The Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it's investigating reports of secondary cancers in patients who received CAR T-cell therapy, one of a suite of immunotherapies that have revolutionized cancer care ...
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Three decades ago, Brazilian researchers began studying a curious side effect from banana spider bites: the toxin left victims with priapism, a painful and persistent erection.
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As medical technology advances, many diseases could be detected, prevented and cured with cells, rather than pills.
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Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham health care system, have designed a probiotic to suppress autoimmunity in the brain, which occurs when the immune system attacks ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Blood vessels keep us alive. They are the highways that transport oxygen-rich blood and nutrients to all corners of our body—feeding our tissue and organs—while simultaneously removing toxic waste products.
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The chances of surviving massive blood loss from a traumatic injury such as a gunshot wound are around 50%. To survive, a patient needs two things to happen quickly: a large infusion of blood and coagulation at the wound ...
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In the United States, 49.6 million Americans ages 12 and older used cannabis or marijuana in 2020. More than 5.4 million Americans are medical cannabis patients. In Florida alone, where medical cannabis has been legal since ...
Feb 9, 2023
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An international consortium of researchers led by the University of Sydney, has developed technology to enable the manufacturing of materials that mimic the structure of living blood vessels, with significant implications ...
Oct 24, 2022
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Nosebleeds, also known as epistaxis, are one of the most frequent otolaryngologic (ENT) emergencies worldwide. It is estimated that 60% of the world's population will experience an episode of epistaxis at least once in their ...
Jul 29, 2022
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Researchers have engineered probiotic bacteria that can synthesize the dopamine precursor L-DOPA, a powerful mainstay treatment for Parkinson's disease. Preclinical tests show that the new treatment approach is not only safe ...
Apr 1, 2022
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