The last thing the San Francisco 49ers need as they prepare to meet the Seattle Seahawks on Saturday in hopes of winning a trip to the NFC Championship Game is to worry that they might be getting ...

In 1997, a radiological accident in Lilo, Georgia resulted in the exposure of 11 people to high doses of radiation over an extended period of time. The exposed persons developed severe radiation ...

Recently, teams led by Prof. Yiming Zhang from Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University,Prof. Fazhi Qi from Zhongshan ...

A series of developments from 1954 through 1972 marked the transition to adoption of the linear, no-threshold model as a predictive model of radiation injury in exposed populations. In 1954, the ...

Safety concerns related to the widely used painkiller diclofenac may be tied to a little-studied drug-metabolizing enzyme whose expression can vary as much as 3,000 times from one individual to the ...

Radiation therapy is highly effective at killing cancer cells, but it often harms healthy skin around the treatment area, a common side effect experienced by up to 95% of cancer patients undergoing ...

When 49ers tight end George Kittle tore his Achilles during Sunday's playoff win over the Eagles, he became the latest San Francisco star player to suffer a major injury - and brought a viral ...

Radiotherapy induces DNA damage and oxidative stress, leading to endothelial injury and blood-brain barrier disruption, which triggers neuroinflammation, microvascular dysfunction, and neuronal ...

Anthracyclines are among the most widely used chemotherapy drugs and have been a mainstay of cancer treatment for more than 30 years. Their extraordinary efficacy against numerous solid and ...

Radiotherapy is a key foundation of oncologic treatment that is used across the spectrum of cancer indications. Advances in imaging, treatment planning, and dose delivery have led to increasingly ...