The increasing contamination of soils by heavy metals, such as copper and lead, poses significant ecological risks. Traditional methods to assess the impact of these pollutants on plants require lengthy cultivation periods and yield uncertain results.
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A New Approach to Evaluating Soil Contamination: How Oxidative Potential Improves Plant Risk Evaluation
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Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair in Heart Failure Patients Significantly Reduces Hospitalizations and Improves Survival
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Breakthrough findings from study led by Mount Sinai researcher could improve outcomes for high-risk patients
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Multiple sclerosis drug improves memory in mice modeling Alzheimer’s disease
November 7, 2021By
Researchers found that glatiramer acetate, a prescription drug currently used to treat patients with multiple sclerosis, improved memory in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.
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New McLean Hospital Neuroscience Research Program Improves Access for BIPOC Students
February 16, 2021By
McLean Hospital launched a summer research program aimed at improving access to research-focused education and training for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) college students.
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Immunotherapy – targeted drug combination improves survival in advanced kidney cancer
February 13, 2021By
Patients with advanced kidney cancer, who received a targeted drug combined with a checkpoint-blocker immunotherapy agent had longer survival than patients treated with the standard targeted drug, said an investigator from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, reporting results from a phase 3 clinical trial.
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Immunotherapy drug improves five-year survival rate of people with advanced lung cancer
June 1, 2019By
In a study led by UCLA investigators, treatment with the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab helped more than 15% of people with advanced non-small cell lung cancer live for at least five years — and 25% of patients whose tumor cells had a specific protein lived at least that long.
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Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Dramatically Improves Heart Patients’ Quality of Life, Study Finds
November 7, 2018By
Patients who undergo a transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR — a minimally-invasive surgical procedure that repairs a damaged heart valve — experienced a significant increase in their quality of life, according to a new study by researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City.
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PARP inhibitor improves progression-free survival in patients with advanced breast cancers and BRCA mutations
August 16, 2018By
In a randomized, Phase III trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the PARP inhibitor talazoparib extended progression-free survival (PFS) and improved quality-of-life measures over available chemotherapies for patients with metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer and mutations in the BRCA1/2 genes.
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Increasing Physical Activity Improves Survival in Lymphoma Patients, Mayo Researchers Say
December 12, 2017By
An observational study by researchers at Mayo Clinic has found that increasing physical activity not only decreased the risk of death from all causes but also decreased the risk of death specifically from lymphoma.
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App Improves Medication Adherence for Heart Stent Patients
January 21, 2017By
A tablet computer application helped heart patients with drug-eluting stents take their medications correctly, a study from the University of Illinois at Chicago has found. Researchers found that patients in the intervention group had a 10 percent higher medication possession ratio than patients in the control group.
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