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Medical Xpress / Therapeutic target could prevent chronic gut inflammation from turning into cancer
Chronic inflammatory bowel disease is challenging to treat and carries a risk of complications, including the development of bowel cancer. Young people are particularly affected: when genetic predisposition and certain factors ...
Medical Xpress / Innovative immunotherapy shows promise against aggressive T cell cancers
A new type of immunotherapy that targets aggressive blood cancers shows promising results alongside manageable side effects, according to the results of an international Phase I/II clinical trial led by researchers at Washington ...
Medical Xpress / Study shows ripple effects from World War II detainment camps on Japanese Americans' reproductive health
West Virginia University research has revealed negative intergenerational reproductive health effects from the Japanese American detainment camps of World War II.
Medical Xpress / Researchers say malnutrition in infants 'far bigger problem than previously recognized', amid ongoing cuts
Over 10 million infants under six months old may currently be underweight, according to a new analysis of data collected across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Medical Xpress / Diagnostic tool creates stronger, longer-lasting bioluminescence signals to detect viruses
Mass General Brigham researchers are shining a powerful new light into the viral darkness with the development of Luminescence CAscade-based Sensor (LUCAS), a rapid, portable, highly-sensitive diagnostic tool for processing ...
Medical Xpress / At-home heart attacks and cardiac deaths on the rise since COVID-19 pandemic
Heart attacks are the leading cause of death globally, yet some statistics from many different countries suggest these events declined in frequency since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Medical Xpress / Cross-cultural analysis challenges Western-dominated understanding of autism communication
Autism spectrum disorders are associated with difficulties in social communication, long attributed to individual socio‐cognitive deficits. As a consequence of this perspective, stigma and pressure to conform to neurotypical ...
Medical Xpress / Assessing smartphone apps for stress relief: Mindfulness and problem-solving therapy may be more effective
The levels of stress experienced by people living in many countries worldwide, particularly by those inhabiting urban areas, have risen exponentially over the past decades. This has led to the development of numerous technological ...
Medical Xpress / Electroconvulsive therapy's 'hard reset' effect: Brain wave discovery challenges long-held assumption
During his third-year psychiatry clerkship as a medical student, Zach Rosenthal, MD, Ph.D., was part of a team providing care to a young man with schizophrenia and severe catatonia.
Medical Xpress / Caregiver intuition may spot child health crises before some early warning systems
A new study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health suggests that parental or caregiver intuition may outperform some traditional early warning systems in identifying children at risk of deterioration.
Medical Xpress / 'Master control switch' protein that heightens neurodegenerative disease offers new treatment target
UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have identified a protein that appears to act as a master control switch for reactive gliosis, a prominent feature of many neurodegenerative diseases that is thought to contribute ...
Medical Xpress / New findings reveal how the heart is organized from the earliest stages of embryonic development
A study published today in the journal Developmental Cell uncovers new insights into how the heart forms during the earliest stages of embryonic development.
