Medical research
Inhibiting cancer-causing protein could prevent scleroderma fibrosis
A protein known to play a role in cancer may also be increasing fibrosis in scleroderma patients.
Feb 26, 2019
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Chronic Autoimmune Disease
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Stigmatizing views and myths about psoriasis are pervasive in the US
The stigma associated with the autoimmune disease psoriasis may lead people to avoid patients who show signs of the condition, including not wanting to date, shake hands, or have people in their homes if they suffer from ...
Aug 30, 2018
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Weighing the risks and benefits of drug tapering—two patients, two perspectives
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes fatigue, joint pain and swelling, and can have long-term, devastating effects. Fortunately, treatment for rheumatoid arthritis has advanced, and most patients ...
Jun 20, 2018
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Neuroscience
Mechanism controlling multiple sclerosis risk identified
While the DNA sequence remains the same throughout a person's life, the expression of the encoded genes may change with time and contribute to disease development in genetically predisposed individuals. Researchers at Karolinska ...
Jun 20, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Vitiligo treated successfully with arthritis drug and light therapy
Building on prior research that examined the use of an arthritis medication to treat vitiligo, a team of Yale dermatologists has successfully applied a novel combination therapy—the medication and light—to restore skin ...
Jan 31, 2018
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Immunology
Genomics reveals key macrophages' involvement in systemic sclerosis
A new international study has made an important discovery about the key role of macrophages, a type of immune cell, in systemic sclerosis (SSc), a chronic autoimmune disease which currently has no cure.
Jan 18, 2018
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Immunology
Despite improvements, death rates from lupus remain disproportionately high
Despite improving trends in mortality, death rates from systematic lupus erythematosus (lupus) remain high compared to those in the general population, and disparities persist between subpopulations and geographic regions. ...
Oct 30, 2017
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Diabetes
One virus may protect against type 1 diabetes, others may increase risk
Doctors can't predict who will develop type 1 diabetes, a chronic autoimmune disease in which the immune system destroys the cells needed to control blood-sugar levels, requiring daily insulin injections and continual monitoring.
Jul 11, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Trial of fibrate therapy in primary biliary cholangitis shows treatment is well tolerated
The results of the BEZURSO study, presented today, found that bezafibrate in combination with UDCA normalised prognostic markers of liver disease in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) with an inadequate response ...
Apr 22, 2017
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Diabetes
Researchers find biomarker that could help predict the onset of type 1 diabetes
A significant finding has been made by the 3U Diabetes Consortium, of Dublin City University, Maynooth University and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), which has the potential to contribute to the identification ...
Mar 28, 2017
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