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...
What Women Should Know About Breast Cancer — No Matter Their Age
Breast cancer is scary, and for many women, it’s not something we really like to think about. However, as one of the most commonly...
How Bill Gates Could Transform Alzheimer's Disease
America is finally making progress addressing our Alzheimer’s Problem. Particularly inspiring are discoveries of biomarker measures that...
Scientists discover a dynamic cellular defense against breast cancer invasion
Johns Hopkins researchers report they have demonstrated in mouse tissue grown in the lab that the cell layer surrounding breast milk...
