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Liver Cancer
Liver Cancer: is cancer that begins in the cells of your liver. Several types of cancer can form in the liver. The most common type of liver cancer is hepatocellular carcinoma, which begins in the main type of liver cell (hepatocyte). Other types of liver cancer, such as intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and hepatoblastoma, are much less common.
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APR 16, 2016
Videos
Fatty liver disease is a condition in which excess fat in the liver makes up over 5 to 10 percent of the liver's weight.
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
APR 07, 2016
Health & Medicine
How much medication should you be prescribed? Everyone is born with a different body, so how much and what kind of medic
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
MAR 28, 2016
Cancer
Precision medicine is an emerging field where clinicians tailor treatment plans for each individual based on their genet
...
MAR 26, 2016
Videos
Coffee has been long viewed as a vice. We often use "coffee" and "caffeine" interchangeably. After all, a cup of coffee
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
MAR 26, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Mount Sinai Hospital recently became the first US health care center to use a specialized technology called M1 LUMI bead
...
FEB 20, 2016
Health & Medicine
Air pollution can have devastating effects on a person’s health. According to the World Health Organization, being
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
FEB 04, 2016
Health & Medicine
Besides having on average larger feet than short people, a new study shows tall people are also more at risk for getting
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 30, 2016
Cancer
A new therapy uses white blood cells to ferry cancer-killing proteins through the bloodstream. Tests show it virtually e
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 12, 2016
Cancer
A gene that is known to suppress the growth and spread of many types of cancer has the opposite effect in some forms of
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 11, 2016
Health & Medicine
Given a choice, most of us would choose to never get sick and live forever. Now, researchers have uncovered how a hormon
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
JAN 06, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In addition to enhancing the flavors of foods, saffron – the world’s priciest spice – may also prevent
...
DEC 24, 2015
Microbiology
People suffering from leukemia or lymphoma are particularly vulnerable to mold diseases such as aspergillosis and mucorm
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
DEC 15, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
Instead of invasive biopsies, doctors could soon detect melanoma metastasis with a handheld scanning device. A team of r
...
NOV 30, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst mortality rates of all cancer types, largely because the cancer spreads rapidly a
...
NOV 28, 2015
Health & Medicine
A group of German and Israeli scientists have successfully grown human liver cells in the laboratory that did not lose t
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
NOV 24, 2015
Immunology
A large number of people diagnosed with depression experience an inability to feel pleasure, and antidepressants don'
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 19, 2015
Videos
While the conventional wisdom is that drugs are bad for you, there is a growing amount of information that marijuana isn
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 17, 2015
Cardiology
HAX-1 is an anti-cell death protein that could protect cardiac cells during traumatic cardiovascular events like heart a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 12, 2015
Health & Medicine
Aside from making it difficult to fit into pants, sporting a so-called beer belly or mushy middle may actually kill you!
...
NOV 05, 2015
Cancer
A 41-year old man based out of Columbia has reportedly died of a strange type of cancer that doctors had a lot of troubl
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 21, 2015
Cancer
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a critical role played by an enzyme in cancer and autoimmun
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 16, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
There are several risk factors that have been identified for breast cancer including age, reproductive history, hormones
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
AUG 29, 2015
Cancer
Viruses can be involved in the development of serious diseases. A case in point is liver cancer, which often develops in
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 28, 2015
Cancer
Pancreatic cancer, the fourth deadliest cancer in the U.S., is very hard to detect in its early stages. Rarely diagnosed
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider