Alcohol consumption is a major cause of chronic liver disease. The disease, which has devastating consequences, progresses through stages of hepatitis (inflammation), fibrosis (scarring) and cirrhosis (severe scarring). Advanced ...
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A man dubbed the "Geneva patient" is the latest person with HIV to be declared in long-term remission—however he did not receive a transplant with a virus-blocking gene mutation like previous cases, researchers said on ...
Jul 20, 2023
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A new study in Gastroenterology identifies how certain proteins in the immune system interact and lead to organ rejection. The study, which involved experiments on mice and human patients, uncovered an important communication ...
Jul 19, 2023
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Each time our cells divide, the protective caps that keep our chromosomes from fraying, called telomeres, lose a bit of their DNA. Telomeres shorten steadily as we age, but in certain medical conditions like dyskeratosis ...
Jul 7, 2023
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For prospective parents who are carriers of many inherited diseases, using in vitro fertilization along with genetic testing would significantly lower health care expenditures, according to researchers at Stanford Medicine.
Jul 5, 2023
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Most multiple myeloma patients undergoing stem cell transplants of their own cells can safely be treated in an outpatient setting, thus reducing costs, reducing hospitalization time and potentially increasing patient satisfaction, ...
Jul 5, 2023
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An experimental antibody treatment largely prevented a bone marrow transplant complication called graft versus host disease (GVHD) in the intestines, without causing broad immune suppression, in a preclinical study led by ...
Jun 28, 2023
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Combining five existing drugs can keep a highly aggressive type of bone marrow cancer at bay for longer, an innovative trial has shown.
Jun 23, 2023
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Clinicians have a new standard for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prevention after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, according to results from a phase III study published June 22 in the New England Journal ...
Jun 22, 2023
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Introducing widespread screening of newborns for a deadly disease called severe combined immunodeficiency, or SCID, followed by early treatment boosted the five-year survival rate of children with the disorder from 73% before ...
Jun 21, 2023
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