Pharmaceutical ads are difficult to avoid in American television programming and a growing number of them promote a class of medications called JAK inhibitors, using an acronym that assumes the average TV watcher knows exactly ...
After combing through 4,000 existing medications, an artificial intelligence tool helped uncover one that saved the life of a patient with idiopathic multicentric Castleman's disease (iMCD). This rare disease has an especially ...
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Researchers have identified a novel genetic risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection, providing new insights into the virus's ability to invade human cells. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that spreads COVID-19.
Jan 14, 2025
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For patients with ulcerative colitis, upadacitinib is associated with improved disease-specific outcomes at 12 months compared with tofacitinib, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal ...
Dec 23, 2024
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A global team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry has made a discovery that has helped save the lives of patients suffering from toxic epidermal necrolysis. This rare but often fatal reaction to common ...
Oct 16, 2024
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A new paper published in the journal Nature Communications explores programmed cell death (PD-1) in melanoma cells and the immune system's response.
Aug 28, 2024
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A new study published in eLife by researchers from the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (Crnic Institute) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus reports the initial results of a first-in-kind clinical ...
Aug 13, 2024
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A drug approved to treat certain autoimmune diseases and cancers successfully alleviated symptoms of a rare genetic syndrome called autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS-1). Researchers identified the treatment based ...
May 30, 2024
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Among postmenopausal women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), there is no higher risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared with women without IBD, although the risk for ischemic stroke may be higher, according to ...
May 6, 2024
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Findings from the largest UK study of patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 infection show that long COVID leads to ongoing inflammation which can be detected in the blood.
Apr 8, 2024
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