Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Can dogs teach doctors new tricks?
(HealthDay)—Can your canine companion help you fight off a troubling skin condition?
Jul 27, 2017
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Cardiology
Cardiac 'disease in a dish' models advance arrhythmia research
New research illustrates how "disease in a dish" stem cell technology can advance cardiology.
Sep 8, 2016
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Medical research
Pulsed electrical fields may provide improved skin rejuvenation
A new approach to skin rejuvenation developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) may be less likely to have unintended side effects such as scarring and altered pigmentation. In the online journal Scientific Reports, ...
Jun 17, 2015
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Immunology
Bacterial infections suppress protective immune response in neurodermatitis
The skin condition neurodermatitis affects nearly one in four children and also occurs frequently in adults. Many patients also develop infections in the dry, open patches of skin, for example due to colonization by the pathogenic ...
Nov 19, 2014
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Inflammatory disorders
Sleeping on animal fur in infancy found to reduce risk of asthma
Sleeping on animal fur in the first three months of life might reduce the risk of asthma in later childhood a new study has found.
Sep 8, 2014
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Medical research
Scientists reprogram skin cells into insulin-producing pancreas cells
A cure for type 1 diabetes has long eluded even the top experts. Not because they do not know what must be done—but because the tools did not exist to do it. But now scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, harnessing the ...
Feb 6, 2014
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Genetics
The naked mole-rat's secret to staying cancer free
A team of researchers from the University of Rochester (NY) and the University of Haifa discovered the naked mole rat's unique mechanism to staying cancer free- a super sugar called high-molecular-mass Hyaluronan (HMM-HA). ...
Jul 31, 2013
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Medical research
New research reveals how cat dander triggers allergic responses
New research reveals how the most common cause of severe allergic reactions to cats, the Fel d 1 protein which is found in cat dander, triggers an allergic response.
Jul 25, 2013
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Immunology
Surprise finding reveals how adaptive our immune systems can be
(Medical Xpress)—Studies of patients with immunodeficiencies involving single gene mutations can reveal a great deal about our immune systems, especially when actual symptoms do not accord with clinical expectations.
Jul 15, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Diabetes drug points the way to overcoming drug resistance in melanoma
Advanced metastatic melanoma is a disease that has proven difficult to eradicate. Despite the success of melanoma-targeting drugs, tumors inevitably become drug resistant and return, more aggressive than before. In the current ...
Jun 11, 2013
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