HIV has an "early and substantial" impact on aging in infected people, accelerating biological changes in the body associated with normal aging within just two to three years of infection, according to a study by UCLA researchers ...
Jun 30, 2022
0
263
A team of Penn researchers found that Black Americans are aging faster than white Americans, and inequities in socioeconomic resources is the main cause.
Feb 10, 2023
1
32
The amount of environmental exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAH for short, is strongly linked to a person's risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, suggests research published in the open access journal ...
May 9, 2023
1
80
The COVID-19 virus can persist in the blood and tissue of patients for more than a year after the acute phase of the illness has ended, according to new research from UC San Francisco that offers potential clues to why some ...
Mar 7, 2024
0
597
Most people in the United States have some degree of immune protection against COVID-19, either from vaccination, infection, or a combination of the two. But, just how much protection does any individual person have?
Aug 9, 2022
0
46
Since their invention in the 1950s, more than 10,000 different substances from the category of per and polyfluorinated alkyl compounds (PFAS) have been developed, according to estimates.
Mar 11, 2024
0
55
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which causes painful swelling of the joints, is a form of autoimmune disease where otherwise healthy tissue in a patient's joint gets mistaken for an intruder and is attacked by the immune system. ...
A large team of inflammation and arthritic specialists, immunologists and other medical researchers affiliated with a number of institutions in the U.S. and the U.K. has found a connection between the human gut microbiome ...
Researchers from the University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital have found marijuana smokers have a higher rate of emphysema and airway diseases compared to cigarette smokers.
Nov 15, 2022
1
884
Currently available therapies to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) lack precision and can lead to serious side effects. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now developed a method for identifying the immune cells ...
Apr 27, 2022
0
135
