May 30, 2024 — Roughly 30 million to 40 million people in the United States, and nearly a billion people worldwide, have sleep apnea. Closure of your upper airway is the hallmark of sleep apnea. And a machine that forces air into your body through a hose and a face mask is the most common,...
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Small study adds to growing hope CAR-T cell therapy could revolutionize autoimmune disease treatment
By Theresa Gaffney ADOBEPeople with autoimmune disorders don’t usually get to talk about a cure. There’s symptom management, hopeful periods of remission often followed by relapses, but rarely a lasting fix for the way their immune system attacks healthy cells. If the immune system is an army, then those with conditions like lupus, multiple sclerosis, or...
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Light Therapy a Beacon of Hope for Alzheimer’s?
TOPLINE: Light therapy leads to significant improvement in several sleep measures and helps alleviate depression and agitation in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a meta-analysis of 15 high-quality trials shows.METHODOLOGY: TAKEAWAY: IN PRACTICE: “These findings, combined with its low side-effects, suggest the role of light therapy as a promising treatment for AD. Although light therapy...
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Towards a cure for lymphoma: new research brings hope
New light is being shed on the mechanisms underlying the malignant transformation of lymphomas, paving the way for a promising therapeutic target, thanks to research conducted by a team led by Université de Montréal professor Tarik Möröy. Director of the hematopoiesis and cancer research unit at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), affiliated with UdeM, Möröy...
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Blood cancer find raises new treatment hopes
by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute New QIMR Berghofer research has identified how an early genetic change in blood and bone marrow cells paves the way for the development of some blood cancers. The discovery provides a new target for treatment of the blood cancers myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). MDS is...
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Researchers discover key mechanism of cytokine storm in Castleman disease
by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania When Castleman Disease patients have a flare of their symptoms, they experience a cytokine storm inside their bodies—a hyper-response from the immune system that can cause a fever, organ failure, and even death. Now researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of...
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New genes identified in hearing loss, providing treatment hope
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON A new study published today in The American Journal of Human Genetics has identified 44 genes linked to age-related hearing loss giving a much clearer understanding of how the condition develops and potential treatments. In the study, researchers from King’s College London and UCL analysed the genetic data from over 250,000 participants...
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New hope for rare disorder
A new drug has been successfully tested for hereditary angioedema, a chronic and sometimes life-threatening disorder GOETHE UNIVERSITY FRANKFURT Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by recurrent painful swellings of the skin and mucous membranes. Without treatment, patients’ quality of life is noticeably compromised: Angioedema may not only be disfiguring; in the...