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Oncology & Cancer

Cancer drug restores immune system's ability to fight tumors

A new, bio-inspired drug restores the effectiveness of immune cells in fighting cancer, a team led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has found. In mouse models of melanoma, bladder cancer, leukemia and colon ...

Medical economics

Hospital IT systems can facilitate price collusion, study finds

Multihospital health systems with a uniform IT platform across member hospitals have an easier time tacitly colluding with rival systems to keep service prices above competitive levels, according to a new study from a researcher ...

Health

Virtual health care has limited benefits, study finds

Telehealth can save money and health care resources by enabling virtual evaluation and treatment, but only when it's used for certain types of diseases, according to a new study from The University of Texas at Austin.

Neuroscience

Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people's minds

A new artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder can translate a person's brain activity—while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story—into a continuous stream of text. The system developed ...

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