Thanks to improvements in antiretroviral therapy, HIV is now a manageable condition. Yet even the best drugs do not entirely
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What can salad dressing tell us about cancer? Think oil and vinegar
Researchers led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have identified another way the process that causes oil to form
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Insulin shows great potential against chronic colitis
Millions of people take insulin every day to treat their diabetes. But diabetes is not the only disease on which
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Proof-of-concept HIV immunotherapy study passes Phase 1 safety trial
Preliminary results from a phase I clinical trial have demonstrated the safety and tolerability of a cell therapy involving the
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Father’s obesity in early puberty doubles asthma-risk for future offspring: Boys who have considerable weight gain between childhood and puberty, double the risk of having asthma as an adult, and for future offspring
An international EU-study (ALEC), including researchers from the Centre for International Health at the University of Bergen, has shown that
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Immune cells destroy healthy brain connections, diminish cognitive function in obese mice: Obesity may drive microglia into a synapse-eating frenzy that leads to cognitive impairment
Obesity leads to cognitive impairment by activating microglial cells, which consume otherwise functional synapses in the hippocampus, according to a
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Facial plastic surgeons call for reduction of opioid prescriptions after rhinoplasty
A team of surgeons at Massachusetts Eye and Ear found that, of 173 patients undergoing rhinoplasty, a common procedure performed
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Genetics and pollution drive severity of asthma symptoms: Finding may lead to a precision medicine approach in environmental health
Asthma patients, with a specific genetic profile, exhibit more intense symptoms following exposure to traffic pollution, according to researchers at
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Genomic study of 412 anthrax strains provides new virulence clues
By analyzing genomic sequences from more than 400 strains of the bacterium that causes anthrax, researchers have provided the first
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Insulin gives an extra boost to the immune system
The role of insulin as a boost to the immune system to improve its ability to fight infection has been
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