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Newly identified drug target in rheumatoid arthritis paves way for development of new therapies

22.08.2018 Health Problems

University of Melbourne researchers have identified a protein involved in rheumatoid arthritis-induced inflammation that could lead to new drug treatments for people who do not respond to current therapies. Arthritis is Australia’s most common chronic disease and affects more than 3.5 million people. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affects about one per cent of the population and is one of the most […]

Study finds a novel and more practical way to measure kidney function

22.06.2018 Health Problems

Researchers working on a study to improve kidney function measurements have found a way to provide more accurate readings. Using an injectable biomarker, physicians were able to read the actual working capacity of the kidney in a clinical setting in half the time it used to take. Currently, physicians rely on estimated kidney function (or estimated glomerular filtration rate) to […]

Cell-free DNA profiling informative way to monitor urinary tract infections

21.06.2018 Health Problems

Using shotgun DNA sequencing, Cornell University researchers have demonstrated a new method for monitoring urinary tract infections (UTIs) that surpasses traditional methods in providing valuable information about the dynamics of the infection as well as the patient’s biological response. The technique is detailed in the paper “Urinary cell-free DNA is a versatile analyte for monitoring infections of the urinary tract,” […]

How superstition changes the way we make decisions

06.06.2018 Health Problems

Have you ever worn your “lucky” shoes to a job interview, or knocked on wood after saying something hopeful? These types of superstitious actions aren’t rational, but many of us do them anyways. Take Serena Williams, who is known to wear the same socks—unwashed—when she’s on a winning streak, as well as to bounce her tennis ball exactly five times […]

Scientists discover a new way to control blood pressure

01.06.2018 Health Problems

New, improved ways to fight hypertension and low blood pressure may be in the offing, thanks to a discovery of how blood pressure is controlled. National University of Singapore researchers have found a new means of controlling blood pressure that involves the protein galectin-1, present in blood vessels and various other tissues. The researchers showed that galectin-1 reduces the activity […]

Two teams independently come up with a way to avert CRS in CAR T-cell therapies

29.05.2018 Health Problems

Two teams of researchers, one working in the U.S., the other in Italy, have come up with new ways to avert cytokine release syndrome (CRS) in leukemia patients who undergo CAR T-cell therapies. In the first, the researchers working at the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York developed a mouse model to replicate the conditions under which CRS develops. […]

Scientists discover a new way to battle multiple sclerosis

08.05.2018 Health Problems

Ridiculous. That’s how Andrew Caprariello says his colleagues described his theory about multiple sclerosis (MS) back when he was doing his PhD in Ohio. Caprariello’s passion to explore controversial new theories about MS propelled him to seek out a postdoctoral fellowship with a like-minded thinker, whom he found in University of Calgary’s Dr. Peter Stys, a member of the Hotchkiss […]

Imagined and actual movements are controlled by the brain in the same way

24.04.2018 Health Problems

A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that imagined movements can change our perception in the same way as real, executed movements do. The research, which is presented in the scientific journal Nature Communications, contributes to an increased understanding of how mental training works and may be useful for patients with motor disabilities. “Mental training is very beneficial […]

Molecule that dilates blood vessels hints at new way to treat heart disease

19.04.2018 Health Problems

Americans die of heart or cardiovascular disease at an alarming rate. In fact, heart attacks, strokes and related diseases will kill an estimated 610,000 Americans this year alone. Some medications help, but to better tackle this problem, researchers need to know exactly how the heart and blood vessels stay healthy in the first place. Now, scientists at The Scripps Research […]

New way of defining Alzheimer’s aims to find disease sooner

10.04.2018 Health Problems

Government and other scientists are proposing a new way to define Alzheimer’s disease—basing it on biological signs, such as brain changes, rather than memory loss and other symptoms of dementia that are used today. The move is aimed at improving research, by using more objective criteria like brain scans to pick patients for studies and enroll them sooner in the […]

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