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Medical Xpress / Anti-malarial medicines can help reduce body weight, researchers discover
In recent years, overweight and obesity have become a serious global health problem, posing significant risk factors for various diseases. Longing for a civilized and healthy lifestyle, more and more people are starting to ...
Medical Xpress / HIV's hidden persistence: How small changes affect replication speed and reactivation
University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have uncovered a key reason why HIV remains so difficult to cure: Their research shows that small changes in the virus affect how quickly or slowly it replicates, and how ...
Medical Xpress / Next-gen biobattery shrinks tumor, paving way for drug-free cancer treatments
A pioneering biobattery has been shown to reduce tumor growth in the body and could hold the key to a new drug-free immunotherapy treatment in cancer patients.
Medical Xpress / Will this year's flu shot protect you? The answer is hidden in your blood
Flu shots save lives across the United States every year. These vaccines are good at protecting the population from severe influenza infections, but not every person gets the same level of protection.
Medical Xpress / Traditional diagnostic decision support systems outperform generative AI for diagnosing disease
Medical professionals have been using artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline diagnoses for decades, using what are called diagnostic decision support systems (DDSSs). Computer scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers uncover novel immune mechanism that protects the intestine
A team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center (The Institute) has made a landmark discovery that sheds light on how the immune system protects the gut during infection. By studying ...
Medical Xpress / Real-time sensors quantify biomarkers to inform better wound care
Wound assessment by medical professionals relies largely on visual inspection, which can be challenging due to its subjective nature. Nitric oxide (NO) plays an important role in healing, as it is produced by immune cells ...
Medical Xpress / T cells take up residence in the healthy brain via a gut-fat-brain axis
The brain is a unique place. It is shielded from much of the body by the blood-brain barrier, meaning it's protected from pathogens and potentially dangerous substances that might be in our blood. And historically, many scientists ...
Medical Xpress / Personalized cancer model predicts patient-specific gene behavior, potentially improving survival outcomes
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are using personalized models to decode how cancer behaves in individual patients—revealing hidden subtypes, improving survival predictions and charting a new course for precision ...
Medical Xpress / Childhood kidney cancer has millions of genetic changes, opening door to possible treatments
Researchers have uncovered that some childhood cancers have a substantially higher number of DNA changes than previously thought, changing the way we view children's tumors and possibly opening up new or repurposed treatment ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists find promise in a new peptide drug to combat a deadly brain cancer
A lab-designed molecule developed and extensively studied by scientists with Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC could represent a breakthrough in slowing tumor recurrence in glioblastoma, an aggressive ...
Medical Xpress / Genetics and therapy type determine second cancer risk after childhood treatment, study finds
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have found that genetics and type of cancer treatment contribute most to a survivor's risk of a second cancer.
