Long COVID can persist for at least a year after the acute illness has passed, or appear months later, according to the most comprehensive look yet at how symptoms play out over a year. The multicenter study, a collaboration between UC San Francisco, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and seven other sites, […]
Viral infections, autoimmune disease, and other conditions can cause platelet levels to drop throughout the body, termed thrombocytopenia. After a robust clinical and research collaboration, Stephan Moll, MD, and Jacquelyn Baskin-Miller, MD, both in the UNC School of Medicine, have linked adenovirus infection with a rare blood clotting disorder. This is the first time that […]
Approximately 65% of adults in the United States consume sugar sweetened beverages daily. Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, led one of the first studies to look at the association between intake of sugar-sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages, and incidence of liver cancer and chronic […]
In the ongoing search for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, a burgeoning branch of medicine is bringing new hope. Stem cell therapies are already being used to treat various cancers and disorders of the blood and immune system. In the study, publishing this month in Cell Reports, the researchers demonstrate that transplanting hematopoietic stem and […]
Researchers have developed a gene therapy that treats chronic pain by indirectly regulating a specific sodium ion channel, according to a new study published. The innovative therapy is made possible by the discovery of the precise region where a regulatory protein binds to the NaV1.7 sodium ion channel to control its activity. Sodium ion channels […]
Bones can repair themselves after a minor break or fracture, leaving us as good as new. Unfortunately, after a larger injury bones often don’t heal well. Although there are many different ways to improve bone repair over larger areas in animal models, very few techniques translate well into the clinic. A research team decided to […]
For the first time, scientists have shown that gut bacteria differences are associated with later development of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, a debilitating rheumatic childhood disease, and that these differences are present years before the disease is diagnosed. The research team made this discovery by analyzing stool samples from one-year-old children in a long-term study called […]
Chronic exposure to fine particulate air pollutants and nitrogen dioxide may increase non-lung cancer risk in older adults, according to a study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “Our findings uncover the biological plausibility of air pollution as a crucial risk factor in the development of specific cancers, bringing us one step […]
In what is believed to be a world first discovery, University of Otago researchers have found wheat gluten causes brain inflammation in mice. The research, led by Associate Professor Alex Tups, and published in the Journal of Neuroendocrinology, may be of importance for human physiology. “Mice are an excellent model to study human physiology. They […]
Gait-related disturbances adversely affect the quality of life of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), a condition affecting millions worldwide. Although various pharmacological, surgical, and rehabilitative treatments exist, their effectiveness is limited. Now, a team of researchers from Japan has successfully addressed this limitation. Using a novel neuromodulation approach that incorporates gait-combined closed-loop transcranial electrical stimulation, […]