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Medical Xpress / Study finds earlier asthma biologics in children cut severe attacks most
Robust real-world data on the effectiveness of biologic therapies in children with severe asthma remain limited, particularly across different ages and early-life risk profiles. This evidence gap constrains precision in treatment ...
Medical Xpress / The 'Golden Hour': Distance and delay define rural trauma care timelines
Billings Clinic investigators tracked trauma patients arriving directly from the scene versus patients transferred between facilities and found much longer times to reach the tertiary center for transfers, while adjusted ...
Medical Xpress / Transplanted neural stem cells help preserve vision in retinal degeneration
Cedars-Sinai investigators working to optimize a cell-based treatment for retinitis pigmentosa have uncovered how transplanted neural stem cells interact with host retinal cells to preserve vision. The findings, published ...
Medical Xpress / HIV-seq tool finds active reservoir cells during therapy
For people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), life-saving antiretroviral therapy keeps their HIV-infected immune cells from making new copies of the virus, preventing illness and transmission. Historically, these ...
Medical Xpress / A potential broad coronavirus drug target: Blocking tRNA-modifying enzymes slows viral proteins
Coronaviruses not only use the machinery of the human cells they infect: they modify them to achieve optimal conditions to produce viral proteins and thus spread more quickly. This is the main conclusion of a study by Pompeu ...
Medical Xpress / Why most foods don't trigger allergies: Three common seed proteins may train gut immune tolerance
In little moments like when sipping coffee or licking an ice cream cone, it doesn't seem like your body is pulling off a biological miracle. But it is. That cookie is not you—yet when you put it in your mouth, your body ...
Medical Xpress / Tubulin prevents toxic protein clumps in the brain, fighting back against neurodegeneration
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a potential new strategy to fight back against Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, conditions that are linked to the toxic accumulation of Tau and alpha synuclein ...
Medical Xpress / How do GLP-1 agonists affect gene expression?
GLP-1s are building a reputation as "wonder drugs." First characterized for their ability to improve insulin release and treat diabetes, the drugs were later found to promote weight loss and improve cardiovascular health. ...
Medical Xpress / Three distinct ADHD biotypes identified using a novel brain-first, data-driven approach
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or ADHD translates in different ways across the population, unlike the overgeneralized version presented on social media. A recent study further solidified this idea by identifying ...
Medical Xpress / Empathy's roots in parenting? Study in mice reveals brain circuits behind why we comfort others
Humans and animals share a remarkable capacity to sense when others are in distress and respond with comforting behavior. But the motivation for doing so, and why it sometimes breaks down, has been poorly understood. UCLA ...
Medical Xpress / Cancer has a unique nuclear metabolic fingerprint, researchers discover
More than 200 metabolic enzymes, many of which are normally tasked with producing energy in the mitochondria, are also found sitting directly on top of human DNA, according to a study published in Nature Communications. The ...
Medical Xpress / An AI-informed model of human reward-based learning: Hybrid approach could aid studies of mood disorders
People's decisions are known to be influenced by past experiences, including the outcomes of earlier choices. For over a century, psychologists have been trying to shed light on the processes underpinning human decision-making ...
