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Released: 22-Nov-2024 2:35 PM EST
Detroit Health Professionals Urge the Community to Act and Address the Dangers of Antimicrobial Resistance
Wayne State University Division of Research

Wayne State University's Center for Emerging and Infectious Diseases (CEID) is launching its participation in World AMR Awareness Week with an urgent message: the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance requires immediate community action, so it is critical to educate, advocate, and act now.

Released: 22-Nov-2024 7:10 AM EST
New Research Shows Younger and Middle-Aged Adults Have Worse Long COVID Symptoms Than Older Adults
Northwestern Medicine

Since older adults have been more severely affected by acute COVID-19, researchers have hypothesized that older adults may have worse long COVID symptoms as well.

19-Nov-2024 4:50 PM EST
New Research Shows Younger and Middle-Aged Adults Have Worse Long COVID Symptoms Than Older Adults
Northwestern Medicine

Since older adults have been more severely affected by acute COVID-19, researchers have hypothesized that older adults may have worse long COVID symptoms as well. But according to new research published in the Annals of Neurology, an official journal of the American Neurological Association, Northwestern Medicine researchers found on an average of 10 months after COVID-19 onset, younger (ages 18-44) and middle-aged (ages 45-64) adults had worse neurologic symptoms of long COVID than adults 65 and older. Symptoms included headache, numbness and tingling, problems with smell and taste, blurred vision, depression, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue and a decrease in cognitive function. These symptoms occurred regardless of if the patient had mild or severe COVID-19 infections.

Released: 21-Nov-2024 2:45 PM EST
UVA Health Tests Focused Ultrasound to Battle Deadly Melanoma
UVA Health

A research team at UVA Health is testing the ability of focused ultrasound to increase the immune response to immunotherapy in melanoma. UVA’s work with focused ultrasound already has led to life-changing new treatments for Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor and pushed the technology to the forefront of medical research.

Newswise: Scientists Implicate a Novel Cellular Protein in Hepatitis A Infection
Released: 21-Nov-2024 1:20 PM EST
Scientists Implicate a Novel Cellular Protein in Hepatitis A Infection
University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Scientists have long been trying to tease apart hepatitis A virus, to understand its inner workings and how it functions in the human body. Infectious disease researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that a little-known protein, PDGFA-associated protein 1 (PDAP1), is used as a pawn by hepatitis A virus to replicate and infect cells in the liver.

Newswise: Wistar Institute Researchers Discover New Combination Therapy Approach for Metastatic Ovarian Cancer
Released: 21-Nov-2024 1:15 PM EST
Wistar Institute Researchers Discover New Combination Therapy Approach for Metastatic Ovarian Cancer
Wistar Institute

The Wistar Institute scientists have discovered a new approach to treating ovarian cancer that, in preclinical laboratory testing, shrinks tumors and improves survival rates while simultaneously making tumors more receptive to chemotherapy treatment.

Newswise: MSK Research Highlights, November 21, 2024
Released: 21-Nov-2024 12:10 PM EST
MSK Research Highlights, November 21, 2024
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)& investigates how pancreatic cancer cells regulate their genome to avoid immune attack; shows promise against glioblastoma in mouse models; and develops a new method to study cancer evolution.

Released: 20-Nov-2024 11:00 AM EST
How Protective Antibodies Get in Malaria’s Way
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

In work published in Nature, researchers’ structural insights help reveal a weak spot in malaria’s plan of attack which could help guide vaccine design.

Newswise: New Research Could Pave Way for Vaccine Against Deadly Wildlife Disease
Released: 19-Nov-2024 3:35 PM EST
New Research Could Pave Way for Vaccine Against Deadly Wildlife Disease
Michigan State University

Sean Crosson, a Professor Rudolph Hugh Endowed Chair in Michigan State University’s Department of Microbiology, Genetics and Immunology, has been awarded a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study the cause of that very disease, Brucella abortus.

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Released: 19-Nov-2024 12:25 PM EST
La Jolla Institute for Immunology Launches New International Research Partnership with Link Campus University
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Link Campus University of Rome, Italy, and have signed a collaborative agreement as part of a strategic program aimed at promoting scientific research and innovation between the United States and Italy.

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Released: 18-Nov-2024 11:10 AM EST
Cómo Mantener a los Mayores Fuera del Hospital Durante la Temporada de la Gripe
Cedars-Sinai

La influenza puede ser una enfermedad desagradable de una semana de duración y un inconveniente para muchas personas, pero puede tener consecuencias graves para los adultos mayores.

Released: 18-Nov-2024 10:15 AM EST
SLU Study: Immune Dysfunction Increases Cancer Risk in Obese Populations
Saint Louis University

Ryan Teague, Ph.D., professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at Saint Louis University’s School of Medicine, and his team are now trying to uncover the exact mechanism underlying the metabolic dysfunctions associated with obesity that directly impact T-cell function.

Newswise: Zinc Deficiency Promotes Acinetobacter Lung Infection: Study
Released: 15-Nov-2024 3:40 PM EST
Zinc Deficiency Promotes Acinetobacter Lung Infection: Study
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

The study findings point to the potential of interleukin-13 antibodies — approved for use in humans — as a treatment to protect against bacterial pneumonia in patients with zinc deficiency.

Released: 14-Nov-2024 3:00 PM EST
E-Cigarette Residue Exposure in Utero Shows Lasting Effects on Immune Response
American Physiological Society (APS)

Results from a new animal study published in the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology found that maternal exposure to e-cigarette residues, with or without nicotine, affected offspring’s immune response later in life.

Newswise: Drug Combination Prompts Immune Response in Some Resistant Pancreatic Cancers
Released: 14-Nov-2024 10:00 AM EST
Drug Combination Prompts Immune Response in Some Resistant Pancreatic Cancers
Johns Hopkins Medicine

A new drug strategy that regulates the tumor immune microenvironment may transform a tumor that resists immunotherapy into a susceptible one, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Oregon Health & Science University.

Released: 14-Nov-2024 7:55 AM EST
New Roles in Infectious Process for Molecule That Inhibits Flu
Ohio State University

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection – among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

Released: 13-Nov-2024 1:15 PM EST
Un avance hacia medicamentos y vacunas inhalables de ARNm
American Chemical Society (ACS)

A la mayoría de la gente no le gusta aplicarse vacunas o inyecciones para recibir tratamientos. Por eso, los investigadores trabajan para crear más medicamentos, como los que se fabrican a partir de ARN mensajero (ARNm), que puedan pulverizarse e inhalarse. Un estudio publicado en la revista Journal of the American Chemical Society informa sobre los avances para hacer posible los medicamentos de ARNm inhalables. Los investigadores indican que la nanopartícula de polímero lipídico, que es estable cuando se nebuliza y libera aerosoles (gotitas líquidas) en los pulmones de ratones de forma satisfactoria, se optimizó para contener el ARNm.

   
Newswise: How New Therapies Are Revolutionizing the Treatment of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Released: 12-Nov-2024 11:05 PM EST
How New Therapies Are Revolutionizing the Treatment of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

The use of biologic and targeted therapies for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) surpassed more typical therapies in recent years, according to Rutgers Health researchers.



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