Modern genetic testing methods improve the diagnosis of rare diseases. This is confirmed by a study in which over 7,000 rare diseases patients were examined and the entire genome was sequenced.
A new project is developing a software that automatically searches CT images for suspicious signs of critical symptoms, alerting the treating physician of developing complications.
Researchers at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Germany) are investigating the brain’s influence in the desire for high-calorie sweet and savory foods just before menstruation.
Online training could improve asthma patients’ knowledge of their chronic disease just as well as conventional training, hinting at new approaches to future treatments.
Dr. Paul Sargos (Institute Bergonie, Bordeaux, France) presented the first results of the GETUG-AFU 22 study and won the second prize in the EAU20 Best Abstract Awards Oncology.
Research teams are increasingly trying to use the body's own immune system to fight cancer. A new study is helping to better understand the "arms race" between immune defenses and the disease, and may help improve modern therapeutic approaches.
Researchers show that water loss in the cell, the so-called osmotic stress, sets in motion cellular waste disposal, which occurs through an interaction of autophagy and lysosomes; with implications for neurodegenerative diseases.
The EUPROMS study represents the first patient-driven quality-of-life (QoL) data collection and revealed specific long-term complaints correlating with a given treatment.
Researchers found that medication and psychotherapy do not differ in the acute treatment of individual symptoms. The researchers' goal remains to develop a more individually adapted therapy.
Recent studies suggest that steroid sulfatase (STS) can drive prostate cancer and initiate resistance through an alternative androgen synthesis.
Some people are better protected against UTIs because their bodies produce higher levels of uromodulin. A research team discovered how the helper protein works, with possible implications for UTI treatment and prevention.
A 10-years single-center study reported that substantially more men complain of reduced sexual desire than a decade ago. Conversely, fewer men complain of erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation.
New findings show that urosepsis is associated with lower mortality than sepsis derived from other sites, but if appropriate measures are not taken, 10-15% will develop a recurrent urosepsis.
The EAU20 virtual meeting featured a thematic session looking at the controversy in renal cancer surgery considering the timing and necessity of cytoreductive nephrectomy.
The trend in continental birth rate falls is partly related to economic uncertainty, as demographers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences show using data from the European Demographic Data Sheet.
Prof. Axel Merseburger reviewed the recent evidence testing immuno-oncology (IO) in combination with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).
Pharmacologists have succeeded in detecting minute amounts of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 using mass spectrometry in solutions with which COVID-19 patients gargled. The new method could serve as a supplement to previously used tests.
Adding docetaxel to antiandrogen treatment improves progression-free survival (PFS) in prostate cancer patients with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) relapse.
Aquablation demonstrated a significantly lower rate of sexual dysfunction at the primary safety endpoint of 3 months compared with transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), according to phase-3 data.
In his state-of-the-art lecture, Prof. Leendert Looijenga discussed the connection between infertility and testicular cancer1. Both molecular associations and putative causality were reviewed.