2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (211+ words) The study's other co-senior author is Dr. Mario Suvà, a professor in the Department of Pathology and Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research with Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute. The co-first authors are Drs. Masashi Nomura, Ramya Raviram and Joshua…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (352+ words) Researchers at Mayo Clinic have uncovered a previously hidden step in how the immune system prepares to fight cancer, a discovery that could help scientists develop more effective and longer-lasting cancer immunotherapies. Published in Nature Communications, the study found that…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (332+ words) A new multicenter study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai suggests that a novel electronic health record-based marker can help clinicians identify transplant patients at high risk for organ rejection due to not taking…...

3+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (348+ words) The University of Oklahoma has received an $11.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Oklahoma Center of ImmunoEngineering, a new research center designed to accelerate the study and treatment of diseases rooted in the immune system....

3+ mon, 7+ hour ago   (322+ words) For many people who suffer from depression, the condition is not just about feeling down, but also about a loss of motivation and difficulty finding pleasure in activities they used to enjoy. Parkinson's drug may ease anhedonia in treatment-resistant depression…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (794+ words) Mesothelioma is often described as a disease of the past, an echo of an era when asbestos was woven into ships, factories and buildings across the country. But the new study shows that this rare cancer still casts a long…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (324+ words) News-Medical Living with cats does not worsen childhood asthma outcomes Children with asthma and allergies who live with one or more cats do not experience worse asthma outcomes than children without cats at home. This is according to a comprehensive…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (303+ words) "Here we show in a nationwide cohort of children in Sweden with asthma and allergies, that children living with a cat had similar asthma severity, exacerbation, asthma control, and lung function to children living without cats in the short term,…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (266+ words) Researchers at UTHealth Houston have identified different types of hidden systemic inflammation in patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia, even when they are not experiencing acute illness. These findings help us understand why lung disease in children with primary ciliary dyskinesia…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (531+ words) One of the most widely used chemotherapeutic agents for colorectal cancer is 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), a cornerstone treatment that has improved outcomes for countless patients. However, repeated treatment often leads to drug resistance, allowing cancer cells to adapt and gradually evade…...