Humans are still evolving, and Tatum Simonson, Ph.D., founder and co-director of the Center for Physiological Genomics of Low Oxygen at University of California School of Medicine, plans to use evolution to improve health ...
Feb 10, 2024
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Friedreich's ataxia is a rare, inherited disease that causes progressive nervous system damage, impairing balance and coordination and leaving patients unable to walk by early adulthood.
Jun 22, 2023
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Despite decades of medical advances, children who develop the pediatric eye cancer retinoblastoma often lose their vision or an eye due to a lack of specific, targeted therapies and a poor molecular understanding of the cancer. ...
Oct 3, 2022
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When physically demanding activities are performed at high altitude or in other low-oxygen environments, excellent coordination, judgment, and decision-making are important. In some cases, such as when mountaineering, these ...
Jun 29, 2022
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Using cells from human breast cancers and mouse breast cancer models, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have significant new evidence that tumor cells exposed to low-oxygen conditions have an ...
Nov 7, 2019
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Neurochemical mechanisms that enable breathing memory—a form of neuroplasticity (the ability of the nervous system to change its activity in response to injuries) known as phrenic long-term facilitation—are very dependent ...
Oct 2, 2023
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Patients at risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms have been successfully treated at an early stage thanks to the use of a remote monitoring service.
Oct 8, 2021
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have purchased small devices called pulse oximeters for use in their home—based on well-intentioned recommendations from health care providers and the media. Pulse oximeters are ...
Jan 18, 2021
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Newborns with life-threatening congenital heart disease often need open-heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass, which carries a risk of damaging the brain. Critically ill newborns who are placed on ECMO are at even higher ...
Apr 29, 2019
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A study by University of Colorado Cancer Center and Rain Therapeutics, Inc. presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2019 shows that the clinical-stage drug, tarloxotinib, is active ...
Apr 1, 2019
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