at Virginia Tech who directs the Child Study Center, said how well parents manage their emotions is crucial for their own parenting experience and for the health of both themselves and their children.
Para muchos médicos e investigadores, la inmunoterapia, que utiliza el propio sistema inmunitario de la persona para identificar y atacar las células cancerosas, es la mejor y la siguiente frontera del tratamiento contra el cáncer. La terapia con células T con receptor de antígeno quimérico, o terapia con células CAR-T, es un tipo de inmunoterapia. Ocasionalmente comparada con una "droga inteligente " o una" droga viva", la terapia con células CAR-T se basa en células inmunitarias genéticamente modificadas para reconocer y destruir las células cancerosas.
Ketamine, whether given as an IV, a nasal spray or sublingual, may harm a developing fetus, but a study shows clinics vary greatly in handling patients who could become pregnant during treatment.
Ashok Silwal, a doctoral candidate and graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been chosen to receive a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) scholarship to study stream interaction regions (SIRs) in the heliosphere.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $125 million in funding for two Energy Innovation Hub teams to provide the scientific foundation needed to seed and accelerate next generation technologies beyond today’s generation of lithium (Li)-ion batteries.
In a study using human breast cancer cells, scientists say they have potentially identified immune system white blood cells that appear to be the closest neighbors of breast cancer cells that are likely to spread.
Study from the Michigan Child Health Equity Collaborative finds substantial errors across three health systems in racial and ethnic designations in their electronic medical records.
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During September’s Healthy Aging Month, the American Society of Retina Specialists and its retina specialist members encourage older Americans to learn more about retinal disease and adopt healthy habits that bolster retina health.