Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common of neurodegenerative dementias. Currently,
there are more than 5.8 million Americans with AD. Worldwide, there are at least 50 million …

Prostate cancer is expected to remain the most commonly diagnosed cancer in US men in
2021, with the American Cancer Society estimating 248,530 new cases. 1 Although many …

Research and development of medical countermeasures (MCMs) for radiation-induced lung
injury relies on the availability of animal models with well-characterized pathophysiology, …

The expanding field of theranostics combines the use of both diagnostic and therapeutic
drugs that target shared molecular markers of disease. The diagnostic component of a …

As of January 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved four radiation
exposure medical countermeasures (MCMs) to treat hematological acute effects, but no MCM is …

Since the development of amyloid tracers for PET imaging, there has been interest in quantifying
amyloid burden in the brains of patients with Alzheimer disease. Quantitative amyloid …

There have been a number of reported human exposures to high dose radiation, resulting
from accidents at nuclear power plants (eg, Chernobyl), atomic bombings (Hiroshima and …

Multiple cases of human exposure to radiation have been documented from the atomic
bombings, nuclear power plant disasters and other industrial and medical accidents. Many of …

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval to market drug products for use as
medical countermeasures, to prevent or mitigate injury caused by various threat agents, is …

… “For some patients with head and neck cancer, removal and pathological examination of
lymph nodes draining a primary tumor is an important diagnostic evaluation,” Libero Marzella, …