Patients suffering from an autoimmune disease often require treatment that dampens their immune system. This group of patients is therefore particularly prone to severe courses of COVID-19. It was hitherto unclear whether ...
Aug 3, 2021
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People suffering from various types of cardiovascular disease are subject to a certain accident risk when driving a vehicle on the road. High blood pressure, coronary heart disease and cardiac insufficiency might be grounds ...
Jul 29, 2021
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People with a great amount of U.S.-based crime-related television viewing are more likely to be susceptible to misconceptions regarding the death penalty—irrespective of their age, education, or gender. This is the basic ...
Jul 27, 2021
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Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of inoperable, metastasised skin cancer. More than 50% of patients are still alive more than five years after treatment, whereas, 10 years ago, this figure was not even 5%. The ...
Jul 20, 2021
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Lung cancer has the highest mortality rate of all cancers, and treatment options are extremely limited, especially for patients with oncogenic mutations in the KRAS gene. A great deal of hope was invested in the licensing ...
Jul 8, 2021
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Together with their multifaceted action mechanisms, activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) and so-called APOBEC proteins are important factors in the body's immune response and offer fast and effective protection against ...
Jul 6, 2021
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Mitral regurgitation is a disease in which the valve between the left atrium and left ventricle starts to leak, so that blood refluxes with each heartbeat. Typical symptoms of mitral regurgitation are increasing fatigue, ...
Jul 1, 2021
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A naturally occurring peptide in sunflower seeds was synthetically optimized and has now been identified as a potential drug for treating abdominal pain or inflammation (in the gastrointestinal tract, abdominal area and/or ...
Jun 28, 2021
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One in six women and one in twelve men in Austria suffers from some form of IBS—therefore around one million people in all. Using currently available techniques, it is only possible to diagnose IBS by a process of elimination. ...
Jun 18, 2021
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A study led by MedUni Vienna (Institute of Cancer Research and Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna) sheds light on the mechanisms that lead to extremely aggressive metastasis in a particular type of pancreatic cancer, the ...
May 19, 2021
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