Estrogen Possible Risk Factor in Disturbed Heart Rhythm
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Sara Liin, associate professor at Linköping University. Credit: Emma Busk Winquist/Linköping University The sex hormone estrogen has a negative impact on heartbeat regulation, according to an experim…
Family's Participation Key to Advancing Diabetes Research
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When half of their six children were diagnosed with what was then believed to be Type 1 diabetes, David and Ellen Pursell decided their family would participate in research related to the health condition. This family photo fr…
New Insights into How Patient Factors & COVID-19 Infection Affect Antibody Responses in People with HIV: Study's Results Could Help Explain Different Outcomes Among Patients
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People with HIV have impaired immune responses to some pathogens and immunizations, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, they often experienced severe symptoms if infected with SARS-CoV-2. New research led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of Mass General Bri…
In Extremely Rare Case, Doctors Remove Fetus from Brain of 1-Year-Old
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CT scans against a black background show a bright white mass in a person's brainIn an extremely rare case, doctors surgically removed a fetus from the brain of a 1-year-old child. Doctors found the fetus after the child showed delayed motor skill development, an enlarged head circumference and a bu…
Looking for Risky Viruses Now to Get Ahead of Future Pandemics
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Most of what scientists know about viruses in animals is the list of nucleotides that compose their genomic sequence – which, while valuable, offers very few hints about a virus’s ability to infect humans.Rather than let the next outbreak take the world by surprise, two virolog…
New Class of Drugs May Prevent Infection by Wide Range of COVID-19 Variants
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RESEARCH SUMMARYPublication: Nature Genetics https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-023-01307-zDana-Farber Cancer Institute author: Cigall Kadoch, PhD, Summary: A new class of oral drugs can inhibit a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants, researchers report, potentially identifying new antiviral agen…
Insulin Deficiency Leads to Reduced Pancreas Size in Type 1 Diabetes
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Individuals with Type 1 diabetes have a smaller pancreas than people without diabetes. This is surprising because insulin-producing beta cells account for just a small fraction of the pancreas, so the loss of beta cells in Type 1 diabetes would not be expected to reduce pancreas size…
'Breakthrough Drug' for Children with Bone Cancer Being Researched into at Norwich Hospital
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© PA Dr Darrell Green, from the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School A new drug has the potential to work against all main types of primary bone cancer in children has been called "the most important drug discovery in the field" for nearly half a century. Tests show that…
Yale Scientists Seek to Identify Optimal Sequential Treatments for Advanced Cancer
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A team of Yale scientists seeks to determine which treatment sequences produce the best results for people with advanced cancer while examining the cost of these treatments. The investigators recently received a four-year, $792,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to fund their…
Taking Care of Your Teeth Could Help Prevent Chronic Joint Pain
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Regular visits to the dentist might help keep joint pain at bay, too. When Rice University computational biologist Vicky Yao found traces of bacteria associated with periodontal disease in samples collected from rheumatoid arthritis patients, she was not sure what to make of it. Her finding…