In November 2021, Northwestern University researchers introduced an injectable new therapy, which harnessed fast-moving "dancing molecules," to repair tissues and reverse paralysis after severe s...
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Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare but highly aggressive form of skin cancer known for its rapid growth and tendency to metastasize. Despite the promise of immune checkpoint blockade therapy, which ...
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As wildfires throughout the West rage on, Oregon Health & Science University researchers have continued to investigate poor air quality's effects on health, and have discovered potential impacts ...
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A study from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy reveals that CEO salaries for nonprofit hospitals and health care systems increased significantly from 2012 to 2019. The study, "T...
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Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered the source of dysfunction in the process whereby cells in the eye's retina remove waste.
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Tasmanian scientists are a step closer to developing a computer test that can detect dementia, decades before any memory symptoms emerge, recent research has found.
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Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer in one breast, even in the early stages, sometimes opt for a double mastectomy, due to the fear that the cancer will migrate to the other breast.
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The brain contains many cell types, from the prominent neurons to the lesser-known microglia. The latter are integral to the brain's immune system and play a crucial role as the brain's cleanup c...
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Europe's medicines watchdog on Friday rejected a marketing request for a new Alzheimer's disease treatment, saying the risks of the medicine's side effects, including potential brain bleeding, ou...
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More and more studies show that men face risks of cancer from BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations that are most often associated with breast and ovarian cancers in women.
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A new study of more than 175,000 people in 25 countries revealed that individuals in low- and middle-income countries face greater challenges with daily activities and are less likely to use assi...
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Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a severe neurological disease for which there is presently no cure, although current therapies can alleviate symptoms. In the search for better treatment options,...
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Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that mitochondria are not necessary for the proliferation of specialized immune cells in the central nervous system, but do help those cells respo...
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A study surveying advances in diabetes pathogenesis and treatment explores the complex factors contributing to the onset and progression of the disease, suggesting that an understanding of these ...
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Researchers from Kyushu University have identified a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of advanced multiple sclerosis (MS), a potentially disabling condition associated with the cent...
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A study published in Nature Genetics by the Lymphoid Development Group at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences reveals that the contribution of cells expressing maternal or paternal X chromosom...
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Liver cells have a vital metabolic inflexibility during regeneration to starve dysfunctional cells and keep damage from spreading, according to new research from Children's Medical Center Researc...
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A team of psychologists at Memorial University of Newfoundland, in Canada, has found via experimentation, that older people are able to identify and remember themes in music pieces just as well a...
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An experimental drug originally developed to treat cancer may help clear HIV from infected cells in the brain, according to a new Tulane University study.
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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...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-subthalamus-mouse-motherpup-interactions.html
An ischemic stroke is a type of stroke that occurs when a blood clot in an artery, also known as thrombus, or the progressive narrowing of arteries, blocks the blood and oxygen flowing to the bra...
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Seven lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic about ventilation's crucial role in preventing the spread of airborne pathogens have been set out by world-leading air quality scientist Professor...
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Distrust of health experts and credulity towards misinformation can kill. For example, during the COVID-19 crisis, high-profile health experts received death threats while misinformation went vir...
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Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered a new evasion strategy used by the varicella zoster virus, which causes chickenpox and shingles, that may allow it...
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Parkinson's disease (PD), as well as many other neurodegenerative disorders, has shown a link between the abnormal aggregation of a protein called α-synuclein (aSyn) and neuronal death. These ag...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-antisense-oligonucleotide-treatment-parkinson-disease.html
Strong, flexible, gel-like tubes—created using a novel 3D printing technology—could improve outcomes for heart bypass patients by replacing the human and synthetic veins currently used in sur...
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A case definition of market-driven epidemics (MDEs) could help address critical barriers to timely, effective prevention and mitigation, according to a study published this week in PLOS Global Pu...
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University of Toronto researchers have identified two genes that play a critical role in tumor growth in the pancreas—findings that have significant implications for understanding and treating ...
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For generations, researchers have been pondering the question of how and where consciousness is formed in the brain. Professor Ekrem Dere from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, proposes a new appr...
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When we form a new memory, the brain undergoes physical and functional changes known collectively as a "memory trace." A memory trace represents the specific patterns of activity and structural m...
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