Carly Szabo, Assistant Editor

Palmitic acid found in olive oil, butter, cheese, milk, and meat may worsen inflammation.

Treatment with dabrafenib and trametinib extends patient survival more than 2 years.

Study warns that expedited approvals have become the rule rather than the exception.

Research offers enhanced method to assess effects of cancer drugs on normal and healthy cells.

Broadly neutralizing antibodies may help defend the body against HIV.

New approach may stop growth and kill cancer cells.

Excessive out-of-pocket costs can become an adverse event from treatment.

Luteolin may carry significant anti-tumor effects.

Sleep-wake cycle may link to exacerbated MS symptoms.

Ocrelizumab found to decrease progression of clinical disability.

Patients treated with atezolizumab lived an average of 7.7 months longer than people treated with docetaxel chemotherapy.

MECP2 duplication syndrome is caused by duplication of genetic material in a specific region of the X chromosome.

Desmoplasmic melanoma possesses a mutation that protects tumors from destruction by the immune system.

Experimental drug blocks key sites on the virus surface that attach and invade human immune cells.

Discovery could lead to treatments that stop cancer recurrence.

More than just biological factors can affect patient outcomes.

Self-testing may help control global spread of HIV/AIDS.

Expansion covers patients who have greater than 30% myeloblasts.

Intralesional interleukin-2 shows promise in cutaneous melanoma metastases.

Technology may help improve patient outcomes through enhanced personalized medicine.

Nanopore technology may soon be adapted for early disease detection.

Researchers examine how immunodeficiency diseases avoid immune system attacks.

Current HIV treatment guidelines are based on data obtained primarily from men.

Findings could eliminate need for weeks of treatments that carry severe side effects.

Research may help tailor treatments to individual patients.

Usability testing should include at least 15 representative end-user participants.

Kyprolis is for injection in patients with relapsed multiple myeloma.

Patients treated with the drug showed improvements in overall survival.

Each additional year of smoking after multiple sclerosis diagnosis accelerated the time to secondary progressive disease conversion.

Gary Cohen was the sole occupant of a Cessna amphibious plane that crashed in Florida on September 18.