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Medical Xpress / Microplastics in human liver could be fueling global surge in disease

There is considerable evidence that microplastics and nanoplastics are present in the livers of humans, and wild animal populations on land and in the ocean. Now experts in environmental and human health are investigating ...

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Medical Xpress / How a chemical reaction triggers brain inflammation in Alzheimer's disease

The brain has its own immune system, which detects threats and mounts a defense. A growing body of evidence has shown that in Alzheimer's disease, those immune cells are chronically overactivated, causing inflammation that ...

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Medical Xpress / Hidden in hair follicles, immune 'sentinel' cells may help skin detect microbes

Researchers at the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside have discovered previously unrecognized immune surveillance structures in the skin. Found within hair follicles, the cells resemble M (microfold) ...

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Medical Xpress / WHO approves first malaria treatment for infants

The World Health Organization announced Friday that it had given prequalification approval to a malaria treatment for newborns and infants for the first time.

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Medical Xpress / Mechanical forces from the beating heart may help prevent cancer cell growth

Scientists may have discovered another way the human body tries to protect itself from cancer. New research on mice suggests that the heart's constant beating may prevent tumor growth in cardiac tissue. Most organs are vulnerable ...

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Medical Xpress / Protein's second role in inflammation could reshape treatment for Crohn's, arthritis and heart disease

A protein long understood to drive inflammation by producing nitric oxide has a second, previously unknown role—it physically binds to another key protein inside cells to directly modulate the immune response. The discovery, ...

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Medical Xpress / Phage therapy case reveals hidden antibodies can block treatment of drug-resistant infections

A new treatment for patients with life-threatening infectious diseases is being pioneered in Melbourne by researchers at The Alfred and Monash University. VICPhage, a clinical partnership between The Alfred and Monash, is ...

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Medical Xpress / Targeting lost pleasure lifts depression and anxiety more than standard therapy, new study finds

Most people know depression as a disorder of sadness. But for millions of patients, the most debilitating feature is something else entirely: the reduced ability or inability to feel positive emotions.

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Medical Xpress / Whole-body ultrasound captures full cross-sections in 10 seconds, early tests show

Ultrasounds are a critical part of modern health care, helping to image soft tissue and organs, measure blood flow, and monitor fetal development. But the technique has constraints, including a limited field of view and the ...

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Medical Xpress / Blood and spinal fluid proteins reveal distinct fingerprints of four brain diseases

Researchers at WashU Medicine have uncovered new molecular insights into Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other forms of dementia by analyzing thousands of proteins in both cerebrospinal fluid and blood plasma. ...

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Medical Xpress / Label-free optical imaging enables automated measurement of human white matter microstructure

White matter pathways allow distant parts of the brain to communicate, supporting memory, emotion, and language. One such pathway, the uncinate fasciculus, connects the front of the temporal lobe with regions of the frontal ...

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Medical Xpress / Understanding the origins of Hodgkin lymphoma cells could lead to better diagnostics

For the first time, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have demonstrated that Hodgkin lymphoma cancer cells from patient samples are immune cells stuck in an "identity crisis." Normally, a B cell matures into a plasma cell ...

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