Testicular cancer: ‘Kinder’ chemotherapy is ‘just as effective’
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Testicular cancer: ‘Kinder’ chemotherapy is ‘just as effective’

This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50972799 By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent Testicular cancer can be treated successfully with fewer rounds of toxic chemotherapy drugs, doctors say. A study on 246 patients, reported in the journal European Urology, showed a single cycle of chemo was just as effective as the standard two cycles. But the…

Protein tangles in Alzheimer’s patients could help predict brain shrinkage
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Protein tangles in Alzheimer’s patients could help predict brain shrinkage

This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/01/protein-tangles-in-alzheimers-patients-could-help-predict-brain-shrinkage By Nicola Davis and Hannah Devlin Research suggests tangles of tau could be used to predict how much shrinkage will occur and where Tangles of a protein found inside the brain cells of people with Alzheimer’s disease can be used to predict future brain shrinkage, research suggests. In healthy people, a…

AI ‘outperforms’ doctors diagnosing breast cancer
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AI ‘outperforms’ doctors diagnosing breast cancer

This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50857759 By Fergus Walsh Medical correspondent Artificial intelligence is more accurate than doctors in diagnosing breast cancer from mammograms, a study in the journal Nature suggests. An international team, including researchers from Google Health and Imperial College London, designed and trained a computer model on X-ray images from nearly 29,000 women. The algorithm outperformed…