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Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physicians are reporting an unexpected side-effect from treatment with dupilumab, which is FDA approved for the treatment of moderate to severe eczema, also called atopic dermatitis.
The study was published in JAMA Dermatology, the physicians describe how their 13-year-old patient, who has alopecia totalis, a total lack of scalp hair along with eczema, experienced significant hair regrowth while being treated with dupilumab, a drug marketed under the brand name Dupixent.
In 2012, Massachusetts changed its emergency shelter eligibility policy for homeless families. One new criterion to document homelessness was staying in a location "not meant for human habitation," and the emergency department (ED) fulfilled this requirement. Our aim is to analyze the frequency and costs of pediatric ED visits for homelessness before and after this policy.
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients with a history of cancer are less likely to see a cardiologist or fill anticoagulant prescriptions compared with AFIB patients who never had cancer, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
We all have nights where we do not get as much sleep as we would like. But missing out on even an hour can impact our health. While an hour may not really seem like a long time, 60 minutes of lost sleep can have an effect on your body.
Research has shown that an hour of sleep may cause increased appetite something like 200 more calories the day after the change kicks in as well as reduced exercise endurance and decreased productivity.
Scientists have developed a method to 3-D print cells to produce human tissue such as ligaments and tendons to greatly improve a patient's recovery. A person with a badly damaged ligament, tendon, or ruptured disc could simply have new replacement tissue printed and ultimately implanted in the damaged area. The study was published in the Journal of Tissue Engineering.
When it comes to disorders affecting sleep, sleep apnea ranks on top with an estimated 936 million people worldwide suffering from the condition, the latest study has suggested. Sleep apnea is a chronic sleep-disordered breathing condition associated with increased risk of mortality and reduced quality of life.
Researchers found that women with the highest levels of the hormone, although still in the normal range, had a 27% reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to those with the lowest levels in the normal range.
Prolactin is a multi-function hormone-it is not only related to pregnancy and breastfeeding, but it also plays an important role in many other biological functions, like metabolism, immune regulation, and water balance. The study was published in the Diabetologia.
Schizophrenia is an extremely variable psychiatric disorder that is diagnosed based on the presence of specific symptoms. Thomas Wolfers and André Marquand of Radboud university medical center investigated how much the brains of individual patients diagnosed with schizophrenia differ from the 'average' patient.
For this purpose, they compared brain scans of 250 healthy individuals with those of 218 individuals with schizophrenia. Those with schizophrenia as a group differed from the healthy individuals in frontal brain regions, the cerebellum, and the temporal cortex. The study was published in JAMA Psychiatry.
