Inflammatory disorders

AI allows automated scoring of psoriasis area, severity

(HealthDay)—Deep learning algorithms, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), can automatically and objectively perform image-based Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) scoring, according to a study published ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How could COVID-19 and the body's immune response affect the brain?

Although the most immediately threatening symptoms of COVID-19 are respiratory, neuroscientists are intently studying the pandemic from the perspective of the central nervous system. Clinical research and case reports provide ...

Oncology & Cancer

Possible viable treatment for human brain cancer

A team of researchers at Texas A&M University, Northwestern University, and ImmunoGenesis has discovered a treatment for glioblastoma that has promising implications for the human version of the aggressive cancer form that ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Could existing drugs be used against COVID-19?

Several drugs already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could potentially be used to alleviate the symptoms of COVID-19, biomedical researchers at Université de Montréal have found.

Oncology & Cancer

New method to model bladder cancer treatments

Bladder cancer presents a number of challenges when choosing a course of treatment, but researchers at Iowa State University hope their innovative research might help doctors and patients arrive at an optimal treatment plan ...

Oncology & Cancer

CD40 combination therapy can shrink pancreatic tumors

A new combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer caused tumors to shrink in the majority of evaluable patients—20 out of 24 as of an interim analysis of the phase 1b trial data. The early findings ...

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