Scientists at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Georgia Tech have found that modulating blood-forming stem cells’ stiffness could possibly facilitate mobilization procedures used for stem cell-based transplants. Temporary squishiness could help drive blood forming stem cells out of the bone marrow and into the blood, but the cells need…
Early specialist palliative care treatment does not improve the quality of life for patients diagnosed with the rare cancer mesothelioma when compared to standard care alone, new research led by Curtin University has found. The research, published in this month’s edition of Thorax, explored whether early specialist palliative care, which involves managing the physical, emotional and spiritual…
GPs will have a pivotal role in ensuring the success of the new Faster Diagnosis Standard (FDS) for Cancer; new research from the University of Surrey finds. In the first study of its kind; published in the British Journal of General Practice and funded by Cancer Research UK;researchers investigated public attitudes towards the new FDS…
State Medicaid programs must do more to make sure that people at high risk for lung cancer are screening for the deadly disease. Medicaid is the public assistance program offering health care coverage for low-income Americans. Medicaid coverage for screening high-risk people varies widely between states: 31 Medicaid fee-for-service programs cover screening; 12 programs do…
Red yeast rice supplement has the potential to cause liver damage; warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports after a 64-year old woman developed acute liver injury after six weeks of taking the supplement. Red yeast rice is a supplement made by fermenting steamed rice with food fungus and is often using to lower…
Genes in living cells are activated — or not — by proteins called transcription factors. The mechanisms by which these proteins activate certain genes and deactivate others play a fundamental role in many biological processes. However, these mechanisms are extremely complex and scientists have been spending years trying to unlock their secrets. So, scientists usually…
Walking downhill after eating can reduce bone resorption, the process in which old bone is broken down and removed from the body, in postmenopausal women with diabetes, according to research to be presented at ENDO 2019, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, in New Orleans, La. Walking uphill does not have the same benefit,…
While current therapies for HIV can successfully manage active infection, the virus can survive in tissue reservoirs, including macrophage cells, and remain a persistent problem. Now, Dr. David Russell, William Kaplan Professor of Infection Biology at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, and his research team have pinpointed a novel angle of attack that could…
n the largest study of its kind, involving more than 100,000 people, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have applied a novel machine learning method to identify 413 genetic associations with schizophrenia across 13 brain regions. As described in the February issue of Nature Genetics, examining gene expression at the tissue level…
Allergies, also known as allergic diseases; are a number of conditions caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system to typically harmless substances in the environment. These diseases include hay fever, food allergies, atopic dermatitis, allergic asthma, and anaphylaxis. Symptoms may include red eyes, an itchy rash, sneezing, a runny nose, shortness of breath, or swelling. Food intolerances and food poisoning are separate conditions. When it’s finally time to store away your winter…
White blood cells known as B cells have been shown to be effective for predicting which cancer patients will respond to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy, according to a study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Study results are present April 2 at the AACR Annual Meeting 2019 in Atlanta. Characteristics predicted…
A synthetic peptide appears to directly disrupt the destructive inflammation that occurs in nephritis; enabling the kidneys to better recover and maintain their important functions, investigators report. Whether they gave the peptide body-wide or delivered it directly to the kidneys, it reduced the movement of immune cells into the kidneys; resolved inflammation and damage and…