Genetics

Mosaics of predisposition found to cause skin disease

Clarifying the cause of a skin disease had led to the discovery of a new disease-causing gene, a new category of diseases, and new perspectives for both counseling and therapy. The discovery is the first time that epigenetic ...

Medical research

Research analyzes government intervention and COVID-19 pandemic

While there's a strong determination worldwide to return to a new normal in a post-COVID world, the pandemic is nearly impossible to forget. A large amount of data also provides insight we may not want to move past just yet—how ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Computer prompts could reduce empiric antibiotic use for UTI

For non-critically ill patients with urinary tract infection (UTI), computerized provider order entry (CPOE) prompts providing patient- and pathogen-specific multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) risk estimates can reduce empiric ...

Genetics

New strategy for assessing natural history of leukodystrophies

Natural history studies serve as an important standard in medical research because they analyze demographic, genetic, environmental and other variables to better understand how a disease develops and its clinical outcomes.

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