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Medical Xpress / Team identifies key regulator blocking immunotherapy, paving the way for a new lung cancer treatment
Immune checkpoint inhibitors, a class of immunotherapies that help immune cells attack cancer more effectively, have revolutionized cancer treatment. However, fewer than 20% of patients respond to these treatments, highlighting ...
Medical Xpress / A gentle approach offers new hope for inflammatory lung diseases
Pulmonary sarcoidosis is a lung disease characterized by granulomas—tiny clumps of immune cells that form in response to inflammation. It's the most inflammatory of the interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), a family of conditions ...
Medical Xpress / Unexpected lipid drop in obesity could lead to new therapies
New research from Weill Cornell Medicine has uncovered a surprising culprit underlying cardiovascular diseases in obesity and diabetes—not the presence of certain fats, but their suppression. The study, published Feb. 25 ...
Medical Xpress / Trial is the first to show a delay in confirmed disability progression in non-relapsing secondary progressive MS
A Cleveland Clinic-led clinical trial of tolebrutinib, an investigational oral Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor, a group of drugs originally developed to treat lymphomas and related blood disorders, demonstrated a 31% delay ...
Medical Xpress / New research deepens understanding of how vitamin K affects brain health
As scientists seek to unravel the intricate potential connections between nutrition and the aging brain, a new study from researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists create first-ever dengue-on-a-chip to study this deadly virus
A deadly disease is on the rise: dengue, a mosquito-borne virus that already affects millions and is spreading even further due to climate change. Despite its growing threat, dengue is hard to study in animals—and even ...
Medical Xpress / Setback in gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy as immune system emerges as key barrier
A new paper published in Gene Therapy raises serious concerns about the effectiveness of gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), after the treatment failed to show significant benefit in a large-scale clinical ...
Medical Xpress / Mouse whiskers reveal brain's different pathways for active vs. passive touch
Though the sense of touch underlies how we and most other animals interact with the world around us, much remains unknown about how this sense is processed in the brain. Researchers from Heidelberg University and Ludwig Maximilian ...
Medical Xpress / Flooding associated with 26% higher hospitalization risk for up to seven months, large-scale study reveals
The world's largest and most comprehensive study of the long-term health impacts of flooding—via analysis of over 300 million hospitalization records in eight countries prone to flooding events—has found an increased ...
Medical Xpress / Preference for predictable visual stimuli can serve as an early indicator for autism spectrum disorder
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience social communication impairments and engage in restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs). Early identification of these symptoms is critical for timely intervention, ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists assemble world's first immune cell atlas from diverse Asian populations
Researchers from the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS), together with collaborators from South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and India, have assembled the world's first Asian Immune Diversity Atlas (AIDA)—a multi-national ...
Medical Xpress / Tech-assisted peer therapy effective for perinatal depression in lower income countries
A University of Liverpool study conducted in rural Pakistan has demonstrated the effectiveness of a novel, technology-assisted intervention for perinatal depression. The study was a partnership with the Human Development ...