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Novel Drug Target Discovered for PTSD Treatment

Alexander Neumeister, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and colleagues collaborated with the Yale Positron Emission…

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New TB Vaccine Candidate Shows Early Promise in Trials

According to the World Health Organization, TB kills an estimated 1.7 million people each year and infects one out of three people around the globe. With…

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New Approach to Diabetes Management Challenges Old Beliefs

Increased low-grade inflammation in the body resulting from obesity is widely viewed as contributing to type 2 diabetes. Going against this long-held belief,…

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New Insights Into T-Cell Leukemia Mutations for Future Therapies

An international team of researchers has found a group of mutations involved in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), and showed that certain drugs,…

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New Anti-Diabetic Compound Discovered by Scripps Research Scientists

In a joint study, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and Harvard University's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have established a new class of…

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New Cancer Treatment Strategy Shows Promising Results

Today cancer is a public health disease that statistically afflicts every third Swede some time during their lifetimes. Although certain external factors such…

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New Method Predicts Heart Transplant Survival Rates

“Donor hearts are a limited resource,” says John V. Conte, M.D., a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the senior…

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Magnetic field sensors for monitoring heart and brain activity developed

High sensitivity magnetic sensors are important in medical diagnostics for applications such as monitoring heart and brain activities, where mapping…

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New Insight Into Impulse Control

That is the unexpected conclusion of a study by an international team of neuroscientists published in the Aug. 31 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.Impulse…

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Promising Half-Match Bone Marrow Transplant Procedure for Cancer

Half-matched bone marrow or stem cell transplants for blood cancer patients have typically been associated with disappointing clinical outcomes. However, a…

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Walnuts Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Risk, Study Finds

The study, led by Elaine Hardman, Ph.D., of Marshall’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, compared the effects of a typical diet and a diet containing walnuts…

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Gut Reactions: McMaster Study on Arthritis Drug Effects

Patients often take drugs to lower stomach acid and reduce the chances they will develop ulcers from taking their anti-inflammatory drugs for conditions such…

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Optimizing Radiation Dose in Chest CT Scans: Expert Insights

Chest CT is the third most commonly performed CT examination, frequently used to diagnose the cause of clinical signs or symptoms of the chest, such as cough,…

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UT Southwestern Program Identifies High-Risk Colorectal Cancer Families

The joint effort between UT Southwestern and Parkland Memorial Hospital allows doctors to screen the tumors of colorectal cancer patients younger than 70, and…

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New Insights into Aging: Health and Cognition Changes Unveiled

There also is an emerging consensus that a multidisciplinary theoretical approach is necessary to understand the nature of the processes of cognitive aging….

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Defibrillator Study: Simpler Devices May Reduce Risks

When it comes to defibrillators, simpler may be safer, even though more complex machines are used on a majority of patients. That's according to a new study…

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