A study from China has reported that Cordyceps sinensis (CS), a traditional Chinese medicinal fungus, can ameliorate idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in mice by inhibiting mitochondrion-mediat...
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A combination of two drugs was capable of suppressing tumors in a non-conventional manner. Instead of inhibiting tumor cell division, as the most widely used medications do, the strategy consiste...
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Doctors and others who take care of hospitalized patients may want to sit down for this piece of news. A new study suggests that getting at a patient's eye level when talking with them about thei...
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Scientists in America have developed a nasal spray that can remove proteins in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease—at least, in mice.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-nasal-spray-proteins-linked-alzheimer.html
A combined team of physiologists and medical researchers from Yale University and Sorbonne Université, ICM, has found a part of the mouse brain that becomes more active when mothers and their pu...
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In a rigorous medical records study covering tens of thousands of patients, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers conclude that some patients with preoperative anemia have better outcomes if they ge...
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Hundreds of millions of people around the world experience chronic pain —meaning pain that lasts longer than three months. While the numbers vary from country to country, most studies estimate ...
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mRNA vaccines contain instruction codes for making parts of pathogenic viruses. Can so-called self-amplifying types of such vaccines form unwanted and dangerous connections with other viruses? Ye...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-amplifying-mrna-vaccines-safe-lab.html
There are many important reasons for keeping cuts and sores clean, but new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows that a certain bacterium, Alcalige...
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A study on live tissue cells is the first to reveal how channels that allow sodium to enter into breast cancer cells enable tumors to grow and spread.
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Researchers from the University of Otago, Christchurch, have spearheaded the discovery of a protein function which has the potential to guide the development of novel cancer treatment options and...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-protein-discovery-future-cancer-treatment.html
Probably everyone has heard the conventional wisdom that a glass of wine a day is good for you—or you've heard some variation of it. The problem is that it's based on flawed scientific research...
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Ultrafine particles, UFPs, the smallest contributors to air pollution, hinder the function of mitochondria in human olfactory mucosa cells, a new study shows. Led by the University of Eastern Fin...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-traffic-ultrafine-particles-hinder-mitochondrial.html
University of Calgary librarian Kathryn Ruddock had read about the lack of diversity in anatomy illustrations. As a visible minority librarian with a medical sciences background, the revelation s...
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Receptor protein tyrosine phosphatases are cell membrane-localized proteins. They are regulators of cell-cell contacts and are also considered likely to be tumor suppressors, but the specifics of...
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Mice don't get Alzheimer's—and while that's good news for mice, it's a big problem for biomedical researchers seeking to understand the disease and test new treatments. Now, researchers at The ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-scientists-mouse-late-onset-alzheimer.html
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common blood and bone marrow cancer in adults. Caused by an increase in immature cells that rapidly destroy and replace healthy blood cells (red and white...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-insights-leukemia-stem-cells.html
The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) recently released a new clinical guideline on central airway obstruction (CAO). Published in the journal CHEST, the guideline contains 12 evidence...
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Deaths from injection-related infections like endocarditis have increased among young people, likely due to the growth of injection drug use and stronger, shorter-acting fentanyl. While medicatio...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-opioid-disorder-infections.html
Scientists have discovered that some cancer cells pretend to be "super fit" to fool normal healthy cells into giving them their nutrients, allowing them to expand and spread around the body.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-cancer-cells-super-outsmart-invade.html
A public health approach is necessary to address the legal, medical, and social complexities of cannabis use, says the American College of Physicians (ACP) in a new policy paper released today.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-policy-paper-evidence-based-health.html
Data from the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's (A4) study, the first and largest clinical trial of pre-symptomatic Alzheimer's disease, is now widely available to researchers st...
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Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have revolutionized cancer therapy due to their ability to specifically target tumor cells while sparing healthy ones. These biologics have become indispensable in tr...
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A research group led by Dr. Keisuke Obara, Dr. Kento Yoshioka, and Professor Yoshio Tanaka of the Department of Chemical Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University, has fou...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-docosahexaenoic-acid-suppress-gastric-fundus.html
A position paper published by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) Working Group on Epidemiology and Quality of Life addresses the ongoing debate about the necessity and impact of inco...
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Antibiotics are essential tools in modern medicine, regularly used to treat bacterial infections and prevent infections during surgery. However, the widespread use of antibiotics has led to many ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-peptide-cocktails-combating-antibiotic-resistance.html
Neuromuscular training reduces the onset of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), according to a study published online July 1 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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A new compound developed by researchers at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center shows promise in overcoming chemotherapy resistance in triple-negative breast cancer—and could potentially be applied to f...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-milestone-drug-triple-negative-breast.html
Scientists at ADA Forsyth Institute (AFI) have identified a critical factor that may contribute to the spread of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), shedding light on why these infections are so...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-scientists-transmission-factor-hospital-klebsiella.html
The key to curing male pattern baldness—a condition that affects up to 50% of men worldwide—could lie in a sugar that naturally occurs in the human body, according to scientists at the Univer...
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