The NCCN 2020 Annual Conference: Celebrating 25 Years of NCCN is a three-day, in-person conference featuring more than 30 educational sessions on state-of-the-art practices in cancer care. Leading oncology experts will present on new and emerging therapies, controversies in treatment, and best practices in delivering oncology care. Join the conversation online with the hashtag #NCCN2020.…
Support cells in the nervous system help protect motor neurons in the early-stages of sporadic motor neuron disease, according to new research from the Crick and UCL. Motor neuron disease is a degenerative condition which destroys the nerve cells (motor neurons) in the brain and spinal cord, which control movement, speech, swallowing and breathing. The…
SEATTLE (Feb. 10, 2020) – InquireFirst is pleased to announce a new initiative to encourage crossborder reporting on science, health and the environment by Latin American journalists. A partnership with The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Department of Science Education, the Cross-Border Science Journalism Project will launch this month with the awarding of financial support…
WUHAN, China — Bella Zhang hung an intravenous drip on a spindly tree branch and slumped down on a large stone planter outside the crowded hospital. Her mother and brother sat wearily beside her, their shoulders sagging, both also hooked up to their own drips. In recent days, Ms. Zhang, 25, a perfume saleswoman with…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageLining up this weekend to get tickets for free masks and sanitizer outside a Beijing pharmacy.Credit…Kevin Frayer/Getty Images The new coronavirus has killed more people than SARS did. The coronavirus death toll in China has risen to 811, surpassing the toll from the SARS epidemic of 2002-3, according to…
Although many women are in no hurry to marry, they still have to take into consideration the stereotypes imposed by society. We decided to find out why it is not shameful to be single in our time and how to build our life in the “single” format. “My earnings are only mine” It may seem…
WUHAN, China — President Xi Jinping strode onstage before an adoring audience in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing less than three weeks ago, trumpeting his successes in steering China through a tumultuous year and promising “landmark” progress in 2020. “Every single Chinese person, every member of the Chinese nation, should feel proud…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageMedical workers on Friday at a convention center in Wuhan, China, that has been turned into a makeshift hospital.Credit…Cnsphoto, via Reuters An American in Wuhan has died from the coronavirus. A United States citizen has died from the new coronavirus in Wuhan, China, in what appeared to be the…
One patient, admitted to a hospital in Wuhan, China, infected at least 10 health care workers and four other patients with the coronavirus that has sickened more than 34,000 people, killed 700 and reached two dozen other countries. The case was just one disturbing detail in a new report on 138 patients in Wuhan that…
With an intense flu season in full swing, hundreds of thousands of coughing and feverish patients have already overwhelmed emergency rooms around the United States. Now, hospitals are bracing for the potential spread of coronavirus that could bring another surge of patients. So far, only a dozen people in the United States have become infected…