Sylvester Investigators’ Work to Outsmart Treatment Resistance in Pancreatic Cancer
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Reading Time: 4 minutes A team of investigators at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has shown for the first time that a combination of targeted therapies with immunotherapy addresses one of the major reasons pancreatic …
Targeting Defective Tau Proteins May Be Needed to Treat Alzheimer’s Patients
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In November, researchers reported the drug lecanemab slowed the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The effect was modest, but it has generated tremendous excitement because it was the first time a drug had been shown to be able to affect the course of this relentless, incurable disea…
A New Model of an Ancient Disease: Study Identifies Novel Treatment Targets for Gout
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James Gillray’s 1799 painting illustrates the painful symptoms of gout. Credit: Wellcome Library, London / CC By 4.0 UC San Diego researchers have developed a new model of arthritis, focusing on the joint lubricating protein lubricin. Many people view gout as a disease from the past, similar to ri…
Lung Cancer Is Often Diagnosed at a Late Stage: Know the Signs & Symptoms
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Although it's been well documented that smoking is deadly, more than 30 million people in the United States still smoke. It's one of the leading causes of death, yet also one of the most preventable. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, "Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 A…
Obesity Linked to Macular Degeneration
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The research at Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosement, in Montreal, shows how life stressors such as obesity reprogram immune system cells and make them destructive to the eye as it ages. "We wanted to know why some people with a genetic predisposition develop AMD while others are spared," said Université …
Antiviral Compound Could Be Broadly Efficient in the Treatment of SARS-CoV-2
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Getting Under Your Skin for Better Health
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The next frontier of continuous health monitoring could be skin deep. Biomedical engineers at the University of Cincinnati say interstitial fluid, the watery fluid found between and around cells, tissues or organs in the body, could provide an excellent medium for early disease diagn…
Study Finds How Female, Male Hearts Respond Differently to Stress Hormone
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California [US]: Male and female hearts react differently to the stress hormone noradrenaline, according to a recent study published in Science Advances. The research on mice may have ramifications for human heart conditions like arrhythmias and heart failure as well as how various sexes react to c…
How Huntington’s Disease Affects Different Neurons
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In patients with Huntington’s disease, neurons in a part of the brain called the striatum are among the hardest-hit. Degeneration of these neurons contributes to patients’ loss of motor control, which is one of the major hallmarks of the disease. Neuroscientists at MIT h…
Aggressive Surgery Increases Survival with Low-Grade Brain Tumors
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The transition of a low-grade, slow growing brain tumor to a lethal one can be delayed if neurosurgeons remove as much as possible soon after diagnosis, according to the results of a study led by UC San Francisco. The findings run counter to other research indicating that extensive resection, or m…