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Researchers assess the incidence of dementia or heart failure in people with rheumatoid arthritis

RA is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that causes pain, swelling and stiffness in the joints. It can also cause fatigue, and the underlying inflammation may affect other body systems.

18 Jun 2021

Convalescent plasma associated with better survival in blood cancer patients with COVID-19

Convalescent plasma therapy was associated with better survival in blood cancer patients hospitalized with COVID-19, especially in sicker patients. The findings by the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) are newly published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Oncology.

18 Jun 2021

Study highlights need to address the mental health of new fathers

While postpartum depression in new mothers is well recognized and known to increase if the newborn requires intensive care, depression in new fathers has not received much attention.

18 Jun 2021

UofSC researcher to examine the effectiveness of Medicaid-covered alcohol use disorder treatment

Christina Andrews, associate professor of health services policy and management at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health and an expert on addiction treatment will lead a study funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to examine the effectiveness of Medicaid-covered alcohol use disorder treatment.

18 Jun 2021

KIYATEC’s test results accurately predict treatment response in recurrent high-grade glioma patients

KIYATEC, Inc. announced today the publication of new peer-reviewed data that establishes clinically meaningful prediction of patient-specific responses to standard of care therapy, prior to treatment, in newly diagnosed glioblastoma (GBM) and other high-grade glioma (HGG) patients.

18 Jun 2021

Protein found in mice’s immune system could protect babies from necrotizing enterocolitis

The intestinal disease necrotizing enterocolitis is a leading cause of death among premature infants born in the U.S. and across the globe.

18 Jun 2021

Convalescent plasma can improve chances of survival among blood cancer patients with COVID-19

A large, retrospective, multicenter study involving Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that convalescent plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients can dramatically improve likelihood of survival among blood cancer patients hospitalized with the virus.

18 Jun 2021

Recommended treatments can benefit people with lower back pain

Medical guidelines help doctors understand the best way to treat health conditions. Surprisingly, many doctors do not adhere to them, and this is a problem, according to a new study by scientists at University of Utah Health and MDGuidelines.

18 Jun 2021

$Researchers report a new genetic cause for infantile fractures$

Researchers report a new genetic cause for infantile fractures

An intrauterine fracture is a rare finding during routine prenatal imaging. This condition can be due to maternal trauma, genetic disorders of the skeleton, as well as other predisposing maternal metabolic and vascular disorders.

18 Jun 2021

Combination of anti-HER2 breast cancer therapy and checkpoint inhibitor provides no benefit

Adding an immune checkpoint inhibitor to anti-HER2 treatment in breast cancer does not improve pathological complete response (pCR), according to the primary analysis of the IMpassion050 trial presented today during the ESMO Virtual Plenary.

18 Jun 2021

New methods may lead to optimal treatment for lung cancer

Today as they did 100 years ago, doctors diagnose cancer by taking tissue samples from patients, which they usually fix in formalin for microscopic examination.

18 Jun 2021

Adding immune oncology drug to chemotherapy improves response in subset of breast cancer patients

In a new study by researchers at Yale Cancer Center, combining the immunotherapy drug durvalumab and PARP-inhibitor olaparib with chemotherapy improved response to treatment for women with high-risk, HER2-negative breast cancer, including a subset of estrogen receptor positive cancers.

18 Jun 2021

Presence of certain stem cells linked to nongenetic resistance mechanisms of cancer cells

Cancer cells can develop resistance to therapy through both genetic and non-genetic mechanisms. But it is unclear how and why one of these routes to resistance prevails.

18 Jun 2021

Alarming COVID study indicates long-term loss of gray matter and other brain tissue

In a research paper recently uploaded to the preprint server medRxiv* by Prof. Gwenaëlle Douaud et al. (June 15th, 2021), participants that had taken part in a brain study prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic were invited back for a series of follow-up tests, revealing significant losses of grey matter surrounding the olfactory and gustatory system in those that had been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

18 Jun 2021

Study shows how a specific gut bacterium influences infant immune system

Research published today in the journal Cell is the first to establish how a specific gut bacterium, activated Bifidobacterium infantis EVC001 (B. infantis), influences immune system development in infants, and could thereby reduce the risk of allergic and autoimmune conditions later in life.

18 Jun 2021

Study finds new clues to explain how Alzheimer’s disease spreads in the brain

Case Western Reserve University researchers studying prions - misfolded proteins that cause lethal incurable diseases - have identified for the first time surface features of human prions responsible for their replication in the brain.

18 Jun 2021

Foresight Diagnostics to demonstrate utility of PhasED-Seq technology at ICML meeting

Foresight Diagnostics, the emerging leader in blood-based lymphoma disease monitoring, announced today that clinical performance of its minimal residual disease (MRD) detection platform in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) will be presented at the 16th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (ICML) on June 18-22, 2021.

18 Jun 2021

Proven treatment for psychosis has been recognized as standard of care

Most people with a serious mental illness like schizophrenia will not obtain adequate care. Many end up in correctional facilities on medication or become homeless.

18 Jun 2021

New details on transport protein could help develop drugs for neurological diseases

New details on the structure and function of a transport protein could help researchers develop drugs for neurological diseases that are better able to cross the blood-brain barrier.

18 Jun 2021

APOE ɛ4 carriers with midlife depressive symptoms may be at higher risk of tau accumulation

Middle-aged people with depressive symptoms who carry a genetic variation called apolipoprotein (APOE) ε4 may be more at risk to develop tau protein accumulations in the brain's emotion- and memory-controlling regions, a new study by researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and collaborating institutions suggests.

17 Jun 2021

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Researchers assess the incidence of dementia or heart failure in people with rheumatoid arthritis

Convalescent plasma associated with better survival in blood cancer patients with COVID-19

Study highlights need to address the mental health of new fathers

UofSC researcher to examine the effectiveness of Medicaid-covered alcohol use disorder treatment

KIYATEC’s test results accurately predict treatment response in recurrent high-grade glioma patients

Protein found in mice’s immune system could protect babies from necrotizing enterocolitis

Convalescent plasma can improve chances of survival among blood cancer patients with COVID-19

Recommended treatments can benefit people with lower back pain

Researchers report a new genetic cause for infantile fractures

Combination of anti-HER2 breast cancer therapy and checkpoint inhibitor provides no benefit

New methods may lead to optimal treatment for lung cancer

Adding immune oncology drug to chemotherapy improves response in subset of breast cancer patients

Presence of certain stem cells linked to nongenetic resistance mechanisms of cancer cells

Alarming COVID study indicates long-term loss of gray matter and other brain tissue

Study shows how a specific gut bacterium influences infant immune system

Study finds new clues to explain how Alzheimer’s disease spreads in the brain

Foresight Diagnostics to demonstrate utility of PhasED-Seq technology at ICML meeting

Proven treatment for psychosis has been recognized as standard of care

New details on transport protein could help develop drugs for neurological diseases

APOE ɛ4 carriers with midlife depressive symptoms may be at higher risk of tau accumulation

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