A new way to combat Alzheimer's disease has been discovered by Takaomi Saido and his team at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan. Using a mouse model, the researchers found that treatment with dopamine could ...
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Diagnosing the genetic cause of a disease can aid in finding therapies and directing treatment, but often these diagnoses occur long after the disease has impacted a patient's life. In a new study, researchers from Children's ...
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About 37 million people in the United States have chronic kidney disease and studies show that genetics may explain between 10% and 20% of cases in adults (and as many as 70% of cases in children).
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Despite rapid advances in genetic testing in recent decades, more than half of people worldwide with suspected Mendelian genetic disorders do not have an accurate molecular diagnosis. Others endure more than six years of ...
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The Stockholm3 blood test, developed by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, is equally effective at detecting prostate cancer in different ethnic groups, a new paper published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology reports. ...
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To date, Parkinson's disease (PD) is diagnosed clinically and rather late in the course of the disease. There is an urgent need to find an objective, quantifiable biomarker for the diagnosis of this highly prevalent movement ...
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As cancer treatment and survivorship care relies more on understanding the genetic make-up of an individual's tumor, a new study from the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center finds that many breast cancer survivors ...
Jul 16, 2024
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Over 700,000 people in the UK have glaucoma and it is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. The condition occurs when the cells in the eye that help you see (called retinal ganglion cells) start to die.
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With Ozempic-type weight loss drugs in short supply, more people are turning to old-school weight loss drugs such as Qsymia and Contrave, which come in pill form but also include serious warning labels.
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Many patients receive a standardized lipid panel as part of a yearly physical that includes testing of their "good" cholesterol (high-density lipoprotein) and "bad" cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein). However, most people ...
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