Rosemary Clandos
Rosemary (Rosie) Clandos is a contributing health and science writer. She has written for the Los Angeles Times, Kaiser Permanente, U.S. Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and several universities and medical centers on the West Coast. Rosie has covered topics ranging from medicine to microelectromechanical systems. As the author of “Health Hunt on the Internet: Find and Use Reliable Medical Information,” she specializes in compelling storytelling.
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Gaming Cells to Turn Off the Metastases Switch in Breast Cancer
Cancer progression can be spurred by TGF-beta pathway signaling, and Michigan Medicine researchers have found a way to stop the signal from turning green.
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Gut Bacterium Jams Colorectal Cancer-Death Button
A new study finds Fusobacterium nucleatum promotes resistance to chemotherapy in colon cancer patients. Read more about gut bacterium, f. nucleatum and colorectal cancer.
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Play Dates and Food Allergies: What Parents (and Hosts) Need to Know
Key tips to navigating children’s food allergies and intolerances when hosting playdates and other social engagements.
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Reducing Overtreatment in Cancer Patients: When Is Active Surveillance Appropriate?
Learn when active surveillance of low risk thyroid, prostate and breast cancer, may be appropriate and whether this approach could reduce overtreatment.
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Law Reduces Some Racial, Ethnic Disparities in Breast Reconstruction Post-Mastectomy
See how a New York Law requiring physicians to communicate benefits of breast reconstruction to all mastectomy patients is reducing racial and ethnic disparities
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There’s a Timely Sweet Spot for Intensified Lung Cancer Radiation
To improve local tumor control in advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer, a midtreatment PET-CT scan can detect active tumors for escalated radiation, new research finds.
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Free C3d Regulates Immune Checkpoint Blockade and Enhances Anti-Tumor Immunity
For the first time, researchers have found an important factor that mitigates immune suppression in cancer.
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Study: Worse Survival When Specific Thyroid Cancers Spread to Bone
Study finds specifically follicular and medullary thyroid cancer metastasis to bone has a low survival rate prompting great drug research.
