Chronic inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatic diseases, psoriasis or chronic inflammatory bowel diseases are autoimmune diseases in which the immune system targets the body. This leads to misdirected inflammations in the ...
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University of Houston researcher Chandra Mohan is reporting in Arthritis Research and Therapy that clotting proteins, both those that promote blood clots (pro-thrombotic) and those that work to dissipate them (thrombolytic), ...
Aug 7, 2019
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(HealthDay)—Some arthritis drugs may reduce the effectiveness of COVID vaccines, according to the Arthritis Foundation, which also offers advice on booster shots.
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The cancer therapy known as CAR-T has revolutionized treatment of some blood cancers since it was introduced in 2017. The therapy uses genetically altered immune cells to home in on cancer cells and destroy them.
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Salk Institute scientists have made a major advance in the pursuit of a safe and effective treatment for type 1 diabetes, an illness that impacts an estimated 1.6 million Americans with a cost of $14.4 billion annually.
Aug 19, 2020
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One promising approach to treating type 1 diabetes is implanting pancreatic islet cells that can produce insulin when needed, which can free patients from giving themselves frequent insulin injections. However, one major ...
Sep 18, 2023
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In a global study of myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease that causes muscle weakness and fatigue, researchers found that surgical removal of an organ called the thymus reduced patients' weakness, and their need for immunosuppressive ...
Aug 10, 2016
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Most vaccines have side-effects and COVID vaccines are no different. The public are being reassured that if they experience a sore arm where the needle went in, or tiredness, a headache, fever or nausea, these are merely ...
Apr 26, 2021
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A Michigan Medicine-led study found that patients in the United States with a rare form of scleroderma have a greater chance of dying from related kidney, heart and lung problems, despite taking medications used to treat ...
Oct 26, 2021
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(Medical Xpress)—In the first step toward animal-to-human transplants of insulin-producing cells for people with type 1 diabetes, Northwestern Medicine scientists have successfully transplanted islets, the cells that produce ...
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