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A new study shows that genetic testing could be used to determine which drugs will—and won't—work for patients with Candida auris (C. auris), a multidrug-resistant yeast that causes life-threatening disease. These findings ...
Jan 6, 2025
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Researchers described a promising new approach for using gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease in the journal Human Gene Therapy. To improve the efficacy of gene therapy when using anti-sickling beta globin gene transfer, ...
Nov 19, 2024
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Who hasn't been prescribed antibiotics by a doctor—for a chest infection or perhaps a sore throat? It's terrifying to think that these infections can become life threatening if the antibiotic drugs needed to treat them stop ...
Nov 18, 2024
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Researchers led by Osaka University in Japan have conducted the first human trial using induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived corneal epithelium to treat limbal stem cell deficiency, offering a potential new avenue for restoring ...
A new study has found that an antibiotic for liver disease patients could expose them to greater risk of a dangerous superbug.
Oct 24, 2024
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Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina have revealed the need to clarify current treatment guidelines for octreotide therapy following an esophageal variceal hemorrhage in a recent study appearing in The ...
Oct 7, 2024
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Glioblastoma is one of the most serious brain diseases known. More than 45% of brain cancers are gliomas. Only half of glioblastoma patients respond to the FDA-approved chemotherapy temozolomide (TMZ). Even for those patients, ...
Sep 30, 2024
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Stroke patients who survive a blood clot in the brain's blood vessels are prone to developing new blockages during their recovery periods, even if they receive vessel-clearing interventions. In an effort to avoid further ...
Sep 4, 2024
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Sepsis occurs when one's immune system has an extreme response to an infection. It's a life-threatening condition: globally, it accounts for about 11 million deaths—20% of all deaths per year.
Aug 6, 2024
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Emory researcher David Weiss has spent years studying a baffling phenomenon called heteroresistance, in which a tiny fraction of bacteria remain resistant to antibiotics, while the remainder succumb. Recently, he brought ...
Aug 2, 2024
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