Health
Pain relief: When to use cold, when to use heat
(HealthDay)—Sore from a workout? You don't have to reach for pain relief medicine when ice or heat will help. But when should you go cold and when should you go warm?
Oct 10, 2019
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News tagged with chronic skin condition
Cardiology
Psoriasis therapy linked to reduced coronary inflammation in patients with skin condition
Researchers have found that anti-inflammatory biologic therapies used to treat moderate to severe psoriasis can significantly reduce coronary inflammation in patients with the chronic skin condition. Scientists said the findings ...
Jul 31, 2019
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Neuroscience
Researchers identify neuropeptide involved in transmitting itch signal to brain in eczema
Researchers from North Carolina State University have pinpointed a particular neuropeptide associated with transmitting itch signals in mice with atopic dermatitis. The work sheds further light on the pathways involved in ...
Jun 13, 2018
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Immunology
Protein active in life-threatening allergic reactions is a promising target for therapy
Prospects for inhibiting the most dangerous symptoms of allergic reactions may be brighter with the publication of a new study that identifies a possible target for drug therapies. Research conducted at Cincinnati Children's ...
Feb 22, 2018
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Inflammatory disorders
Searching for targeted treatments for inflammatory diseases
Inflammatory diseases such as Crohn's disease and multiple sclerosis have been linked to faults in a critical immune pathway that enables inflammation to continue unchecked.
Feb 6, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists make breakthrough in fight against antibiotic resistance
Scientists have developed a pioneering new treatment to prevent bacterial skin infections, which could be used in the battle against 'superbugs', such as MRSA.
Jul 29, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New psoriasis drug is more effective than current treatment
A phase II clinical trial led by Northwestern Medicine investigators shows that a new psoriasis drug called guselkumab has greater efficacy than the current standard of care for the chronic skin condition.
Jul 8, 2015
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Medical research
Multiple sclerosis: Scientists ID cause of movement, balance problems
New research into the causes of the excessive inflammation that drives multiple sclerosis has identified a faulty "brake" within immune cells, a brake that should be controlling the inflammation. This points to a potential ...
May 19, 2015
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Inflammatory disorders
How tumor-causing cells are recruited in cancers linked to chronic inflammation
Chronic inflammation is directly associated with several types of cancer, yet the reasons as to why this happens at a cellular level remain unclear. Now, an international team of scientists led by researchers at The Wistar ...
Feb 9, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists identify proteins likely to trigger psoriasis
Case Western Reserve scientists have taken a huge leap toward identifying root causes of psoriasis, an inflammatory skin condition affecting 125 million people around the world. Of the roughly 50,000 proteins in the human ...
Jan 21, 2015
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