The study showed the existence of a link between heart failure and the development of tumors. Patients with heart disease should be more closely screened for cancer. Patients with heart failure may be at increased risk of developing malignancies, according to a study published in the journal ESC Heart Failure. Note that cancer patients are […]

A new study has been presented in the journal Oncotarget, the findings of which suggest that urine RNA acts as an early diagnostic marker for bladder cancer. The authors performed a systematic deep transcriptomic analysis of representative pools of urine RNA collected from healthy donors, after which they were compared with those of patients with […]

The immune system is capable of fighting cancer on its own. The main thing is that on the surface of actively multiplying disease-causing cells there are special molecules that attract cell killers. Recently, Infox.ru wrote how immune cells (T-lymphocytes) can predict the duration and strength of recurrences of a viral disease – genital herpes. However, […]

American scientists have discovered a protein that plays a key role in protecting the gastrointestinal tract from bacterial infections and inflammation. As it turned out, a decrease in the level of this protein, known as granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), can contribute to the development of a number of dangerous intestinal diseases caused by various pathogens, […]

Only in the 19th century did scientists establish that hepatitis is a whole group of diseases. And besides the relatively mild hepatitis A, for which there is a vaccine, there are blood-borne hepatitis B, C and others, which have already infected up to 1/3 of humanity. However, there is no vaccine for hepatitis C. A […]