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Medical Xpress / Immune changes emerge up to 10 years before inflammatory bowel disease diagnosis
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified immune system changes that can be detected up to 10 years before inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) develops, offering new insight into how the disease ...
Medical Xpress / Mental health treatment for serious offenders could reduce harm to society and save money
Prisoners convicted of serious violent offenses were found to be less aggressive and less likely to reoffend following a mental health intervention that could save money and reduce harm to society, according to new research ...
Medical Xpress / Cafeteria menu makeover could reduce students' sugar, salt intake
Pizza, pastries and parfaits are staples in many school cafeterias. But new research from the University of Mississippi and the University of Southern Mississippi suggests some of students' favorite meals may contain more ...
Medical Xpress / Two cellular components unlock maturation in human leukemia cells, study finds
In leukemia's most aggressive forms, the blood cell factories in our bone marrow falter. Instead of dividing and multiplying at their usual prolific pace, generating hundreds of billions of new cells daily, some precursor ...
Medical Xpress / How p53 mutations drive immunotherapy resistance—and a path to overcome it
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy has transformed cancer treatment, but many tumors remain resistant. A new study from researchers at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) identifies a previously ...
Medical Xpress / A single blood sample may improve the prediction of colorectal cancer recurrence or metastasis
A single preoperative blood sample may help improve the prediction of recurrence or metastasis in patients with colorectal cancer. A joint research team from KAIST, Gangnam Severance Hospital and Asan Medical Center has shown ...
Medical Xpress / Skin-bone marrow axis discovery opens new doors for psoriasis treatment
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease affecting more than 60 million people worldwide, characterized by painful red patches, scaling and skin thickening. While existing biologic treatments largely focus on calming ...
Medical Xpress / Nearly all countries overuse powerful antibiotics, global study finds
Certain antibiotics are overused in most countries, while too few people receive the specific antibiotic treatments they need, according to a study of antibiotic use across 186 countries published in The Lancet Public Health ...
Medical Xpress / Exercise addiction is real, but often overstated
With fitness culture booming and "no days off" mindsets trending, new research is challenging common assumptions about "exercise addiction"—finding that the issue is real but often misunderstood and overstated.
Medical Xpress / Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: The role of cerebral venous flow revealed
Sometimes, doctors cannot find the cause of intracranial hypertension, a syndrome characterized by excess pressure inside the skull. Patients' symptoms are effectively relieved by a procedure that dilates a vein in the brain ...
Medical Xpress / Ripples of activity in the hippocampus prepare the brain for surprising events
The human brain continuously makes predictions about future events. This process helps humans process familiar stimuli while also allowing them to direct particular attention to unexpected or unfamiliar events and derive ...
Medical Xpress / Personalized gene therapy helps teen with rare form of severe epilepsy walk independently
SCN2A-related developmental epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) is a rare, severe form of childhood epilepsy and one of the most common causes of monogenic autism. The condition is caused by single mutations in the sodium voltage-gated ...
