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Medical Xpress / The shame-filled world of hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders
Over the course of their lives, up to 220,000 Norwegians will pick at their skin or pull out their hair to an extent that can be considered a mental health disorder. They pull out their hair until bald spots appear, or pick ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds no evidence of persistent tick-borne infection in people who link chronic illness to ticks
When researchers studied Norwegians who thought tick bites caused their chronic health problems, they found no objective evidence linking the symptoms to ticks. The same study finds that health problems reported by participants ...
Medical Xpress / Long-term brain effects of COVID-19 vs. flu: Study reveals key differences
Even a mild case of COVID-19 or the flu can impact the body long after the fever and cough fade, according to new Tulane University research that may help explain why some people struggle to feel fully recovered weeks or ...
Medical Xpress / Solving cancer immunotherapy's fuel shortage with a protected sugar source
Researchers at UCLA have found a way to supercharge immune cells with a fuel source that tumors can't steal, dramatically improving their ability to survive and attack solid tumors in preclinical studies. The approach, published ...
Medical Xpress / Two lipids that help switch on STING open doors in fight against autoimmune disorders and cancer
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified two lipids that work together with a quintessential protein known as stimulator of interferon genes (STING) to launch an immune response in the human body. Their ...
Medical Xpress / Lab-grown reservoir cells aim at HIV's last strongholds
A new study has overcome a long-standing challenge: how to isolate and study elusive HIV-infected cells called authentic reservoir clones (ARCs) that evade the immune system, making the disease difficult to cure. Researchers ...
Medical Xpress / Clinically informed AI outperforms foundation models in spinal cord disease prediction
Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) refers to spinal cord compression from arthritis in the neck and is the leading cause of spinal cord dysfunction in older adults. CSM is a chronic, progressive condition that can cause ...
Medical Xpress / Why our immune system remembers vaccinations for decades
Why can the human immune system often remember a vaccination for a whole lifetime? Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen have now investigated this question. ...
Medical Xpress / Natural compound from pomegranate leaves disrupts disease-causing amyloid
A research team at Kumamoto University has discovered that a natural compound found in pomegranate leaves and branches can directly break down harmful protein aggregates linked to transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis, a progressive ...
Medical Xpress / New strategy grabs cancer's 'undruggable' proteins and throws them in the cellular trash
When cancer-driving proteins resist various treatments, Northwestern University scientists have uncovered a new solution. Don't fight them—throw them in the cellular trash. In a new study published in Nature Communications, ...
Medical Xpress / Human liver tissue cell architecture reconstructed in 3D at a cellular level
Never-before-seen 3D reconstructions of human liver tissue have been created at a cellular level. The details obtained by a team of UW Medicine and University of Washington engineers and physicians capture the spatial microstructure ...
Medical Xpress / Novel markers of brain blood flow and oxygenation may offer early clues to Alzheimer's risk
Subtle changes in how blood flows through the brain and how brain tissue uses oxygen may be closely linked to Alzheimer's disease risk, according to new research from the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics ...
