Philadelphia Inquirer – Page 32

Prior to September 2018, kidneys infected by the hepatitis C virus were transplanted only into patients who already had the infection.

Hep-C infected kidneys do as well as uninfected organs after transplant, study finds

October 17, 2019 at 4:00 a.m.

A new Penn Medicine study of data from the national transplant registry found that kidneys from donors with the hepatitis C virus functioned just as well as uninfected kidneys during...

Philanthropist Dana Dornsife sits with Londyn Wylaie, 4, during the free monthly community dinner at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships, part of Drexel's School of Public Health, on Oct. 1, 2019. Dana and her husband, David, gave $10 million to create the center.

Cancer patients often need this one basic thing to participate in clinical trials

October 11, 2019 at 1:19 p.m.

When Paul Bagga was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer that soon spread to his brain, the nonsmoker was devastated and terrified. More than five years later, the Flourtown retiree, 67,...

Philadelphia Phillies general manager Matt Klentak at a February 2019 news conference.

Don’t expect major Phillies shakeup this offseason

September 26, 2019 at 2:01 p.m.

The Phillies exited baseball's postseason race quietly Tuesday afternoon in Washington. If their demise made a sound, it would have been that of the last air as it escapes from...

Dr. Christian Hinrichs (R), an investigator at the National Cancer Institute in immunotherapy for HPV+ cancers, shows patient Fred Janick, a survivor of metastatic cancer, the difference between his CT scan showing cancerous tumors (R) and a clean scan after treatment (L), after a day of medical exams showing no recurrence of cancer, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, February 8, 2018.
Experimental trials are ongoing at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, a US government-funded research hospital where doctors are trying to partially replace patients' immune systems with T-cells that would specifically attack cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), a common sexually transmitted infection. A person's T-cells will naturally try to kill off any invader, including cancer, but usually fall short because tumors can mutate, hide, or simply overpower the immune system.
Immunotherapies that have seen widespread success, such as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) cell therapies, mainly target blood cancers like lymphoma, myeloma and leukemia, which have a tumor antigen -- like a flag or a signal -- on the surface of the cells so it is easy for immune cells to find and target the harmful cells. But many common cancers lack this clear, surface signal. Hinrichs' approach focuses on HPV tumors because they contain viral antigens that the immune system can easily recognize.

Americans continue to be ignorant or indifferent about the cancer-preventing HPV

September 20, 2019 at 2:06 p.m.

Thirteen years after the HPV vaccine was hailed as a revolution in cancer prevention, most Americans still don't know the virus causes oral and genital cancers, and most doctors still...

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz comes off the field in the second half against the Atlanta Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on September 15, 2019.

Can Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz avoid being the next Matt Stafford?

September 19, 2019 at 9:14 a.m.

When Jim Schwartz was hired as head coach of the Detroit Lions in 2009, he was asked about the first step in rebuilding the team from the depths of a...

Lack of insurance, social isolation, low incomes and the presence of gun stores were among the variables that correlated to heightened rates of suicide, according to a recent study.

Gun stores, isolation, and lack of hope fuel rise in U.S. suicides, study finds

September 13, 2019 at 8:20 a.m.

With suicides continuing to increase, a new study has taken a county-by-county look across the United States to identify factors associated with rising rates of adults taking their own lives....

People ages 25 to 34 represent the greatest increase in deaths driven by alcohol-related liver cirrhosis, a nearly 11% increase per year from 2009 to 2017, according to researchers.

Hard-drinking young adults suffer surge in deadly liver disease

September 6, 2019 at 8:47 a.m.

A little over a year ago, Eric Dunham had the operation that saved his life: a double transplant to give him a new liver and a new kidney. Chronic, heavy...

Managing a chronic health condition, such as diabetes, can be difficult regardless of your age. But a new study suggests that it may be especially challenging for college students.

Diabetes stress high among college students, study finds

September 10, 2019 at 6:23 p.m.

Nathan Reilly has had Type 1 diabetes since he was a baby. And until last week, the 19-year-old always had his mother to help remind him of the litany of...

Lorraine Young hugs her dog, Andy, on a visit to the vet after the dog received emergency spine surgery in July and is now almost fully recovered at St. Francis Veterinary Center on Aug. 12, 2019 in Swedesboro, N.J.

Thanks to 3D-assisted surgery, this dog survived to comfort his grieving family

September 3, 2019 at 2:29 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA — It's hard to keep a good dog down, and Andy, a dachshund with Yoda ears and boundless energy, was as good as they get. Ever since he joined...

Rose Lavelle of United States settles the ball during a friendly against the Republic of Ireland at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on August 3, 2019. (Katharine Lotze/Getty Images/TNS)

Rose Lavelle leads U.S. women’s soccer’s new generation of stars into activism

August 30, 2019 at 10:06 a.m.

If you would prefer to keep sports and politics separate, you probably figured out long ago that the U.S. women's soccer team would like you to not. So it's no...

All Stories