Master switch to control aggressive breast cancers identified
Turns out, aggressive breast cancers return to a flexible, earlier state found in fetal breast tissue. This cellular reprogramming may be...
Eyes could be window to predicting Alzheimer's
Previous studies have found that the eyes of people who had died from Alzheimer's showed signs of thinning in the center of the retina...
Novartis trial win lifts profile of new breast cancer drug
Novartis’s efforts to tackle an elusive gene mutation behind tough-to-treat breast cancer were rewarded on Thursday, as the Swiss...
Borrowing from the cancer playbook to find treatment for Alzheimer's disease
It's been notoriously difficult to develop medicines for Alzheimer's disease, the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Each...
New Treatments Offer Hope for Some Breast Cancer Patients
Recent studies show more women in the U.S. are living with metastatic breast cancer, or breast cancer that has spread. And many are...
Powerful sleeping pills boost the risk of Alzheimer’s, major study warns
Sleeping pills taken by hundreds of thousands may boost the risk of Alzheimer's, a study suggests. Researchers found the risk of...