A new treatment for sleeping sickness could make it much easier to treat and possibly eliminate the deadly disease.
Category: 8. Health
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New drug could boost efforts to wipe out sleeping sickness
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Tracking mysteries of loss of Y chromosome, cancer
The Y chromosome is among the smallest in the human body and carries the fewest genes. Researchers are paying renewed attention to its role in cancer—specifically, what happens when it vanishes.
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New diagnostic markers for multiple sclerosis discovered in cerebrospinal fluid
Researchers from the MPI of Biochemistry and the Technical University of Munich have discovered new diagnostic markers for multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that affects 3 million people worldwide. Using mass spectrometry, about 1,500 proteins…
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The research that got sick veterans treatment
When Congress passed the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act in 2022, it brought long-overdue relief to veterans denied benefits because there wasn’t enough scientific evidence tying burn pit exposure to their illnesses.
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Study shows the heart can be protected during chemotherapy without reducing antitumor efficacy
Advances in cancer treatment mean that more people than ever are surviving the disease. However, some of the most effective anticancer drugs—a class of medicines called anthracyclines—can cause serious damage to the heart. In some patients,…
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What ‘The Pitt’ Gets Right About Obesity That Real Medicine Often Misses
A public health expert examines how ‘The Pitt’ portrays obesity with clinical dignity—and what real-world medicine often misses about weight bias and patient safety.
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Supposedly harmless peptide may be linked to Alzheimer's disease
While companies developing drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease have spent decades and many billions of dollars targeting amyloid beta due to its role in clogging patients’ brains with harmful deposits, a biochemist at the University of California,…
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Asthma LABA medications do not increase severity of food allergy reactions during oral food challenges, study suggests
New research from National Jewish Health suggests that long-acting beta-agonists (LABAs), commonly used in combination asthma inhalers, are not associated with more severe reactions during oral food challenges in children with asthma and food…
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How dysfunctional packaging of dopamine advances symptoms of Parkinson's disease
A new study shows how dysfunctional packaging of the neurotransmitter dopamine triggers toxic processes in neurons—and how this can be repaired with simple delivery of energy (ATP). Parkinson’s gradually destroys dopamine-producing neurons in a…
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Insurance Exec: “We Are All To Blame” For Failure Of US Health System
Ascendiun CEO Paul Markovich launches new lobbying in an effort to force the health industry to become more accessible and affordable.
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