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November 18, 2024A new NIH-funded study will explore whether a wearable device can provide better functional recovery data after surgery for distal radius fracture. Fractures of the wrist are very common. Yet ...
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December 14, 2016For some people who have lung cancer, immunotherapy can be an effective tool because it relies on the body's immune system to eliminate cancer cells. Targeted therapies, on the other hand, do not dire...
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December 07, 2016Immunotherapy is a promising treatment for lung cancer. The concept isn’t new. Since the 1970s, doctors have turned to medicine as a tool to stimulate the immune system’s defensive response to cancer....
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December 04, 2016By MedStar Health Research Institute
MedStar Health Research Institute (MHRI) was awarded membership to the second cohort of the Safe Healthcare, Epidemiology, and Prevention Research Development (SHEPheRD) Program funded by the Centers ...
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December 04, 2016By MedStar Health Research Institute
Congratulations to all researchers who were published in November 2016. There were 99 peer-reviewed studies published in 51 journals that are part of the body of work completed by MedStar Health inves...
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December 01, 2016An estimated 13% of people with HIV don't know they have the virus, leaving it to cause severe damage that could be avoided with treatment. -
November 29, 2016Nearly 50,000 Americans are diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas each year. In the vast majority of these cases — approximately 95 percent — patients have one specific type of cancer: adenocarcinoma ...
