According to a new study published in the Journal of Periodontology, an increased pathogen linked to periodontal disease (a chronic, destructive disease in the gums and oral cavity) and deficiency of bacterial diversity in the mouth could contribute to the development of precancerous lesions of stomach cancer.
When donor's kidney is transplanted, the other is often discarded. This occurs even when the discarded kidneys were similar in quality to their partner kidneys (tended to perform well) and could potentially be transplanted. The study findings were published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN).
According to the research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, even though human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is an STD, men who have never had sex are also at risk for acquiring HPV.
Researchers have developed a new biomarker test that could predict the chemical compounds which cause DNA damage that could result in cancer. The study was published in the journal PNAS.
An Australian study reported that employees working with pesticides and herbicides are prone to develop the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchitis and other breathing problems than other people.
In some women with dense breast tissue, the traditional mammograms are less effective at detecting cancer. The researchers found that the abbreviated breast MRI (AB-MR) might be a valuable cancer detection tool after a negative mammogram.
The modifiable risk factors including high blood pressure and being overweight causes the direct damage on the heart, according to the new study published in the journal PLoS ONE. The research team from the University of Oxford analyzed the hearts of 4,561 people from the UK Biobank database, to study the structure and functioning by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging technique. The research was funded by The British Heart Foundation.
Smokers are less likely than non-smokers to have lung cancers caused by targetable genetic changes. According to a study published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, the probability of benefiting from targeted treatment is same for a smoker or a former smoker when compared to a never-smoker with targetable alteration.
Researchers from the Sun Yat-sen University succeeded to mend thalassemia causing gene defect in embryos using chemical surgery. The study was published in the journal Protein and Cell.
Autoimmune diseases in which body's immune system attacks healthy cells are amongst the top 10 reasons of death in women, affect one in 15 Americans and cost around $100 billion a year in medical care. Systemic lupus erythematosus is the most common type of lupus and is a prototypical autoimmune disease studied here.
A research published in Science Translational Medicine reveals that heart failure associated with arrhythmias can be prevented by two mechanisms. Sino-atrial node (SAN) located in the human heart acts as the body’s natural pacemaker. Raul Weiss, a cardiologist and researcher at Ohio State University, said that this is the gateway to describe that SAN depression could occur before cardiac arrest and allows the doctor to identify the complication before massive cardiac arrest.