Health Lab Articles

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Cancer vs. COVID: When a Pandemic Upended Cancer Care

A Rogel Cancer Center team created a guide to help providers navigate difficult conversations due to the coronavirus.
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How the Timing of Light Exposure Could Be Affecting Your Health

Increased light exposure can have positive and negative effects on your health — depending on the time of day.
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Recovery After Severe COVID Infection Poses Unique Challenges

As more patients are discharged from stressed ICUs, they face multiple problems brought on by the pandemic.
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The ‘Uberization’ of 911

Apps like Uber or Lyft can find you easily for a ride to the airport. So why is getting help to get to a hospital in an emergency so much more complicated?
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Camp Little Victors 2020: Music to Your Ears

Grab your kids and get ready for the big show! Explore musical activities that will bring out everyone’s inner musician.
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Culture Is Complicated, and There’s a Curriculum for It

Surgeons are used to discussing clinical complications, and there’s even a formal process for it: In the Department of Surgery, weekly death and complications conferences are held to peer-review specific cases with adverse outcomes.
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Lean Americans with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Have Lower Rates of Cirrhosis

The rate of cirrhosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is lower among Americans with lower BMIs.
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Study Suggests New Approach to Improve Radiation Therapy Resistance in Glioblastoma

Cancer treatment research for glioblastoma enters new phase with FDA-approved drug trial that aims to improve the effect of radiation therapy on this aggressive brain cancer.
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Multiple Sclerosis Warrior Dedicated to Helping Others

After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, one patient found new purpose in helping other MS patients, and researchers, further understand how to manage the disease.
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Researchers Optimistic After Dose-Determining Trial of Compound Against Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

The multi-institution phase 1b/2a clinical trial found good tolerability and encouraging efficacy data for the pan-BET bromodomain inhibitor in combination with enzalutamide.
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Fostering Inclusion: Strategies to Promote Belonging for Women and Underrepresented Physicians

Strategies for centering diversity, equity and inclusion in academic medicine to offset systemic racism, sexism and other persistent inequities for women and/or individuals who are underrepresented in medicine (URM).
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New Clues in Resistance to Mainstay Drug for Patients with Metastatic Prostate Cancer

Multi-institution analysis identifies a new chromosomal abnormality linked to enzalutamide resistance.
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Inhibiting Key Molecular Chaperone Sensitizes Tumors to Radiation Therapy in Animal Models

While heat shock protein 90 inhibitors have shown limited benefit in directly treating cancer, low doses may improve the efficacy of radiotherapy, a new study finds.
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Camp Little Victors 2020: Food Frenzy

What kid doesn’t love to play with their food? Join C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital’s Camp Little Victors program for fun food-filled activities you and your child are sure to love!
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Insulin Cost-Sharing Caps May Help Kids, Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes

Although additional policies are needed to relieve insulin’s financial burden, researchers find a national cost-sharing cap helps privately insured patients pay less out-of-pocket.