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Ninety-nine percent of former National Football League players who donated their brain to science were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy

Nearly All Donated Brains From NFL Players Show CTE

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Researchers found evidence of the degenerative brain disease in 110 out of 111 deceased NFL players
For patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Fasting Plasma Glucose, HbA1c Linked to Alzheimer’s in T2DM

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Independent associations for FPG coefficient of variation and HbA1c CV in patients with T2DM
For Ashkenazi Jewish patients with breast cancer

More Genetic Tests May Benefit Ashkenazi Jewish Cancer Patients

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For Ashkenazi Jewish women with breast cancer, mutations identified in other genes, including CHEK2
The rate of unfavorable features is increased in association with increasing MYCN copy number in patients with neuroblastoma

MYCN Copy Number Tied to Poor Features in Neuroblastoma

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Patients with MYCN gain had inferior outcomes, including lowest response rate after chemo
Most women murdered in the United States die at the hands of a current or former intimate partner

More Than Half of Murdered U.S. Women Killed by Partners, Exes

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Federal report on decade of statistics shows over half of deaths were caused by intimate partners
Galectin-1 (Gal-1)

Immunotherapy Efficacy Up With Gal-1/SIT Co-Administration

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Suppressed allergic responses in mouse intestine with Gal-1, allergen-specific immunotherapy
The AMGA 2017 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey reports that 77 percent of physician specialties experienced increases in compensation in 2016

Average Increase in Physician Compensation 2.9% in 2016

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Overall, 77 percent of physician specialties experienced increases in compensation
Even small declines in vaccine coverage can reduce the herd immunity effect

Health, Economic Costs High for Measles Vaccine Hesitancy

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A 5 percent drop in coverage could trigger a tripling of measles cases in young children
Maternal exposure to diesel exhaust particles during pregnancy may increase susceptibility to allergic asthma in more than one generation of offspring

Pollutant Exposure May Lead to Multi-Generational Asthma Risk

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Elevated susceptibility to allergic asthma persists into F2, and with lesser magnitude, into F3 mice
A new method

‘Expansion Pathology’ Method Could Mean Earlier Intervention

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Clinically optimized expansion pathology supports nanoscale imaging of human tissue samples