Families of children with brain cancer are often unaware of the option of postmortem tissue donation, and many have expressed resentment that they had not been informed.
The study, however, only included five patients with premature ovarian insufficiency. It was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
Oncologists are grappling with how to discuss options with pregnant patients, who may be forced to choose whether to proceed or forgo lifesaving cancer treatments that can prove toxic for the fetus.
Biden seeks to rally the nation around developing treatments and therapeutics for the pervasive diseases that the CDC ranks as the second-highest killer of people in the US.
A growing number of physicians are adapting ecologic approaches to boost the gut microbiomes of vulnerable communities in an effort to prevent common diseases, like IBD, before they occur.