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Researchers from Trinity College Dublin and St. James's Hospital have shown that dexamethasone, a commonly prescribed anti-inflammatory steroid, can reduce harmful inflammation triggered by Mycobacterium avium without weakening ...
Aug 11, 2026
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Researchers at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) 23rd Annual Meeting presented an experimental neurointerventional technique designed to treat severe back pain, a leading cause of disability and opioid use, ...
Jul 23, 2026
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Okayama University in Japan have developed and tested in mice a promising new eye drop formulation for treating dry eye disease. The team reports in Investigative Ophthalmology ...
May 21, 2026
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A major UK clinical trial has shown that adding the corticosteroid dexamethasone to standard antiviral treatment for encephalitis (brain inflammation) caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV) does not improve long-term outcomes ...
Jan 21, 2026
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Trachoma is the leading cause of infectious blindness in the world, with Ethiopia the most impacted country in Africa. In a clinical trial of more than 2,400 individuals, researchers led by Dr. John Kempen of Mass Eye and ...
Jan 12, 2026
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The drug dexamethasone supplements cancer treatments to alleviate side effects of chemotherapy such as nausea or inflammation. Researchers at the University of Basel, Switzerland, have now discovered that it also fights metastases ...
Nov 24, 2025
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Retinal vein occlusion (RVO) is one of the leading causes of vision loss worldwide, often triggered by chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Similar to a blocked water pipe causing backflow and pressure buildup, ...
Oct 29, 2025
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While our immune systems typically do a great job containing pathogens and clearing infections, they can occasionally overreact. When the immune response to infection becomes excessive, it causes rapid, widespread organ damage ...
Oct 16, 2025
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Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health challenge, affecting more than 10 million people annually worldwide, with 1.25 million people dying of TB every year. While steroids like dexamethasone are used in certain TB ...
Oct 10, 2025
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An international research team, including scientists from the Institut de Neurociències at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), has developed a new solution to reduce the immune response triggered by neural prosthetics ...
Jun 30, 2025
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