Getting the right amount of radiation is a fine balance between therapy and harm. A common way to improve the benefit-to-cure ratio is to fire multiple beams at the tumour from different directions.
Scientists are figuring out why so many diseases and conditions, including diabetes, inflammation and parasitic infection, can affect our eye health. But there are ways to protect your macula.
Peter Doherty’s Nobel Prize-winning insights proved crucial for understanding how viral infections are controlled.
Hay fever treatment options range from common over-the-counter products to specialist medicines.
Few things strike fear into people more than the word cancer, and with good reason. While improvements in cancer therapy and advances in palliative care mean that the illness does not always lead to inevitable…
Virtually every medical therapy in use today owes its existence to animal experiments. But we can’t assume what works in animals will in humans. And sometimes, the mismatch can be dangerous.
Whether or not you respond to a certain medicine or therapy doesn’t just depend on you. The microbes in your gut play a role in the success or failure of various drugs, including cancer therapies.
This new type of immunotherapy shows promise for treating different cancers including prostate cancer, leukaemia and lung cancer.
Siri Hustvedt is writing for her own survival in Ghost Stories, an extraordinary new grief memoir.
Preventive and therapeutic vaccines both train the immune system to fight disease, but they are used in different ways.
