Ask D’Mine: Life and Times of Insulin Corrections & (Un)Necessary Medical Tests Welcome once again to our weekly advice column, where we talk all about navigating life with diabetes. In this edition of Ask D'Mine, our host Wil Dubois (veteran type 1, author and diabetes community educator) offers some wisdom about insulin's a......
Mistakes in mismatch repair genes may accurately predict response to certain immunotherapy drugs In a report of a proof-of-principle study of patients with colon and other cancers for whom standard therapies failed, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say that mistakes in so-called mismatch repair genes, first identified by Johns Hopkins and other scientists two decades ago, may accurately predict who will respond to certain immunotherapy drugs known as PD-1 inhibitors. Such drugs aim to disarm systems developed by cancer cells to evade detection and destruction by immune system cells....