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Medical Xpress / How a specific protein may drive brain damage in neuroHIV
While powerful medications can suppress the spread of HIV and its progression to AIDS, there are no cures, and many people living with HIV experience nervous system problems. Called neuroHIV, these complications occur when ...
Medical Xpress / 'Dark genome' reveals different routes to inflammation in age-related condition
The study, published in GeroScience, investigated mutations in DNMT3A and TET2, the two most common mutations in clonal hematopoiesis, an age-related condition in which mutated blood stem cells expand and form larger populations ...
Medical Xpress / Substance use disorder is linked to an increased risk of suicide, study finds
People with substance use disorder are at a significantly higher risk of both attempting suicide and dying by suicide, according to a study from Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
Medical Xpress / Drug combination study reveals new clues to treatment resistance in deadly melanoma
Uveal melanoma is a rare, aggressive cancer that starts inside the eye and often spreads to the liver. Few treatment options exist, and unlike some forms of skin melanoma that can respond well to modern therapies, metastatic ...
Medical Xpress / Drug delivery system slowly releases pain-relieving nerve block over weeks
Most local anesthetics used in medicine last only eight to 12 hours, or a day at most. Now, Boston Children's Hospital researchers have formulated a more effective slow-release injectable drug delivery system that achieved ...
Medical Xpress / Engineered probiotic bacteria produce cancer drugs inside tumors
E. coli in uncooked meat can cause diarrhea and food poisoning. Scientists, however, have found a way to turn the bacterium into a delivery agent that takes drugs straight to a tumor and transforms it into a tiny cancer drug ...
Medical Xpress / Brain-mapping framework reveals shifts in information flow during pain and movie watching
In the brain, information travels among distributed networks, groups of interconnected regions that work together and contribute to specific behaviors, feelings or thoughts. To study how information travels through these ...
Medical Xpress / Strength training causes fat cells to shrink even before weight loss, study suggests
Just seven days of strength training increased visceral fat burning in obese mice, even before any weight loss could be seen on a scale. In an experiment conducted at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), researchers ...
Medical Xpress / AI assistant learns from radiology reports to spot problems in abdominal scans
An abdominal CT scan packs an extraordinary amount of information into a single image, layering dozens of organs and hundreds of possible conditions. It's widely considered one of the most complex scans in medicine to read, ...
Medical Xpress / Cocaine hijacks a brain circuit that naturally supports flexible behavior
Researchers have identified a brain circuit that normally supports flexible behavior but is recruited by cocaine to drive increasingly rigid and repetitive behavior. Published in the journal Current Biology, the findings ...
Medical Xpress / 'Invisible' inflammation in rare bowel disease may explain heightened colon cancer risk
New research from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has revealed for the first time that two closely related bowel diseases, currently treated in the same way, are fundamentally different. The findings help explain ...
Medical Xpress / Imaging agent may improve diagnoses for rare heart disease
A PET/CT radiotracer demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing cardiac amyloidosis, a rare disease that causes abnormal protein buildup in the heart and heart failure, according to a recent clinical trial ...
