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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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Frozen shoulder can make simple tasks—such as lifting your arm, sleeping on your side, getting out of bed, putting on a bra, driving or playing with your kids—painful and challenging.
May 11, 2026
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In patients with myasthenia gravis, the surgical removal of the thymus gland, called thymectomy, added "quality adjusted life years" to patients and was also cost-effective in comparison to pharmacological treatment alone, ...
Apr 24, 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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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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The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection is marked by excessive inflammation of several organs, leading to multi-organ failure. The recognition of the virus by our bodies triggers severe immune responses, causing ...
Jun 10, 2025
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