Researchers have created tiny metal-based particles that push cancer cells over the edge while leaving healthy cells mostly unharmed. The particles work by increasing internal stress in cancer cells ...

Men with prostate cancer have a variety of treatment choices available, including expectant management with deferred treatment, brachytherapy, external-beam radiation therapy, or both of the latter ...

Organ-sparing treatments offer alternatives to surgery, preserving quality of life for patients with specific genetic mutations in cancers like rectal and bladder cancer. Clinical trials with immune ...

A TURBT allows examination beyond the bladder. Study findings support attempting nerve-sparing surgery in patients with confirmed high-risk prostate cancer. Nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy (NSRP) ...

Quadriceps-sparing myopathy is the name formerly used for the commonest clinical condition among a group of syndromes called the hereditary inclusion body myopathies (HIBM). They are characterized by ...

How best to save biodiversity and protect agricultural yields? Should farmers integrate their land with natural features to attract wildlife, or farm intensively on sections of land while leaving ...

A nerve-sparing technique (NeuroSAFE) reduced erectile dysfunction in men undergoing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) for prostate cancer. A year after surgery, patients randomized to ...

The loss of half the U.S. supply of influenza vaccine due to contamination has created a critical shortage. Dose-sparing strategies that use intradermal delivery of vaccines may be one approach to ...

The protein-sparing modified fast diet, also called the PSMF diet, is a diet you can follow on a short-term basis to lose a large amount of weight quickly. Doctors most often recommend the ...

To protect natural ecosystems in the long term, some conservationists advocate "land sparing," in which farmers intensify agricultural practices to boost yields, theoretically enabling them to forgo ...