Oncology & Cancer
A routine skin check could save your life
(HealthDay)—It may sound dramatic, but skin checks save lives.
Nov 29, 2021
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Immunology
Suffering from psoriasis? Blame this trio of proteins
About 7.5 million Americans suffer from psoriasis, an autoimmune disease that shows up as patches of red, inflamed skin and painful, scaly rashes. Although there are effective treatments for psoriasis, not everyone responds ...
Nov 19, 2021
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Medications
Repurposed ALS drug shows promise in mouse model of rare childhood genetic disorder
Riluzole, a drug approved to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease affecting nerve cells controlling movement, could slow the gradual loss of a particular brain cell that occurs in Niemann-Pick disease type ...
Nov 19, 2021
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Inflammatory disorders
Study finds more inflammation in Black patients with chronic skin disease
Prurigo nodularis (PN) is a chronic skin disease that affects an estimated 72 out of 100,000 people in the U.S. The disease disproportionately affects Black patients and other minority groups. Patients with PN have intensely ...
Nov 8, 2021
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Medical research
Stem cell transplant: How skin-derived T cells can damage other organs
More than 40,000 allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants are carried out worldwide every year, mostly for patients suffering from leukemia or other diseases of the hematopoietic system. Very often, the so-called graft-versus-host ...
Oct 13, 2021
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Medications
Do blood pressure medications increase the risk of psoriasis?
An analysis of published studies has found a link between the use of antihypertensive mediations and the development of psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease.
Oct 6, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Almost half of people in Europe have a skin problem or disease, survey reveals
Results of a new EADV survey released today show that almost half (47.9%) of the European general population more than 18 years old declared at least one dermatological condition in the past 12 months. The European Academy ...
Oct 1, 2021
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Medications
Light-activated drugs provide localized medicine without side effects
Photopharmacology is an emerging area of science based on the development of photosensitive drugs, that is, drugs that activate with light. A team from IDIBELL and the University of Barcelona has worked on two treatments ...
Sep 9, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A skin-crawling treatment for acne?
Drawing inspiration from nature, a team of international scientists have invented a smart device for personalized skin care modeled after the male diving beetle. This tool collects and monitors body fluids while sticking ...
Aug 31, 2021
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Neuroscience
Scientists reverse a key hallmark of motor neuron disease in the laboratory
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have studied how proteins accumulate in the wrong parts of brain cells in motor neuron disease, and have demonstrated how it might be possible, in some cases, to reverse this.
Aug 6, 2021
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