About 13,200 men and another 2,300 women in the United States over age 50 are estimated to have VEXAS syndrome, according to a new study. Long considered a mystery illness until its genetic basis was identified in 2020, the ...
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Maternal health outcomes continue to worsen in the United States, where maternal and infant mortality rates far exceed rates in European countries and other wealthy nations. Now, a new study led by researchers at Boston University ...
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The most comprehensive study of kidney cancer at single-cell level has discovered a potential drug target to treat renal cell carcinoma, a cancer with a high mortality rate that is hard to detect. Researchers from the Wellcome ...
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Researchers from the Georg-Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, were able to identify a new approach for the therapy of colorectal cancer (CRC) as part of an interdisciplinary project of the LOEWE Center Frankfurt Cancer ...
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In recent years, improvements in life expectancy have stalled in many high-income countries, and even declined for those in the poorest societal groups. This is thought to reflect widening inequalities, which the COVID-19 ...
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While the U.S. spends twice as much on cancer care as the average high-income country, its cancer mortality rates are only slightly better than average, according to a new analysis by researchers at Yale University and Vassar ...
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Meningiomas, tumors of the membranes (meninges) surrounding the brain and spinal cord, are the most common tumors of the central nervous system. Although most meningiomas are low grade and cause few or no symptoms, a subset, ...
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Many Americans became amateur data scientists during the pandemic, tracking local rates of infection or vaccination to help them decide what activities may or may not be safe. UChicago researchers saw an opportunity to dig ...
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A new study in mice from University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers showed that an unhealthy vaginal microbiome in pregnant mothers in combination with an unhealthy diet contributed to increased pup deaths and ...
Jan 27, 2022
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Researchers with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine have published a new study in PLOS ONE detailing a new therapy for acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or AE-IPF, ...
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