Using freshly resected lung tissue from 21 patients and two distinct mouse models, tuberculosis researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Africa Health Research Institute, or AHRI, have identified a protein that plays an essential role in host defense against this deadly disease. This research was published in the journal Cell Reports
Growing up with dogs is linked to a lower risk of asthma, especially if the dogs are female, a new study from Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University in Sweden shows. However, the researchers found no relation between 'allergy friendly' breeds and a lower risk of asthma. The study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.
A nasal spray containing rose geranium in sesame oil may have promise in soothing painful nasal symptoms associated with cancer-directed therapy, say researchers from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Diabetes can lead to ulcers that patients do not even feel or notice until the sight of blood. And because ulcers can not heal on their own, 14 to 24% of diabetics in the U.S. who experience them end up losing their toes, foot or leg.
UCLA biologists have discovered how head injuries adversely affect individual cells and genes that can lead to serious brain disorders. The life scientists provide the first cell "atlas" of the hippocampus the part of the brain that helps regulate learning and memory when it is affected by traumatic brain injury.
Researchers from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and colleagues estimate that nearly 8% of U.S. children (about 5.6 million) have food allergies, with nearly 40% allergic to more than one food.
Although several new melanoma treatments have shown promise, none replaces surgery as the primary therapy yet, according to updated guidelines from the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD).
Opioid-related overdoses and deaths remain a major public health concern in Massachusetts, yet adolescents who experience opioid-related nonfatal overdose (NFOD) have been rarely studied. Using public data, Brigham investigators recently unearthed several important ways in which the opioid crisis is playing out differently among young people versus adults.
Husband-and-wife doctors at the University of Virginia Cancer Center have been awarded more than $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health for their effort to improve radiation therapy and breast surgery for patients with early-stage breast cancer.
A shoulder muscle that appears unusually bright on ultrasound may be a warning sign of diabetes, according to a study being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Over 90% of malign tumors in the head and neck are originated from carcinomas of squamous cells that appear in superficial areas of the oral cavity. Their detection with salivary biomarkers can contribute to early treatment before they transform into tumors.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today expanded the approved use of Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) injection in combination with chemotherapy for adult patients with certain types of peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL).