For years, there has been a long-held belief that acute viral infections like Zika or COVID-19 are directly responsible for neurological damage, but researchers from McMaster University have now discovered that it's the immune ...
Feb 5, 2024
0
186
"Precision medicine," an emerging approach to health care in which a patient's genetics, diseased tissue and other factors guide clinicians to personalize treatment strategies, can dramatically improve health outcomes for ...
Jan 17, 2024
0
46
When mice lacking key adaptive immune cells were infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus, even though they are not able to clear the virus, they developed no symptoms, revealing that the body's own inflammatory immune response to ...
Jan 11, 2024
0
60
Sepsis—when an infection causes the immune system to improperly target the body—is one of the leading causes of death in the ICU.
Jan 8, 2024
0
70
A randomized controlled trial in Hong Kong finds that the synbiotic drug SIM01 relieves multiple symptoms of long COVID, or post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS).
Dec 29, 2023
0
145
A new study details that markers of brain injury are present in the blood many months after COVID-19 infection, despite inflammation blood tests being normal. The full paper, "Para-infectious brain injury in COVID-19 persists ...
Dec 22, 2023
1
131
The immune system can carry out many biological processes, from killing viruses to fighting cancer, thanks in large part to approximately 100 key cell-signaling proteins called cytokines, which instruct immune cells what ...
Dec 7, 2023
0
66
Immunotherapy using modified chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells has greatly improved survival rates for pediatric patients with relapsed and recurrent leukemia. However, these therapies are not as effective in treating ...
Nov 30, 2023
0
43
Streptococcus agalactiae (known as Group B Streptococcus, or GBS) is present in the genital tract in around one in five women. Previous research by the team at the University of Cambridge and Rosie Hospital, Cambridge University ...
Nov 29, 2023
0
46
A major systematic review of treatments for protecting the newborn brain from the negative effects of inflammation has found that earlier anti-inflammatory intervention is best, but it's better late than never.
Nov 22, 2023
0
39
