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New research grant from MCHAMP may give players better understanding of injuries

For youth baseball players, especially those who play competitively and often, throwing arm injuries are becoming too common.

19 Jun 2019

Henry Ford Cancer Institute treats its first patient with CAR T-cell therapy

Henry Ford Cancer Institute has treated its first patient with CAR T-cell therapy, an approach that uses engineered cells from a patient's immune system to destroy cancer.

18 Jun 2019

Gene associated with increased risk of cannabis abuse

New research from the Danish psychiatric project, iPSYCH, shows that a specific gene is associated with an increased risk of cannabis abuse. The gene is the source of a so-called nicotine receptor in the brain, and people with low amounts of this receptor have an increased risk of cannabis abuse.

18 Jun 2019

Study provides new insight into the heritability of coronary artery disease

A collaboration involving the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the German Heart Center Munich, AstraZeneca, and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has demonstrated that more than 30 percent of heart disease risk stems from genetic factors, much more than was previously understood.

18 Jun 2019

Scientists develop new class of drugs to treat hereditary kidney disease

Scientists from the University of Sheffield are part of an international collaboration to develop a new class of drugs to treat a common genetic kidney disease which is a major cause of kidney failure.

18 Jun 2019

Food neophobia may raise the risk of developing lifestyle diseases

Food neophobia, or fear of new foods, may lead to poorer dietary quality, increase the risk factors associated with chronic diseases, and thus increase the risk of developing lifestyle diseases, including cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes.

18 Jun 2019

Antidepressant treatment leads to impaired empathy regarding perception of pain

Antidepressant treatment, not only depression per se, can lead to reductions in behavioral and neural responses to pain empathy

18 Jun 2019

Machine learning algorithms applied to biopsy images can improve gut disease diagnosis

A study published in the open access journal JAMA Open Network June 14 by scientists at the University of Virginia schools of Engineering and Medicine and the Data Science Institute says machine learning algorithms applied to biopsy images can shorten the time for diagnosing and treating a gut disease that often causes permanent physical and cognitive damage in children from impoverished areas.

18 Jun 2019

Researchers develop promising reconstruction method based on 3D-printed esophageal grafts

The loss of complete segments of the esophagus often results from treatments for esophageal cancer or congenital abnormalities, and current methods to re-establish continuity are inadequate.

18 Jun 2019

New mobile phone application can measure impaired breathing

Signal researchers in Oulu have developed a mobile phone application that can measure impaired breathing.

18 Jun 2019

Duke researchers identify enzyme involved in regulating growth, spread of breast cancers

Immunotherapies have transformed cancer care, but their successes have been limited for reasons that are both complex and perplexing.

18 Jun 2019

Three beagles successfully identify lung cancer by scent, shows study

Three beagles successfully showed they are capable of identifying lung cancer by scent, a first step in identifying specific biomarkers for the disease.

18 Jun 2019

Researchers find way to reinvigorate exhausted immune cells and stop cancer

The human immune system relies on a delicate balance of finely tuned cell types that keep germs and cancerous cells in check.

18 Jun 2019

Up to 80% of metastatic colorectal cancers spread to far areas before diagnoses

Up to 80% of metastatic colorectal cancers are likely to have spread to distant locations in the body before the original tumor has exceeded the size of a poppy seed, according to a study of nearly 3,000 patients by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

18 Jun 2019

Language in Facebook posts may help identify diabetes and mental health conditions

Language in Facebook posts may help identify conditions such as diabetes, anxiety, depression and psychosis in patients, according to a study from Penn Medicine and Stony Brook University researchers.

18 Jun 2019

Scientists describe microbiome composition in patients suffering from IBD and PSC

In 2012, Professor Jeroen Raes launched the Flemish Gut Flora Project. Sequencing fecal samples of over 3,000 healthy volunteers, Prof. Raes and his team defined the boundaries of a normal, health-associated gut microbiota.

18 Jun 2019

Researchers investigate why many cancer clinical trials fail to enroll enough patients

The increasing sophistication of cancer treatments threatens to outpace the ability of health care providers to enroll patients in clinical trials to test those therapies. That's a key finding by researchers in UT Southwestern's new Department of Population and Data Sciences.

18 Jun 2019

Medical Condition News

New research grant from MCHAMP may give players better understanding of injuries

Henry Ford Cancer Institute treats its first patient with CAR T-cell therapy

Gene associated with increased risk of cannabis abuse

Study provides new insight into the heritability of coronary artery disease

Scientists develop new class of drugs to treat hereditary kidney disease

Food neophobia may raise the risk of developing lifestyle diseases

Antidepressant treatment leads to impaired empathy regarding perception of pain

Machine learning algorithms applied to biopsy images can improve gut disease diagnosis

Researchers develop promising reconstruction method based on 3D-printed esophageal grafts

New mobile phone application can measure impaired breathing

Duke researchers identify enzyme involved in regulating growth, spread of breast cancers

Three beagles successfully identify lung cancer by scent, shows study

Researchers find way to reinvigorate exhausted immune cells and stop cancer

Up to 80% of metastatic colorectal cancers spread to far areas before diagnoses

Language in Facebook posts may help identify diabetes and mental health conditions

Scientists describe microbiome composition in patients suffering from IBD and PSC

Researchers investigate why many cancer clinical trials fail to enroll enough patients

Antioxidant protecting the brain linked to deterioration in areas susceptible to Alzheimer's

Researchers successfully grow mini-tumors of head and neck cancers to test therapies

Use of molecular biomarkers shows promise in early detection of endometrial cancer

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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