Researchers have successfully tested in monkeys a vaccine against Nipah virus, a human pathogen that emerged in 1998 during a large outbreak of infection and disease among pigs and pig farmers in Southeast Asia. This latest ...
Aug 8, 2012
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Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Vaccine Research Center have developed an improved way to test potential vaccines against bird flu. The report was published this week ...
Sep 29, 2023
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Food allergies, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), diarrhea and other gastrointestinal diseases have something in common: all have been linked to epithelial barrier loss. The gut epithelial barrier—that critical ...
Apr 1, 2019
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Women with a short cervix should be treated with vaginal progesterone to prevent preterm birth, according to a landmark study by leading obstetricians around the world. Vaginal progesterone decreased the rate of preterm birth ...
Dec 14, 2011
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a novel molecular mechanism that tightens the bonds between the cells that line blood vessels to form a leak-proof barrier. The mechanism presents a potential ...
Jan 9, 2015
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A new study from North Carolina State University shows that lung stem cell secretions—specifically exosomes and secretomes—delivered via nebulizer, can help repair lung injuries due to multiple types of pulmonary fibrosis ...
Feb 28, 2020
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A randomized, controlled clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of a treatment regimen of the investigational antiviral remdesivir plus the anti-inflammatory drug baricitinib for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...
May 8, 2020
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As we've seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, serious infections sometimes trigger an excessive inflammatory reaction that does as much harm—or more—than the infection itself. New research at Boston Children's Hospital ...
Nov 12, 2021
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Pediatric researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a key component of the pathogenesis of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a devastating and sometimes fatal lung disease that affects premature infants. ...
Jan 15, 2016
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The first study to report use of the rheumatoid arthritis drug anakinra to treat COVID-19 patients found that high-dose anakinra was safe and was associated with respiratory improvements and reduced signs of cytokine storm ...
May 8, 2020
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