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Back to SearchThere’s hope for women with breast cancer who are experiencing menopausal symptoms, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Women whose breast cancer has estrogen receptors are usually treated with estrogen depleting medicines, with the consequence that they have hot flash…
6 months, 1 week ago
CAR-T cells are an expensive form of cancer treatment, but other techniques may soon supplant them, Elizabeth Tracey reports
CAR-T cells, a highly activated immune cell, have been used to treat a solid tumor, stomach cancer, for the first time. Yet the fact remains that CAR…
6 months, 1 week ago
Why has it been so hard to use CAR-T cells to treat solid tumors? Elizabeth Tracey reports
For the first time CAR-T cells, a highly activated type of immune cell, have been used with some success to treat stomach cancer, a so-called solid t…
6 months, 1 week ago
Will solid tumors now be treated with CAR-T cells? Elizabeth Tracey reports
You’ve probably heard of CAR-T cells, a type of immune cells taken from someone’s body, grown up in a lab and trained to attack their cancer. CAR-Ts …
6 months, 1 week ago
Humidity may be as important as temperature when it comes to air conditioning, Elizabeth Tracey reports
When it comes to managing with the dog days of summer, air conditioning is very helpful, especially for people with chronic lung problems. Johns Hopk…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
If you don’t use AC properly you may make lung problems worse, Elizabeth Tracey reports
People with lung conditions like asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, abbreviated COPD, rely on air conditioning in the summer to help ke…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Proper AC maintenance is key to healthful use, Elizabeth Tracey reports
If you have any respiratory issues you likely benefit from air conditioning when the weather is hot. Lung health expert William Checkley at Johns Hop…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Sometimes air conditioning can compromise your respiratory health, Elizabeth Tracey reports
For many people air conditioning is important for alleviating symptoms of chronic respiratory disease, but Johns Hopkins lung health expert William C…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
While AC is great at making us feel comfortable it’s also important for health, Elizabeth Tracey reports
As the northern hemisphere enters full summer, many people shut their windows and turn on the air conditioning, or AC. William Checkley, a lung healt…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Different types of tumors with a specific mutation may not need surgery, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Mismatch repair is just what it sounds like: when a cell divides and makes new DNA strands when a mistake is made it repairs them. Some types of canc…
6 months, 3 weeks ago