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(SAGE) Young patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are five times more likely than the general population to develop viral infections that can lead to hospitalisation or permanent organ damage, a new study publi...

(Lund University) Parasport continues to grow worldwide. A new thesis from Lund University in Sweden shows how Paralympic athletes run the risk of both being injured by strenuous training as well as being affected by inj...

A dip in chilly water might help your muscles feel less sore, at the cost of growing more slowly.

(American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology) A new article in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology shows a significant association between multiple prenatal and early life exposures to indoor pollutants and ...

(Virginia Commonwealth University) Patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a chronic liver disease and a leading cause for liver transplantation in the US, currently lack an approved drug therapy, but this may...

(Baylor College of Medicine) A subset of endocrine therapy-resistant luminal B breast cancers activates immune responses that could be amenable to manipulation with immunotherapy.

(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) The Defitech Foundation has teamed up with EPFL, CHUV and UNIL to widen access to the groundbreaking neurotechnology developed under the 2018 STIMO study, which allowed parapl...

(Stanford Medicine) Protein levels in people's blood can predict their age, a Stanford study has found. The study also found that aging isn't a smoothly continuous process.

(Dowling & Dennis PR) A new study reports high levels of patient satisfaction with a minimally invasive approach to creating vascular access for kidney patients who require hemodialysis.

(Salk Institute) Researchers from the Salk Institute and the UC San Diego School of Medicine found that a 10-hour time-restricted eating intervention, when combined with traditional medications, resulted in weight loss, ...

(Cleveland Clinic) Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that using lungs from donors who are considered high risk for certain infectious diseases compared to standard risk donors results in similar one-year survival f...

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) One of the key priorities of interventions for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is starting early, with some evidence showing infants as young as seven months old cou...

(St. Michael's Hospital) There's an assumption that sugars are all bad, but a study led by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital suggests that the impact of sugars on heart health depends on the dose and type of sugar co...

(Nagoya University) The reward pathway of the brain causes feelings of happiness but is also involved in behavioral disorders like schizophrenia and addiction. A breakthrough study by scientists in Japan has now identifi...

(University of Göttingen) The amount of food needed to feed the world's population in the future is of vital importance. Researchers at the University of Göttingen have now analysed how much extra food people are likel...

(Stanford Medicine) A new approach to programing cancer-fighting immune cells called CAR-T cells can prolong their activity and increase their effectiveness against human cancer cells grown in the laboratory and in mice,...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) University of Missouri School of Medicine researchers have found a potential cause for elevated nighttime blood pressure that may help patients with OSA get the help they need before car...

(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) Lifelong lower socioeconomic status of fathers, as defined by early life and adulthood neighborhood income, is a newly identified risk factor for early preterm birth...

(SWOG) Physicians who treat patients with triple negative breast cancer have two new ways to predict which patients may benefit most from the well-established post-surgery treatment known as AC chemotherapy, short for ad...

(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) Researchers at LSTM have genetically modified malaria carrying mosquitoes in order to demonstrate the role of particular genes in conferring insecticide resistance.

(American Cancer Society) A new study finds more than two-fold differences between counties with the lowest and highest rates of surgery for patients with early stage lung cancer, with socioeconomic and healthcare delive...

(The Lancet) The first analysis of WHO-recommended policies to prevent and control non-communicable diseases (NCDs) finds that implementation is slowly improving, but on average just over half get no further than being e...